14The LORD said to Moses, Look! Your days have drawn near to die. Call Joshua and stand in the tent of meeting, and I will command him. So Moses went with Joshua, and they stood in the tent of meeting.15The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.16The LORD said to Moses, Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers, and this people will rise and will prostitute themselves after the foreign gods of the land into which they are going, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.17My anger will burn against them on that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, Have not these troubles come upon me because my God is not among me?18On that day I will surely hide my face because of all the evil they have done, for they have turned to other gods.19Now therefore write this song for yourselves and teach it to Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.20For I will bring them into the land that I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey; they will eat and be satisfied and grow fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them and despise me and break my covenant.21When many evils and troubles come upon them, this song will testify against them as a witness, because it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants; for I know the inclination they have even now, before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.22Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to Israel.23He commanded Joshua son of Nun and said, Be strong and courageous, for you will bring Israel into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.24When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were complete,25Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,26Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.27For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness. Look! Even while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD; how much more after my death!28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.29For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you; disaster will befall you in the latter days, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger by the work of your hands.