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"Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God told us.' So every man of you put on his sword and thought it an easy thing to go up into the hill country.

Do not make them angry. For I will not give you any of their land, not even enough for a foot to step on. I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his own.

‘Now rise up and go on your way. Pass through the valley of Arnon. See, I have given you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take it for your own, and fight with him in battle.

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through his land. For the Lord your God made his spirit and heart hard, so He might give him into your hand, as he is today.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take it for your own, so you may live in it.'

"Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.

The Lord our God gave him to us. We won the fight against him, his sons and all his people.

So we took all his cities at that time, and destroyed every man, woman and child in them. We left no one alive.

"Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan. Og king of Bashan and all his people came out to meet us in battle.

But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not be afraid of him. For I have given him and all his people and his land to you. Do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon.'

So the Lord our God gave us Og king of Bashan and all his people also. We destroyed them until no one was left alive.

And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them. We took sixty cities, the whole land of Argob, the nation of Og in Bashan.

(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the children of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. It is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. It was as long as five steps, and as wide as two long steps.)

Manasseh's son Jair took all the land of Argob as far as the land of the Geshurites and the Maacathites. He called Bashan after his own name, Havvothjair. And that is its name to this day.

They will stay until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and until they own the land the Lord your God will give them on the other side of the Jordan. Then every one of you may return to what is his, which I have given you.'

He told you His agreement which He told you to keep, the Ten Laws. And He wrote them on two pieces of stone.

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron stove, out of Egypt, to be His own people, as you are this day.

"When you become the father of children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, if you become sinful and make a god that looks like anything, and anger the Lord your God by doing what is bad in His eyes,

When you are in trouble and all these things have happened to you in later days, you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

He let you hear His voice from the heavens to teach you. On earth He let you see His great fire. And you heard His words from the center of the fire.