What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage<n id="1" /> by describing people who are more numerous<n id="2" /> and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven<n id="3" /> itself! Moreover, they said they saw<n id="4" /> Anakites<n id="5" /> there.&#8221;

(I was standing between the <sc>Lordsc> and you at that time to reveal to you the message<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:p>

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the <sc>Lordsc> made with you, I remained there<n id="1" /> forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

And when he<n id="1" /> sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, &#8220;Go up and possess the land I have given you,&#8221; you rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc> your God<n id="2" /> and would neither believe nor obey him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a matter is too difficult for you to judge &#8211; bloodshed,<n id="1" /> legal claim,<n id="2" /> or assault<n id="3" /> &#8211; matters of controversy in your villages<n id="4" /> &#8211; you must leave there and go up to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry<n id="1" /> and troops<n id="2" /> who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

But if the man does not want to marry his brother&#8217;s widow, then she<n id="1" /> must go to the elders at the town gate and say, &#8220;My husband&#8217;s brother refuses to preserve his brother&#8217;s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!&#8221;

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed in his intense anger.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Go up to this Abarim<n id="1" /> hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho<n id="2" />) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> showed him the whole land &#8211; Gilead to Dan,