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20 And Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, and go armed before the LORD to war,
21 “and will go — every one of you in harness, over Jordan, before the LORD, until He has cast out His enemies from His sight
22 “and until the land is subdued before the LORD — then you shall return and be innocent toward the LORD, and toward Israel. And this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
23 “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD. And be sure that your sin will find you out.
24 “Build cities for your children, and folds for your sheep, and do that which you have spoken.”
25 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
26 “Our children, our wives, our sheep, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead.
27 “But every one of your servants will go to war, armed before the LORD to fight, as my lord says.”
28 So Moses commanded them concerning Eleazar the Priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.
29 And Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will go with you over Jordan — all armed to fight before the LORD — then, when the land is subdued before you, you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.
30 “But if they will not go over with you armed, then they shall have their possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.
32 “We will go armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance may be to us on this side of Jordan.”
33 So Moses gave to them — to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben and to half the tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph — the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, the land with its cities and coasts, even the cities of the country all around.
34 Then the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
35 and Atroth, Shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran (defensed cities), also sheepfolds.
37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, and turned their names, and Shibmah, and gave other names to the cities which they built.
39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorites who dwelt therein.
40 Then Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh. And he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the small towns thereof and called them Havoth Jair.
42 Also Nobah went and took Kenath, with its villages, and called it Nobah (after his own name).
33 These are the journeys of the children of Israel who went out of the land of Egypt according to their bands, under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2 And Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys, according to the Commandment of the LORD. So, these are the journeys, according to their starting points.
3 Now they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover. The children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had stricken among them. Upon their gods, also, the LORD executed judgment.
5 And the children of Israel left Rameses and camped in Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is at the edge of the wilderness.
7 And they departed from Etham and turned again to Pi Hahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and pitched before Migdol.
8 And they departed from before Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and pitched in Marah.
9 And they departed from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped there.
10 And they moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 And they moved from the Red Sea and lay in the wilderness of Sin.
12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin and set up their tents in Dophkah.
13 And they departed from Dophkah and lay in Alush.
14 And they moved from Alush and lay in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
15 And they departed from Rephidim and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they moved from the desert of Sinai and camped in Kibroth Hattaavah.
17 And they departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and lay at Hazeroth.
18 And they departed from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.
19 And they departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
20 And they departed from Rimmon Perez and camped in Libnah.
21 And they moved from Libnah and camped in Rissah.
22 And they journeyed from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.
23 And they went from Kehelathah and camped in Mount Shepher.
24 And they moved from Mount Shepher and lay in Haradah.
25 And they moved from Haradah and camped in Makheloth.
26 And they moved from Makheloth and lay in Tahath.
27 And they departed from Tahath and camped in Terah.
28 And they moved from Terah and camped in Mithkah.
29 And they went from Mithkah and camped in Hashmonah.
30 And they departed from Hashmonah and lay in Moseroth.
31 And they departed from Moseroth and camped in Bene Jaakan.
32 And they moved from Bene Jaakan and lay in Hor Hagidgad.
33 And they went from Hor Hagidgad and camped in Jotbathah.
34 And they moved from Jotbathah and lay in Abronah.
35 And they departed from Abronah and lay in Ezion Geber.
36 And they moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
37 And they moved from Kadesh and camped on Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
38 And Aaron the Priest went up onto Mount Hor, at the Commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
39 And Aaron was a hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 And King Arad the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south of the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
41 And they departed from Mount Hor and camped in Zalmonah.
42 And they departed from Zalmonah and camped in Punon.
43 And they departed from Punon and camped in Oboth.
44 And they departed from Oboth and camped in Ije Abarim, on the borders of Moab.
45 And they departed from Ijim and camped in Dibon Gad.
46 And they moved from Dibon Gad and lay in Almon Diblathaim.
47 And they moved from Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plain of Moab by Jordan, toward Jericho.
49 And they camped by Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth to Abel Shittim, on the plain of Moab.
50 And the LORD spoke to Moses on the plain of Moab, by Jordan, toward Jericho, saying,
51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you have come over Jordan, to enter into the land of Canaan,
52 ‘you shall then drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their idols, and break apart all their images of metal, and tear down all their high places.
