Children of the third generation born to them<n id="1" /> may enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Go and tell them, &#8216;Return to your tents!&#8217;

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.<n id="1" />

These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites;<n id="1" /> the Moabites call them Emites.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey<n id="1" /> all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

But the <sc>Lordsc> told me: &#8220;Tell them this: &#8216;Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites.<n id="1" /> The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.<n id="2" />

(for he<n id="1" /> is a merciful God), he will not let you down<n id="2" /> or destroy you, for he cannot<n id="3" /> forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.p>

and he<n id="1" /> delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate<n id="2" /> them. Make no treaty<n id="3" /> with them and show them no mercy!

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> cut down their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and burn up their idols.

Then he<n id="1" /> said to me, &#8220;Get up, set out leading<n id="2" /> the people so they may go and possess<n id="3" /> the land I promised to give to their ancestors.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

and that you may enjoy long life in the land the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give to your ancestors<n id="1" /> and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.<n id="1" />

by serving other gods and worshiping them &#8211; the sun,<n id="1" /> moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.<n id="2" />

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, that is, before the priests and judges<n id="1" /> who will be in office in those days.

Do not blame<n id="1" /> your people Israel whom you redeemed, O <sc>Lordsc>, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

<p class="bodytext">An Ammonite or Moabite<n id="1" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever<n id="2" /> do so,<n id="3" />