Deuteronomy 2:24–4:46

^24cRise ye up, take your journey, and ^dpass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: ^†begin to possess it, and ^econtend with him in battle. ²⁵This day will I begin to put ^ethe dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

²⁶And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon ^fwith words of peace, saying, ^27gLet me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. ^28hThou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet; ²⁹ⁱ(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us. ³⁰But ^kSihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God ^lhardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. ³¹And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: ^mbegin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. ³²Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight ⁿat Jahaz. ³³And ^othe Lord our God delivered him before us; and ^pwe smote him, and his sons, and all his people. ³⁴And we took all his cities at that time, and ^qutterly destroyed ^†the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: ³⁵Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. ^36rFrom Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: ^sthe Lord our God delivered all unto us: ³⁷Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river ^tJabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto ^uwhatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.

3Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and ^aOg the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle ^bat Edrei. ²And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto ^cSihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. ³So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: ^dand we smote him until none was left to him remaining. ⁴And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, ^eall the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside ^funwalled towns a great many. ⁶And we ^gutterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king ^hof Heshbon, utterly destroying ⁱthe men, women, and children, of every city. ⁷But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. ⁸And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; ⁹(Which ^jHermon the Sidonians call ^kSirion; and the Amorites call it ^lShenir;) ¹⁰All the cities of ^mthe plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto ⁿSalchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^ogiants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in ^pRabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit ^qof a man. ¹²And this land, which we possessed at that time, ^rfrom Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and ^sthe cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³And ^tthe rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; ^uall the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of ^xgiants. ^14yJair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of ^zGeshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, ^yBashan-havoth-jair, unto this day. ^15aAnd I gave Gilead unto Machir. ¹⁶And unto the Reubenites ^band unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, ^cwhich is the border of the children of Ammon; ¹⁷The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from ^dChinnereth ^eeven unto the sea of the plain, ^feven the salt sea, ^||under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.

¹⁸And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over ^garmed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are ^†meet for the war. ¹⁹But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for ^hI know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; ²⁰Until ⁱthe Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. ²¹And I commanded ^kJoshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. ²²Ye shall not fear them: for ^lthe Lord your God he shall fight for you. ²³And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, ²⁴O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant ^mthy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for ⁿwhat God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? ²⁵I pray thee, let me go over, and see ^othe good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and ^pLebanon. ²⁶But the Lord ^qwas wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, ^rLet it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. ^27sGet thee up into the top of ^||Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. ²⁸But ^tcharge Joshua, and ^uencourage him, ^wand strengthen him: for ^uhe shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. ²⁹So we abode in ^xthe valley over against Beth-peor.

4Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto ^athe statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. ^2bYe shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. ³Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of ^cBaal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. ⁴But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. ⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. ⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is ^dyour wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, ^eSurely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷For ^fwhat nation is there so great, who hath ^gGod so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? ⁸And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ⁹Only take heed to thyself, and ^hkeep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but ⁱteach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; ¹⁰Specially ^kthe day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. ¹¹And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the ^lmountain burned with fire unto the ^†midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. ^12mAnd the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ⁿye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; ^o†only ye heard a voice. ^13pAnd he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten ^qcommandments; and ^rhe wrote them upon two tables of stone. ¹⁴And ^sthe Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. ^15tTake ye therefore good heed unto ^tyourselves; for ye saw no manner of ^usimilitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: ¹⁶Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and ^xmake you a graven image, the similitude of any ^yfigure, ^zthe likeness of male or female, ¹⁷The ^zlikeness of any beast that is on the earth, the ^zlikeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, ¹⁸The ^zlikeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the ^zlikeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: ¹⁹And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest ^athe sun, and the moon, and the stars, even ^ball the host of heaven, ^cshouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath ^||divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. ²⁰But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth ^dout of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people ^eof inheritance, as ye are this day. ²¹Furthermore ^fthe Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the …