Every one of you must give as you are able, ¹  according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

You must give them the best of your ¹  grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

you must set apart for yourselves three cities ¹  in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ¹  to die.

The Lord your God will deliver it over to you ¹  and you must kill every single male by the sword.

When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail ¹  and you take prisoners,

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected ¹  her.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, ¹  but you must not take away any in a container. ² 

Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

Look! I have already given the land to you. ¹  Go, occupy the territory that I, ²  the Lord, promised ³  to give to your ancestors ⁴  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” ⁵ 

Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir ¹  as an inheritance for Esau.

Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar ¹  to the descendants of Lot ²  as their possession.

But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants ¹  as their possession.

You must fight ¹  until the Lord gives your countrymen victory ²  as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Then the anger of the Lord will erupt ¹  against you and he will close up the sky ²  so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed ³  from the good land that the Lord ⁴  is about to give you.

Then they took ¹  some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

You complained among yourselves privately ¹  and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

“Not a single person ¹  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!