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"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may follow all the words of this Law.

"But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them,

"But I will assuredly hide My face on that day because of all the evil that they will have done, for they will have turned away to other gods.

"They have acted corruptly against Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.

"But Jeshurun became fat and kicked— You have become fat, thick, and obstinate— Then he abandoned God who made him, And rejected the Rock of his salvation.

"For you will see the land at a distance but you will not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel."

Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not go over there."

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows his burial place to this day.

"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will achieve success.

But to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

"Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross ahead of your brothers in battle formation, all your valiant warriors, and shall help them,

But it was told to the king of Jericho, saying, "Behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land."

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them, and she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

"And it shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house outside will have his blood on his own head, and we will be innocent; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

"But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be exempt from the oath which you have made us swear."

So they departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days, until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had searched for them all along the road, but had not found them.

For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.

But the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have handed Jericho over to you, with its king and the valiant warriors.