[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 sojourner 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 befall 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.
