Deuteronomy 4:29-49

29But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.

30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.

31He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them by oath, because the Lord your God is a compassionate God.

32“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

33Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

34Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.

36He let you hear his voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you his great fire on earth, and you heard his words from the fire.

37Because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,

38to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.

39Today, recognize and keep in mind that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.

40Keep his statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

41Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.

42Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

43Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.

44This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.

45These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

46across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.

47They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,

48from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)

49and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.