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Deuteronomy 7:3
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A Chosen People

1 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to apossess, and has cast out many bnations before you, cthe 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 you,  
2 and when the Lord your God delivers athem over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. bYou shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.  
3 aNor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.  
4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; aso the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.  
5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall adestroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their1 wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.  
6 “For you are a1 holy people to the Lord your God; athe Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.  
7 The Lord did not set His alove on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were bthe least of all peoples;  
8 but abecause the Lord loves you, and because He would keep bthe oath which He swore to your fathers, cthe Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of1 bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.  
9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, athe faithful God bwho keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;  
10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not1 be aslack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.  
11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Blessings of Obedience

12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13 And He will alove you and bless you and multiply you; bHe will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He2 swore to your fathers to give you.  
Verse Comparison: Deuteronomy 7:3

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American Standard Version
neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Amplified® Bible
You shall not make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son nor shall you take his daughter for your son,

Contemporary English Version
and don't let your sons and daughters marry any of them.

Darby English Version
And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;

Good News Bible
Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,

King James Version
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

New American Standard Bible
"Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

New International Version
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

New King James Version
Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

Revised Standard Version
You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.

Young's Literal Translation
`And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,


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