Deuteronomy:31

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* And Moses went , and spake these words unto all Israel ; * and said unto them A hundred and twenty years old , am I to-day , I can no more go out and come in , Yahweh indeed hath said unto me , Thou shall not pass over this Jordan . * Yahweh thy God , is passing over before thee , he , will destroy these nations from before thee so shalt thou dispossess them , Joshua is passing over before thee , as Yahweh hath spoken . * So will Yahweh do unto them as he did unto Sihon and unto Og , kings of the Amorites , and unto the land of them whom he destroyed . * So will Yahweh deliver them up before you , and ye shall do unto themaccording to all the commandment which I have commanded you . * Be firm and bold , do not fear nor tremble because of them , for Yahweh thy God , it is who is going with thee , he will not fail thee nor forsake thee . * And Moses called for Joshua , and said unto him , in the sight of all Israel . Be firm and bold , for , thou , shalt go with this people into the land which Yahweh sware unto their fathers to give unto them , and , thou shalt cause them to inherit it . * But , Yahweh , it is who is going before thee , he will be with thee , he will not fail thee nor forsake thee , thou must not fear nor be dismayed . * And Moses wrote this law , and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi , who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh , and unto all the elders of Israel . * And Moses commanded them , saying , At the end of seven years in the appointed season of the year of release , during the festival of booths ; * when all Israel cometh in to see the face of Yahweh thy God , in the place which he shall choose , thou shalt lead this law before all Israel , in their hearing . * Call together the peoplethe men and the women and the little ones , and thy sojourner who is within thy gates , that they may hear , and that they may learn , so shall they revere Yahweh your God , and observe to do all the words of this law ; * and that their children who know not , may hear and learn , that they may revere Yahweh your God , all the days that ye are living upon the soil , which ye are passing over the Jordan to possess . * Then said Yahweh unto Moses : Lo ! thy days have drawn near that thou must die . Call Joshua and station yourselves in the tent of meeting , that I may command him . So Moses went , with Joshua , and they took their station in the tent of meeting . * And Yahweh appeared in the tent , in a pillar of cloud , and the pillar of cloud stood , at the entrance of the tent . * Then said Yahweh unto Moses , Lo ! thou art about to sleep with thy fathers , and this people will rise up , and go away unchastely after the gods of the foreigners of the land into the midst of whom they are entering , and will forsake me and break my covenant which I solemnised with them . * Then will mine anger kindle upon them in that day , and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them and they shall be consumed , and many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out , and they will say , in that day , Is it not because my God is not in my midst , that these calamities have found me out ? * But , I , will utterly , hide , my face , in that day , because of all the wickedness which they have done , in that they have turned away unto other gods . * Now , therefore write ye for you this Song , and teach it unto the sons of Israel put it in their mouths , that this Song may become for me a witness against the sons of Israel . * When I bring them upon the soil which I sware unto their fathers , flowing with milk and honey , and they shall eat and be filled and wax fat , then will they turn away unto other gods and serve them , and despise me , and break my covenant . * And it shall come to pass , when many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out , then shall this Song respond to their face , as a witness , for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed , for I know their imagination , which they are forming to-day , ere yet I bring them into the land of which I sware unto their fathers . * Moses therefore wrote this Song on that day , and taught it unto the sons of Israel . * And he commanded Joshua , son of Nun , and said Be firm and bold , for , thou shalt bring the sons of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them , and , I , will be with thee . * And it came to pass , when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law , upon a scroll , until he had finished them , * then Moses commanded the Levites , who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh , saying : * Take this scroll of the law , and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God , so shall it be there in thy midst as a witness . * For , I , know thy perverseness , and thy stiff neck , lo ! while I am yet alive with you to-day , ye are , quarrelling , with Yahweh , and how much more after my death ? * Call together unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers , and let me speak in their hearing these words , and let me take to witness against them the heavens and the earth . * For I know that after my death , ye will break faith , and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you , and calamity will befall you in the afterpart of the days , because ye will do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh , to provoke him with the work of your own hands . * So Moses spake in the hearing of all the convocation of Israel the words of this Song , until they were ended :

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