Deuteronomy 7:1-4

English Standard Version

A Chosen People

7 “When the ^(A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, ^(B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^(C)more numerous and mightier than you, ²^(D)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ^(E)devote them to complete destruction.^[a] ^(F)You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. ³^(G)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, ⁴for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. ^(H)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you ^(I)quickly.