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DEUTERONOMY ยท Chapter 31
31:1 And Moses went and spoke these words unto all Israel.
31:2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this
day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD has said unto me,
You shall not go over this Jordan.
31:3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy
these nations from before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua,
he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.
31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that all of
you may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded
you.
31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:
for the LORD your God, he it is that does go with you; he will not fail
you, nor forsake you.
31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of
all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for you must go with this
people unto the land which the LORD has sworn unto their fathers to give
them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
31:8 And the LORD, he it is that does go before you; he will be with
you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.
31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the
sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto
all the elders of Israel.
31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years,
in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
31:11 When all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in
the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel
in their hearing.
31:12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and
your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they
may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words
of this law:
31:13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may
hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as all of you live in
the land where all of you go over Jordan to possess it.
31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, your days approach that
you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of
the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud:
and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods
of the strangers of the land, where they go to be among them, and will
forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
31:17 Then 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; so that they
will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God
is not among us?
31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils
which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
31:19 Now therefore write all of you this 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.
31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore
unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves, and becoming fat; then will they turn unto
other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are 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 go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land
which I swore.
31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel.
31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong
and of a good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into
the land which I swore unto them: and I will be with you.
31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, saying,
31:26 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 witness
against you.
31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while
I am yet alive with you this day, all of you have been rebellious against
the LORD; and how much more after my death?
31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to
record against them.
31:29 For I know that after my death all of you 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 all of you will do evil
in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your
hands.
31:30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel
the words of this song, until they were ended.
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