but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok, the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the Lord our God.

When the Lord heard you speaking to me, he said to me, “I have heard what these people have said to you – they have spoken well.

The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,

They will summon peoples to the mountain, there they will sacrifice proper sacrifices; for they will enjoy the abundance of the seas, and the hidden treasures of the shores.

However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

But as for you, turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.”

We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, including women and children.

then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.