7:1-26 - Study Chapter - Click the Play Button for Chapter Audio
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1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven R212 nations greater and stronger than you, 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat F106 them, then R213 you shall utterly F107 destroy them. You R214 shall make no covenant with them and R215 show no favor to them. 3 "Furthermore, you R216 shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters F108 to their F109 sons, nor shall you take their F110 daughters for your sons. F1114 "For they F112 will turn your sons F113 away from following F114 Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He R217 will quickly destroy you. 5 "But thus you shall do to them: you R218 shall tear down their altars, and smash their {sacred} pillars, and hew down their Asherim, F115 and burn their graven images with fire. 6 "For you are a R219 holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a R220 people for His own F116 possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. F1177 "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath R221 which He swore to your forefathers, the R222 LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, F118 from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 "Know therefore that the LORD your God, He R223 is God, the R224 faithful God, who R225 keeps His F119 covenant and His F119 lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love R226 Him and keep His commandments; 10 but repays R227 those who hate Him to their F120 faces, to destroy them; F121 He will not delay with F122 him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. 11 "Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
12 "Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you His F123 covenant and His F123 lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. 13 "He will love R228 you and bless you and multiply R229 you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in F124 the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. 14 "You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren R230 among you or among your cattle. 15 "The LORD will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you. 16 "You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God will deliver to you; your R231 eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that {would be} a R232 snare to you. 17 "If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess R233 them?' 18 you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well remember R234 what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 the R235 great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 "Moreover, the LORD your God will send the R236 hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. 21 "You shall not dread them, F125 for the R237 LORD your God is in your midst, a R238 great and awesome God. 22 "The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild F126 beasts would grow too numerous for you. 23 "But the LORD your God will deliver them before you, and will throw F127 them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 "He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no R239 man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. 25 "The graven images of their gods you are to burn R240 with fire; you shall not R241 covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared R242 by it, for it is an abomination R243 to the LORD your God. 26 "You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; R244 you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.
8:1-20 - Study Chapter - Click the Play Button for Chapter Audio
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1 "All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may R245 live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore {to give} to your forefathers. 2 "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led R246 you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing R247 you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 "He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand F128 that man R248 does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. 4 "Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 "Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. 6 "Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear F129 Him. 7 "For the R249 LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10 "When you R250 have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you. 11 "Beware that you do not forget R251 the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; 12 otherwise, when R252 you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived {in them,} 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, 14 then your heart will become proud F130 and you will forget R253 the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. F13115 "He led you through the R254 great and terrible wilderness, {with its} fiery R255 serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought R256 water for you out of the rock of flint. 16 "In the wilderness He fed you manna which R257 your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test R258 you, to do good for you in F132 the end. 17 "Otherwise, you R259 may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.' 18 "But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it R260 is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as {it is} this day. 19 "It shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I R261 testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20 "Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you R262 shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
9:1-29 - Study Chapter - Click the Play Button for Chapter Audio
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1 "Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations R263 greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified F133R264 to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard {it said,} 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 3 "Know therefore today that it R265 is the LORD your God who is crossing over before you as a R266 consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you R267 may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you. 4 "Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before you, F134 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' but {it is} because R268 of the wickedness of these nations {that} the LORD is dispossessing them before you. 5 "It is not R269 for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but {it is} because of the wickedness of these nations {that} the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the R270 oath F135 which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 6 "Know, then, {it is} not because of your righteousness {that} the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a R271 stubborn F136 people.
7 "Remember, do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from R272 the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 "Even at R273 Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. 9 "When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I R274 neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 "The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written R275 by the finger of God; and on them {were} all the words which the LORD had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 11 "It came about at R276 the end of forty days and nights that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12 "Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly R277 turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.' 13 "The LORD R278 spoke further to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn F137R279 people. 14 'Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot R280 out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' 15 "So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 "And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 "I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes. 18 "I fell down before the LORD, as R281 at the first, forty days and nights; I R282 neither ate bread nor drank water, because R283 of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. 19 "For I R284 was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, but R285 the LORD listened to me that time also. 20 "The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. 21 "I took your sinful F138 {thing,} the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain. 22 "Again at Taberah R286 and at Massah R287 and at Kibroth-hattaavah R288 you provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 "When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, R289 saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the command F139 of the LORD your God; you R290 neither believed Him nor listened to His voice. 24 "You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I knew you. 25 "So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and nights, which I did F140 because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26 "I prayed to the LORD and said, 'O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 'Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin. 28 'Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised F141 them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness." 29 'Yet they are Your people, even Your R291 inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great R292 power and Your outstretched arm.'
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