53 ‘And you shall possess the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
54 ‘And you shall inherit the land by lot, according to your families. To the more you shall give more inheritance, and to the fewer the less inheritance. Where the lot shall fall to any man, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
55 ‘But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those which you let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land where you dwell.
56 ‘Moreover, it shall happen that I shall do to you as I thought to do to them.’”
34 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to your inheritance: the land of Canaan with its coasts.
3 ‘And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin to the borders of Edom. So that your south quarter shall be from the Salt Sea coast, eastward.
4 ‘And the border shall surround you from the south to Maaleh Akrabbim, and reach to Zin, and go out from the south to Kadesh Barnea. From there it shall stretch to Hazar Addar and go along to Azmon.
5 ‘And the border shall run from Azmon to the river of Egypt and shall go out to the sea.
6 ‘And your west quarter shall be the Great Sea. That border shall be your west coast.
7 ‘And this shall be your north quarter: you shall mark out your border from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.
8 ‘From Mount Hor you shall mark out till it comes to Hamath. And the end of the coast shall be at Zedad.
9 ‘And the coast shall reach out to Ziphron and go out at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north quarter.
10 ‘And you shall mark out your east quarter from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
11 ‘And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, and from the east side of Ain. And the same border shall descend and go out at the side of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward.
12 ‘Also, that border shall go down to Jordan and leave at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land, with its surrounding coasts.’”
13 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD Commanded to give to nine tribes and the half-tribe.
14 “For the tribe of the children of Reuben (according to the households of their fathers) and the tribe of the children of Gad (according to their fathers’ households) and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
15 “Two tribes and a half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of Jordan, toward Jericho, full east.”
16 Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
17 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land for you: Eleazar the Priest and Joshua, the son of Nun.
18 “And you shall also take a Prince from every tribe, to divide the land.
19 “Also, the names of the men are these: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
20 “and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud;
21 “from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;
22 “from the tribe of the sons of Dan, the Prince Bukki (the son of Jogli);
23 “from the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the Prince Hanniel (the son of Ephod);
24 “from the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the Prince Kemuel (the son of Shiphtan);
25 “from the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the Prince Elizaphan (the son of Parnach);
26 “from the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the Prince Paltiel (the son of Azzan);
27 “from the tribe of the sons of Asher, the Prince Ahihud (the son of Shelomi);
28 “and from the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the Prince Pedahel (the son of Ammihud).”
29 These are those whom the LORD Commanded to divide the inheritance for the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
35 And the LORD spoke to Moses on the plain of Moab, by Jordan, toward Jericho, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites cities in which to dwell from the inheritance of their possession. You shall also give to the Levites the suburbs surrounding the cities.
3 “So they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
4 “And the suburbs of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall surround them for a thousand cubits outward from the walls of the cities.
5 “You shall measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east side, two thousand cubits on the south side, two thousand cubits on the west side, and two thousand cubits on the north side. And the city shall be in the center. This shall be the measure of the suburbs of their cities.
6 “And of the cities which you shall give to the Levites, there shall be six cities for refuge which you shall appoint, to which he who kills may flee. And to them you shall add forty-two more cities.
7 “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, along with their suburbs.
8 “And concerning the cities which you shall give from the possessions of the children of Israel: from many you shall take more, and from few you shall take less. Everyone shall give to the Levites from his cities, according to his inheritance which he inherits.”
9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you have come over Jordan, into the land of Canaan,
11 ‘you shall appoint yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the killer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
12 ‘And these cities shall be for you a refuge from your avenger, so that he who kills does not die until he stand before the Congregation in judgment.
13 ‘And of the cities which you shall give, six cities shall you have for refuge.
