36. From heaven he made you hear his voice in order to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire. You heard his words from that very fire.
37. And because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, God brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his own great power,
38. in order to remove larger and stronger nations from before you and bring you into their land, giving it to you as an inheritance. That’s where things stand right now.
39. Know then today and keep in mind that the Lord is the only God in heaven above or on earth below. There is no other.
40. Keep the Lord’s regulations and his commandments. I’m commanding them to you today for your well-being and for the well-being of your children after you, so that you may extend your time on the fertile land that the Lord your God is giving you forever.
41. Then Moses set aside three cities on the eastern side of the Jordan River
42. so that anyone who killed someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one of these cities and be safe:
43. Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44. Now this is the Instruction that Moses set before the Israelites.
45. These are the laws and the regulations and the case laws that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
46. This took place across the Jordan River, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt.
47. They took possession of his land and the land of Og, Bashan’s king—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan River to the east—
48. from Aroer, which is on the banks of the Arnon River, all the way to Mount Sion, also known as Hermon,
49. and all the desert regions across the Jordan River, on the east, down to the Dead Sea, beneath the slopes of Mount Pisgah.