They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them – a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan – to be your God.

From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

So Moses spoke to the people: “Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

You complained among yourselves privately and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

Then he said to me, “Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”

and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

The Lord will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them.

in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the Lord had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.

The king of Israel said, “Oh no! Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!”