14 ‘You shall appoint three on this side of Jordan. And you shall appoint three cities in the land of Canaan which shall be cities of refuge.
15 ‘These six cities shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for he who dwells among you, so that everyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
16 ‘If one strikes another with an instrument of iron so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall die the death.
17 ‘Also, if he strikes him by casting a stone with which he may be killed, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall die the death.
18 ‘Or, if he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood with which he may be killed, if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall die the death.
19 ‘The avenger of the blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him.
20 ‘But if he stabs him out of hate, or ambushes him by lying in wait, so that he dies,
21 ‘or strikes him through enmity with his hand, so that he dies, he who struck him shall die the death. He is a murderer. The avenger of the blood shall kill the murderer when he meets him.
22 ‘But, if he pushed him accidentally (and not out of hatred) or cast upon him anything without lying in wait,
23 ‘or any stone whereby he might be killed (and he did not see him) or caused it to fall upon him, and he dies (and he was not his enemy nor did he seek him any harm),
24 ‘then the Congregation shall judge between the killer and the avenger of blood, according to these Laws.
25 ‘And the Congregation shall deliver the killer out of the hand of the avenger of blood. And the Congregation shall return him to the city of his refuge from which he fled. And he shall stay there until the death of the High Priest, who is anointed with the holy oil.
26 ‘But, if the killer comes outside the borders of the city of his refuge, to which he fled.
27 ‘And the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge. And the avenger of blood kills the murderer, he shall be guiltless,
28 ‘because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the High Priest. But after the death of the High Priest, the killer shall return to the land of his possession.
29 ‘So these things shall be a Law of Judgment to you, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.
30 ‘Whoever kills any person shall be killed through witnesses. But one witness’s testimony against a person shall not cause him to die.
31 ‘Moreover, you shall take no ransom for the life of the murderer who is worthy to die. But he shall be put to death.
32 ‘Also, you shall take no ransom for he who has fled to the city of his refuge, so that he should return and dwell in the land before the death of the High Priest.
33 ‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you shall dwell. For blood defiles the land. And the land can only be cleansed of the blood that is shed upon it but by the blood of he who shed it.
34 ‘Therefore, do not defile the land which you shall inhabit. For I dwell in its midst. For I, the LORD, dwell among the children of Israel.’”
36 Then, the chief fathers of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came, and spoke before Moses, and before the Princes (the chief fathers of the children of Israel),
2 and said, “The LORD Commanded my lord to give the land to inherit by lot to the children of Israel. And my lord was Commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.
3 “If they are married to any of the sons of the tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put into the inheritance of the tribe into which they shall be married. So, it shall be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
4 “Also, when the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance shall be put into the inheritance of the tribe into which they shall be married. So, their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
5 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the Word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph have said well.
6 “This is the thing that the LORD has Commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘They shall be wives to whom they think best. Only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.’
7 “So, the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not move from tribe to tribe. For every one of the children of Israel shall join himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 “And every daughter who possesses any inheritance of the tribes of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each of the children of Israel may enjoy the inheritance of their fathers.
9 “Nor shall the inheritance go about from tribe to tribe, but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall stick to his own inheritance.”
10 As the LORD Commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah (the daughters of Zelophehad) were married to their father’s brother’s sons.
12 They were wives of the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. So, their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These are the Commandments and Laws which the LORD commanded, by the hand of Moses, to the children of Israel, on the plain of Moab, by Jordan, toward Jericho.
1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel, on this side of Jordan, in the wilderness, on the plain, next to the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea, by way of Mount Seir.
3 And it happened that on the first day of the eleventh month, in the fortieth year, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in Commandment to them,
4 after he had killed Sihon, the king of the Amorites (who dwelt in Heshbon), and Og, king of Bashan (who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei).
5 On this side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this Law, saying,
6 “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.
7 ‘Turn and depart, and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all places on the plain that are near it—on the mountain or in the valley, southward and to the seaside, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon—all the way to the great river, the river Perah.
