This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the <sc>Lordsc> your God: &#8220;Please do not make us hear the voice of the <sc>Lordsc> our<n id="1" /> God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.&#8221;

whenever a prophet speaks in my<n id="1" /> name and the prediction<n id="2" /> is not fulfilled,<n id="3" /> then I have<n id="4" /> not spoken it;<n id="5" /> the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.&#8221;p>

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it,<n id="1" /> you must not chop down its trees,<n id="2" /> for you may eat fruit<n id="3" /> from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!<n id="4" />

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse<n id="1" /> must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked &#8211; that has never pulled with the yoke &#8211;

If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission,<n id="1" /> he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

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;

He said to them, &#8220;Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about,<n id="1" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> has said to me, &#8216;You will not cross the Jordan.&#8217;

But the <sc>Lordsc> told me: &#8220;Tell them this: &#8216;Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.&#8217;&#8221;

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them<n id="1" /> under divine judgment,<n id="2" /> including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok,<n id="1" /> the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the <sc>Lordsc> our God.p>

Go up to the top of Pisgah and take a good look to the west, north, south, and east,<n id="1" /> for you will not be allowed to cross the Jordan.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Be very careful,<n id="1" /> then, because you saw no form at the time the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

There you will worship gods made by human hands &#8211; wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

(for he<n id="1" /> is a merciful God), he will not let you down<n id="2" /> or destroy you, for he cannot<n id="3" /> forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.p>

He<n id="1" /> did not make this covenant with our ancestors<n id="2" /> but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

You must not make for yourself an image<n id="1" /> of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.<n id="2" />

and he<n id="1" /> delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate<n id="2" /> them. Make no treaty<n id="3" /> with them and show them no mercy!

<t /><p class="bodytext">It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the <sc>Lordsc> favored and chose you &#8211; for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

The <sc>Lordsc> will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.p>

you must not fear them. You must carefully recall<n id="1" /> what the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,