You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.

Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”

However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.

The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.”

The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River – this good hill country and the Lebanon!”