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To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

And put your honour on him, so that all the children of Israel may be under his authority.

He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel.

So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people:

So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.

So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth.

And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.

And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil: