When Moses  ¹finished speaking these words to all Israel,

He said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in, and Jehovah has said to me, You shall not cross over this Jordan.

It is Jehovah your God who is crossing over before you; it is He who will destroy these nations from before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua is the one who is crossing over before you, as Jehovah has spoken.

And Jehovah will do to them even as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land when He destroyed them.

And Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and you will do to them according to the whole commandment, which I have commanded you.

Be strong and take courage; do not fear, neither be terrified of them, for it is Jehovah your God who goes with you; He will not fail you nor forsake you.

And Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and take courage, for you will go with this people into the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers to give them; and you will cause them to inherit it.

But it is Jehovah who is going before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.

And Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, and to all the elders of Israel.

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of  ¹Tabernacles,

When all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Gather the people, the men, the women, and the little ones, and the sojourner with you, who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear Jehovah your God and be certain to do all the words of this law,

And that their children, who have not known these things, may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your God all the days that you live upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Now your days draw near for you to die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting that I may charge him. So Moses went with Joshua, and they presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

And Jehovah appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.

And Jehovah said to Moses, You are now about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will rise up and go as harlots after the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are entering; and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I made with them.

And My anger will burn against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them; and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us?

And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, for they turned to other gods.

And now write for yourselves this song and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouth that I may have this song as a witness against the children of Israel.

For I will bring them into the land which I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and become satisfied and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them and despise Me and break My covenant.

And when many evils and troubles befall them, this song will respond as a witness before them, because it will not be forgotten in the mouth of their seed; for I know their intention, which they are making even today before I bring them into the land which I have sworn to them.

So Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the children of Israel.

And He charged Joshua the son of Nun and said, Be strong and take courage, for you will bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them; and I will be with you.

And when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were completed,

Moses charged the Levites who bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, saying,

Take this book of the law and place it at the side of the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there as a witness against you.

For I know your  ¹rebelliousness and your  ¹stiff neck: See, while I am yet here alive with you today, you have been rebelling against Jehovah; so how much more after my death!

Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak in their hearing these words and that I may call heaven and earth to witness against them;

For I know that after my death you will utterly spoil yourselves and turn away from the way that I have commanded you; and evil will come upon you in the last days, for you will do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah so as to provoke Him to anger by your undertakings.

And Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were completed.

Give ear, O heaven, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Let my teaching drop like the rain;
Let my speech distill like the dew,
Like raindrops upon tender grass,
And like abundant showers upon herbage.

For the name of Jehovah will I declare.
Ascribe greatness to our God!

The Rock — perfect is His work,
For all His ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.

Corruptly have they dealt with Him — their blemish is not His  ¹sons —
A twisted and crooked generation are they.

Do you repay Jehovah with this,
Foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father who bought you?
Was it not He who made you and established you?

Remember the days of long ago;
Consider the years of generation upon generation;
Ask your father, and he will inform you;
Your elders, and they will tell you.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He divided the sons of  ¹man,
He set the borders of the peoples
According to the number of Israel's children.

For Jehovah's portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

He found him in a land of wilderness,
And in a howling desert waste;
He encircled him, cared for him with all attention;
He guarded him like the pupil of His eye.

As the eagle rouses his nest,
Hovers over his young,
Spreads his wings, takes them,
And bears them up upon his pinions;

So Jehovah alone led him,
And there was no strange god with Him.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck honey out of a crag,
And oil out of flint rock:

Curd of cows and milk of sheep,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the offspring of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And the blood of the grape you drank as fermenting wine.

But  ¹Jeshurun grew fat and kicked —
You have become fat, you have grown thick, you have gorged yourself —
And forsook God, who made him,
And treated the Rock of his salvation disdainfully.

They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

They sacrificed to  ¹demons, to those who were no god,
To gods they did not know,
To new ones who had recently come up,
Before whom your fathers had not shuddered.

You have neglected the Rock who begot you
And have forgotten the God who travailed with you.

And Jehovah saw and held them in contempt,
Because of anger provoked by His sons and daughters.

And He said, I will hide My face from them;
I will see what their latter end will be.
For they are a generation of perversions,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.

They have made Me jealous with a non-God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their  ¹vanities.
Hence I will make them jealous with a non-people;
With a foolish nation I will provoke them to anger.

For a fire is kindled in My anger
And burns unto nethermost  ¹Sheol.
And it devours the earth and its produce
And sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

I will heap evils on them;
I will use up My arrows against them.

They shall be sucked up by famine,
And eaten up by fire bolt
And bitter destruction;
And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
With the venom of those that crawl in the dust.

The sword shall bereave outside,
And inside, terror;
Taking both the young man and the virgin,
The suckling with the gray-haired man.

I would have said, I will scatter them,
I will cause the memory of them to cease from among men;

Except I dreaded the vexation from the enemy;
Lest their adversaries misjudge;
Lest they say, Our hand is exalted,
And it is not Jehovah who has wrought all this.

For they are a nation destitute of counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.

If they had been wise, they would have comprehended this,
They would have perceived their latter end.

How shall one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Were it not that their Rock sold them,
And Jehovah delivered them up?

For their rock is not like our Rock;
And of this our enemies are judges.

For their vine is from Sodom's vine,
And from Gomorrah's fields;
Their grapes are the grapes of poison;
Clusters of bitterness have they.

Their wine is the venom of serpents
And the cruel poison of cobras.

Is this not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?