8 ‘Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess that land which the LORD swore to your fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and to their seed after them.’
9 “And I spoke to you at the same time, saying, ‘I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10 ‘The LORD your God has multiplied you. And behold, you are this day as the stars of Heaven in number.
11 ‘The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you, as He has promised you.
12 ‘How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your strife?
13 ‘Bring men of wisdom and of understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
14 ‘Then you answered me and said, “The thing that you have commanded to do is good.”
15 “So I took the chief of your tribes, wise and known men, and made them rulers over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifty, and captains over ten, and officers among your tribes.
16 “And I charged your Judges at that same time, saying, ‘Hear the controversies between your brothers and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 ‘You shall have no respect of person in judgment, but shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not fear the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’
18 “Also I commanded you at the same time all the things which you should do.”
19 “Then we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness (as you have seen) by way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God Commanded us. And we came to Kadesh Barnea.
20 “And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives us.
21 ‘Behold, the LORD your God has laid the land before you. Go up, possess it, as the LORD the God of your fathers has said to you. Do not fear or be discouraged.’
22 “Then everyone came to me, and said, ‘We will send men before us, to search out the land, and to bring us word again, what way we must go, and to what cities we shall come.’
23 “So the saying pleased me well and I took twelve men from you, one from every tribe,
24 “who departed and went up into the mountain, and came to the river Eshcol, and searched out the land.
25 “And they took the fruit of the land in their hand and brought it to us, and brought us word again, and said, ‘It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.’
26 “Notwithstanding, you would not go up, but were disobedient to the Commandment of the LORD your God,
27 “and murmured in your tents, and said, ‘Because the LORD hated us, therefore He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, and to destroy us.
28 ‘Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we, the cities great and walled up to heaven. And, moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.”’
29 “But I said to you, ‘Do not dread or be afraid of them.
30 ‘The LORD your God —Who goes before you —He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes
31 ‘and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God bore you, as a man bears his son, all the way in which you have gone until you came to this place.’
32 “Yet for all this you did not believe the LORD your God,
33 “Who went in the way before you, to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, in fire by night (so that you might see what way to go) and in a cloud by day.”
34 “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
35 ‘Surely, not one of these men of this froward generation shall see that good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
36 ‘except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he has walked upon, and to his children, because he has constantly followed the LORD.’
37 “Also the LORD was angry with me because of you, saying, ‘You also shall not go in there,
38 ‘But Joshua, the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him. For he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 ‘Moreover, your children (whom you said would be a prey) and your sons (who, in those days, had no knowledge between good and evil), they shall go in there. And to them I will give it. And they shall possess it.
40 ‘But as for you, turn back and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.’
41 “Then you answered and said to Me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God has Commanded us.’ And you armed every man for war and were ready to go up into the mountain.
42 “But the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up and fight, for I am not among you, lest you fall before your enemies.’
43 “And when I told you, you would not hear, but rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the mountain.
44 “Then the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you and chased you (as bees used to do) and destroyed you from Seir to Hormah.
45 “And when you came back, you wept before the LORD. But the LORD would not hear your voice, nor incline His Ears to you.
46 “So you stayed in Kadesh a long time, for all the time that you were there.”
2 “Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness, by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me. And we encircled Mount Seir a long time.
2 “And the LORD spoke to me, saying,
3 ‘You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward
4 ‘and warn the people, saying, “You shall go through the coast of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir.” And they shall be afraid of you. Be very careful, therefore.
5 ‘You shall not provoke them. For I will not give you so much as a footstep of their land, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
6 ‘You shall buy meat from them, for money to eat. And you shall also procure water from them, for money to drink.
7 ‘For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand. He knows your comings and goings through this great wilderness. And the LORD your God has been with you these forty years. You have lacked nothing.’
8 “And when we had departed from our brothers, the children of Esau (who dwelt in Seir, by way of the plain, from Elath and from Ezion Geber) we turned and went by way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 “Then the LORD said to me, ‘You shall not besiege Moab or provoke them to battle. For I will not give you their land for a possession because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
10 ‘The Emims — a people great and many, and tall — dwelt there in times past, as the Anakims did.
