Intermarriage: Deuteronomy 7:2-3
Question
Dear Rabbi,
In Deuteronomy 7:2 the Jews are told to "doom to destruction" the 7 nations--Canaanites, etc. In the next verse, they are told not to intermarry with them. Don't these verses contradict each other? If those nations are to be destroyed, why tell us not to intermarry with them?