1 Kun Mooses oli puhunut israelilaisille kaiken tämän,

3 Mutta Herra, teidän Jumalanne, kulkee itse teidän edellänne. Hän hävittää kansat teidän tieltänne, ja te otatte haltuunne niiden maat. Joosua johtaa teidät joen yli; näin on Herra luvannut.

4 Herra tekee noille kansoille, niin kuin hän teki amorilaisten kuninkaille Sihonille ja Ogille. Heidät ja heidän maansa hän tuhosi.

5 Hän antaa nuo kansat teidän käsiinne, ja teidän tulee toimia sen käskyn mukaan, jonka olen teille antanut.

9 Mooses kirjoitti kirjaan tämän lain ja antoi sen leeviläispapeille, joiden tehtävänä oli kantaa Herran liitonarkkua, sekä Israelin vanhimmille.

11 kun israelilaiset ovat kokoontuneet lehtimajanjuhlaan Herran, teidän Jumalanne, kasvojen eteen siihen paikkaan, jonka hän valitsee, teidän on luettava tämä laki kaikkien israelilaisten kuullen.

12 Kutsukaa silloin koolle koko kansa, miehet, naiset ja lapset, ja keskuudessanne asuvat muukalaiset, että kaikki kuulisivat ja oppisivat lain, pelkäisivät Herraa, teidän Jumalaanne, ja tarkoin noudattaisivat tämän lain käskyjä.

15 Herra ilmestyi heille pilvipatsaassa, joka asettui teltan ovelle.

17 minussa herää viha heitä kohtaan. Minä hylkään heidät ja käännän kasvoni heistä pois, niin että he joutuvat kärsimään paljon ja heitä kohtaavat suuret onnettomuudet ja vaivat. Silloin he sanovat: 'Nämä onnettomuudet ovat kohdanneet meitä siksi, ettei Jumalamme ole meidän kanssamme.'

18 Mutta minä käännän kasvoni heistä pois kaiken sen pahan tähden, mitä he ovat tehneet kääntyessään vieraiden jumalien puoleen.

20 Minä vien heidät nyt siihen maahan, jonka lupasin heille heidän esi-isilleen antamallani valalla, maahan, joka tulvii maitoa ja hunajaa. Kun he ovat syöneet itsensä kylläisiksi ja lihaviksi, he kääntyvät vieraiden jumalien puoleen ja alkavat palvella niitä. Minua he halveksivat, minun liittoni he rikkovat.

22 Mooses kirjoitti sinä päivänä muistiin tämän laulun ja opetti sen israelilaisille.

24 Kun Mooses oli kirjoittanut kirjaan koko tämän lain viimeistä sanaa myöten,

25 hän antoi leeviläisille, Herran liitonarkun kantajille, tämän käskyn:

27 Minä tiedän, miten niskoittelevia ja kapinoivia te olette. Kun te nytkin, vaikka minä vielä olen elossa, niskoittelette Herraa vastaan, kuinka paljon enemmän te niskoittelettekaan minun kuolemani jälkeen!

30 Koko Israelin kansa oli kokoontunut kuulemaan, kun Mooses lausui sille tämän laulun sanat alusta loppuun saakka:

1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken. 4 And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed. 5 And Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for thou shalt go with this people into the land which Jehovah hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And Jehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 when all Israel is come to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 15 And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a 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, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death? 28 Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.