1When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations – the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you –2and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[1] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,4for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.5This is what you are to do to them: break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[2] and burn their idols in the fire.6For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.7The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.8But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.10But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.11Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.12If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.13He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land – your corn, new wine and oil – the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you.14You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.15The Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.16You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.17You may say to yourselves, ‘These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?’18But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.19You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.20Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.21Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.22The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.23But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.24He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No-one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.25The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.26Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.
1The LORD your God will bring you into the land. You are going to enter it and take it as your own. He’ll drive out many nations to make room for you. He’ll drive out the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Those seven nations are larger and stronger than you are.2The LORD your God will hand them over to you. You will win the battle over them. You must completely destroy them. Don’t make a peace treaty with them. Don’t show them any mercy.3Don’t marry any of their people. Don’t give your daughters to their sons. And don’t take their daughters for your sons.4If you do, those people will turn your children away from serving the LORD. Then your children will serve other gods. The LORD will be very angry with you. He will quickly destroy you.5So here is what you must do to those people. Break down their altars. Smash their sacred stones. Cut down the poles they use to worship the female god named Asherah. Burn the statues of their gods in the fire.6You are a holy nation. The LORD your God has set you apart for himself. He has chosen you to be his special treasure. He chose you out of all the nations on the face of the earth to be his people.7The LORD chose you because he loved you very much. He didn’t choose you because you had more people than other nations. In fact, you had the smallest number of all.8The LORD chose you because he loved you. He wanted to keep the promise he had made to your people of long ago. That’s why he used his mighty hand to bring you out of Egypt. He bought you back from the land where you were slaves. He set you free from the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.9So I want you to realise that the LORD your God is God. He is the faithful God. He keeps his covenant for all time to come. He keeps it with those who love him and obey his commandments. He shows them his love.10But he will pay back those who hate him. He’ll destroy them. He’ll quickly pay back those who hate him.11So be careful to obey the commands, rules and laws I’m giving you today.12Pay attention to the laws of the LORD your God. Be careful to obey them. Then he will keep his covenant of love with you. That’s what he promised to your people of long ago.13The LORD will love you and bless you. He’ll cause there to be many of you. He’ll give you many children. He’ll bless the crops of your land. He’ll give you plenty of corn, olive oil and fresh wine. He’ll bless your herds with many calves. He’ll give your flocks many lambs. He’ll do all these things for you in the land of Canaan. It’s the land he promised your people of long ago that he would give you.14He will bless you more than any other nation. All your men and women will have children. All your livestock will have little ones.15The LORD will keep you from getting ill. He won’t send on you any of the horrible diseases you saw all around you in Egypt. But he’ll send them on everyone who hates you.16You must destroy all the nations the LORD your God hands over to you. Don’t feel sorry for them. Don’t serve their gods. If you do, they will be a trap for you.17You might say to yourselves, ‘These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?’18But don’t be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all the Egyptians.19With your own eyes you saw what the LORD did to them. You saw the signs and amazing things he did. He reached out his mighty hand and powerful arm. The LORD your God used all those things to bring you out. You are now afraid of the nations that are in the land the LORD promised you. But the LORD your God will do to them the same things he did to Egypt.20The LORD your God will also send hornets among those nations. Some of the people left alive will hide from you. But even they will die.21So don’t be terrified by them. The LORD your God is with you. He is a great and wonderful God.22The LORD your God will drive out those nations to make room for you. But he will do it little by little. You won’t be allowed to get rid of them all at once. If you did, wild animals would multiply all around you.23But the LORD your God will hand those nations over to you. He will throw them into a panic until they are destroyed.24He will hand their kings over to you. You will wipe out their names from the earth. No one will be able to stand up against you. You will destroy them.25Burn the statues of their gods in the fire. Don’t wish for the silver and gold on those statues. Don’t take it for yourselves. If you do, it will be a trap for you. The LORD your God hates it.26Don’t bring anything he hates into your house. If you do, you will be completely destroyed along with it. So hate it with all your heart. It is set apart to be destroyed.
