and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Come now and put a curse on them for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them out.”

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.

So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”

Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

Then the border will continue down the Jordan River and its direction will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land by its borders that surround it.’”

“These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

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

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

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.

Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River – this good hill country and the Lebanon!”

Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

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