So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

“During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.

But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Then Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.

Their territory started at Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.

The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord turned them over to Midian for seven years.

All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east assembled. They crossed the Jordan River and camped in the Jezreel Valley.

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

The old man said, “Everything is just fine! I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.”