Deuteronomy (The Second Copy of the Law) Chapters 31-34

31[1-3] Moses said these words to all Israel, I’m 120 years old today; I can’t come and go any more. Yahweh has said to me, “Don’t go over the Jordan.” Yahweh your God will lead you and will destroy the nations from before you, and you’ll take ownership of them: and Joshua will lead you, as Yahweh has said.
[4-5] Yahweh will do to them as Sihon and Og, the rulers of the Amorites, and their land; whom God destroyed. Yahweh will give them to you, and you’ll do to them all the judgments which I’ve told you.
[6] Be strong and have good courage, don't be afraid or scared of them because Yahweh your God is the One who goes with you and won’t fail you, nor leave you.
[7-8] Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in front of all Israel, “Be strong and have good courage. You’ll go with this people into the land which Yahweh has promised to their ancestors to give them; and you’ll cause them to inherit it. Yahweh is the One who goes before you and will be with you. God won’t fail you, nor leave you. Don't be afraid, nor be discouraged.
[9-13] Moses wrote this law, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the bull of the promised agreement of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. Moses told them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, when all Israel has come to go before Yahweh your God in the place which God chooses, you’ll read this law in the hearing of all Israel. Gather the people, the men, women, little ones, and the foreigner who’s where you live, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and respect Yahweh your God, and keep and do all the words of this law; and that their children, who haven’t known, may hear, and learn to respect Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan for your own.
[14-15] Then Yahweh said to Moses, “See, your day is coming that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Meeting Place, that I may give him My orders.” So Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Meeting Place. Yahweh went in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, which stayed over the door of the Tent.
[16-18] Yahweh said to Moses, “See, you’ll die with your ancestors; and this people will rise up, and be unfaithful, going after the false gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will leave me, and break My promised agreement which I’ve made with them. Then I will be angry with them in that day, and I’ll leave them, and I won’t look on them, and they’ll be destroyed, and many evils and troubles will come on them; so that they’ll say in that day, ‘Haven't these evils come on us because our God isn’t with us?’ I’ll without a doubt not look on them in that day for all the evil they’ve done, because they turned to other gods.
[19-21] So now write this song, and teach it the people of Israel. Make them sing it, that this song may be a witness for Me against the people of Israel. For when I’ve brought them into the land which I promised to their ancestors, full of milk and honey, and they’ve eaten and are full, and grown fat; then they’ll turn to other gods, and serve them, and hate me, and break My promised agreement. When many evils and troubles come on them, this song will testify against them as a witness because it won’t be forgotten and will still be sung by their descendants. I know what they’re thinking today, before I’ve even brought them into the land which I promised.”
[22-23] So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the people of Israel. He gave Joshua the son of Nun an order, and said, “Be strong and have good courage because you’ll bring the people of Israel into the land which I promised to them and I’ll be with you.”
[24-27] When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, and they were finished, Moses told the Levites, who carried the bull of the promised agreement of Yahweh, saying, “Take this Book of the Law, and put it by the side of the bull of the promised agreement of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. I know your stubborn rebelliousness. See, while I’m still alive with you today, you’ve disobeyed Yahweh; so how much more after my death?
[28-30] Gather to me all the elders of your family groups, and your officers, that I may speak these words to them, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. I know that after my death you will completely ruin yourselves, and turn from the way which I’ve told you; and evil things will happen to you in the end times; because you will do what’s evil right in front of Yahweh, provoking God’s anger through everything you do.” So Moses told all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
32[1-4] Listen, you heavens, and I’ll speak. Let the earth listen to my words. My teaching will fall as the rain. My words will drop as the dew, as the rain drops on the tender grass, as the showers on the plants. I’ll make known the name of Yahweh. I’ll make known the greatness of our God! The Rock, whose work is perfect, for all God’s ways are fair. God is a God of faithfulness and without fault, just and right.
[5-9] They’ve been unfaithful to God, and aren’t God’s children; It’s their own fault. They are an evil and twisted generation. Is this the way you act toward Yahweh, you stupid and unwise people? Isn't God like your parent who has bought you? God has made you, and kept you. Remember the old days. Think about the years of many generations. Ask your parents, who will show you; your elders, and they’ll tell you. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when God separated the people, God set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the people of Israel. Yahweh's part is God’s people. Jacob is the lot of God’s inheritance.
[10-14] God found you in a desert land, in the empty howling countryside. God surrounded you and cared for you. God kept you as a favorite. As an eagle that stirs up her nest that flutters over her young, God’s wings spread abroad and took them, and God’s feathers carried them. Yahweh alone led you. There was no foreign god that helped. God made you ride on the high places of the earth and eat the increase of the field. God caused you to eat honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of the lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the juice of the grape you drank wine.
[15-18] But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You’ve grown fat. You’ve grown thick. You’ve become sleek. Then you left the God who made you, and hardly valued the Rock of your salvation. They moved God to jealousy with false gods. They provoked God to anger with their wrongs. They sacrificed to demons, which were no god, to gods that they didn't know, to new gods that came up of late, which your ancestors didn't dread. Of the Rock who became like your parent, you’re unmindful, and have forgotten the One who gave you birth.
