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But thus you shall do to them: (A)you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their [a]Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire. For you are (B)a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be (C)a people for His [b]own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the [c]earth.

(D)Yahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 Wooden symbols of a female deity
  2. Deuteronomy 7:6 Or special treasure
  3. Deuteronomy 7:6 Lit ground