“When a body has a burn on its skin and the raw area of the burn becomes a reddish white or white bright spot,

“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs.” And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit, and lay your hand on him;

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!

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.

Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

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

Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”

So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.