You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment.<n id="1" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who among you<n id="2" /> has built a new house and not dedicated<n id="3" /> it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else<n id="4" /> dedicate it.

In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, &#8220;Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier&#8217;s<n id="1" /> heart as fearful<n id="2" /> as his own.&#8221;

If the owner<n id="1" /> does not live<n id="2" /> near you or you do not know who the owner is,<n id="3" /> then you must corral the animal<n id="4" /> at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat<n id="1" /> your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent<n id="2" /> among you and turn away from you.p>

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry<n id="1" /> her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> You must not bring guilt on the land<n id="3" /> which the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance.p>

Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there,<n id="1" /> you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the <sc>Lordsc> your God may bless all the work you do.<n id="2" />

Then the <sc>Lordsc> will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses<n id="1" /> I have set before you, you will reflect upon them<n id="2" /> in all the nations where the <sc>Lordsc> your God has banished you.

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will make the labor of your hands<n id="1" /> abundantly successful and multiply your children,<n id="2" /> the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the <sc>Lordsc> your God will once more<n id="3" /> rejoice over you to make you prosperous<n id="4" /> just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

if you obey the <sc>Lordsc> your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him<n id="1" /> with your whole mind and being.p>

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land,<n id="1" /> the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.<n id="2" />p>

They returned and reported to Joshua,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Don&#8217;t send the whole army.<n id="2" /> About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai.<n id="3" /> Don&#8217;t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day<n id="1" />) and the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Israel had finished killing all the men<n id="1" /> of Ai who had chased them toward the desert<n id="2" /> (they all fell by the sword),<n id="3" /> all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

<p class="bodytext">At that time Joshua turned, captured Hazor,<n id="1" /> and struck down its king with the sword, for Hazor was at that time<n id="2" /> the leader of all these kingdoms.

I was forty years old when Moses, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land, &#8220;Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the <sc>Lordsc> here in Shiloh.&#8221;

He must remain<n id="1" /> in that city until his case is decided by the assembly<n id="2" /> and the high priest dies.<n id="3" /> Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

saying, &#8220;Take home<n id="1" /> great wealth, a lot of cattle,<n id="2" /> silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of<n id="3" /> clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers.&#8221;