rsv Deuteronomy:31:21-26
rsv@Deuteronomy:31:21 @ And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants); for I know the purposes which they are already forming, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give."
rsv@Deuteronomy:31:22 @ So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the people of Israel.
rsv@Deuteronomy:31:23 @ And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to give them: I will be with you."
rsv@Deuteronomy:31:24 @ When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, to the very end,
rsv@Deuteronomy:31:25 @ Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
rsv@Deuteronomy:31:26 @ "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.