thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
[12]
Gather 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, which have not known any thing, may 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, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present
yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua
went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
[15] And the 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 rise up,
and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers 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 befall 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 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 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, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and
break my covenant.
[21] And it shall come to pass, when 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 I know their imagination 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] And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a 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, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
saying,
[26] Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD 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 the LORD; and how much more
after my death?
[28] Gather 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 record 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 evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger through the work of your hands.
[30] And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel
the words of this song, until they were ended.
Deut.32
[1] Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
[2] My doctrine
shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and
as the showers upon the grass:
[3] Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God.
[4] He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and
without iniquity, just and right is he.
[5] They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
[6] Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people
and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
[7]
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew
thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
[8] When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the
children of Israel.
[9] For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
[10] He found
him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept
him as the apple of his eye.
[11] As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
[12] So the LORD alone did lead him, and