Keine Gemeinschaft mit den Kanaanäern – Gottes Segenszusage
1Wenn der HERR, dein Gott, dich in das Land bringt, in das du ⟨jetzt⟩ hineinkommst, um es in Besitz zu nehmen, und ⟨wenn er dann⟩ viele Nationen vor dir hinaustreibt: die Hetiter und die Girgasiter und die Amoriter und die Kanaaniter und die Perisiter und die Hewiter und die Jebusiter, sieben Nationen, größer und stärker als du, (Ge 15:21; De 4:38; De 9:1; De 9:3; De 31:3; 2Ch 8:7; Ac 13:19)2und ⟨wenn⟩ der HERR, dein Gott, sie vor dir dahingibt, und du sie schlägst, ⟨dann⟩ sollst du unbedingt an ihnen den Bann vollstrecken. Du sollst keinen Bund mit ihnen schließen noch ihnen gnädig sein. (Ex 23:32; Nu 21:2; De 9:3; De 13:9; De 20:16; De 31:5; Jos 6:21; Jos 11:8; 1Ki 20:34)3Und du sollst dich nicht mit ihnen verschwägern. Deine Tochter darfst du nicht seinem Sohn geben, und seine Tochter darfst du nicht für deinen Sohn nehmen. (Ge 24:3; Ezr 9:2; Ne 13:25; 2Co 6:14)4Denn er würde deinen Sohn von mir[1] abwenden, dass er andern Göttern dient[2], und der Zorn des HERRN würde gegen euch entbrennen, und er würde dich schnell vernichten. (Ex 34:16; De 6:15; De 20:18; 1Ki 16:31)5Sondern so sollt ihr an ihnen tun: Ihre Altäre sollt ihr niederreißen und ihre Gedenksteine[3] zerbrechen und ihre Ascherim umhauen und ihre Götterbilder[4] mit Feuer verbrennen. (Ex 23:24; De 12:2; 1Ch 14:12)6Denn du bist dem HERRN, deinem Gott, ein heiliges Volk. Dich hat der HERR, dein Gott, erwählt, dass du ihm zum Volk ⟨seines⟩ Eigentums wirst aus allen Völkern, die auf dem Erdboden sind. (Le 20:26; De 26:18; De 28:9; 1Sa 12:22; 1Ki 3:8; Ezr 9:2; Isa 41:8; Jer 2:3)7Nicht weil ihr mehr wäret als alle Völker, hat der HERR sich euch zugeneigt und euch erwählt – ihr seid ja das geringste unter allen Völkern –, (De 14:2; Ps 105:6; Eze 20:5; 1Co 1:26)8sondern wegen der Liebe des HERRN zu euch, und weil er den Eid hielt, den er euren Vätern geschworen, hat der HERR euch mit starker Hand herausgeführt und dich erlöst aus dem Sklavenhaus, aus der Hand des Pharao, des Königs von Ägypten. (Ex 13:3; De 1:8; De 4:37; De 5:6; De 23:6; De 33:3; 1Ki 10:9; 1Ch 16:16; Ps 105:8; Isa 63:9; 1Jo 4:10)9So erkenne denn, dass der HERR, dein Gott, der Gott ist, der treue Gott, der den Bund und die Güte[5] bis auf tausend Generationen denen bewahrt, die ihn lieben und seine Gebote halten, (Ex 20:6; De 4:35; De 5:10; De 32:39; Jud 5:31; 1Ki 8:23; Ne 1:5; Ne 9:32; Ps 36:6; Ps 103:18; Ps 105:8; Da 9:4; 1Co 1:9)10und der denen, die ihn hassen, ins Angesicht vergilt, um sie[6] umkommen zu lassen. Nicht zögert er gegenüber dem, der ihn hasst, ins Angesicht vergilt er ihm! (De 5:9; De 32:41; Na 1:2)11So sollst du das Gebot und die Ordnungen und die Rechtsbestimmungen halten, die zu tun ich dir heute befehle. (De 4:1; De 8:11)12Und es wird geschehen: Dafür, dass ihr diesen Rechtsbestimmungen gehorcht, sie bewahrt und sie tut, wird der HERR, dein Gott, dir den Bund und die Güte[7] bewahren, die er deinen Vätern geschworen hat. (De 1:8; De 5:10; 1Ki 8:23; Ne 1:5; Ne 9:32; Ps 103:18; Ps 105:8; Da 9:4)13Und