1 “When the lord your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you.
2 When the lord your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy.
3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters,
4 for they will lead your children away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the lord will burn against you, and he will quickly destroy you.
5 This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.
6 For you are a holy people, who belong to the lord your God. Of all the people on earth, the lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.