Deuteronomy 31

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Joshua to Succeed Moses

31 So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. ²And he said to them, “I am ^(A)120 years old today. I am no longer able to ^(B)go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, ^(C)‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ ³The Lord your God ^(D)himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, ^(E)as the Lord has spoken. ⁴And the Lord will do to them ^(F)as he did to Sihon ^(G)and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. ⁵And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them ^(H)according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you. ⁶^(I)Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, ^(J)for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. ^(K)He will not leave you or forsake you.”

⁷Then ^(L)Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, ^(M)“Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. ⁸It is the Lord ^(N)who goes before you. He will be with you; ^(O)he will not leave you or forsake you. ^(P)Do not fear or be dismayed.”

The Reading of the Law

⁹Then Moses ^(Q)wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, ^(R)who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰And Moses commanded them, ^(S)“At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at ^(T)the Feast of Booths, ¹¹when all Israel comes ^(U)to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, ^(V)you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. ¹²^(W)Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, ¹³and that their children, ^(X)who have not known it, ^(Y)may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, ^(Z)as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

Joshua Commissioned to Lead Israel

¹⁴And the Lord said to Moses, ^(AA)“Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that ^(AB)I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. ¹⁵And ^(AC)the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.

¹⁶And the Lord said to Moses, ^(AD)“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and ^(AE)whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will ^(AF)forsake me and ^(AG)break my covenant that I have made with them. ¹⁷Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^(AH)I will forsake them and ^(AI)hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ^(AJ)‘Have not these evils come upon us because ^(AK)our God is not among us?’ ¹⁸And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because ^(AL)they have turned to other gods.

¹⁹“Now therefore write ^(AM)this song and ^(AN)teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be ^(AO)a witness for me against the people of Israel. ²⁰For when I have brought them into the land ^(AP)flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and ^(AQ)grown fat, ^(AR)they will turn to other gods and serve them, and ^(AS)despise me and ^(AT)break my covenant. ²¹And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as ^(AU)a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For ^(AV)I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.” ²²So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.

²³^(AW)And the Lord^[a] commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, ^(AX)“Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. ^(AY)I will be with you.”

²⁴When Moses had finished ^(AZ)writing the words of this law in a book to the very end, ²⁵Moses commanded ^(BA)the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ²⁶“Take this Book of the Law ^(BB)and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for ^(BC)a witness against you. ²⁷For I know how rebellious and ^(BD)stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, ^(BE)you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death! ²⁸Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak ^(BF)these words in their ears and ^(BG)call heaven and earth to witness against them. ²⁹For I know that after my death ^(BH)you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And ^(BI)in the days to come ^(BJ)evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(BK)provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

The Song of Moses

³⁰Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:

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Deuteronomy 31:23 Hebrew he

Isaiah 55:6-56:8

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⁶^(A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
⁷let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
⁸For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
⁹^(B)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁰^(C)“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    ^(D)giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
¹¹so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
but ^(E)it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

¹²^(F)“For you shall go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
^(G)the mountains and the hills before you
    shall break forth into singing,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
¹³^(H)Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
    instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
    an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

Salvation for Foreigners

56 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
^(I)for soon my salvation will come,
    and my righteousness be revealed.
²Blessed is the man who does this,
    and the son of man who holds it fast,
^(J)who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
    and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

³Let not ^(K)the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
    “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
    “Behold, I am ^(L)a dry tree.”
⁴For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs ^(M)who keep my Sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me
    and hold fast my covenant,
⁵^(N)I will give in my house and within my walls
    a ^(O)monument and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
^(P)I will give them an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off.

⁶“And ^(Q)the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
    to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
everyone ^(R)who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
    and holds fast my covenant—
⁷^(S)these I will bring to ^(T)my holy mountain,
    and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
^(U)their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
    will be accepted on my altar;
for ^(V)my house shall be called a house of prayer
    for all peoples.”
⁸The Lord God,
    ^(W)who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
^(X)“I will gather yet others to him
    besides those already gathered.”

2 Timothy 3:12-17

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¹²Indeed, all who desire to ^(A)live a godly life in Christ Jesus ^(B)will be persecuted, ¹³while ^(C)evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and ^(D)being deceived. ¹⁴But as for you, ^(E)continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom^[a] you learned it ¹⁵and how ^(F)from childhood you have been acquainted with ^(G)the sacred writings, ^(H)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶^(I)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that ^(J)the man of God^[b] may be complete, ^(K)equipped ^(L)for every good work.