34. Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
35. You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.
36. From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.
37. Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power
38. to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
39. Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!
40. Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.
41. Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.
42. Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.
43. These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.
44. This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
45. These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,
46. in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.