Deuteronomy:31:14-29

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* And Jehovah said to Moses , Lo , the days are near for thee to die ; call Joshua , and present yourselves at the tent of meeting , that I may give him a charge . And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting . * And Jehovah appeared at the tent in the pillar of cloud ; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance to the tent . * And Jehovah said to Moses , Behold , thou shalt sleep with thy fathers ; and this people will rise up , and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter , and will forsake me , and break my covenant which I have made with them . * And 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 , and they will say in that day , Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst ? * And I will entirely hide my face in that day for all the evils that they have wrought , because they turned unto other gods . * And now , write ye this song , and teach it to the children of Israel ; put it in their mouths , that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel . * For I shall bring them into the land which I swore unto their fathers , which floweth with milk and honey ; and they will eat and fill themselves , and wax fat , and will turn unto other gods , and serve them , and despise me , and break my covenant . * And it shall come to pass , when many evils and troubles have 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 are forming already this day , before I bring them into the land which I have sworn [unto them ]. * And Moses wrote this song the same day , and taught it to the children of Israel . * And [Jehovah ] commanded Joshua the son of Nun , and said , Be strong and courageous ; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn unto them ; and I will be with thee . * And it came to pass , when Moses had ended writing the words of this law in a book , until their conclusion , * that Moses commanded the Levites , who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , saying , * Take this book of the law , and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God , that it may be there for a witness against thee ; * for I know thy rebellion , and thy stiff neck . Lo , while I am yet alive with you this day , ye have been rebellious against Jehovah ; and how much more after my death ! * Gather to me all the elders of your tribes , and your officers , that I may speak these words in their ears , and take heaven and earth to witness against them . * For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves , and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you ; and mischief will befall you at the end of days ; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah , to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands .

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