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.  ‡