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land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the alive with you, you have been rebellious
days approach when you must die; call against the LORD, then how much more after
Joshua, and present yourselves in the taber- my death? Gather to me all the elders of your
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nacle of meeting, that I may inaugurate him.” tribes, and your officers, that I may speak
So Moses and Joshua went and presented these words in their hearing and call heaven
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themselves in the tabernacle of meeting. and earth to witness against them. For I know
15 Now the LORD appeared at the tabernacle in that after my death you will become utterly
a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I
above the door of the tabernacle. have commanded you. And evil will befall you
16 And the LORD said to Moses: “Behold, you in the latter days, because you will do evil in
will rest with your fathers; and this people will the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger
rise and play the harlot with the gods of the through the work of your hands.”
foreigners of the land, where they go to be 30 Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the
among them, and they will forsake Me and assembly of Israel the words of this song until
break My covenant which I have made with they were ended:
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them. Then My anger shall be aroused
against them in that day, and I will forsake
them, and I will hide My face from them, and 32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I
will speak;
they shall be devoured. And many evils and And hear, O earth, the words of my
troubles shall befall them, so that they will say mouth.
in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us 2 Let my teaching drop as the rain,
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because our God is not among us?’ And I will My speech distill as the dew,
surely hide My face in that day because of all As raindrops on the tender herb,
the evil which they have done, in that they And as showers on the grass.
have turned to other gods. 3 For I proclaim the name of the LORD:
19 “Now therefore, write down this song for Ascribe greatness to our God.
yourselves, and teach it to the children of 4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect;
Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may For all His ways are justice,
be a witness for Me against the children of A God of truth and without injustice;
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Israel. When I have brought them to the land Righteous and upright is He.
flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore
5 “They have corrupted themselves;
to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled
themselves and grown fat, then they will turn They are not His children,
to other gods and serve them; and they will Because of their blemish:
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provoke Me and break My covenant. Then it 6 A perverse and crooked generation.
shall be, when many evils and troubles have Do you thus deal with the LORD,
come upon them, that this song will testify O foolish and unwise people?
against them as a witness; for it will not be for- Is He not your Father, who bought you?
gotten in the mouths of their descendants, for Has He not made you and established
I know the inclination of their behavior today, you?
even before I have brought them to the land of 7 “Remember the days of old,
which I swore to give them.” Consider the years of many
22 Therefore Moses wrote this song the same generations.
day, and taught it to the children of Israel. Ask your father, and he will show you;
23 Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, Your elders, and they will tell you:
and said, “Be strong and of good courage; for 8 When the Most High divided their
you shall bring the children of Israel into the inheritance to the nations,
land of which I swore to them, and I will be When He separated the sons of Adam,
with you.” He set the boundaries of the peoples
24 So it was, when Moses had completed writ-
ing the words of this law in a book, when they According to the number
of the children of Israel.
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were finished, that Moses commanded the 9 For the LORD’S portion is His people;
Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
the LORD, saying: “Take this Book of the Law,
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and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the 10 “He found him in a desert land
LORD your God, that it may be there as a wit- And in the wasteland, a howling
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ness against you; for I know your rebellion wilderness;
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