1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2 He said to
them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and
come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.
3 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these
nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua,
he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 4 Yahweh will do to
them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their
land; whom he destroyed. 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and
you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have
commanded you. 6 Be strong and of good courage, don’t be afraid, nor be
scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will
not fail you, nor forsake you. 7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him
in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go
with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to
give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 8 Yahweh, he it is who
does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither
forsake you: don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed. 9 Moses wrote this law,
and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 Moses commanded
them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the
year of release, in the feast of tents, 11 when all Israel is come to
appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall
read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people,
the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within
your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God, as
long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to
possess it. 14 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you
must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I
may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the
tent of meeting. 15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and
the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16 Yahweh said to
Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise
up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where 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 on them; so that
they will say in that day, Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is
not among us? 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil
which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you 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 swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and
honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then
will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my
covenant. 21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on
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
swore. 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel. 23 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said,
Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel
into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you. 24 It
happened, 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, who
bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, 26 Take this book of the
law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God,
that it may be there for a witness against you. 27 For I know your
rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this
day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my
death? 28 Assemble to 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 you will
utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you
will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands. 30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the
assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
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