Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.

When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

“The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

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.

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face.

Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

And he told the army, “Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”