Deuteronomy 31:14-16

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The Lord Calls Moses and Joshua

¹⁴ The Lord said to Moses, “·Soon you will [^LLook, the day is approaching for you to] die. ·Get [Call] Joshua and ·come [present him] to the Meeting Tent so that I may command him.” So Moses and Joshua ·went to [presented themselves at] the Meeting Tent.

¹⁵ The Lord appeared at the Meeting Tent in a pillar of cloud; the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the Tent [^Crepresenting the presence of God; Ex. 13:21; 40:34–38]. ¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, “You will soon ·die [^Llie down/^Tsleep with your fathers]. Then these people will ·not be loyal to me but will worship [^Lprostitute themselves with] the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will ·leave [abandon; forsake] me, breaking the ·Agreement [Covenant; Treaty] I ·made [^Lcut] with them.