Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
- BSB The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
- NKJV The Lord will give them over to you, that you may do to them according to every commandment which I have commanded you.
- NASB The Lord will turn them over to you, and you will do to them in accordance with all the commandments which I have commanded you.
- NLT The Lord will hand over to you the people who live there, and you must deal with them as I have commanded you.
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- Deut 7:2and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
- Exod 23:32–33You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
- Deut 20:16–17But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
- Deut 7:18you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
- Num 33:52–56then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
- Exod 34:12–16Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the middle of you:
- Deut 7:23–25But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
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