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Today's Bible Reading :: Deuteronomy 5 - 7 (ESV)

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Deuteronomy 5

The Ten Commandments

(Exo 20:1–17 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:1 - And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:2 - The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:3 - Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:4 - The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:5 - while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:6 - “‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:7 - “‘You shall have no other gods before[fn] me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:9 - You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - but showing steadfast love to thousands[fn] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:11 - “‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:12 - “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:13 - Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:15 - You shall remember that you were a slave[fn] in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:17 - “‘You shall not murder.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:18 - “‘And you shall not commit adultery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:19 - “‘And you shall not steal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:20 - “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - “These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
(Exo 20:18–21 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - And you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:26 - For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:27 - Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say, and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:28 - “And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants[fn] forever!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:30 - Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32 - You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:33 - You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
ESV Footnotes
Or besides
Or to the thousandth generation
Or servant
The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence
Or sons

Deuteronomy 6

The Greatest Commandment

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules[fn]—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:5 - You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:6 - And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:7 - You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:8 - You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:9 - You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:13 - It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:14 - You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:16 - “You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:20 - “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:21 - then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:22 - And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23 - And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:24 - And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’
ESV Footnotes
Or just decrees; also verse 20
Or The LORD our God is one LORD; or The LORD is our God, the LORD is one; or The LORD is our God, the LORD alone

Deuteronomy 7

A Chosen People

(Exo 34:10–16 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.[fn] You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:3 - You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7 - It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:10 - and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
(Lev 26:1–13; Deu 28:1–14 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:12 - “And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:15 - And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:16 - And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:18 - you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:20 - Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:21 - You shall not be in dread of them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,[fn] lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23 - But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction[fn] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
See the ESV Preface
ESV Footnotes
That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Or quickly
That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
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