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Ang Pinili nga Katawhan sang Dios(A)

“Kon dal-on na gani kamo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios didto sa duta nga inyo pagasudlon kag panag-iyahan, ipatabog niya sa inyo ang pito ka nasyon nga mas madamo kag mas gamhanan pa sang sa inyo: ang mga Hithanon, mga Girgashnon, mga Amornon, mga Canaanhon, mga Periznon, mga Hivhanon, kag mga Jebusnon. Kag kon itugyan na sila sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sa inyo kag pierdihon ninyo sila, laglagon ninyo sila sing bug-os.[a] Indi kamo maghimo sang kasugtanan sa ila ukon magpakita sang kaluoy sa ila. Indi kamo magpangasawa ukon magpamana sa ila, kag indi ninyo pagtuguti ang inyo mga anak nga magpangasawa ukon magpamana sa ila mga anak, kay ipalayo nila sa Ginoo ang inyo mga anak sa pag-alagad sa iban nga mga dios. Kag kon matabo ini, ipaagom sang Ginoo ang iya kaakig sa inyo kag sa gilayon malaglag kamo. Sa baylo, amo ini ang inyo himuon: Panggub-a ninyo ang ila mga halaran, pangdugmuka ang ila handumanan nga mga bato, pang-utda ang ila mga hulohaligi nga simbolo sang diosa nga si Ashera, kag sunuga ang ila mga dios-dios. Kay kamo nga katawhan ginseparar para sa Ginoo nga inyo Dios. Sa tanan nga katawhan, kamo ang ginpili sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios nga mangin iya espesyal nga katawhan.

“Ginpili kamo kag ginhigugma sang Ginoo indi tungod nga mas madamo kamo sang sa iban nga mga katawhan, kay kamo pa gani ang pinakadiutay sa tanan. Ginpili niya kamo tungod kay ginahigugma niya kamo kag ginatuman niya ang iya ginsumpa sa inyo mga katigulangan. Amo gani nga ginpaguwa niya kamo sa Egipto paagi sa iya puwerte nga gahom, kag ginhilway sa pagkaulipon sa Faraon nga hari sang Egipto. Hunahunaon ninyo nga ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios amo lang ang Dios. Masaligan siya nga Dios, kag ginatuman niya ang iya kasugtanan nga amo ang paghigugma sa madamo nga kaliwat nga nagahigugma sa iya kag nagatuman sang iya mga sugo. 10 Pero ang mga wala nagahigugma sa iya silutan gid niya dayon kag laglagon.

Ang Balos sa Pagkamatinumanon(B)

11 “Gani tumanon gid ninyo sing maayo ang mga sugo kag mga pagsulundan nga ginahatag ko sa inyo subong. 12 Kon tumanon ninyo ini nga mga sugo kag sundon sing maayo, tumanon sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios ang iya kasugtanan nga higugmaon[b] niya kamo, subong sang iya ginsumpa sa inyo mga katigulangan. 13 Higugmaon niya kamo, pakamaayuhon, kag padamuon. Hatagan niya kamo sang madamo nga kabataan kag pakamaayuhon ang mga produkto sang inyo duta: ang inyo mga uyas, duga sang ubas, kag lana. Kag padamuon man niya ang inyo kasapatan didto sa duta nga iya ginsumpa nga ihatag sa mga katigulangan ninyo kag sa inyo. 14 Pakamaayuhon niya kamo labaw sa iban nga mga katawhan. Wala sing lalaki sa inyo nga mabaog ukon babayi nga mabaw-as, kag amo man sa inyo mga kasapatan. 15 Protektaran kamo sang Ginoo sa tanan nga balatian. Indi niya pag-ipadala sa inyo atong makangilil-ad nga mga balatian nga inyo nakita didto sa Egipto, pero ipadala niya ini sa tanan nga nagadumot sa inyo. 16 Kinahanglan nga pamatyon ninyo ang tanan nga katawhan nga ginatugyan sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sa inyo. Indi ninyo sila pagkaluoyi, kag indi kamo mag-alagad sa ila mga dios, kay mangin siod ini para sa inyo.

