IAnd Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel. 2And he said to them, “I’m a hundred twenty years old today. I’m not able to go out and come in anymore. And YHWH said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’ 3YHWH, your God: He is crossing in front of you. He’ll destroy these nations in front of you, and you’ll dispossess them. Joshua: he is crossing in front of you, as YHWH has spoken. 4And YHWH will do to them as He did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, that He destroyed them. 5And YHWH will put them in front of you, and you shall do to them according to all of the commandment that I’ve commanded you. 6Be strong and be bold. Don’t be afraid and don’t be scared in front of them, because YHWH, your God: He is the one going with you. He won’t let you down and won’t leave you.”
7And Moses called Joshua and said to him before the eyes of all Israel, “Be strong and be bold, because you will come with this people to the land that YHWH swore to their fathers to give to them, and you will get it for them as a legacy. 8And YHWH: He is the one who is going in front of you. He will be with you. He won’t let you down and won’t leave you. You shall not fear, and you shall not be dismayed.”
9And Moses wrote this instruction and gave it to the priests, sons of Levi, who were carrying the ark of YHWH’s covenant, and to all of Israel’s elders. 10And Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the year of the remission, on the Festival of Booths, “when all Israel comes to appear before YHWH, your God, in the place that He will choose, you shall read this instruction in front of all Israel in their ears. 12Assemble the people—the men and the women and the infants and your alien who is in your gates—so they will listen and so they will learn and will fear YHWH, your God, and they will be watchful to do all the words of this instruction. 13And their children who have not known will listen and learn to fear YHWH, your God, all the days that you’re living on the land to which you’re crossing the Jordan to take possession of it.”
14And YHWH said to Moses, “Here, your days to die have come close. Call Joshua, and stand up in the Tent of Meeting, and I’ll command him.” And Moses and Joshua went and stood up in the Tent of Meeting. 15And YHWH appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.
l6 And YHWH said to Moses, “Here, when you’re lying with your fathers, this people will get up and whore after foreign gods of the land into which it is coming, and it will leave me and break my covenant that I’ve made with it. 17And my anger will flare at it on that day, and I’ll leave them, and I’ll hide my face from them, and it will become prey, and many bad things and troubles will find it. And it will say on that day, ‘Isn’t it because my God is not present in me that these evils have found me?’ l8But I: I’ll hide my face on that day over all the bad that it has done, because it turned to other gods. 19So now write this song and teach it to the children of Israel. Set it in their mouths, so this song will become a witness for me among the children of Israel. 20When I’ll bring it to the land that I swore to its fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and it will eat and be full and get fat and turn to other gods, and they will serve them and reject me, and it will break my covenant, 2Ithen it will be, when many bad things and troubles will find it, that this song will testify as a witness in front of it, because it won’t be forgotten from its seed’s mouth. Because I know its inclination that it is doing today even before I bring it to the land that I swore.”
22 And Moses wrote this song on that day, and he taught it to the children of Israel.
23And He commanded Joshua, son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and bold, because you will bring the children of Israel to the land that I swore to them, and I shall be with you.”
24And it was when Moses finished writing the words of this instruction on a scroll to their end, 25and Moses commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, saying, 26“Take this scroll of instruction and set it at the side of the ark of the covenant of YHWH, your God, and it will be there for you as a witness. 27Because I know your rebellion and your hard neck. Here, while I’m still alive with you today, you’ve been rebelling at YHWH, so how much more after my death!187 28 Assemble all the elders of your tribes and your officers to me so I may speak these things in their ears and call the skies and the earth to witness regarding them, 29because I know, after my death, that you’ll be corrupted, and you’ll turn from the way that I’ve commanded you. And the bad thing will happen to you in the future days when you’ll do what is bad in YHWH’s eyes to provoke Him with your hands’ work.”
30 °And Moses spoke in the ears of all the community of Israel the words of this song to their end: 188