The Israelites mourned for Moses in the deserts of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

Moreover, Moses commanded the people that day:

Then the Lord said to Moses that same day,

Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

He commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,

When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.

and he displayed great power and awesome might in view of all Israel.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The day of your death is near. Summon Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting so that I can commission him.” So Moses and Joshua presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him; and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the Lord had commanded Moses.