Deuteronomy:31

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* Then Moses went and spake these wordes vnto all Israel , * And he said unto them , I [am ] an hundred and twenty years old this day ; I (note :)I can no longer execute my office .(:note ) can no more go out and come in : also the LORD hath said unto me , Thou shalt not go over this Jordan . * The Lord thy God he will go ouer before thee : he will destroy these nations before thee , and thou shalt possesse them . Ioshua , he shall goe before thee , as the Lorde hath said . * And the Lord shall doe vnto them , as he did to Sihon and to Og Kings of the Amorites : and vnto their lande whome he destroyed . * And the LORD shall give them up (note :)Into your hands .(:note ) before your face , that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you . * Plucke vp your hearts therefore , and be strong : dread not , nor be afraid of them : for the Lorde thy God him selfe doeth goe with thee : he will not faile thee , nor forsake thee . * And Moses called unto Joshua , and said unto him in the sight of all Israel , Be strong and (note :)For he that must govern the people , must be valiant to repress evil , and constant to maintain virtue .(:note ) of a good courage : for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them ; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it . * And the LORD , he [it is ] that doth (note :)Signifying that man can never be of good courage , unless he is persuaded of God 's favour and assistance .(:note ) go before thee ; he will be with thee , he will not fail thee , neither forsake thee : fear not , neither be dismayed . * And Moses wrote this Lawe , and deliuered it vnto the Priestes the sonnes of Leui (which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde ) and vnto all the Elders of Israel , * And Moses commanded them , saying , Euery seuenth yeere when the yeere of freedome shalbe in the feast of the Tabernacles : * When all Israel is come to appear (note :)Before the Ark of the covenant , which was the sign of God 's presence , and the figure of Christ .(:note ) before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose , thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing . * Gather the people together : men , and women , and children , and thy stranger that is within thy gates , that they may heare , and that they may learne , and feare the Lorde your God , and keepe and obserue all the wordes of this Lawe , * And [that ] their children , which (note :)Who were not born when the law was given .(:note ) have not known [any thing ], may hear , and learn to fear the LORD your God , as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it . * Then the Lorde saide vnto Moses , Beholde , thy dayes are come , that thou must die : Call Ioshua , and stande ye in the Tabernacle of the Congregation that I may giue him a charge . So Moses and Ioshua went , and stoode in the Tabernacle of the Congregation . * And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a (note :)In a cloud that was fashioned like a pillar .(:note ) cloud : and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle . * And the Lorde said vnto Moses , Behold , thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers , and this people will rise vp , and goe a whoring after the gods of a strange land (whither they goe to dwell therein ) and will forsake me , and breake my couenant which I haue made with them . * Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day , and I will forsake them , and I will (note :)That is , I will take my favour from them ; as turning his face toward us shows his favour .(:note ) hide my face from them , and they shall be devoured , and many evils and troubles shall befall them ; so that they will say in that day , Are not these evils come upon us , because our God [is ] not among us ? * But I will surely hide my face in that day , because of all the euill , which they shall commit , in that they are turned vnto other gods . * Now therefore write ye this (note :)To preserve you and your children from idolatry , by remembering God 's benefits .(:note ) song for you , and teach it the children of Israel : put it in their mouths , that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel . * For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers , that floweth with milk and honey ; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves , and waxen fat ; (note :)For this is the nature of flesh , no longer to obey God , than it is under the rod .(:note ) then will they turn unto other gods , and serve them , and provoke me , and break my covenant . * And it shall come to pass , when many evils and troubles are befallen them , that this song shall (note :)That these evils are come upon them , because they have forsaken me .(:note ) 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 go about , even now , before I have brought them into the land which I sware . * Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel . * And God gaue Ioshua the sonne of Nun a charge , and said , Be strong , and of a good courage : for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the lande , which I sware vnto them , and I will be with thee . * And when Moses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this Lawe in a booke vntill he had finished them , * Then Moses commaunded the Leuites , which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde , saying , * Take this book of the law , and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God , that it may be there for a (note :)Of your infidelity , when you turn away from the doctrine contained in it .(:note ) witness against thee . * For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke : beholde , I being yet aliue with you this day , ye are rebellious against the Lorde : howe much more then after my death ? * Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes , and your (note :)As governors , judges and magistrates .(:note ) officers , that I may speak these words in their ears , and call heaven and earth to record against them . * 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 evil in the sight of the LORD , to provoke him to anger through the (note :)By idolatry , and worshipping images , which are the work of your hands .(:note ) work of your hands . * Thus Moses spake in the audience of all the congregation of Israel the wordes of this song , vntill he had ended them .

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