He<n id="1" /> commanded them: &#8220;At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts,<n id="2" /> at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,<n id="3" />

We put all of these under divine judgment<n id="1" /> just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon &#8211; every occupied city,<n id="2" /> including women and children.

Commission<n id="1" /> Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.&#8221;

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.<n id="1" />

Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the <sc>Lordsc> and because of these detestable things<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to drive them out<n id="2" /> from before you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Today the <sc>Lordsc> your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.<n id="1" />

So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal<n id="1" /> these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

&#8216;Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;p>

Otherwise the people of the land<n id="1" /> from which you brought us will say, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the <sc>Lordsc> your God has not given you permission to do such things.p>

Then Moses called out to Joshua<n id="1" /> in the presence of all Israel, &#8220;Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give their ancestors,<n id="2" /> and you will enable them to inherit it.