Deu 31 | EngLXX | STEP | And Moses finished speaking all these words to all the children of Israel;

‏ Deuteronomy 31

1 And Moses finished speaking all these words to all the children of Israel; 2 and said to them, I am this day a hundred and twenty yearsold; I shall not be able any longer to come in or go out; and the Lord said to me, You shallnot go over this Jordan. 3 The Lord your God who goes before you, he shall destroy these nations before you, andyou shall inherit them: andit shall be Joshua that goes before your face, as the Lord has spoken. 4 And the Lord your God shall do to them as he did to Seon and Og the two kings of the Amorites,who were beyond Jordan, and to their land, as he destroyed them. 5 And the Lord has delivered them to you; and you⌃ shall do to them, as I charged you. 6 Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them;forit is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will he by anymeans forsake you, nor desert you. 7 And Moses called Joshua, and said to him before all Israel, Be courageous and strong;for you shall go in before this people into the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them,and you shall give it to them for an inheritance. 8 And the Lord that goes with you shall not forsake you nor abandon you; fear not, neitherbe afraid. 9 And Moses wrote the words of this law in a book, and gave it to the priests the sons ofLevi who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the sons of Israel. 10 And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the yearof release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 when all Israel come together to appear before the Lord your God, in the place whichthe Lord shall choose, you⌃ shall read this law before all Israel in their ears, 12 having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the strangerthat is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and theyshall hearken to do all the words of this law. 13 And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear the Lord your Godall the days that they live upon the land, into which you⌃ go over Jordan to inherit it. 14 And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, the days of your death are at hand; call Joshua,and stand you⌃ by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and I will give him a charge. And Moses andJoshua went to the tabernacle of testimony, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony. 15 And the Lord descended 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 of testimony. 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this peoplewill arise and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and theywill forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them. 17 And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my faceaway from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and theyshall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me. 18 And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evildoings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods. 19 And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and you⌃shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to theirface. 20 For I will bring them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers, to give tothem a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfythemselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provokeme, and break my covenant. 21 And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it outof their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing herethis day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers. 22 And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel. 23 And he charged Joshua, and said, Be courageous and strong, for you shall bring the sonsof Israel into the land, which the Lord sware to them, and he shall be with you. 24 And when Moses finished writing all the words of this law in a book, even to the end, 25 then he charged the Levites who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 26 Take the book of this law, and you⌃ shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenantof the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony. 27 For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you atthis day, you⌃ have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you⌃ not also be so after mydeath? 28 Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, andyour officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witnessagainst them. 29 For I know that after my death you⌃ will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of theway which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you in the latter days, because you⌃ will doevil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands. And Moses spoke all the wordsof this song even to the end, in the ears of the whole assembly.