thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes, which are written in the book of this law, and turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

For the commandment which I command thee this day is not hid from thee, neither is it far from thee,

Nor in heaven, that thou mayest say, Who will take us up to heaven, and fetch us to hear and to do?

Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall pass over the sea, and take us, that we may hear, and do it?

For the word is nigh unto thee in thy mouth, and in thine heart to do it.

Behold, I have set before thee this day life and good, death and evil; 16. Who command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, and to live, and to be multiplied, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

But if thou turn away thine heart, and obey not, but be deceived, to worship other gods, and to serve them,

I declare unto you this day, that ye shall perish, and not remain long in the land, when thou shalt pass over Jordan to possess it.

I take heaven and earth to be witnesses over you this day. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, that you may choose life, and that you and your seed may live, 20. That ye love the LORD your God, and obey his voice, and cleave unto him. For this is thy life, and thy long days, to dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 31
Moses resigns his office, orders Joshua to take his place.

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel;

And said unto them: I am this day an hundred and twenty years old; I can go no more out and in: therefore the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

The LORD thy God himself shall go before thee; he himself shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt possess them. Joshua shall pass over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

And the LORD shall do unto them as he did unto Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed.

When therefore the LORD shall give them before you, ye shall do unto them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

Be of good courage, fear not, neither be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God himself will walk with thee, and will not turn away his hand from thee, nor forsake thee.

And Moses called Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be of good courage and undaunted: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the LORD sware unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt divide it among them.

But the LORD himself, which goeth before you, shall be with thee, and shall not remove his hand from thee, nor forsake thee. Fear not, neither be dismayed.

And Moses wrote this law, and gave it to the priests, to the children of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel; 10. And commanded them, saying, For seven years, in the year of remission, at the feast of tabernacles,

When all Israel come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt cause this law to be proclaimed before all Israel in their ears, 12. Even before the congregation of the people, both of the men, and of the women, and of the children, and of thy stranger that is within thy gates; that they may hear and learn, that they may fear the LORD their God, and keep him, to do all the words of this law, 13. And that their children also, which know it not, may hear and learn; that they may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life, which are in the land whither ye go in over Jordan.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy time is come to die. Call Joshua, and come into the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may command him. And Moses went with Joshua,
and they entered into the tabernacle of the congregation.

And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud: and the same pillar of cloud stood in the door of the tabernacle.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people shall come up, and whoredom after strange gods, of the land whither they go, and shall forsake me, and shall forsake the covenant that I have made with them.

Then shall my wrath be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed. And when much calamity and anguish shall befall them, they shall say, Hath not all this evil entered me, Because my God is not with me?

But I will hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, in that they have turned unto other gods.

Now therefore write ye this song, and teach it the children of Israel, and put it in their mouths; that the song may be a witness unto me among the children of Israel.

For I will bring them into the land, which I sware unto their fathers, when milk and honey flowed within. And when they eat, and are filled, and grow fat, they shall turn unto other gods, and serve them; and they shall blaspheme me, and forsake my covenant.

And when much calamity and anguish shall enter them, this song shall answer them for a testimony: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, that they may go about even now, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn.

So Moses wrote this song at that time, and taught it the children of Israel.

And he commanded Joshua the son of Nun, saying, Be of good courage, and be not afraid: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them, and I will be with thee.

Now Moses had written out the whole words of this law in a book, 25. And he commanded the Levites that bare the ark of the testimony of the LORD, saying: 26. Take the book of this law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that there it may be a witness against thee.

For I know your disobedience and stubbornness. Behold, because I live with you this day, ye have been disobedient to the LORD: how much more after my death?

Gather therefore before me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and take heaven and earth for witnesses against them.

For I know that after my death ye shall perish, and go out of the way which I have commanded you. Then shall evil befall you hereafter: because ye have done evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger with the work of your hands.

So Moses spake the words of this song in the ears of all the congregation of Israel:
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 32
Moses’ Song and Canticle.

Take heed, ye heavens, I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Let my doctrine drop as the rain, and let my speech flow as the dew, as the rain upon the grass, and as the drops upon the herb.

For I will praise the name of the LORD. Give glory to our God alone!

He is a rock. His works are blameless: for all that he doeth is right. Faithful is God, and there is no evil in him: just and upright is he.

The perverse and wicked manner fall from him; they are stains, and not his children.

Do you then give thanks to the LORD your God, you foolish and foolish people? Is he not thy Father, and thy Lord? Is it not he only that hath made thee, and prepared thee?

Remember the former times unto this day, and consider what he hath done for the fathers of old. Ask thy father, and he shall tell thee: thy elders, and they shall tell thee.

When the most High divided the nations, and scattered the children of men, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel.

For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the cord of his inheritance.

He found him in the wilderness, in the dry desert, howling. He led him, and gave him the law. He kept him as the apple of his eye,

As an eagle bringeth forth his young, and soareth over them. He spread forth his wings, and took him, and bare them upon his wings.

The LORD alone led him, and there was no strange god with him.

He brought him up on high upon the earth, and fed him with the fruit of the field, and made him suck honey out of the rocks, and oil out of the hard stones, 14. Butter of the kine, and milk of the sheep, with the fat of the lambs, and fat rams, and goats with fat kidneys, and