9 And Moses wrote this law, qand delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, rwhich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the syear of release, tin the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to uappear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, xthou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 yGather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, zwhich have not known any thing, amay hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

14 And the Lord said unto Moses, bBehold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that cI may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And dthe Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt †sleep with thy fathers; and this people will erise up, and fgo a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will gforsake me, and hbreak my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and iI will forsake them, and I will khide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall †befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because lour God is not among us? 18 And mI will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be na witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, othat floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and pwaxen fat; qthen will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and rprovoke me, and hbreak my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, swhen many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify †against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for tI know their uimagination which they †go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 wAnd he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, xBe strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and yI will be with thee.

24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of zwriting the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, zwhich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, aand put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there bfor a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy cstiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, dye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?