The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs.” And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.

When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your ancestors, as Aaron your brother was gathered to his ancestors.

“Exact vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites – after that you will be gathered to your people.”

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

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

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,

‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

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

You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.