11 ‘Those whom the Moabites call Emims were also called “giants”, as the Anakims were.
12 ‘The Horites also dwelt in Seir before time. The children of Esau chased them out and destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their place, as Israel shall do to the land of its possession (which the LORD has given them).
13 ‘Now rise up and get over the river Zered.’ And we went over the river Zered.
14 “And the time it took to go from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the river Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from among the army, as the LORD swore to them.
15 “For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the army, until they were consumed.
16 “So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17 “then the LORD spoke to me, saying,
18 ‘You shall go through Ar (the coast of Moab) this day.
19 ‘And you shall come near the children of Ammon, but shall not lay siege to them, nor move war against them. For I will not give you possession of the land of the children of Ammon. For I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession,
20 ‘that also was taken for a land of giants. Giants dwelt there previously, whom the Ammonites called Zamzummims,
21 ‘a great people, and many, and tall as the Anakims.’ But the LORD destroyed them before them. And they succeeded them in their inheritance and dwelt in their place.
22 ‘He also did so to the children of Esau (who dwell in Seir) when he destroyed the Horites before them. And they dispossessed them and have dwelt in their place until this day,
23 ‘And the Avim (who dwelt from Hazarim to Azzah) and the Caphtorims (who came out of Caphtor) destroyed them and dwelt in their place.
24 ‘Rise up! Take your journey and pass over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it and provoke him to battle.
25 ‘This day I will begin to send your fear and your dread upon all people under the whole heaven, who shall hear your fame and shall tremble and quake before you.
26 ‘Then I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,
27 “Let me pass through your land. I will go by the highway. I will not turn to the right or to the left.
28 “You shall sell me meat for money (so that I may eat) and shall give me water for money (so that I may drink). Only, I will go through on foot,
29 “as the children of Esau (who dwell in Seir) and the Moabites (who dwell in Ar) did to me until I had come over Jordan, into the land which the LORD our God gave us.”’
30 “But Sihon, the King of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him. For the LORD your God had hardened His Spirit, and made his heart obstinate, because he would deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.
31 “And the LORD said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess and inherit his land.’
32 “Then Sihon came out to meet us (himself with all his people) to fight at Jahaz.
33 “But the LORD our God delivered him into our power. And we struck him and his sons and all his people.
34 “And we took all his cities at the same time and destroyed every city—men and women and children. We let nothing remain.
35 “We only took the cattle for ourselves, plus the spoil of the cities which we took,
36 “from Aroer (which is by the bank of the river of Arnon) to the city that is upon the river, all the way to Gilead. There was not one city that escaped us. The LORD our God delivered them all up before us.
37 “Only to the land of the children of Ammon did you not come, nor to any place on the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbade us.”
3 “Then we turned and went up by the way of Bashan. And Og, king of Bashan, came out against us (he and all his people), to fight at Edrei.
2 “And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him. For I will deliver him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites (who dwelt at Heshbon).’
3 “So the LORD our God also delivered to our hand, Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. And we struck him, until he was left with no one.
4 “And we took all his cities at the same time. There was not a city which we did not take from them—60 cities—all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 “All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars. And there were a great many unwalled towns.
6 “And we overthrew them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.
7 “But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for ourselves.
8 “Thus, at that time, we took out of the hand of two kings of the Amorites: the land that was on this side of Jordan—from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon
9 “(the same Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir),
10 “all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, all Bashan, up to Salcah, and Edrei—cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 “For only Og, king of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the giants, whose bed was a bed of iron. Is it not at Rabbath, among the children of Ammon? The length of it is nine cubits. And four cubits is the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
12 “And this land which we possessed at that time—from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead, and its cities—I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.
13 “And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan (the kingdom of Og) I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the country of Argob, with all Bashan (which is called ‘The Land of Giants’.
