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Let me cross over, please, and let me see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country and Lebanon.'

Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himself will cross over before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.'

See, I now teach you rules and regulations just as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe them just so in the midst of the land where you are going, to take possession of it.

And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard a sound of words, but you did not see a form—only a voice.

"So you must be very careful for yourselves, because you did not see any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,

And you will there serve gods made by human hands, of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.

"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

"Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at just any place that you happen to see,

This is according to all that you asked from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘I do not want again to hear the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!'

"If you go out to war against your enemies and you see a horse and a chariot, an army larger that you, you shall not be afraid because of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, the one who brought you from the land of Egypt.

And they shall declare, and they shall say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see what was done.

and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as a wife,

"You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him.

For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you before you, and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it anything indecent, and he shall turn away from going with you.

And all of the peoples of the earth shall see that by the name of Yahweh you are called, and they shall fear you.

You shall become mad because of what your eyes shall see.

In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it was evening!' and in the evening you shall say ‘If only it was morning!' because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.

And Yahweh shall bring you back to Egypt in ships by the route that I promised to you that ‘You shall not see it again!' And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer."

But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even to this day.

"And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say,