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

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

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

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.

A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the Lord.

“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

The Lord is indeed going before you – he will be with you; he will not fail you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.”

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.