⁴ For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,^(A) so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

⁹ But you are a chosen people,^(A) a royal priesthood,^(B) a holy nation,^(C) God’s special possession,^(D) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.^{(E) 10} Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;^(F) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

¹⁵ And I will make every effort to see that after my departure^(A) you will always be able to remember these things.

¹¹ These things happened to them as examples^(A) and were written down as warnings for us,^(B) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(C)

¹⁹ “Now write^(A) down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness^(B) for me against them. ²⁰ When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors,^(C) and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods^(D) and worship them,^(E) rejecting me and breaking my covenant.^{(F) 21} And when many disasters and calamities come on them,^(G) this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do,^(H) even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.” ²² So Moses wrote^(I) down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

²³ The Lord gave this command^(J) to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous,^(K) for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.”

²⁴ After Moses finished writing^(L) in a book the words of this law^(M) from beginning to end, ²⁵ he gave this command to the Levites who carried^(N) the ark of the covenant of the Lord: ²⁶ “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.^{(O) 27} For I know how rebellious^(P) and stiff-necked^(Q) you are. If you have been rebellious against the Lord while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die! ²⁸ Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.^{(R) 29} For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt^(S) and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster^(T) will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.”

The Song of Moses

³⁰ And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel: