For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; (A)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them: you shall (B)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their [a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

“For you are a [b]holy people to the Lord your God; (C)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  2. Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart

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