[19-27] Yahweh saw it, and hated God’s own children, because they provoked God. God said, I won’t look on them. I’ll see what happens to them because they’re a very evil generation, children who aren’t faithful. They’ve made Me jealous with what’s not a god. They’ve made Me very angry with their empty worship. I’ll move them to jealousy with those who aren’t a people. I’ll make them angry with a stupid nation. My anger is like a fire that burns to the lowest parts of hell, and destroys the earth as it grows, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire. I’ll pile up many evils on them. I’ll shoot My arrows at them. They’ll die of hunger, and be destroyed with burning heat and terrible destruction. I’ll send the animals on them to attack them, and poison them with the crawling things of the dust. Outside the war will take their loved ones, and in their rooms, terror will come on both the young one and virgin, the nursing baby and the gray-haired one. I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them be forgotten; were it not that I feared the enemy would provoke Me, in case their enemies should judge wrongly, in case they should say, “We are strong, Yahweh hasn’t done all this.”
[28-34] They’re a nation with no purpose. They don’t have any understanding. Oh that they were wise and understood this, that they would think about their latter end! How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had given up on them? Their rock isn’t as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous grapes, with bitter clusters. Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel venom of snakes. Isn't this laid up in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures?
[35-38] Revenge is mine and I will punish when they slip up because the day of their trouble is near. What’s to come on them will soon happen. Yahweh will judge God’s people, and have compassion on God’s workers, when Yahweh sees that their power is gone, and there’s none left, shut up or left unknown. God will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took safety; Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them protect you.”
[39-44] See now that I, even I, am God, and there’s no god other than Me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There’s no one who can take anything out of My hand. I lift up My hand to heaven, and say, As I live forever, if I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment; I’ll get revenge on My enemies, and will punishment those who hate Me. I’ll make My arrows drunk with their blood. My sword will destroy them, and that with the blood of those killed and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy. Be at peace, you nations, with God’s people, because Yahweh will get revenge for the blood of God’s workers. Yahweh will get revenge on the enemies of God, and will forgive the sins of the land, for God’s people. Moses came and told the words of this song to the people with Joshua the son of Nun.
[45-47] Moses finished speaking these words to all Israel and said to them, Set your heart to do all the words which I tell you today, which you’ll tell your children to keep and do, even all the words of this law. It’s not useless for you, because it’s your very life, and through this thing you’ll prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan for your own.
[48-52] Yahweh told Moses that same day, saying, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that’s next to Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel for their own; and die on the mountain where you go up, and be taken to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was taken to his people, because you sinned against Me in front of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the countryside of Zin; and because you didn't show Me respect in front of the people of Israel. You’ll see the land before you; but you won’t go there into the land which I give the people of Israel.
33[1-5] This is the blessing, with which Moses, the one of God, blessed the people of Israel before his death. He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, and came from Seir to them. God shined from Mount Paran and came with ten thousands of holy ones with a fiery law for them. Yes, God loves the people. All God’s saints are in Your hand. They sat down at Your feet and everyone will listen to Your words. Moses told us a law, Your own for the assembly of Jacob, who was ruler in Jeshurun, when the leaders of the people were gathered, and all the family groups of Israel were together.
[6] Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his people be few.
[7] This is the blessing of Judah: and Moses said, Listen, Yahweh, to the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he fought for himself. You’ll be a help against his enemies.
[8-11] Of Levi he said, Let your Judgment Stones be with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you fought at the waters of Meribah; who said of his parents, I haven’t seen them; Nor did he acknowledge kin, Nor did he know his own children. They kept your word, and your promised agreement. They’ll teach Jacob your rules, and Israel your law. They’ll put incense before you, and whole burnt offerings on your altar. Yahweh, bless everything they have and accept their work. Destroy those who rise up against them, of those who hate them, so that they won’t come against them again.
[12] Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh will live in safety by God, who covers him all day long. God lives in his heart.
[13-17] Of Joseph he said, His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the sea that stretches out below, for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things of the growth of the moons, for the oldest things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills, for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of the one who lived in the bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of the one who was separated from his kin. His beauty is like the firstborn of his herd. His horns are like the horns of the wild bull. With them he’ll push all of the peoples, even to the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.
[18-19] Of Zebulun he said, Be happy, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents. They’ll call the peoples to the mountain. There they’ll offer sacrifices of goodness, for they’ll draw out of the riches of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.
[20-21] Of Gad he said, The one who makes room for Gad is blessed. He lives as a lion, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head. He got the first part for himself, where the lawgiver's part was saved for him. He came with the leaders of the people and got justice for Yahweh, and kept God’s rules with Israel.
[22] Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps out of Bashan.
[23] Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of the blessing of Yahweh, take ownership the west and the south.
[24-25] Of Asher he said, Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his kin. Let him dip his foot in oil. You’ll be as strong as iron and brass. You’ll be strong as long as you live.
[26-] There’s none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, looking wonderful on the skies. The eternal God is where you’ll live, who will hold you in the everlasting arms. God will throw out the enemy from before you, and say, “Destroy.” Israel lives in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine. Yes, the heavens drop down dew. You’re happy, Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the greatness of your strength! Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You’ll walk on their high places.
34[1-4] Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Mount Pisgah, that’s next to Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the sea, and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar. And Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I’ll give it to your children.’ I’ve caused you to see it with your own eyes, but you won’t go over there.
[5-8] So Moses the worker of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh. He was buried in the valley in the land of Moab next to Beth Peor, but no one knows where his tomb is to this day. Moses was 120 years old when he died. He wasn’t blind, nor was his strength weakened. The people of Israel cried for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, then the days of crying and mourning for Moses came to an end.
[9-12] Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. The people of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh told Moses. There hasn’t been a great preacher like Moses in Israel since then, whom Yahweh knew face to face, in all the signs and the amazing things, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, his workers, and his land, and in all the great strength and horror, which Moses did in front of all Israel.