Of Asher he said: Asher is blessed with children, may he be favored by his brothers and may he dip his foot in olive oil.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.

So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”

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

Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today.

So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

Therefore the Lord brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

He buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.

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

He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

Then you must build an altar there to the Lord your God, an altar of stones – do not use an iron tool on them.

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.