Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.’

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.

“And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’

“The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.

‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,

And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.

“So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,

We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

“Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel.

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.

And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ’—which you have not known—

Property Boundaries

“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.

Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

Laws of Social Responsibility

“If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

Miscellaneous Laws

“If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals,

“And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel:

“All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,

Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,

I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

“Let Reuben live, and not die, Nor let his men be few.”