14 “Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the country of Argob, to the coasts of Geshuri and of Maachathi. And he called them after his own name—Bashan, Havoth Jair—to this day.
15 “And I gave part of Gilead to Machir.
16 “And to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave part of Gilead: to the river of Arnon—half the river and the borders—as far as the river Jabbok (which is the border of the children of Ammon),
17 “the plain, also, and Jordan, and the borders from Chinnereth, as far as the sea of the plain (the Salt Sea, under the springs of Pisgah, eastward).
18 “And I commanded you at the same time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land, to possess it. You shall go over, armed, ahead of your brothers, the children of Israel, all men of war.
19 ‘But your wives and your children and your cattle (for I know that you have many cattle) shall stay in your cities which I have given you,
20 ‘until the LORD has given rest to your brothers (as to you) and they also possess the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond Jordan. Then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you.’
21 “And I charged Joshua at the same time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go.
22 ‘You shall not fear them. For the LORD your God, He shall fight for you.’
23 “And I implored the LORD at the same time, saying,
24 ‘O LORD God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand. For where is there a God in Heaven or on Earth, that can match Your works and Your power?
25 ‘I beg You, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’
26 “But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me. And the LORD said to me, ‘Let it satisfy you. Speak no more to Me of this matter.
27 ‘Get up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold it with your eyes. For you shall not go over this Jordan.
28 ‘But charge Joshua and encourage him and embolden him. For he shall go before this people. And he shall divide to them for an inheritance the land which you shall see.’
29 “So we stayed in the valley, near Beth Peor.”
4 “Now therefore, listen, O Israel, to the Ordinances and to the Laws which I teach you to do, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.
2 “You shall add nothing to the Word which I command you. Nor shall you take anything from it, so that you may keep the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
3 “Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor. For of all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed every one from among you.
4 “But you who clung to the LORD your God are alive, every one of you, this day.
5 “Behold, I have taught you Ordinances and Laws, as the LORD my God Commanded me, so that you should do the same within the land to which you go to possess.
6 “Keep them, therefore, and do them. For that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the people who shall hear all these Ordinances, and shall say, ‘Only this people is wise and of understanding, a great nation.
7 ‘For what nation is so great, to whom the gods come so near as the LORD our God is in all that we call to Him for?’
8 “And what nation is so great that it has Ordinances and Laws so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day?
9 “But guard yourself. And keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen. And that they do not depart out of your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons’ sons,
10 “the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people together for Me. And I will cause them to hear My Words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the Earth, and that they may teach their children.’
11 “Then you came near and stood under the mountain. And the mountain burnt with fire, up to the midst of Heaven—darkness, clouds and mist.
12 “And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the Voice of the words but saw no Image, only the Voice.
13 “Then He declared to you His Covenant, which He Commanded you to do—The Ten Commandments—and wrote them upon two Tablets of stone.
14 “And the LORD Commanded me at that same time that I should teach you Ordinances and Laws, which you should observe in the land to which you go to possess.
15 “Therefore, take good heed to yourselves (for you saw no image on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire)
16 “so that you do not corrupt yourselves and make yourself a graven image or representation of any figure (the likeness of male or female,
17 “the likeness of any beast that is on Earth, the likeness of any feathered fowl that flies in the air,
18 “the likeness of anything that creeps on the Earth, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the Earth)
19 “and lest you lift up your eyes to Heaven, and when you see the Sun and the Moon and the stars with all the host of Heaven, be driven to worship them and serve them which the LORD your God has distributed to all people under the whole Heaven.
20 “But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people and inheritance, as it is this day.
21 “And the LORD was angry with me for your words and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
22 “For I must die in this land and shall not go over Jordan. But you shall go over and possess that good land.
23 “Guard yourselves, lest you forget the Covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and you make any graven image or likeness of anything, as the LORD your God has charged you.
