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For [a]they will turn your [b]sons away from [c]following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and (A)He will quickly destroy you. But thus you shall do to them: (B)you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their [d]Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire. For you are (C)a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be (D)a people for His [e]own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the [f]earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit he
  2. Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit son
  3. Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit after
  4. Deuteronomy 7:5 Wooden symbols of a female deity
  5. Deuteronomy 7:6 Or special treasure
  6. Deuteronomy 7:6 Lit ground