The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you – from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner.

You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children – this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard.

Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the Lord had handed them over?

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.

All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.

Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

But the Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the Lord your God loves you.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.