Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”

So the Lord’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.

and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.

And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left.

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

all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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