34. Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the Lord, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
35. All this you were allowed to see that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
36. Out of the heavens he let you hear his voice to discipline you; on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard him speaking out of the fire.
37. For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,
38. dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to give their land to you as a heritage, as it is today.
39. This is why you must now acknowledge, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
40. And you must keep his statutes and commandments which I command you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you forever.
41. Then Moses set apart three cities in the region east of the Jordan,
42. to which a homicide might flee who killed a neighbor unintentionally, where there had been no hatred previously, so that the killer might flee to one of these cities and live:
43. Bezer in the wilderness, in the region of the plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44. This is the law which Moses set before the Israelites.
45. These are the decrees, and the statutes and ordinances which Moses proclaimed to the Israelites after they came out of Egypt,
46. beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated after they came out of Egypt.
47. They took possession of his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, as well—the land of these two kings of the Amorites in the region beyond the Jordan to the east:
48. from Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)
49. and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan to the east, as far as the Arabah Sea under the slopes of Pisgah.