DE-31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
DE-31:2 And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty
years old this
day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said
unto me, Thou
shalt not go over this Jordan.
DE-31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, [and] he
will destroy
these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them:
[and] Joshua, he
shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
DE-31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and
to Og, kings
of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
DE-31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that
ye may do unto
them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded
you.
DE-31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be
afraid of them: for
the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not
fail thee,
nor forsake thee.
DE-31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the
sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with
this people
unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to
give them; and
thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
DE-31:8 And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he
will be with
thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not,
neither be
dismayed.
DE-31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the
priests the sons
of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
unto all the
elders of Israel.
DE-31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of
[every] seven years,
in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of
tabernacles,
DE-31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy
God in the
place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all
Israel in
their hearing.
DE-31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and
children, and thy
stranger that [is] within thy gates, that they may hear, and
that they may
learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the
words of this
law:
DE-31:13 And [that] their children, which have not known [any
thing], may
hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in
the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
DE-31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days
approach that thou
must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle
of the
congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua
went, and
presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
DE-31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of
a cloud: and
the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
DE-31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep
with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after
the gods of the
strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and
will forsake
me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
DE-31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that
day, and I will
forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall
be devoured,
and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will
say in that
day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not
among us?
DE-31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the
evils which
they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
DE-31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it
the children
of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a
witness for me
against the children of Israel.
DE-31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which
I sware unto
their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall
have eaten and
filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other
gods, and
serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
DE-31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and
troubles are befallen
them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness;
for it shall not
be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination
which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into
the land which
I sware.
DE-31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and
taught it the
children of Israel.
DE-31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said,
Be strong and
of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel
into the land
which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
DE-31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of
writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
DE-31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD, saying,
DE-31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of
the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a
witness against
thee.
DE-31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold,
while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the
LORD; and how
much more after my death?
DE-31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your
officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and
earth to
record against them.
DE-31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
[yourselves],
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil
will befall
you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of
the LORD, to
provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
DE-31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of
Israel the
words of this song, until they were ended.
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