The people contended with Moses, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

But as for you, turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.”

We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, including women and children.

then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

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

The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.

The king of Jericho received this report: “Note well! Israelite men have come here tonight to spy on the land.”

But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, except for Hazor; it was the only one Joshua burned.

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.

From there he attacked the people of Debir. (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”