38. to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.
39. Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
40. Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
41. Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,
42. to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.
43. The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
44. This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.