but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today. ¹ 

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone ¹  doing what seems best to him,

He ¹  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ²  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that ¹  good land.

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property. ¹ 

But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, ¹  statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.” ² 

And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” ¹ 

Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, ¹  that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he ²  made on oath to your ancestors, ³  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out ¹  before the city’s elders.

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹ 

The Lord your God has increased your population ¹  to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ² 

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

They did not see ¹  what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ¹  your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,