“Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the way you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence

We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land.

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

My heart went out to Israel’s leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the Lord!

When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down and named that place Ramath Lehi.

Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”