Your eyes have seen the great judgments,<n id="1" /> those signs and mighty wonders.

your infants, your wives, and the<n id="1" /> foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water &#8211;

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> your God is making with you today.<n id="1" />

You have seen their detestable things<n id="1" /> and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)<n id="2" />

Then he<n id="1" /> will bring you to the land your ancestors<n id="2" /> possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

The <sc>Lordsc> will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

<p class="poetry">who ate the best of their sacrifices,p> <p class="poetry">and drank the wine of their drink offerings?p> <p class="poetry">Let them rise and help you;p> <p class="poetry">let them be your refuge!p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Asher he said:p> <p class="poetry">Asher is blessed with children,p> <p class="poetry">may he be favored by his brothersp> <p class="poetry">and may he dip his foot in olive oil.<n id="1" />p>

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the <sc>Lordsc> face to face.<n id="1" />

and he displayed great power<n id="1" /> and awesome might in view of all Israel.<n id="2" />p>

So all of you approached me and said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.&#8221;

The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh;<n id="1" /> he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.&#8221;<n id="2" />

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.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had vowed to them.

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;

I also commanded Joshua at the same time, &#8220;You have seen everything the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to these two kings; he<n id="1" /> will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.<n id="2" />

&#8220;O, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" /> you have begun to show me<n id="2" /> your greatness and strength.<n id="3" /> (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds?)

<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.

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that I am delivering to<n id="1" /> you.