Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Clean and Unclean Food

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.