They did not see<n id="1" /> what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

You must not offer false testimony against another.<n id="1" />

If a false<n id="1" /> witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,<n id="2" />

These curses<n id="1" /> will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.<n id="2" />p>

Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey<n id="1" /> from Horeb<n id="2" /> to Kadesh Barnea<n id="3" /> by way of Mount Seir.<n id="4" />

Then I said to you, &#8220;You have come to the Amorite hill country which the <sc>Lordsc> our God is about to give<n id="1" /> us.

They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley,<n id="1" /> which they scouted out.

Indeed, it was the very hand of the <sc>Lordsc> that eliminated them from within<n id="1" /> the camp until they were all gone.p>

As for the Avvites<n id="1" /> who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites<n id="2" /> who came from Crete<n id="3" /> destroyed them and settled down in their place.)p>

Furthermore, the <sc>Lordsc> your God will release hornets<n id="1" /> among them until the very last ones who hide from you<n id="2" /> perish.

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic<n id="1" /> until they are destroyed.

The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,<n id="1" />

He<n id="1" /> will afflict you with weakness,<n id="2" /> fever, inflammation, infection,<n id="3" /> sword,<n id="4" /> blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

your infants, your wives, and the<n id="1" /> foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.p>

the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

and in the desert, where you saw him<n id="1" /> carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.&#8221;

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had vowed to them.

Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites<n id="1" /> and Maacathites<n id="2" /> (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair,<n id="3" /> which it retains to this very day.)