However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

And these other tribes must stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.

When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the desert of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.”

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.