37. Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them and personally brought you out of Egypt with His mighty power
38. to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39. Know therefore today, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
40. Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, forever.
41. Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan, toward the east,
42. that the manslayer might flee there, that is, anyone who killed his neighbor unintentionally without hating him in time past could flee to one of these cities and live:
43. Bezer in the wilderness in the plateau of the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.
44. This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45. These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt,