Aliya Summary: The Israelites are directed to destroy the inhabitants
of Canaan along with their idols, and the prohibition against
intermarriage is discussed.
Finally, Moshe tells the
People that the nations in Eretz Yisrael whom we will encounter are
mightier than Israel. But G-d will give them over into Israel's hands.
We are required to destroy the "Seven Nations", not to show mercy to
idolaters in the Land, and certainly not to intermarry with them or any
other non-Jews.
Regardless of how secure one is in
one's belief, intermarriage and other close contact with alien cultures
will have an adverse effect upon the individual Jew and on the Jewish
People.
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