24 “For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25 “When you shall bear children and children’s children and shall have remained long in the land, if you corrupt yourselves and make any graven image out of anything and work evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger,
26 “I call Heaven and Earth to record against you this day, that you shall shortly perish from the land to which you go over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong your days there, but shall be utterly destroyed.
27 “And the LORD shall scatter you among the people. And you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD shall bring you.
28 “And there you shall serve gods, the work of man’s hand—wood and stone—which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29 “But if, from then on, you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him. If you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 “When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, at the end of the day, if you return to the LORD your God and be obedient to His Voice,
31 “(for the LORD your God is a merciful God) He will not forsake you or destroy you or forget the Covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
32 “For inquire now about the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the Earth, and whether there has been as great a thing as this from the one end of Heaven to the other, or whether anything like this has been heard.
33 “Did people ever hear the Voice of God speaking out of the midst of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?
34 “Or has God attempted to go and take a nation for Himself from among nations—by temptations, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty Hand, by an outstretched Arm, and by great fear—according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 “To you it was shown, so that you might know that the LORD He is God, that there is none but He alone.
36 “Out of Heaven He made you hear His Voice to instruct you. And upon Earth He showed you His great fire. And you heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire.
37 “And because He loved your fathers, He therefore chose their seed after them. And He has brought you out of Egypt in His sight, by His mighty power,
38 “to thrust out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for inheritance, as it happens this day.
39 “Understand, therefore, this day, and consider in your heart that the LORD Himself is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath. There is no other.
40 “You shall therefore keep His Ordinances and His Commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days upon the Earth which the LORD your God gives you forever.”
41 Then Moses separated three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising Sun,
42 so that the slayer who had killed his neighbor unintentionally, and had not hated him in the past, could flee from there. That is to say, he might flee to one of these cities and live:
43 Bezer in the wilderness in the plain country of the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, among those of Manasseh.
44 So this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 These are the witnesses and the Ordinances and the Laws which Moses declared to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt.
46 On this side of Jordan, in the valley next to Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, King of the Amorites (who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel killed, after they had come out of Egypt).
47 And they possessed his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan (two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising Sun):
48 from Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, to mount Sion (which is Hermon),
49 and all the plain (from Jordan, eastward to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah).
5 Then Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the Ordinances and the Laws which I propose to you this day, so that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
2 “The LORD our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb.
3 “The LORD did not only make this Covenant with our fathers, but with us. That is, all of us here alive this day.
4 “The LORD talked with you face to face on the Mount, out of the midst of the fire.
5 “At that time, I stood between the LORD and you, to declare to you the Word of the LORD. For you were afraid at the sight of the fire and did not go up on the Mount. And He said,
6 ‘I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
7 ‘You shall have no other gods before My Face.
8 ‘You shall make no graven image for yourself, any likeness that is in Heaven above, which is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the Earth.
9 ‘You shall neither bow yourself to them, nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me,
10 ‘and showing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
11 ‘You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain. For the LORD will not hold him guiltless who lifts up His Name in a frivolous way.
12 ‘Keep the Sabbath day, to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has Commanded you.
13 ‘Six days you shall labor and shall do all your work.
14 ‘But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work—you or your son or your daughter or your manservant or your maid or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or the stranger that is within your gates—so that your manservant and your maid may rest as well as you.
15 ‘For, remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. And the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty Hand and an outstretched Arm. Therefore, the LORD your God Commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
16 ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
17 ‘You shall not kill.
18 ‘Nor shall you commit adultery.
19 ‘Nor shall you steal.
20 ‘Nor shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 ‘Nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. Nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his donkey or anything that your neighbor has.’
22 “These words the LORD spoke with a great Voice to all your multitude on the Mount—out of the midst of the fire, the cloud and the darkness—and added no more. And He wrote them upon two Tablets of stone and delivered them to me.
23 “And when you heard the Voice out of the midst of the darkness (for the mountain burned with fire), then you came to me, all the chiefs of your tribes, and your elders,
24 “and you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His Glory and His greatness. And we have heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God talks with man, and he lives.
