Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.

These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and He showed His holiness to them.

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”

Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

for I will greatly honor you and do whatever you ask me. So please come and put a curse on these people for me!’”

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and she asked Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

The Angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because what you are doing is evil in My sight.

The donkey saw Me and turned away from Me these three times. If she had not turned away from Me, I would have killed you by now and let her live.”

Then Balak became furious with Balaam, struck his hands together, and said to him, “I summoned you to put a curse on my enemies, but instead, you have blessed them these three times.

Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”

These were the Reubenite clans,
and their registered men numbered 43,730.

These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

These were the Gadite clans numbered by their registered men: 40,500.

These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

These were Issachar’s clans numbered by their registered men: 64,300.

These were the Zebulunite clans numbered by their registered men: 60,500.

These were Gilead’s descendants:
the Iezerite clan from Iezer;
the Helekite clan from Helek;

These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

These were Ephraim’s descendants by their clans:
the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah;
the Becherite clan from Becher;
the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

These were Shuthelah’s descendants:
the Eranite clan from Eran.

These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500.
These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

These were Dan’s descendants by their clans:
the Shuhamite clan from Shuham.
These were the clans of Dan by their clans.

These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.

These were the Levites registered by their clans:
the Gershonite clan from Gershon;
the Kohathite clan from Kohath;
the Merarite clan from Merari.

These were the Levite family groups:
the Libnite clan,
the Hebronite clan,
the Mahlite clan,
the Mushite clan,
and the Korahite clan.

Kohath was the ancestor of Amram.

These were the ones registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

The daughters of Zelophehad approached; Zelophehad was the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Offer these with the morning burnt offering that is part of the regular burnt offering.

These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

“You must offer these to the Lord at your appointed times in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt, grain, drink, or fellowship offerings.”

These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.

These were the stages of the Israelites’ journey when they went out of the land of Egypt by their military divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

At the Lord’s command, Moses wrote down the starting points for the stages of their journey; these are the stages listed by their starting points:

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these borders:

“These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

These are the names of the men:

Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

These are the ones the Lord commanded to distribute the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

“The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge, which you must provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give 42 other cities.

These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or temporary resident among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

These instructions will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

These are the commands and ordinances the Lord commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

‘None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

“I commanded Joshua at that time: Your own eyes have seen everything the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.

Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him.

You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.

Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

“The Lord spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and thick darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

“The Lord heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.

These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

The Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the Lord our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.

Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’

“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the Lord your God will keep His covenant loyalty with you, as He swore to your fathers.

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’

The Lord your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you.

Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.

Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.

When the Lord your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘The Lord brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’ Instead, the Lord will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome works your eyes have seen.

“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol on your foreheads.

For if you carefully observe every one of these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, walk in all His ways, and remain faithful to Him—

the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.

Aren’t these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

“Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth.

Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’

These are the animals you may eat:

the ox, the sheep, the goat,

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;

but these are the ones you may not eat:

the eagle, the bearded vulture,
the black vulture,

if only you obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.

Everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things.

Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.

You are to determine the distances and divide the land the Lord your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the Lord your God and walking in His ways at all times—you are to add three more cities to these three.

But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord your God.

He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.