er wird dich lieben und dich segnen und dich zahlreich werden lassen. Er wird die Frucht deines Leibes segnen und die Frucht deines Landes, dein Getreide, deinen Most und dein Öl, den Wurf deiner Rinder und den Zuwachs deiner Schafe, in dem Land, das er deinen Vätern geschworen hat, dir zu geben. (De 1:8; De 28:1; Ne 9:32; Job 1:10; Ps 107:38; Ps 144:12; Joh 14:21)14Gesegnet wirst du sein vor allen Völkern. Kein Unfruchtbarer und keine Unfruchtbare wird bei dir sein noch bei deinem Vieh. (Ex 23:26; Nu 22:12; De 30:9; Ps 67:8)15Und der HERR wird jede Krankheit von dir abwenden. Und keine der bösen Seuchen Ägyptens, die du kennst, wird er auf dich legen, sondern er wird sie auf alle deine Hasser bringen. (Ex 15:26; De 28:60; Ps 91:10)16Und du wirst alle Völker verzehren, die der HERR, dein Gott, dir preisgibt. Du sollst ihretwegen nicht betrübt sein[8], und du sollst ihren Göttern nicht dienen; denn das wäre ein Fallstrick[9] für dich. (De 12:30)17Wenn du in deinem Herzen sagst: Diese Nationen sind größer als ich; wie könnte ich sie vertreiben? – (De 1:28)18fürchte dich nicht vor ihnen! Denk doch daran, was der HERR, dein Gott, dem Pharao und allen Ägyptern angetan hat, (Nu 13:9; Nu 21:34; De 1:21; De 1:30; Jos 8:1; Ps 27:1)19an die großen Prüfungen, die deine Augen gesehen, und an die Zeichen und die Wunder[10] und die starke Hand und den ausgestreckten Arm, womit der HERR, dein Gott, dich herausgeführt hat! Ebenso wird der HERR, dein Gott, an all den Völkern tun, vor denen du dich fürchtest. (Ex 6:6; De 3:21; Jos 10:25; Jos 24:17; Ne 9:10; Ps 44:4; Ps 77:12)20Und auch die Hornissen[11] wird der HERR, dein Gott, gegen sie senden, bis ⟨alle⟩, die übrig geblieben sind und die sich vor dir versteckt haben, umgekommen sind. (Ex 23:28)21Erschrick nicht vor ihnen! Denn der HERR, dein Gott, ist in deiner Mitte, ein großer und furchtbarer Gott. (Nu 13:9; Nu 21:34; De 1:21; De 10:17; De 20:1; De 31:17; Jos 3:10; Jos 8:1; Ne 1:5; Ps 27:1; Ps 46:6; Ps 95:3)22Und der HERR, dein Gott, wird diese Nationen nach und nach vor dir hinaustreiben. Du wirst sie nicht schnell vernichten können, damit sich das Wild des Feldes nicht gegen dich vermehrt. (Ex 23:29)23Und der HERR, dein Gott, wird sie vor dir dahingeben und sie in große Bestürzung versetzen[12], bis sie vernichtet sind. (De 9:3; Jos 10:10)24Und er wird ihre Könige in deine Hand geben, und du wirst ihre Namen ausrotten unter dem Himmel. Kein Mensch wird vor dir bestehen, bis du sie vernichtet hast. (De 11:25; Jos 1:5; Jos 11:17; Jos 23:3)25Die Bilder[13] ihrer Götter sollt ihr mit Feuer verbrennen. Du sollst nicht das Silber und das Gold⟨, das⟩ an ihnen ⟨ist,⟩ begehren und es dir nehmen, damit du dadurch nicht verstrickt wirst; denn ein Gräuel für den HERRN, deinen Gott, ist es. (Le 19:4; De 27:15; Jud 8:27; Isa 30:22)26Und du sollst keinen Gräuel in dein Haus bringen, damit du nicht gleich ihm dem Bann verfällst[14]. Du sollst es als abscheulich verabscheuen und es für einen gräulichen Gräuel halten, denn Gebanntes ist es. (De 13:18; Jos 6:18; Isa 41:24)