So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, for the Lord has refused to permit me to go with you.”

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.

So Moses spoke to the people: “Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”

Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

You complained among yourselves privately and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.”

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.”

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.

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

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

and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!