Deuteronomy
Chapter 31
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
2He said to them, I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has said to me, You shall not cross this Jordan.
3God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, he is crossing over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua, he is crossing over before you, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has spoken.
4God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorite, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
5God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will give them over before you, and you shall do to them according to the whole command that I have commanded you.
6Be strong and be firm. Do not fear and do not be shattered before them, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, he is the one who walks with you. He will not let you drop, and he will not forsake you.
7Moses called Joshua and said to him before the eyes of all Israel, Be strong and be firm, for you shall come with this people into the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
8God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., he is the one who walks before you. He will be with you. He will not let you drop, and he will not forsake you. Do not fear, and do not be shattered.
9Moses wrote this instruction and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carry the chest of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and to all the elders of Israel.
10Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the feast of booths,
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Shemittah is the release. Sukkot is the feast of booths. Mo’ed is the appointed time.
11when all Israel comes to appear before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God in the place that he chooses, you shall read this instruction in front of all Israel, in their hearing.
12Assemble the people, the men, the women, the little ones, and your A person living in a land that is not their own. who is in your gates, so that they hear and so that they learn and fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and keep to do all the words of this instruction.
13Their children who have not known shall hear and learn to fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, all the days that you live on the soil that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
14God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, Look, your days have drawn near for you to die. Call Joshua, and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, and I will command him. Moses and Joshua went and stationed themselves in the tent of meeting.
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Ohel mo’ed is the tent of meeting.
15God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.
16God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, Look, you are about to lie down with your fathers. This people will rise and prostitute themselves after the foreign gods of the land where they are going, into its midst. They will forsake me and break my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that I cut with them.
17My anger will burn against them on that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will find them. They will say on that day, Is it not because my God is not in my midst that these evils have found me?
18And I, I will hide, hide my face on that day, because of all the evil that they have done, for they turned to other gods.
19And now, write this song for yourselves and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouth, so that this song will be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.
20For I will bring them into the soil that I swore to their fathers, oozing milk and honey, and they will eat and be full and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and they will scorn me and break my A solemn agreement that binds God and people..
21And it shall be, when many evils and troubles find them, this song shall answer before them as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten from the mouth of their seed. For I know their making, what they are doing today, before I bring them into the land that I swore.
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Yetzer is their making, the shape of what they form. The line says he knows it before they enter the land.
22Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the sons of Israel.
23He commanded Joshua son of Nun and said, Be strong and be firm, for you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you.
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The verb has no named subject. The speaker says I swore and I will be with you. That speech is Yahweh’s.
24And it happened, when Moses finished writing the words of this instruction on a scroll, until they were complete,
25Moses commanded the Levites who carry the chest of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., saying,
26Take this scroll of the instruction and set it beside the chest of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and it shall be there as a witness against you.
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Mi-tsad is beside the chest, at its side. The line does not say the scroll was put inside the chest.
27For I know your rebellion and your hard neck. Look, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious with God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. How much more after my death.
28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and I will call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.
29For I know that after my death you will act ruinously, ruinously, and you will turn aside from the way that I commanded you. Evil will meet you in the later days, because you will do what is bad in God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s eyes, to provoke him with the work of your hands.
30Moses spoke in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete.