Then if you and your descendants<n id="1" /> turn to the <sc>Lordsc> your God and obey him with your whole mind and being<n id="2" /> just as<n id="3" /> I am commanding you today,

<p class="poetry">He said, &#8220;I will reject them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will see what will happen to them;p> <p class="poetry">for they are a perverse generation,p> <p class="poetry">children<n id="2" /> who show no loyalty.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses went with Joshua<n id="1" /> son of Nun and recited all the words of this song to the people.

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have not seen him,&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and he did not acknowledge his own brothersp> <p class="poetry">or know his own children,p> <p class="poetry">for they kept your word,p> <p class="poetry">and guarded your covenant.p>

The Israelites mourned for Moses in the deserts of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.p>

However, it was not until<n id="1" /> the first day of the eleventh month<n id="2" /> of the fortieth year<n id="3" /> that Moses addressed the Israelites just as<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had instructed him to do.

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;

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;

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way,<n id="1" /> and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad,<n id="2" /> will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;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<n id="1" /> to the descendants of Lot<n id="2" /> as their possession.

Previously the Horites<n id="1" /> lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the <sc>Lordsc> gave them.)<n id="2" />

just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the <sc>Lordsc> our God is giving us.&#8221;

Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy<n id="1" /> that his sarcophagus<n id="2" /> was made of iron.<n id="3" /> Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath<n id="4" /> of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet<n id="5" /> long and six feet<n id="6" /> wide according to standard measure.)<n id="7" />p>

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.)

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth<n id="1" /> today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.p>

in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.

You must not worship or serve them, for I, the <sc>Lordsc> your God, am a jealous God. I punish<n id="1" /> the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject<n id="2" /> me,<n id="3" />

but the seventh day is the Sabbath<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you,<n id="2" /> so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey<n id="1" /> all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.