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Moses and Joshua Present Themselves to the Lord

14 Then the Lord told Moses: “Look! Because your time to die is approaching, call Joshua, present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, and then I will commission him.” Moses and Joshua complied[a] and presented[b] themselves at the Tent of Meeting. 15 So the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the entrance.[c]

16 Then the Lord told Moses, “Look! You are about to join your ancestors.[d] Afterwards, this people will rebel[e] and commit prostitution with the foreign gods of the land that they are about to enter to possess. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I made with them.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 31:14 Lit. walked
  2. Deuteronomy 31:14 Or stood
  3. Deuteronomy 31:15 Lit. above the Tent of Meeting
  4. Deuteronomy 31:16 Lit. to lie down with
  5. Deuteronomy 31:16 Heb. rise up
  6. Deuteronomy 31:16 Lit. him