However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

Of Joseph he said: May the Lord bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;

with the harvest of the earth and its fullness and the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush. May blessing rest on Joseph’s head, and on the top of the head of the one set apart from his brothers.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.

Look! The ark of the covenant of the Ruler of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you.

They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain.

Joshua conquered the area between Kadesh Barnea and Gaza and the whole region of Goshen, all the way to Gibeon.

No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

to the south; all the Canaanite territory, from Arah in the region of Sidon to Aphek, as far as Amorite territory;

Now, divide up this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land.

Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,