These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;

I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

When the Israelites were in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

“Exact vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites – after that you will be gathered to your people.”

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

and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?

Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder,

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

There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.

I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

“Come to my aid so we can attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!