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3 “Then we turned and went up by the way of Bashan. And Og, king of Bashan, came out against us (he and all his people), to fight at Edrei.

² “And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him. For I will deliver him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites (who dwelt at Heshbon).’

³ “So the LORD our God also delivered to our hand, Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. And we struck him, until he was left with no one.

⁴ “And we took all his cities at the same time. There was not a city which we did not take from them—60 cities—all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

⁵ “All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars. And there were a great many unwalled towns.

⁶ “And we overthrew them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.

⁷ “But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for ourselves.

⁸ “Thus, at that time, we took out of the hand of two kings of the Amorites: the land that was on this side of Jordan—from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon

⁹ “(the same Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir),

¹⁰ “all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, all Bashan, up to Salcah, and Edrei—cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

¹¹ “For only Og, king of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the giants, whose bed was a bed of iron. Is it not at Rabbath, among the children of Ammon? The length of it is nine cubits. And four cubits is the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

¹² “And this land which we possessed at that time—from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead, and its cities—I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

¹³ “And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan (the kingdom of Og) I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the country of Argob, with all Bashan (which is called ‘The Land of Giants’.

¹⁴ “Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the country of Argob, to the coasts of Geshuri and of Maachathi. And he called them after his own name—Bashan, Havoth Jair—to this day.

¹⁵ “And I gave part of Gilead to Machir.

¹⁶ “And to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave part of Gilead: to the river of Arnon—half the river and the borders—as far as the river Jabbok (which is the border of the children of Ammon),

¹⁷ “the plain, also, and Jordan, and the borders from Chinnereth, as far as the sea of the plain (the Salt Sea, under the springs of Pisgah, eastward).

¹⁸ “And I commanded you at the same time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land, to possess it. You shall go over, armed, ahead of your brothers, the children of Israel, all men of war.

¹⁹ ‘But your wives and your children and your cattle (for I know that you have many cattle) shall stay in your cities which I have given you,

²⁰ ‘until the LORD has given rest to your brothers (as to you) and they also possess the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond Jordan. Then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you.’

²¹ “And I charged Joshua at the same time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go.

²² ‘You shall not fear them. For the LORD your God, He shall fight for you.’

²³ “And I implored the LORD at the same time, saying,

²⁴ ‘O LORD God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand. For where is there a God in Heaven or on Earth, that can match Your works and Your power?

²⁵ ‘I beg You, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’

²⁶ “But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me. And the LORD said to me, ‘Let it satisfy you. Speak no more to Me of this matter.

²⁷ ‘Get up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold it with your eyes. For you shall not go over this Jordan.

²⁸ ‘But charge Joshua and encourage him and embolden him. For he shall go before this people. And he shall divide to them for an inheritance the land which you shall see.’

²⁹ “So we stayed in the valley, near Beth Peor.”

4 “Now therefore, listen, O Israel, to the Ordinances and to the Laws which I teach you to do, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.

² “You shall add nothing to the Word which I command you. Nor shall you take anything from it, so that you may keep the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

³ “Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor. For of all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed every one from among you.

⁴ “But you who clung to the LORD your God are alive, every one of you, this day.

⁵ “Behold, I have taught you Ordinances and Laws, as the LORD my God Commanded me, so that you should do the same within the land to which you go to possess.

⁶ “Keep them, therefore, and do them. For that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the people who shall hear all these Ordinances, and shall say, ‘Only this people is wise and of understanding, a great nation.

⁷ ‘For what nation is so great, to whom the gods come so near as the LORD our God is in all that we call to Him for?’

⁸ “And what nation is so great that it has Ordinances and Laws so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day?

⁹ “But guard yourself. And keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen. And that they do not depart out of your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons’ sons,

¹⁰ “the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people together for Me. And I will cause them to hear My Words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the Earth, and that they may teach their children.’

¹¹ “Then you came near and stood under the mountain. And the mountain burnt with fire, up to the midst of Heaven—darkness, clouds and mist.

¹² “And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the Voice of the words but saw no Image, only the Voice.

¹³ “Then He declared to you His Covenant, which He Commanded you to do—The Ten Commandments—and wrote them upon two Tablets of stone.

¹⁴ “And the LORD Commanded me at that same time that I should teach you Ordinances and Laws, which you should observe in the land to which you go to possess.

¹⁵ “Therefore, take good heed to yourselves (for you saw no image on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire)

¹⁶ “so that you do not corrupt yourselves and make yourself a graven image or representation of any figure (the likeness of male or female,

¹⁷ “the likeness of any beast that is on Earth, the likeness of any feathered fowl that flies in the air,

¹⁸ “the likeness of anything that creeps on the Earth, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the Earth)

¹⁹ “and lest you lift up your eyes to Heaven, and when you see the Sun and the Moon and the stars with all the host of Heaven, be driven to worship them and serve them which the LORD your God has distributed to all people under the whole Heaven.

²⁰ “But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people and inheritance, as it is this day.

²¹ “And the LORD was angry with me for your words and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

²² “For I must die in this land and shall not go over Jordan. But you shall go over and possess that good land.

²³ “Guard yourselves, lest you forget the Covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and you make any graven image or likeness of anything, as the LORD your God has charged you.

²⁴ “For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

²⁵ “When you shall bear children and children’s children and shall have remained long in the land, if you corrupt yourselves and make any graven image out of anything and work evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger,

²⁶ “I call Heaven and Earth to record against you this day, that you shall shortly perish from the land to which you go over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong your days there, but shall be utterly destroyed.

²⁷ “And the LORD shall scatter you among the people. And you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD shall bring you.

²⁸ “And there you shall serve gods, the work of man’s hand—wood and stone—which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

²⁹ “But if, from then on, you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him. If you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

³⁰ “When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, at the end of the day, if you return to the LORD your God and be obedient to His Voice,

³¹ “(for the LORD your God is a merciful God) He will not forsake you or destroy you or forget the Covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

³² “For inquire now about the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the Earth, and whether there has been as great a thing as this from the one end of Heaven to the other, or whether anything like this has been heard.

³³ “Did people ever hear the Voice of God speaking out of the midst of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?

³⁴ “Or has God attempted to go and take a nation for Himself from among nations—by temptations, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty Hand, by an outstretched Arm, and by great fear—according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

³⁵ “To you it was shown, so that you might know that the LORD He is God, that there is none but He alone.

³⁶ “Out of Heaven He made you hear His Voice to instruct you. And upon Earth He showed you His great fire. And you heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire.

³⁷ “And because He loved your fathers, He therefore chose their seed after them. And He has brought you out of Egypt in His sight, by His mighty power,

³⁸ “to thrust out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for inheritance, as it happens this day.

³⁹ “Understand, therefore, this day, and consider in your heart that the LORD Himself is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath. There is no other.

⁴⁰ “You shall therefore keep His Ordinances and His Commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days upon the Earth which the LORD your God gives you forever.”

⁴¹ Then Moses separated three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising Sun,

⁴² so that the slayer who had killed his neighbor unintentionally, and had not hated him in the past, could flee from there. That is to say, he might flee to one of these cities and live:

⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness in the plain country of the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, among those of Manasseh.

⁴⁴ So this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

⁴⁵ These are the witnesses and the Ordinances and the Laws which Moses declared to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt.

⁴⁶ On this side of Jordan, in the valley next to Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, King of the Amorites (who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel killed, after they had come out of Egypt).

⁴⁷ And they possessed his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan (two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising Sun):

⁴⁸ from Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, to mount Sion (which is Hermon),

⁴⁹ and all the plain (from Jordan, eastward to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah).