You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

Then Moses went with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song to the people.

“During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

They must declare to the elders of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”

Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,

The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.”

and the Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you.”

Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him; and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the Lord had commanded Moses.