35. You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.
36. He let you hear His voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you His great fire on earth, and you heard His words from the fire.
37. Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
38. to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.
39. Today, recognize and keep in mind that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.
40. Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
41. Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.
42. Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:
43. Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.
44. This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.
45. These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,