Category: Deuteronomy

Joshua Takes Moses’ Place

1 Then Moses continued to speak thesewords to all Israel,

2 saying, “I am now 120 years old;I can no longer act as your leader.TheLordhas told me, ‘You will not cross this Jordan.’

3 TheLordyour God is the One who will cross ahead of you.He will destroy these nations before you, and you will drive them out. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, as theLordhas said.

4 TheLordwill deal with them as He did Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and their land when He destroyed them.

5 TheLordwill deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.

6 Be strong and courageous;don’t be terrified or afraid of them. For it is theLordyour God who goes with you;He will not leave you or forsake you.”

7 Moses then summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go withthis people into the land theLordswore to give to their fathers.You will enable them to take possession of it.

8 TheLordis the One who will go before you.He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you.Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

9 Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of theLord’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.

10 Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation,during the Festival of Booths,

11 when all Israel assemblesin the presence of theLordyour God at the place He chooses,you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.

12 Gather the people — men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates — so that they may listen and learn to feartheLordyour God and be careful to follow all the words of this law.

13 Then their childrenwho do not know the law will listen and learn to fear theLordyour God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

14 TheLordsaid to Moses, “The time of your death is now approaching. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting so that I may commission him.” When Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting,

15 theLordappeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud,and the cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.

16 TheLordsaid to Moses, “You are about to rest with your fathers,and these people will soon commit adultery with the foreign godsof the land they are entering. They will abandon Meand break the covenantI have made with them.

17 My anger will burn against them on that day;I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey.Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us? ’

18 I will certainly hide My face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

19 Therefore write down this songfor yourselves and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it,so that this song may be a witness for Me against the Israelites.

20 When I bring them into the land I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey,they will eat their filland prosper.They will turn to other gods and worship them, despising Meand breaking My covenant.

21 And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, becausetheir descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

22 So Moses wrote down this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.

23 TheLordcommissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I swore to them, and I will be with you.”

Moses Warns the People

24 When Moses had finished writing down on a scroll every single wordof this law,

25 he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of theLord’s covenant,

26 “Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of theLordyour God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against theLordnow, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!

28 Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.

29 For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in theLord’s sight, infuriating Him with what your hands have made.”

30 Then Moses recited aloud every single wordof this song to the entire assembly of Israel:

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Song of Moses

1 Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak;

listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.

2 Let my teaching fall like rain

and my word settle like dew,

like gentle rain on new grass

and showers on tender plants.

3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.

Declare the greatness of our God!

4 The Rock— His work is perfect;

all His ways are entirely just.

A faithful God,without prejudice,

He is righteous and true.

5 His people have acted corruptly toward Him;

this is their defect— they are not His children

but a devious and crooked generation.

6 Is this how you repay theLord,

you foolish and senseless people?

Isn’t He your Father and Creator?

Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

7 Remember the days of old;

consider the years long past.

Ask your father, and he will tell you,

your elders, and they will teach you.

8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance

and divided the human race,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

according to the number of the people of Israel.

9 But theLord’s portion is His people,

Jacob, His own inheritance.

10 He found him in a desolate land,

in a barren, howling wilderness;

He surrounded him, cared for him,

and protected him as the pupil of His eye.

11 He watches overHis nest like an eagle

and hovers over His young;

He spreads His wings, catches him,

and lifts him up on His pinions.

12 TheLordalone led him,

with no help from a foreign god.

13 He made him ride on the heights of the land

and eat the produce of the field.

He nourished him with honey from the rock

and oil from flint-like rock,

14 cream from the herd and milk from the flock,

with the fat of lambs,

rams from Bashan,and goats,

with the choicest grains of wheat;

you drank wine from the finest grapes.

15 ThenJeshurunbecame fat and rebelled —

you became fat, bloated, and gorged.

He abandoned the God who made him

and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;

they enraged Him with detestable practices.

17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known,

new gods that had just arrived,

which your fathers did not fear.

18 You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;

you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

19 When theLordsaw this, He despised them,

provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

20 He said: “I will hide My face from them;

I will see what will become of them,

for they are a perverse generation —

unfaithful children.

21 They have provoked My jealousy

with their so-called gods;

they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.

So I will provoke their jealousy

with an inferior people;

I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

22 For fire has been kindled because of My anger

and burns to the depths of Sheol;

it devours the land and its produce,

and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

23 “I will pile disasters on them;

I will use up My arrows against them.

24 They will be weak from hunger,

ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;

I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,

as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.

25 Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, there will be terror;

the young man and the young woman will be killed,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

26 “I would have said: I will cut them to pieces

and blot out the memory of them from mankind,

27 if I had not feared insult from the enemy,

or feared that these foes might misunderstand

and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;

it wasn’t theLordwho did all this.’ ”

28 Israel is a nation lacking sense

with no understanding at all.

29 If only they were wise, they would figure it out;

they would understand their fate.

30 How could one man pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless theLordhad given them up?

31 But their “rock” is not like our Rock;

even our enemies concede.

32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodom

and from the fields of Gomorrah.

Their grapes are poisonous;

their clusters are bitter.

33 Their wine is serpents’ venom,

the deadly poison of cobras.

34 “Is it not stored up with Me,

sealed up in My vaults?

