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Deuteronomy 31 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
7 And Moyses called Josue, & said to him before all Israel: Take courage, & be strong: for thou shalt bring in this people into the Land, which our Lord sware that he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot.
8 And our Lord that is your conductor, himself will be with thee: he will not leave, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither dread thou.
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14 And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of testimony, that I may command him. Moyses therefore and Josue went, & stood in the tabernacle of testimony,
15 and our Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood in the entering of the tabernacle.
16 And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will fornicate after strange gods in the Land, to the which it entereth to dwell therein: there will they forsake me, and will make the covenant, which I have made with them, of none effect.
17 And my fury shall be wrath against them in that day, & I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth because God is not with me, these evils have found me.
18 But I will hide, and keep close my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.
19 Now therefore write unto you this canticle, & teach the children of Israel: that they know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, & this song be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.
20 For I will bring them into the Land, for the which I sware to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey: And when they have eaten, and are full, and fat, they will turn away to strange gods, and serve them: and will detract from me, and make my covenant of none effect.
21 After that many evils and afflictions shall have found them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their cogitations, what things they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the Land which I have promised them.
22 Moyses therefore wrote the canticle and taught it the children of Israel:
23 And our Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the Land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.
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