Deuteronomy 4:29-49

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

30In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

31(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

32Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

34Or 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?

35You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

36From 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.

37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

39Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

40Keep 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.

41Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

42Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

43These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.

44This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

45These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

46in 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.

47They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

48Their territory extended from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon – that is, Hermon –

49including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)