Deuteronomy 7
1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
Naar Herren din Gud faar indført dig i Landet, som du skal komme hen til, at eje det, og faar udkastet mange Folk for dig, Hethiter og Girgasiter og Amoriter og Kananiter og Feresiter og Heviter og Jebusiter, syv Folk, som ere mangfoldigere og vældigere end du,
2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
og Herren din Gud har givet dem hen for dit Ansigt, og du har slaget dem: Da skal du bandlyse dem; du skal ikke gøre Pagt med dem og ej bevise dem Naade.
3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
Og du skal ikke gøre Svogerskab med dem; du skal ikke give hans Søn din Datter, og hans Datter skal du ikke tage til din Søn.
4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
Thi han skal bringe din Søn til at vige fra mig, og de skulle tjene andre Guder; og saa optændes Herrens Vrede imod eder, og han skal snart ødelægge eder.
5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
Men saaledes skulle I gøre ved dem: I skulle nedbryde deres Altere og sønderslaa deres Støtter og omhugge deres Astartebilleder og opbrænde deres udskaarne Billeder med Ild.
6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Thi du er et helligt Folk for Herren din Gud; Herren din Gud har udvalgt dig, at være ham til et Ejendoms Folk, fremfor alle Folk, som ere paa Jordens Kreds.
7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
Herren har ikke haft Lyst til eder og udvalgt eder, fordi I vare mangfoldigere end alle Folk; thi I ere det mindste iblandt alle Folk.
8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Men fordi Herren har elsket eder, og fordi han vilde holde den Ed, som han svor eders Fædre, har Herren udført eder med en stærk Haand, og han har frelst dig af Trælles Hus, af Faraos, Kongen af Ægyptens, Haand.
9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
Saa skal du vide, at Herren din Gud, han er Gud, den trofaste Gud, som holder Pagten og Miskundheden mod dem, som elske ham, og mod dem, som holde hans Bud, til tusinde Led.
10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.
Og han betaler dem, som ham hade, øjensynligen, ved at lade dem omkomme; han skal ikke tøve med den, som hader ham, han skal betale ham øjensynligen.
11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
Saa hold det Bud og de Skikke og de Befalinger, som jeg byder dig i Dag, at du gør efter dem.
12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.
Og det skal ske, fordi I høre disse Befalinger og holde dem og gøre dem, da skal og Herren din Gud holde dig den Pagt og den Miskundhed, som han har tilsvoret dine Fædre.
13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.
Og han skal elske dig og velsigne dig og mangfoldiggøre dig, og han skal velsigne dit Livs Frugt og dit Lands Frugt, dit Korn og din nye Vin og din Olie, dine Øksnes Affødning og dit Smaakvægs megen Yngel i det Land, som han har tilsvoret dine Fædre at ville give dig.
14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.
Du skal være velsignet fremfor alle Folk; der skal ingen ufrugtbar Han eller Hun være iblandt dig eller iblandt dit Kvæg.
15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.
Og Herren skal lade al Sygdom vige fra dig; og alle de ægyptiske slemme Sygdomme, som du kender, dem skal han ikke lægge paa dig, men lægge dem paa alle dem, som hade dig.
16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
Og du skal tilintetgøre alle de Folk, som Herren din Gud giver i din Vold, dit Øje skal ikke spare dem; og du skal ikke tjene deres Guder, thi det skal blive dig til en Snare.
17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
Naar du siger i dit Hjerte: Disse Folk ere mangfoldigere end jeg, hvorledes formaar jeg at fordrive dem?
18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
da skal du ikke frygte for dem; du skal komme i Hu, hvad Herren din Gud gjorde ved Farao og ved alle Ægypterne,
19 The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.
de store Forsøgelser, som dine Øjne saa, og de Tegn og de underlige Ting og den stærke Haand og den udrakte Arm, ved hvilken Herren din Gud udførte dig; saaledes skal Herren din Gud gøre imod alle de Folk, for hvis Ansigt du frygter.
20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.
Og Herren din Gud skal endog sende Gedehamser paa dem, indtil de omkomme, som ere blevne tilovers, og som have skjult sig for dit Ansigt.
21 Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
Du skal ikke forfærdes for deres Ansigt; thi Herren din Gud er midt iblandt dig, en stor og forfærdelig Gud.
22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
Og Herren din Gud skal efterhaanden uddrive disse Folk for dit Ansigt; du kan ikke saa snart gøre Ende paa dem, for at de vilde Dyr paa Marken ikke skulle blive mange imod dig.
23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
Og Herren din Gud skal give dem hen for dit Ansigt og forstyrre dem med en stor Forstyrrelse, indtil de ødelægges.
24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
Og han skal give deres Konger i din Haand, og du skal udslette deres Navn fra at være under Himmelen; der skal ingen kunne staa imod dit Ansigt, indtil du har ødelagt dem.
25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:
I skulle opbrænde deres Guders udskaarne Billeder med Ild; du skal ikke begære Sølvet eller Guldet, som er paa dem, eller tage det til dig, at du ikke besnæres dermed; thi det er Herren din Gud en Vederstyggelighed.
26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
Og du skal ikke lade Vederstyggelighed komme i dit Hus, at du ikke skal blive en forbandet Ting, ligesom dette er; du skal helt væmmes med Væmmelse derfor og have stor Vederstyggelighed for det, thi det er en forbandet Ting.
