Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s heart as fearful as his own.”