Moses! I am the god of your fathers, and I am enraged.
Your stiff necked people have corrupted themselves, and they deserve to die.
You too shall suffer for all their sins, and you shall do as I command.
Slay every man his brother, and every man his neighbor. This is how you must atone.
As for the rest of them, they shall suffer forty years with no respite.
They broke the covenant. They shall not be delivered.
Their dead bodies will fall in the desert.
This faithlessness, this wicked congregation, shall come to an end.
Only the children, purged of all their fathers’ sins, shall enter the promised land.
And Joshua shall lead them.
When the lord your god leads you into the promised land,
and before you stand seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
You must utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them.
You shall not make marriages with them. And you shall show no mercy.
You shall break down their alters, and dash into pieces their pillars,
hew down their asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
For I am a jealous god, and I shall have no rivals.