²⁴ ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and ^(A)go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of ^(B)Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and ^(C)contend with him in battle. ²⁵ This day I will begin to put ^(D)the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

The Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶ “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^(E)Kedemoth to Sihon the king of ^(F)Heshbon, ^(G)with words of peace, saying, ^27 (H)‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. ^28 (I)You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, ^29 (J)as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(K)Sihon the king of ^(L)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^(M)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. ³¹ And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ ³² Then ^(N)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(O)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^(P)we defeated him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction^[a] every ^(Q)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵ Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. ^36 (R)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^(S)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^(T)The Lord our God gave all into our hands. ³⁷ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^(U)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

The Defeat of King Og

3 “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And ^(V)Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at ^(W)Edrei. ² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to ^(X)Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ ³ So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, ^(Y)and we struck him down until he had no survivor left. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, ^(Z)the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. ⁶ And ^(AA)we devoted them to destruction,^[b] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ^(AB)city, men, women, and children. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder. ⁸ So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (the Sidonians call ^(AC)Hermon ^(AD)Sirion, while the Amorites call it ^(AE)Senir), ¹⁰ all the cities of the ^(AF)tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as ^(AG)Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For ^(AH)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of ^(AI)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in ^(AJ)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits^[c] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the ^(AK)common cubit.^[d])

¹² “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning ^(AL)at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with ^(AM)its cities. ^13 (AN)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, ^(AO)all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of ^(AP)Rephaim. ^14 (AQ)Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of ^(AR)the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages ^(AS)after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) ¹⁵ To Machir ^(AT)I gave Gilead, ¹⁶ and to the Reubenites ^(AU)and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, ^(AV)the border of the Ammonites; ¹⁷ the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from ^(AW)Chinnereth as far as ^(AX)the Sea of the Arabah, ^(AY)the Salt Sea, under ^(AZ)the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

¹⁸ “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. ^(BA)All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel. ¹⁹ Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock ^(BB)(I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you, ^20 (BC)until the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’ ²¹ And I commanded ^(BD)Joshua at that time, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing. ²² You shall not fear them, for it is ^(BE)the Lord your God who fights for you.’

Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land

²³ “And I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, ²⁴ ‘O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant ^(BF)your greatness and your mighty hand. For ^(BG)what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? ²⁵ Please let me go over and see ^(BH)the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and ^(BI)Lebanon.’ ²⁶ But ^(BJ)the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, ^(BK)‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again. ^27 (BL)Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan. ²⁸ But ^(BM)charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’ ²⁹ So we remained in ^(BN)the valley opposite Beth-peor.

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “And now, O Israel, listen to ^(BO)the statutes and the rules^[e] that I am teaching you, and do them, ^(BP)that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. ^2 (BQ)You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did ^(BR)at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. ⁴ But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. ⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ^6 (BS)Keep them and do them, for ^(BT)that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ ⁷ For ^(BU)what great nation is there that has ^(BV)a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so ^(BW)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

^9 (BX)“Only take care, and ^(BY)keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. ^(BZ)Make them known to your children and your children's children— ¹⁰ how on ^(CA)the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ^(CB)‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, ^(CC)so that they may learn to fear ^(CD)me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’ ¹¹ And ^(CE)you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while ^(CF)the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. ¹² Then ^(CG)the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, ^(CH)but saw no form; ^(CI)there was only a voice. ^13 (CJ)And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, ^(CK)the Ten Commandments,^{[f] (CL)}and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And ^(CM)the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.