Deuteronomy 31

And Moses finished speaking all these words to all the sons of Israel.

And he said to them: I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to go out and to come in. And the Lord said to me, You shall not cross this Jordan.

The Lord your God who goes before you, he himself will utterly destroy these nations from before you, and you shall inherit them; and Joshua goes before you, just as the Lord said.

And the Lord shall do to them just as he did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, and to their land, according as he utterly destroyed them.

And the Lord has delivered them over to you, and you shall do to them according as I commanded you.

Be manly and be strong; do not fear, nor be cowardly, nor be terrified before them; for the Lord your God who goes before you is with you, in your midst; he will not fail you nor forsake you.

And Moses called Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel: Be manly and be strong, for you shall go in before this people into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.

And the Lord who goes along with you will not fail you nor forsake you; do not fear, nor be cowardly.

And Moses wrote the words of this law in a book and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the sons of Israel.

And Moses commanded them on that day, saying: After seven years, at the time of the year of release, at the feast of tabernacles,

when all Israel comes together to appear before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their ears.

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the children and the sojourner who is in your cities, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and they shall hearken to do all the words of this law.

And their sons who do not know shall hear and shall learn to fear the Lord your God all the days that they live upon the land into which you are crossing the Jordan there to inherit it.

And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, the days of your death have drawn near. Call Joshua, and stand by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and I will give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went to the tabernacle of testimony and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.

And the Lord came down in a cloud and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and the pillar of the cloud stood by the doors of the tabernacle.

And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up and go whoring after foreign gods of the land into which they are entering there; and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I made with them.

And I will be angry with wrath against them in that day, and I will abandon them and turn my face away from them, and he shall become food for devouring; and many evils and afflictions shall find him. And he shall say in that day: These evils have found me because the Lord my God is not among me.

But I will surely turn my face away from them in that day, because of all the evils which they have done, in that they turned to foreign gods.

And now write the words of this song and teach it to the sons of Israel and put it in their mouth, that this song may be for me a testimony among the sons of Israel.

For I will bring them into the good land which I swore to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey; and they shall eat and be filled and grow sated, and they shall turn to foreign gods and serve them, and they shall provoke me and break my covenant.

And this song shall stand up against them face to face as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten from their mouth and from the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here today, before I bring them into the good land which I swore to their fathers.

And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the sons of Israel.

And Moses commanded Joshua and said to him: Be manly and be strong, for you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which the Lord swore to them, and he himself will be with you.

And when Moses had finished writing all the words of this law in a book to the very end,

he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying:

Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and it shall be there in you for a testimony.

For I know your rebelliousness and your stiff neck. For while I am still alive with you today you have been rebellious toward God; how much more then after my death!

Assemble to me your tribal chiefs and your elders and your judges and your officers, that I may speak all these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

For I know that after my death you will act utterly lawlessly and will turn aside from the way which I commanded you; and evils will meet you in the latter days, because you will do what is evil before the Lord, provoking him to anger by the works of your hands.

And Moses spoke the words of this song in the ears of all the assembly of Israel, to the very end.