17 “Basi bala magsiling kamo sa inyo kaugalingon, ‘Mas gamhanan pa ini nga mga nasyon sang sa aton. Paano bala naton sila mapalayas?’ 18 Pero indi kamo magkahadlok sa ila, kundi dumdumon ninyo sing maayo kon ano ang ginhimo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sa hari sang Egipto[c] kag sa tanan nga Egiptohanon. 19 Nakita ninyo mismo ang dalagko nga mga pagtilaw, ang mga milagro, mga makatilingala nga butang, kag puwerte nga gahom nga gin-gamit sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sa pagpaguwa sa inyo. Pareho man sini ang pagahimuon sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sa tanan nga katawhan nga inyo ginakahadlukan. 20 Kag dayon padal-an sila sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sang mga alingayo hasta nga malaglag bisan atong nagkalabilin nga nakapanago. 21 Indi kamo magkahadlok sa ila kay ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios kaupod ninyo, kag gamhanan kag makatilingala siya nga Dios. 22 Amat-amat nga ipatabog sa inyo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios ina nga mga nasyon. Indi ninyo sila pag-ubuson pahalin dayon, kay kon himuon ninyo ini magadamo ang talunon nga mga sapat. 23 Pero itugyan sila sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios sa inyo. Pasalasalahon niya sila hasta nga malaglag sila. 24 Itugyan niya sa inyo ang ila mga hari. Pamatyon ninyo sila, kag malimtan na sila. Wala sing bisan isa sa ila nga makadaog sa inyo, kag pamatyon ninyo sila tanan. 25 Sunugon ninyo ang ila mga dios-dios, kag indi ninyo paghandumon ang mga bulawan kag mga pilak sini. Indi gid ninyo ini pagkuhaon kay mangin siod ini sa inyo. Likawan gid ninyo ini kay ginakangil-aran ini sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios. 26 Indi kamo magdala sa inyo balay sang sining makangilil-ad nga mga butang, agod indi man kamo paglaglagon kaupod sini. Dapat kangil-aran gid ninyo ini, kay ini nga mga butang kinahanglan nga laglagon sing bug-os.

Footnotes

  1. 7:2 laglagon ninyo sila sing bug-os: Ang Hebreo nga pulong sini nagakahulugan sang mga gintugyan sa Ginoo paagi sa paghalad ukon paglaglag sini.
  2. 7:12 higugmaon: ukon, pakamaayuhon.
  3. 7:18 hari sang Egipto: sa Hebreo, Faraon.

Driving Out the Nations

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess(A) and drives out before you many nations(B)—the Hittites,(C) Girgashites,(D) Amorites,(E) Canaanites, Perizzites,(F) Hivites(G) and Jebusites,(H) seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered(I) them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy(J) them totally.[a](K) Make no treaty(L) with them, and show them no mercy.(M) Do not intermarry with them.(N) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(O) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(P) you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[b](Q) and burn their idols in the fire.(R) For you are a people holy(S) to the Lord your God.(T) The Lord your God has chosen(U) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(V)

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous(W) than other peoples, for you were the fewest(X) of all peoples.(Y) But it was because the Lord loved(Z) you and kept the oath he swore(AA) to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand(AB) and redeemed(AC) you from the land of slavery,(AD) from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(AE) he is the faithful God,(AF) keeping his covenant of love(AG) to a thousand generations(AH) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(AI) 10 But

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.(AJ)

11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

12 If 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.(AK) 13 He will love you and bless you(AL) and increase your numbers.(AM) He will bless the fruit of your womb,(AN) the crops of your land—your grain, new wine(AO) and olive oil(AP)—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(AQ) 14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.(AR) 15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease.(AS) He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt,(AT) but he will inflict them on all who hate you.(AU) 16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.(AV) Do not look on them with pity(AW) and do not serve their gods,(AX) for that will be a snare(AY) to you.

17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?(AZ) 18 But do not be afraid(BA) of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.(BB) 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand(BC) 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.(BD) 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet(BE) among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. 21 Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you,(BF) is a great and awesome God.(BG) 22 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.(BH) You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.(BI) 24 He will give their kings(BJ) into your hand,(BK) and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you;(BL) you will destroy them.(BM) 25 The images of their gods you are to burn(BN) in the fire. Do not covet(BO) the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared(BP) by it, for it is detestable(BQ) to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.(BR) Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy

When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the 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 thou;

And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

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.

For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

15 And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

22 And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.