At Mount Horeb Yahweh our Elohim said to us, “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

Yahweh your Elohim has made your population increase so that you are now as numerous as the stars in the sky.

May Yahweh Elohim of your ancestors make you a thousand times more numerous, and may he bless you as he has promised.

Be impartial in your decisions. Listen to the least important people the same way you listen to the most important people. Never be afraid of anyone, since your decisions come from Elohim. You may bring me any case that’s too hard for you, and I will hear it.”

Moses Reminds Israel of the Events at Kadesh Barnea

So we left Mount Horeb, as Yahweh our Elohim had commanded. We traveled through all that vast and dangerous desert you saw on the way to the mountain region of the Amorites. At last we came to Kadesh Barnea.

Then I said to you, “We have come to the mountain region of the Amorites, which Yahweh our Elohim is giving us.

Yahweh your Elohim is giving you this land. Go ahead! Take possession of it, as Yahweh Elohim of your ancestors told you. Don’t be afraid or terrified.”

They took some of the region’s fruit with them and brought it back to us. They reported, “The land that Yahweh our Elohim is giving us is good.”

But you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your Elohim and refused to go.

Yahweh your Elohim, who is going ahead of you, will fight for you as you saw him fight for you in Egypt

and in the desert.” There you saw how Yahweh your Elohim carried you, as parents carry their children. He carried you wherever you went until you came to this place.

In spite of this, you didn’t trust Yahweh your Elohim,

You responded, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We’ll go and fight, as Yahweh our Elohim commanded us to do.” Each of you armed yourself for war, thinking you could easily invade the mountain region.

Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched over you as you traveled through this vast desert. For 40 years now Yahweh your Elohim has been with you, and you haven’t needed a thing.

as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us. We’ll keep going until we cross the Jordan River into the land Yahweh our Elohim is giving us.”

But King Sihon of Heshbon wouldn’t allow us to pass through. Yahweh your Elohim made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

Yahweh our Elohim gave Sihon to us, and we defeated him, his sons, and all his troops.

From Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley and the city in that valley as far as Gilead, no city had walls that could keep us out. Yahweh our Elohim gave us all of them.

But Yahweh our Elohim had forbidden you to go anywhere near the land of the Ammonites. So you didn’t enter the land along the bank of the Jabbok River or capture the cities in the mountains.

So Yahweh our Elohim also handed King Og of Bashan and all his troops over to us. We defeated him, leaving no survivors.

I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half of the tribe of Manasseh this command: “Yahweh your Elohim has given you this land so that you can take possession of it. All your soldiers must be ready for battle when they cross the Jordan River ahead of the other Israelites.

Your soldiers will go with the other Israelites until they take possession of the land Yahweh your Elohim is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then they will have a place to rest as you have. After that each of you may go back to the land I gave you.”

I also gave Joshua this command: “You have seen with your own eyes everything that Yahweh your Elohim has done to these two kings. Yahweh will do the same to all of the kingdoms on the other side of the Jordan River where you’re going.

Don’t be afraid of them, because Yahweh your Elohim himself will fight for you.”

Moses Reminds Israel to Be Loyal to the Lord

Israel, listen to the laws and rules I am about to teach you. Obey them so that you will live and be able to enter and take possession of the land that Yahweh Elohim of your ancestors is giving you.