Chapter 31
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The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, your days have approached to die. Call Joshua and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, and I will commission him." Moses and Joshua went and stationed themselves in the tent of meeting.
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And the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.
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And the LORD said to Moses: "Behold, you are lying down with your fathers, and this people will arise and whore after the gods of the foreigners of the earth, which they are coming there into their midst, and forsake me and break my covenant which I cut with them."
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And my anger will burn against him that day, and I will abandon them, and I will hide my face from them, and they will be consumed, and many great evils and troubles will find him, and he will say that day, "Is it not because my God is not with me that these evils have found me?"
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And I will hide my face that day because of all the evil that he has done, for he has turned to other gods.
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Now write this song for yourselves and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me among the sons of Israel.
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for I will bring him to the land which I swore to his fathers, flowing milk and honey, and he will eat and be satisfied and grow fat and turn to other gods and serve them and despise me and break my covenant.
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And it will be that when many evils and distresses find you, then this song will respond before him as a witness, for it will not be forgotten from the mouth of his seed; for I know his inclination which he is doing today, before I bring him to the land which I swore.
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And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the sons of Israel.
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He commanded Joshua son of Nun and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the sons of Israel to the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you."
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And it was when Moses finished writing the words of this Torah in a book until they were complete.
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Moses commanded the Levites, the bearers of the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, saying:
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Take this book of the Torah and put it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, and it will be there for you forever.
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For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebels against the LORD, and even after my death.
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Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, and I will speak these words in their ears, and I will call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.
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For I knew that after my death you will surely corrupt and turn aside from the way which I commanded you, and it will come upon you the evil in the end of the days because you will do the evil in the eyes of the LORD to anger him by the work of your hands.