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shalt possesse them. Ioshua, he shall goe before day, and I will forsake them, and will hide my
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thee, as the Lord hath said. And the Lord shall face from them: then they shalbe consumed,
doe vnto them, as he did to Sihon and to Og Kings and many aduersities and tribulations shall come
of the Amorites: and vnto their lande whome he vpon them: so then they will say, Are not these
destroyed. And the Lord shall giue them before troubles come vpon me, because God is not with
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you that ye may do vnto them according vnto me? 18 But I will surely hide my face in that day,
euery commandement, which I haue comanded because of all the euill, which they shall commit,
you. 6 Plucke vp your hearts therefore, and be in that they are turned vnto other gods. 19 Now
strong: dread not, nor be afraid of them: for the therefore write ye this song for you, and teach
Lord thy God him selfe doeth goe with thee: he it the children of Israel: put it in their mouthes,
will not faile thee, nor forsake thee. And Moses that this song may be my witnesse against the
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called Ioshua, and said vnto him in the sight of children of Israel. 20 For I will bring them into
all Israel, Be of a good courage and strong: for the land (which I sware vnto their fathers) that
thou shalt go with this people vnto the lande floweth with milke and honie, and they shall eate,
which the Lord hath sworne vnto their fathers, and fil them selues, and waxe fat: then shall
to giue them, and thou shalt giue it them to they turne vnto other gods, and serue them, and
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inherite. And the Lord him selfe doeth go before contemne me, and breake my couenant. 21 And
thee: he will be with thee: he will not faile thee, then when many aduersities and tribulations
neither forsake thee: feare not therefore, nor
be discomforted. 9 And Moses wrote this Lawe, shall come vpon them, this song shall answere
and deliuered it vnto the Priestes the sonnes of them to their face as a witnesse: for it shall not
Leui (which bare the Arke of the couenant of the be forgotte out of the mouthes of their posteritie:
Lord) and vnto all the Elders of Israel, 10 And for I knowe their imagination, which they goe
Moses commanded them, saying, Euery seuenth about euen now, before I haue brought them
yeere when the yeere of freedome shalbe in the into the lande which I sware. 22 Moses therefore
feast of the Tabernacles: 11 When all Israel shall wrote this song the same day and taught it the
come to appeare before the Lord thy God, in the children of Israel. 23 And God gaue Ioshua the
place which he shall chuse, thou shalt reade this sonne of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and of
Lawe before all Israel that they may heare it. a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children
12 Gather the people together: men, and women, of Israel into the lande, which I sware vnto them,
and children, and thy stranger that is within thy and I will be with thee. 24 And when Moses had
gates, that they may heare, and that they may made an ende of writing the wordes of this Lawe
learne, and feare the Lord your God, and keepe in a booke vntill he had finished them, 25 Then
and obserue all the wordes of this Lawe, 13 And Moses commanded the Leuites, which bare the
Arke of the couenant of the Lord, saying,
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Take
that their children which haue not knowen it,
may heare it, and learne to feare the Lord your the booke of this Lawe, and put ye it in the side of
God, as long as ye liue in the lande, whither ye goe the Arke of the couenant of the Lord your God,
ouer Iorden to possesse it. 14 Then the Lord saide that it may be there for a witnes against thee.
vnto Moses, Beholde, thy dayes are come, that 27 For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke:
thou must die: Call Ioshua, and stande ye in the beholde, I being yet aliue with you this day, ye
Tabernacle of the Congregation that I may giue are rebellious against the Lord: howe much more
him a charge. So Moses and Ioshua went, and then after my death? 28 Gather vnto me all the
stoode in the Tabernacle of the Congregation. Elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may
15 And the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle, in speake these wordes in their audience, and call
the pillar of a cloude: and the pillar of the heauen and earth to recorde against them. 29 For
cloude stoode ouer the doore of the Tabernacle. I am sure that after my death ye will vtterly be
16 And the Lord said vnto Moses, Behold, thou corrupt and turne from the way, which I haue
shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people will commanded you: therefore euill will come vpon
rise vp, and goe a whoring after the gods of a you at the length, because ye will comit euill in
strange land (whither they goe to dwell therein) the sight of the Lord, by prouoking him to anger
and will forsake me, and breake my couenant through the worke of your hands. 30 Thus Moses
which I haue made with them. 17 Wherefore spake in the audience of all the congregation of
my wrath will waxe hote against them at that Israel the wordes of this song, vntill he had ended