We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

Sell me food for cash<n id="1" /> so that I can eat and sell me water to drink.<n id="2" /> Just allow me to go through on foot,

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.p>

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>

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

However, only to your ancestors did he<n id="1" /> show his loving favor,<n id="2" /> and he chose you, their descendants,<n id="3" /> from all peoples &#8211; as is apparent today.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself<n id="1" /> &#8211; you must not eat the life with the meat!

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the <sc>Lordsc> will choose.<n id="1" />

if you carefully obey<n id="1" /> him<n id="2" /> by keeping<n id="3" /> all these commandments that I am giving<n id="4" /> you today.

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

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>

So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding<n id="1" /> to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, &#8220;Indeed, this great nation is a very wise<n id="2" /> people.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Again, however, pay very careful attention,<n id="1" /> lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the <sc>Lordsc> your God blesses you<n id="1" /> in all your villages.<n id="2" /> Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so,<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> has said you must never again return that way.

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city &#8211; all its plunder &#8211; you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food,<n id="1" /> and you may use it to build siege works<n id="2" /> against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his<n id="1" /> commandments which I am urging<n id="2" /> you today to be careful to do.