Vengeance is Mine and so is retribution,
For the time when their foot slips;
Because the day of their calamity has drawn near,
And the things destined to happen to them hasten.

For Jehovah will  ¹execute judgment for His people,
And He will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their support is gone,
And that neither fettered nor free remain.

And He will say, Where are their gods,
The rock they sought refuge in,

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
Let  ¹them be a shelter over you.

See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god with Me.
It is I who kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and it is I who heal;
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

For I lift up My hand to heaven
And say, As I live forever:

If I sharpen My flashing sword,
And My hand takes hold of judgment,
I will repay My adversaries with vengeance,
And those who hate Me will I recompense.

I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword will devour flesh —
With the blood of the slain and of the captives,
The flesh of the long-haired  ¹leaders of the enemy.

Shout  ¹joyously, you nations, with His people,
Because He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And He will repay His adversaries with vengeance
And will cover the guilt of His land and of His people.

And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.

And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel.

And he said to them, Set your heart on all these words which I am testifying to you today. You shall command them to your children that they may be certain to do all the words of this law.

For it is not a matter too vain for you, because it is your life; and by this matter you will extend your days upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which faces Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel as a possession;

And die in the mountain to which you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;

Because  ¹you were unfaithful to Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because  ¹you did not  ²sanctify Me among the children of Israel.

But from a distance you shall see the land, yet you shall  ¹not go there into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.

And this is the  ¹blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death.

And he said,
Jehovah came from Sinai,
And He dawned upon them from Seir;
He shined forth from Mount Paran,
And He approached from the myriads of holy ones;
From His right hand a fiery law went out to them.

Indeed, He loves the people.
All His saints were in Your hand,
And they sat down at Your feet;
Everyone receives of Your words.

Moses commanded us a law,
A possession of the congregation of Jacob.

And He was King in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people gathered themselves,
The tribes of Israel together.

May  ¹Reuben live and not die,
Nor his men be few.

And this is the blessing concerning Judah; and he said,
Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah,
And  ¹bring him to his people.
With his hands he contended for them;
And may You be a help against his  ²adversaries.

And concerning Levi he said,
May Your Thummim and Urim be with  ¹Your faithful man,
Whom You tested at Massah,
With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah —

He who said of his father and mother,
I do not  ¹regard him;
And his brothers he did not acknowledge,
And his children he did not recognize;
For they have kept Your speaking
And have guarded Your covenant.

They shall show Jacob Your ordinances,
And Israel Your law;
They shall put incense before Your nostrils
And whole burnt offerings upon Your altar.

Bless, O Jehovah, his  ¹might,
And the work of his hands accept;
Wound thoroughly the loins of those who rise up against him
And of those who hate him, that they may not rise up again.

Concerning Benjamin he said,
The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell securely beside Him;
Jehovah shall cover over him all the day,
And He shall dwell between his shoulders.

And concerning Joseph he said,
May his land be blessed of Jehovah
With the choicest things of heaven, with the dew
And with the deep waters that couch beneath;

With the choicest of the crops of the sun,
And with the choicest of the yield of the  ¹moons;

With the top of the ancient mountains,
And with the choicest things of the eternal hills;

With the choicest things of the earth, and the fullness thereof,
And the favor of Him who dwelt in the thornbush.
May they come upon the head of Joseph,
And upon the top of the head of him who is separated among his brothers.

Like his firstborn ox, he has majesty;
And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;
With them he shall drive peoples
To the ends of the earth together.
Those are the ten thousands of  ¹Ephraim;
And those the thousands of  ¹Manasseh.

And concerning Zebulun he said,
Rejoice, Zebulun, for your  ¹going forth,
And Issachar, for your tents!

They shall call peoples to the mountain;
There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness;
For they shall suck the abundance of the seas
And the hidden treasures of the sand.

And concerning Gad he
Blessed be He who enlarges Gad.
He dwells as a lioness,
And tears off the arm, yea, even the top of the head.

And he provided the first part for himself,
For there the portion of a  ¹lawgiver is reserved;
And he came with the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of Jehovah
And His judgments with Israel.

And concerning Dan he said,
Dan is a lion's whelp
That leaps forth from Bashan.

And concerning Naphtali he said,
O Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
And full of the blessing of Jehovah:
Possess the sea and the south.

And concerning Asher he said,
Blessed be Asher above the sons.
May he be the one favored of his brothers,
And the one dipping his foot in  ¹oil.

Your doorbolts shall be iron and copper;
And as your days are, so shall your strength be.

There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
Who rides through the heavens as your help
And in His majesty through the skies.

The God of old is your  ¹habitation,
And underneath are eternal arms.
And He drove out the enemy before you
And said, Destroy!

So Israel dwelt securely,
The fountain of Jacob in solitude,
On a land of grain and new wine;
And the heavens over him drop their dew.

Happy are you, O Israel; who is like you?
A people saved by Jehovah,
The shield of your help
And He who is the sword of your majesty!
So your enemies shall come cringing to you,
And you shall tread upon their high places.

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan;

And all of Naphtali; and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; and all the land of Judah as far as the sea beyond it;

And the Negev; and the Plain, that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

And Jehovah said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not go over there.

So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab according to the word of Jehovah.

And  ¹He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial site to this day.

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor had his freshness left him.

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days; thus, the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed.

And  ¹Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had  ²laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel listened to him and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

And there has not arisen a prophet since then in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face,

For all the signs and the wonders which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land,

And for all the mighty power and for all the great terror which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.