| 1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he
said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more
go out and come in: and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over
this Jordan. 3 Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he will
destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them:
and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
4 And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of
the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed. 5 And Jehovah will
deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the
commandment which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of good courage,
fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth
go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7 And Moses called
unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of
good courage: for thou shalt go with this people into the land which Jehovah
hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to
inherit it. 8 And Jehovah, 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.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of
Levi, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and unto all the elders
of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of
every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the
feast of tabernacles, 11 when all Israel is come to appear before Jehovah
thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before
all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women
and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to
do all the words of this law; 13 and that their children, who have not
known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in
the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must
die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may
give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the
tent of meeting. 15 And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud:
and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16 And Jehovah
said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people
will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither
they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I
have made with them. 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 come upon them; so
that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our
God is not among us? 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all
the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other
gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the
children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness
for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought
them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and
honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then
will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my
covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are
come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it
shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the
land which I sware. 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught
it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge,
and said, Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of
Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
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, 25 that Moses commanded the
Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, 26 Take
this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 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 Jehovah; and how much more
after my death? 28 Assemble 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 witness against them. 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 that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of
this song, until they were finished.
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