25 ‘Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we hear the Voice of the LORD our God anymore. We shall die.
26 ‘For what flesh was there ever that heard the Voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have, and lived?
27 ‘You go near and hear all that the LORD our God says and declare to us all that the LORD our God says to you. And we will hear it and do it.’
28 “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
29 ‘Oh that there were such a heart in them to fear Me, and to keep all My Commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever.
30 ‘Go. Say to them, “Return into your tents.”
31 ‘But you stand here with Me. And I will tell you all the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.
32 ‘Be careful, therefore, to do as the LORD your God has Commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 ‘Walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.’”
6 “These, now, are the Commandments, Ordinances, and Laws, which the LORD your God Commanded to teach, so that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess,
2 “so that you might fear the LORD your God and keep all His Ordinances and his Commandments which I command you—you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life—so that your days may be prolonged.
3 “Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may go well with you, and that you may increase mightily in the land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.
4 “Hear, O Israel, The LORD our God is LORD only,
5 “and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
6 “And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart.
7 “And you shall repeat them continually to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and as you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 “And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand. And they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 “Also, you shall write them upon the posts of your house and upon your gates.
10 “And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to you, with great and beautiful cities which you did not build,
11 “and houses full of all manner of goods which you did not fill, wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. And you have eaten and are full.
12 “Beware, lest you forget the LORD, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 “You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve Him, and shall swear by His Name.
14 “You shall not walk after other gods, the gods of the people who are all around you
15 “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.
16 “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.
17 “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.
18 “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
19 “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
20 “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’
21 “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.
22 ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
23 ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.
25 ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’
7 “When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess, and shall root out many 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 mightier than you—
2 “and the LORD your God shall give them before you, then you shall strike them. You shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them or have compassion on them.
3 “Nor shall you make marriages with them or give your daughter to his son or take his daughter to your son.
4 ‘For they will cause your son to turn away from Me, and to serve other gods.’ Then the wrath of the LORD will grow hot against you and destroy you suddenly.
5 “But you shall deal with them like this: You shall overthrow their altars and break down their pillars. And you shall cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.
6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all people who are upon the Earth.
7 “The LORD did not set His love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people (for you were the fewest of all people)
8 “but because the LORD loved you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers. The LORD has brought you out by a mighty Hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
9 “so that you may know that the LORD your God, He is God. He is the faithful God Who keeps Covenant and mercy to those who love Him and keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations.
10 “And He rewards those who hate Him to their face, to bring them to destruction. He will not hesitate to reward him who hates Him, to his face.
11 “Therefore, keep the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which I command you this day, to do them.
12 “For if you hear these Laws, and observe and do them, then the LORD your God shall keep the Covenant with you, and the mercy, which He swore to your fathers.
13 “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your corn and your wine, your oil, the increase of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to give to your fathers.
14 “You shall be blessed above all people. There shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattle.
15 “Moreover, the LORD will take away all infirmities from you, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you know) upon you. But He will send them upon all who hate you.
16 “You shall, therefore, consume all people which the LORD your God shall give you. Your eye shall not spare them, nor shall you serve their gods. For that shall be your destruction.
17 “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more than me. How can I cast them out?’
18 “You shall not fear them. Remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
19 “The great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the people whose face you fear.
20 “Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left (and hiding themselves from you) are destroyed.
21 “You shall not fear them. For the LORD your God is among you, a God mighty and revered.
22 “And the LORD your God will root out these nations before you, little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the wild animals increase upon you.
23 “But the LORD your God shall give them before you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are brought to nothing.
24 “And He shall deliver their kings into your hand. And you shall destroy their name from under Heaven. There shall be no man able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25 “You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, or take it for yourself, lest you are ensnared by it. For it is an abomination before the LORD your God.
26 “Therefore, do not bring such an abomination into your house, lest you be accursed, like it is. Utterly abhor it and count it most abominable. For it is accursed.”
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