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"‘Don't let murder spoil your land. The only way to remove the sin of killing an innocent person is for the murderer to be put to death.

When the time of Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their land will go to the tribes of the people they marry; their land will be taken away from us, the land we received from our fathers."

See, I have given you this land, so go in and take it for yourselves. The Lord promised it to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their descendants."

I thought that was a good idea, so I chose twelve of your men, one for each tribe.

The Lord your God will go ahead of you and fight for you as he did in Egypt; you saw him do it.

he had always gone before you to find places for you to camp. In a fire at night and in a cloud during the day, he showed you which way to go.

but your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to take the land for their own.

"Your little children that you said would be captured, who do not know right from wrong at this time, will go into the land. I will give the land to them, and they will take it for their own.

Then we turned around, and we traveled on the desert road toward the Red Sea, as the Lord had told me to do. We traveled through the mountains of Edom for many days.

You must pay them in silver for any food you eat or water you drink.'"

The Lord your God has blessed everything you have done; he has protected you while you traveled through this great desert. The Lord your God has been with you for the past forty years, and you have had everything you needed.

When you come near the people of Ammon, don't bother them or go to war against them, because I will not give you any of their land as your own. I have given it to the descendants of Lot for their own."

The Lord did the same thing for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Edom, when he destroyed the Horites. The Edomites forced them out of the land and took their place, and they live there to this day.

We will pay you in silver for any food we eat or water we drink. We only want to walk through your country.

But we kept the cattle and valuable things from the cities for ourselves.

We defeated Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Ravine, and we defeated the town in the ravine, and even as far as Gilead. No town was too strong for us; the Lord our God gave us all of them.

but we kept all the cattle and valuable things from the cities for ourselves.

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole area of Argob, all the way to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. So that land was named for Jair, and even today Bashan is called the Towns of Jair.)

Then I gave this command to Joshua: "You have seen for yourself all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same thing to all the kingdoms where you are going.

Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God will fight for you."