7 1 The Israelites may make no covenant with the Gentiles. 5 They must destroy the idols. 8 The election dependeth on the free love of God. 19 The experience of the power of God ought to confirm us. 25 To avoid all occasion of idolatry.

¹ When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, ^(A)and shall root out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou,

² And the Lord thy God shall give them ^[a]before thee, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no ^(B)covenant with them, nor have compassion on them,

³ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son, nor take his daughter unto thy son.