You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

But as for you, turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.”

“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar.

But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.

As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he chooses.

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.

You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Then Moses called out to Joshua in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the Lord promised to give their ancestors, and you will enable them to inherit it.