I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.

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

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

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

Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face.

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them

So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.