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Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan ;
and Og the king of Bashan came out against us ,
he and all his people ,
to battle at Ed '
re-i .
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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 Sihon the king of the Amorites ,
who dwelt at Heshbon .'
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So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also ,
the king of Bashan ,
and all his people ;
and we smote him until no survivor was left to him .
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And we took all his cities at that time--there was not a city which we did not take from them--sixty cities ,
the whole region of Argob ,
the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
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All these were cities fortified with high walls ,
gates ,
and bars ,
besides very many unwalled villages .
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And we utterly destroyed them ,
as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon ,
destroying every city ,
men ,
women ,
and children .
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But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty .
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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
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the Sido '
nians call Hermon Si '
rion ,
while the Amorites call it Senir ),
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all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan ,
as far as Sal '
ecah and Ed '
re-i ,
cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan .
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For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Reph '
aim ;
behold ,
his bedstead was a bedstead of iron ;
is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites ?
Nine cubits was its length ,
and four cubits its breadth ,
according to the common cubit .)
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When we took possession of this land at that time ,
I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aro '
er ,
which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon ,
and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities ;
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the rest of Gilead ,
and all Bashan ,
the kingdom of Og ,
that is ,
all the region of Argob ,
I gave to the half-tribe of Manas '
seh . (
The whole of that Bashan is called the land of Reph '
aim .
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Ja '
ir the Manas '
site took all the region of Argob ,
that is ,
Bashan ,
as far as the border of the Gesh '
urites and the Ma-ac '
athites ,
and called the villages after his own name ,
Hav '
voth-ja '
ir ,
as it is to this day .)
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To Machir I gave Gilead ,
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and to the Reubenites 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 boundary ,
as far over as the river Jabbok ,
the boundary of the Ammonites ;
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the Arabah also ,
with the Jordan as the boundary ,
from Chin '
nereth as far as the sea of the Arabah ,
the Salt Sea ,
under the slopes of Pisgah on the east .
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And I commanded you at that time ,
saying , `
The LORD your God has given you this land to possess ;
all your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethren the people of Israel .
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But your wives ,
your little ones ,
and your cattle (
I know that you have many cattle )
shall remain in the cities which I have given you ,
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until the LORD gives rest to your brethren ,
as to you ,
and they also occupy the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan ;
then you shall return every man to his possession which I have given you .'
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And I commanded 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 going over .
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You shall not fear them ;
for it is the LORD your God who fights for you .'
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And I besought the LORD at that time ,
saying ,
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O Lord GOD ,
thou hast only begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand ;
for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as thine ?
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Let me go over ,
I pray ,
and see the good land beyond the Jordan ,
that goodly hill country ,
and Lebanon .'
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But the LORD was angry with me on your account ,
and would not hearken to me ;
and the LORD said to me , `
Let it suffice you ;
speak no more to me of this matter .
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Go 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 .
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But 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 which you shall see .'
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So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-pe '
or .
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And now ,
O Israel ,
give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you ,
and do them ;
that you may live ,
and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD ,
the God of your fathers ,
gives you .
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You shall not add to the word which I command you ,
nor take from it ;
that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you .
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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Ba '
al-pe '
or ;
for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Ba '
al of Pe '
or ;
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but you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive this day .
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Behold ,
I have taught you statutes and ordinances ,
as the LORD my God commanded me ,
that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it .
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Keep them and do them ;
for 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 .'
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For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us ,
whenever we call upon him ?
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And what great nation is there ,
that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day ?
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Only take heed ,
and keep your soul diligently ,
lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen ,
and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life ;
make them known to your children and your children '
s children --
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how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb ,
the LORD said to me , `
Gather the people to me ,
that I may let them hear my words ,
so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth ,
and that they may teach their children so .'
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And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain ,
while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven ,
wrapped in darkness ,
cloud ,
and gloom .
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Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire ;
you heard the sound of words ,
but saw no form ;
there was only a voice .
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And he declared to you his covenant ,
which he commanded you to perform ,
that is ,
the ten commandments ;
and he wrote them upon two tables of stone .
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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances ,
that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess .
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Therefore take good heed to yourselves .
Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire ,
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beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves ,
in the form of any figure ,
the likeness of male or female ,
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the likeness of any beast that is on the earth ,
the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air ,
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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground ,
the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth .
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And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven ,
and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars ,
all the host of heaven ,
you be drawn away and worship them and serve them ,
things which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven .
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But the LORD has taken you ,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace ,
out of Egypt ,
to be a people of his own possession ,
as at this day .
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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me on your account ,
and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan ,
and that I should not enter the good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance .
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For I must die in this land ,
I must not go over the Jordan ;
but you shall go over and take possession of that good land .
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Take heed to yourselves ,
lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God ,
which he made with you ,
and make a graven image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you .
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For the LORD your God is a devouring fire ,
a jealous God .
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When you beget children and children '
s children ,
and have grown old in the land ,
if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything ,
and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God ,
so as to provoke him to anger ,
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day ,
that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess ;
you will not live long upon it ,
but will be utterly destroyed .
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And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples ,
and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you .
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And there you will serve gods of wood and stone ,
the work of men '
s hands ,
that neither see ,
nor hear ,
nor eat ,
nor smell .
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But from there you will seek the LORD your God ,
and you will find him ,
if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul .
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When you are in tribulation ,
and all these things come upon you in the latter days ,
you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice ,
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for the LORD your God is a merciful God ;
he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them .
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For ask now of the days that are past ,
which were before you ,
since the day that God created man upon the earth ,
and ask from one end of heaven to the other ,
whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of .
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Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire ,
as you have heard ,
and still live ?
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Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation ,
by trials ,
by signs ,
by wonders ,
and by war ,
by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm ,
and by great terrors ,
according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ?
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To you it was shown ,
that you might know that the LORD is God ;
there is no other besides him .
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Out of heaven he let you hear his voice ,
that he might discipline you ;
and on earth he let you see his great fire ,
and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire .
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And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them ,
and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence ,
by his great power ,
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driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves ,
to bring you in ,
to give you their land for an inheritance ,
as at this day ;
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know therefore this day ,
and lay it to your heart ,
that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath ;
there is no other .
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Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments ,
which I command you this day ,
that it may go well with you ,
and with your children after you ,
and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for ever ."
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Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan ,
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that the manslayer might flee there ,
who kills his neighbor unintentionally ,
without being at enmity with him in time past ,
and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life :
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Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites ,
and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites ,
and Golan in Bashan for the Manas '
sites .
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This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel ;
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these are the testimonies ,
the statutes ,
and the ordinances ,
which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt ,
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beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-pe '
or ,
in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites ,
who lived at Heshbon ,
whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt .
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And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan ,
the two kings of the Amorites ,
who lived to the east beyond the Jordan ;
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from Aro '
er ,
which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon ,
as far as Mount Si '
rion (
that is ,
Hermon ),
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together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah ,
under the slopes of Pisgah .
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And Moses summoned all Israel ,
and said to them , "
Hear ,
O Israel ,
the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day ,
and you shall learn them and be careful to do them .