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" />

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed the Rephaites<n id="1" /> in advance of the Ammonites,<n id="2" /> so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

As for the Avvites<n id="1" /> who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites<n id="2" /> who came from Crete<n id="3" /> destroyed them and settled down in their place.)p>

anything that crawls<n id="1" /> on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.<n id="2" />

including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah,<n id="1" /> beneath the watershed<n id="2" /> of Pisgah.)p>

The<n id="1" /> sky<n id="2" /> above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Because you have not served the <sc>Lordsc> your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Joseph he said:p> <p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> bless his landp> <p class="poetry">with the harvest produced by the sky,<n id="1" /> by the dew,p> <p class="poetry">and by the depths crouching beneath;p>

<p class="poetry">The everlasting God is a refuge,p> <p class="poetry">and underneath you are his eternal arms;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he has driven out enemies before you,p> <p class="poetry">and has said, &#8220;Destroy!&#8221;p>

This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth<n id="1" /> with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The Arabah and the Jordan River<n id="1" /> were also a border, from the sea of Chinnereth<n id="2" /> to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea),<n id="3" /> beneath the watershed<n id="4" /> of Pisgah<n id="5" /> to the east.p>

You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it<n id="1" /> and yet dark with a thick cloud.<n id="2" />

Moreover, because he loved<n id="1" /> your ancestors, he chose their<n id="2" /> descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

Today realize and carefully consider that the <sc>Lordsc> is God in heaven above and on earth below &#8211; there is no other!

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory.<n id="1" /> Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

Stand aside<n id="1" /> and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory,<n id="2" /> and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan<n id="1" /> to Moserah.<n id="2" /> There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go<n id="1" /> where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell<n id="2" /> her;<n id="3" /> you must not take advantage of<n id="4" /> her, since you have already humiliated<n id="5" /> her.p>

There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky,<n id="1" /> because you will have disobeyed<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God.