The Lord your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt

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.

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Next we set out on the route to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

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

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.

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.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

Moreover, he said to me, “I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance just as the Lord your God told him.

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.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself – you must not eat the life with the meat!

You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.

You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.