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‘If anyone strikes down a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the mouth of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

But if they marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.

"Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God;

But for all this, you did not believe Yahweh your God,

But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'

So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of Yahweh and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.

Then you returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

Now the Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel would do to the land of their possession which Yahweh gave to them.)

(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but Yahweh destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land, for Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today.

But Yahweh our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down with his sons and all his people.

But Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land over into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'

But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

But your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you,

But Yahweh was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, ‘Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter.

But command Joshua and strengthen him and encourage him, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.'

But you who clung to Yahweh your God are alive today, every one of you.