nsb - Deuteronomy:31:14-29

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:14 @ Then Jehovah said to Moses: »Behold, the time for you to die is near. Call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.« So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:15 @ Jehovah appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. The pillar of cloud stood at the doorway of the tent.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:16 @ Jehovah said to Moses: »You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:17 @ »My anger will be kindled against them in that day. I will abandon them and hide my face from them. They will be consumed by many evils and troubles. They will say in that day: Is it because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:18 @ »I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil they will do. They will turn to other gods.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:19 @ »Write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:20 @ »When I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn me and break my covenant.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:21 @ »Then it will happen, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness. It shall not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. I know the intent they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:22 @ So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:23 @ Jehovah gave this command to Joshua, son of Nun: »Be strong and courageous, because you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.«

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:24 @ Moses finished writing all the words of this Law in a book.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:25 @ He gave this command to the Levites who carried the Ark of Jehovahs Covenant:

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:26 @ »Take this Book of the Law, and put it next to the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God, where it will be a witness against you.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:27 @ »I know how rebellious you are. You are impossible to deal with. While I am alive and still with you, you are rebelling against Jehovah. How much more rebellious will you be after I die?

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:28 @ »Assemble all the elders of your tribes and your officers in front of me. As they listen, I will speak these words and call on heaven and earth to testify against them.

nsb@Deuteronomy:31:29 @ »I know that after I die you will become thoroughly corrupt and turn from the way I have commanded you to live. In the days to come disasters will happen to you because you will make Jehovah furious by doing what he considers evil.«