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,
46. across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.
47. They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,
48. from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)
49. and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.