35 Vengeancebelongs to Me; I will repay.

In time their foot will slip,

for their day of disaster is near,

and their doom is coming quickly.”

36 TheLordwill indeed vindicate His people

and have compassion on His servants

when He sees that their strength is gone

and no one is left — slave or free.

37 He will say: “Where are their gods,

the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?

38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their drink offerings?

Let them rise up and help you;

let itbe a shelter for you.

39 See now that I alone am He;

there is no God but Me.

I bring death and I give life;

I wound and I heal.

No one can rescue anyone from My hand.

40 I raise My hand to heaven and declare:

As surely as I live forever,

41 when I sharpen My flashing sword,

and My hand takes hold of judgment,

I will take vengeance on My adversaries

and repay those who hate Me.

42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood

while My sword devours flesh —

the blood of the slain and the captives,

the heads of the enemy leaders.”

43 Rejoice, you nations, concerning His people,

for He will avenge the blood of His servants.

He will take vengeance on His adversaries;

He will purify His land and His people.

44 Moses came with Joshuason of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the presence of the people.

45 After Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

46 he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today,so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

47 For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life,and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Moses’ Impending Death

48 On that same day theLordspoke to Moses,

49 “Go up Mount Neboin the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.

50 Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people,just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

51 For both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

52 Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”

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Moses’ Blessings

1 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.

2 He said:

TheLordcame from Sinai

and appeared to them from Seir;

He shone on them from Mount Paran

and came with ten thousand holy ones,

with lightningfrom His right handfor them.

3 Indeed He loves the people.

All Yourholy onesare in Your hand,

and they assembleat Your feet.

Each receives Your words.

4 Moses gave us instruction,

a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

5 So He became King in Jeshurun

when the leaders of the people gathered

with the tribes of Israel.

6 Let Reuben live and not die

though his people become few.

7 He said this about Judah:

Lord, hear Judah’s cry and bring him to his people.

He fights for his causewith his own hands,

but may You be a help against his foes.

8 He said about Levi:

Your Thummim and Urimbelong to Your faithful one;

You tested him at Massah

and contended with him at the waters of Meribah.

9 He said about his father and mother,

“I do not regard them.”

He disregarded his brothers

and didn’t acknowledge his sons,

for they kept Your word

and maintained Your covenant.

10 They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob

and Your instruction to Israel;

they will set incense before You

and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

11 Lord, bless his possessions,

and accept the work of his hands.

Smash the loins of his adversaries and enemies,

so that they cannot rise again.

12 He said about Benjamin:

TheLord’s beloved restssecurely on Him.

Heshields him all day long,

and he rests on His shoulders.

13 He said about Joseph:

May his land be blessed by theLord

with the dew of heaven’s bounty

and the watery depths that lie beneath;

14 with the bountiful harvest from the sun

and the abundant yield of the seasons;

15 with the best products of the ancient mountains

and the bounty of the eternal hills;

16 with the choice gifts of the land

and everything in it;

and with the favor of Him

who appearedin the burning bush.

May these rest on the head of Joseph,

on the crown of the prince of his brothers.

17 His firstborn bull hassplendor,

and horns likethose of a wild ox;

he gores all the peoples with them

to the ends of the earth.

Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,

and such are the thousands of Manasseh.

18 He said about Zebulun:

Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys,

and Issachar, in your tents.

19 They summon the peoples to a mountain;

there they offer acceptable sacrifices.

For they draw from the wealth of the seas

and the hidden treasures of the sand.

20 He said about Gad:

The one who enlarges Gad’s territory

will be blessed.

He lies down like a lion

and tears off an arm or even a head.

21 He chose the best part for himself,

because a ruler’s portion was assigned there for him.

He came with the leaders of the people;

he carried out theLord’s justice

and His ordinances for Israel.

22 He said about Dan:

Dan is a young lion,

leaping out of Bashan.

23 He said about Naphtali:

Naphtali, enjoying approval,

full of theLord’s blessing,

takepossession to the west and the south.

24 He said about Asher:

May Asherbe the most blessed of the sons;

may he be the most favored among his brothers

and dip his foot in olive oil.

25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze,

and your strength last as long as you live.

26 There is none like the God of Jeshurun,

who rides the heavens to your aid,

the clouds in His majesty.

27 The God of old is your dwelling place,

and underneath are the everlasting arms.

He drives out the enemy before you

and commands, “Destroy! ”

28 So Israel dwells securely;

Jacob lives untroubled

in a land of grain and new wine;

even his skies drip with dew.

29 How happy you are, Israel!

Who is like you,

a people saved by theLord?

He is the shield that protects you,

the sword you boast in.

Your enemies will cringe before you,

and you will tread on their backs.

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Moses’ Death

1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,which faces Jericho, and theLordshowed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan,

2 all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the MediterraneanSea,

3 the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.

4 TheLordthen said to him, “This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

5 So Moses the servant of theLorddied there in the land of Moab, as theLordhad said.

6 He buried himin the valleyin the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.

7 Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.

8 The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days.Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

9 Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdombecause Moses had laid his hands on him.So the Israelites obeyed him and did as theLordhad commanded Moses.

10 No prophet has arisen again in Israel like Moses, whom theLordknew face to face.

11 He was unparalleled for all the signs and wonders theLordsent him to do against the land of Egypt — to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land,

12 and for all the mighty acts of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.

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