However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God.

However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,

However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok, the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the Lord our God.

The Lord, however, said to me, "Don't be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon."

Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples -- as is apparent today.

However, you must not eat blood -- pour it out on the ground like water.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself -- you must not eat the life with the meat!

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.

However, there should not be any poor among you, for the Lord will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,

However, if the servant says to you, "I do not want to leave you," because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city -- all its plunder -- you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,