Deuteronomy 31:14-16

New Catholic Bible

¹⁴ Commissioning Joshua. The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the day is approaching when you will die. Summon Joshua and present yourselves before the tent of meeting so that I can commission him.”^[a] Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting. ¹⁵ The Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

¹⁶ Predicting Israel’s Rebellion. The Lord said to Moses, “You will soon sleep with your fathers, but this people will rise up and prostitute themselves with foreign gods from the land that they are entering. They will forsake and break the covenant that I have made with them.