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 goeth and speaketh these words unto all Israel,
2 and he saith unto them, `A son of a hundred and twenty years [am] I to-day; I am not able any more to go out and to come in, and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou dost not pass over this Jordan,
3 `Jehovah thy God He is passing over before thee, He doth destroy these nations from before thee, and thou hast possessed them; Joshua -- he is passing over before thee as Jehovah hath spoken,
4 and Jehovah hath done to them as he hath done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land, whom He destroyed.
5 And Jehovah hath given them before your face, and ye have done to them according to all the command which I have commanded you;
6 be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them, for Jehovah thy God [is] He who is going with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee.`
7 And Moses calleth for Joshua, and saith unto him before the eyes of all Israel, `Be strong and courageous, for thou -- thou dost go in with this people unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to their fathers to give to them, and thou -- thou dost cause them to inherit it;
8 and Jehovah [is] He who is going before thee, He himself is with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee; fear not, nor be affrighted.`
9 And Moses writeth this law, and giveth it unto the priests (sons of Levi, those bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah), and unto all the elders of Israel,
10 and Moses commandeth them, saying, `At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the feast of booths,
11 in the coming in of all Israel to see the face of Jehovah in the place which He chooseth, thou dost proclaim this law before all Israel, in their ears.
12 `Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who [is] within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law;
13 and their sons, who have not known, do hear, and have learned to fear Jehovah your God all the days which ye are living on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.`
14 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thy days have drawn near to die; call Joshua, and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, and I charge him;` and Moses goeth -- Joshua also -- and they station themselves in the tent of meeting,
15 and Jehovah is seen in the tent, in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud standeth at the opening of the tent.
16 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;
17 and Mine anger hath burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it hath been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it hath said in that day, Is it not because that my God is not in my midst -- these evils have found me?
18 and I certainly hide My face in that day for all the evil which it hath done, for it hath turned unto other gods.
19 `And now, write for you this song, and teach it the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song is to Me for a witness against the sons of Israel,
20 and I bring them in unto the ground which I have sworn to their fathers -- flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, and been fat, and have turned unto other gods, and they have served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant.
21 `And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing to-day, before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn.`
22 And Moses writeth this song on that day, and doth teach it the sons of Israel,
23 and He commandeth Joshua son of Nun, and saith, `Be strong and courageous, for thou dost bring in the sons of Israel unto the land which I have sworn to them, and I -- I am with thee.`
24 And it cometh to pass, when Moses finisheth to write the words of this law on a book till their completion,
25 that Moses commandeth the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying,
26 `Take this Book of the Law, and thou hast set it on the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and it hath been there against thee for a witness;
27 for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.
28 `Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your authorities, and I speak in their ears these words, and cause to testify against them the heavens and the earth,
29 for I have known that after my death ye do very corruptly, and have turned aside out of the way which I commanded you, and evil hath met you in the latter end of the days, because ye do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry with the work of your hands.`
30 And Moses speaketh in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, till their completion: --