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Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it."

The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea."

But the LORD said to me, "Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies."

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time-a very long time.

Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around the hill country of Seir.

Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.'"

Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot."

But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites, because I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.

just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us."

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might give him into your hands, as is the case this day.

So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

But the LORD said to me, "Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon."