Deuteronomy 31:22-30

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² Moses therefore wrote the canticle and taught it to the children of Israel.

²³ And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.

²⁴ Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a volume, and finished it:

²⁵ He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. saying:

²⁶ Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.

²⁷ For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck, While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

²⁸ Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to witness against them.

²⁹ For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside from the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

³⁰ Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end,