In Deuteronomy 9, Moses reminded the Israelites... "Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.... From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the LORD..... and have become corrupt... have turned away quickly from what I commanded and have made a cast idol for yourselves.... doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so provoking him to anger....you rebelled against the commands of the LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey him. You have been rebellious against the LORD ever since I have known you."
And Moses prayed to the Lord and said, "O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.. they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm."

Deuteronomy 8 is a reminder to God's people that He is with them, cares for them, provides for them, and disciplines them as a father. His people should appreciate His provision, walk in His ways, be satisfied in Him, and praise Him daily for His faithfulness, mercy, and grace.

Deuteronomy 7
"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession... The Lord set his affection on you and chose you... because He loves you and kept the oath He swore to your forefathers... He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love.. therefore take care to follow His commands, decrees, and laws... pay attention to them and be careful to follow them.. He will love you and bless you... do not fear, for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God."

Deuteronomy 5
"..be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess."

Deuteronomy 3-4
Moses urges obedience... "Follow the laws that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord is giving you... Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about the decrees and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people'. What other nation is so great as to have their god near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? ...Be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them."

In Deuteronomy 2, Moses reminds the Israelites of recent events in the past few decades as God lead them through the desert.... "The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything."

Deuteronomy 1 The Lord said, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain... Go to the land of the Canaanites... See, I have given you this land... Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore He would give to your fathers and to their descendants after them." Moses reminds the Israelites of the faithfulness of God in keeping this promise to them, despite their rebellion, arrogance, and unwillingness to even listen to the commands of the Lord.

The book of Numbers ends with the Israelites camped "on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho" with the promised land now in sight. The forty years of wandering was finally over.

Numbers 35
" 'Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. 34 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.' "

In Numbers 34, the Lord instructs Moses regarding the boundaries of the promised land (Canaan). God gives the specific land marks for the boundaries on the North, South, East, and West, of the special land that will be the possession of the Israelites. Next, the Lord directs Moses to give responsibility of dividing the land to Eleazar and Joshua. Also, the leader of each tribe is enlisted to help oversee the dividing of the land among the Israelites.

Numbers 33 ... the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places. Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes. " 'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. 56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.' "

Numbers 28-32

Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, "Shall your countrymen go to war while you sit here? Why do you discourage the Israelites from going over into the land the LORD has given them? This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land. After they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them. The LORD's anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: 'Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob- not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.' The LORD's anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
"And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the LORD even more angry with Israel. If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the desert, and you will be the cause of their destruction."

In Numbers 27, Moses is directed by the Lord to go up to the Abarim mountain range and view the land that will be given to the Israelites after his death. Moses then asked God to appoint someone to take over the responsibility in shepherding the Israelites. The Lord told Moses to take Joshua as his successor and commission him before the whole assembly of Israelites so that they will respect his authority and obey him.

Numbers 26 records the second census instructed by the Lord, "Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families--all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel." The total number of the men of Israel was 601,730.
"Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the desert, and not one of them was left except Caleb and Joshua."

In Numbers 25, the Lord sent a plague upon the Israelites, killing 24,000 as a result of their immorality and participating in Moabite sacrifices to the Baal of Peor. A grandson of Aaron, Phinehas, turned the Lord's anger away from the Israelites by his zeal for God's honor. God said to Moses, "Therefore tell him (Phinehas) I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."

Numbers 24
The Holy Spirit of God came upon Balaam and he received a clear message from the Lord, as he again blessed the Israelites. "...water will flow from their buckets, their offspring will have all they need, their king will be great .. their kingdom will be exalted..God brought them out of Egypt and for them He is strong. " Balek again became enraged that Balaam had blessed the Israelites, but Balaam says again, "I am powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord.. I could say only what the Lord says".

Numbers 23
King Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done? I brought you to curse my enemies (Israelites), but instead you have blessed them!!" Balaam responded, "Can I say anything except what the Lord tells me? Didn't I tell you that I must do whatever the Lord tells me? How can I condemn them? For the Lord their God is with them. I received a command to bless them."

Numbers 22
King Balak called on Balaam to curse the "vast horde" of Israelites which arrived from Egypt because he felt threatened by them.
Balaaam was, however, directed by God not to cooperate. Balaam told Balak that "the Lord will not let me go with you" and also that he "would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord". The Lord told Balaam they he may say "only what I tell you to say". Balaam told Balak , "I have no power to say just anything . I will speak only the messages that God gives me." Though Balaam probably was willing to be employed by King Balak and to cooperate with his plans to curse the Israelites, he acknowledged God's sovereignty and yielded to God's guidance and direction.