When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf;<n id="1" /> you had quickly turned aside from the way he<n id="2" /> had commanded you!

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

When you do go across the Jordan River<n id="1" /> and settle in the land he<n id="2" /> is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.<n id="3" />

Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves,<n id="1" /> it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

But to this very day the <sc>Lordsc> has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!<n id="1" />

Get up now,<n id="1" /> resume your journey, heading for<n id="2" /> the Amorite hill country, to all its areas<n id="3" /> including the arid country,<n id="4" /> the highlands, the Shephelah,<n id="5" /> the Negev,<n id="6" /> and the coastal plain &#8211; all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

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<n id="1" /> as an inheritance for Esau.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time I instructed you as follows: &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites<n id="1" /> equipped for battle.

You must fight<n id="1" /> until the <sc>Lordsc> gives your countrymen victory<n id="2" /> as he did you and they take possession of the land that the <sc>Lordsc> 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.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances<n id="1" /> I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors,<n id="2" /> is giving you.

Or has God<n id="1" /> ever before tried to deliver<n id="2" /> a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments,<n id="3" /> signs, wonders, war, strength, power,<n id="4" /> and other very terrifying things like the <sc>Lordsc> your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

(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>

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.

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

Every place you set your foot<n id="1" /> will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.<n id="2" />

Nobody will be able to resist you; the <sc>Lordsc> your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.p>

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.<n id="1" /> (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so,<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> has said you must never again return that way.

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly<n id="1" /> perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.<n id="2" />

Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!