They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

You must not offer false testimony against another.

If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,

These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give us.

They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.

Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

As for the Avvites who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites who came from Crete destroyed them and settled down in their place.)

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,

He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

and in the desert, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, which it retains to this very day.)