Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors and will die there.”

The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

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.

So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge of the holy articles and the signal trumpets.

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”

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.”

Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.

These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.

You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.

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

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

He is the one you should praise; he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!

You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today.