Gather the people &#8211; men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages &#8211; so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the <sc>Lordsc> your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

For after I have brought them<n id="1" /> to the land I promised to their<n id="2" /> ancestors &#8211; one flowing with milk and honey &#8211; and they<n id="3" /> eat their fill<n id="4" /> and become fat, then they<n id="5" /> will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

and the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> commissioned Joshua son of Nun, &#8220;Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For I know that after I die you will totally<n id="1" /> corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly<n id="2" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>, inciting him to anger because of your actions.&#8221;<n id="3" />

For this is no idle word for you &#8211; it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">You have joy, Israel! Who is like you?p> <p class="poetry">You are a people delivered by the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">your protective shieldp> <p class="poetry">and your exalted sword.p> <p class="poetry">May your enemies cringe before you;p> <p class="poetry">may you trample on their backs.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> showed him the whole land &#8211; Gilead to Dan,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him;<n id="1" /> and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.

As for that prophet or dreamer,<n id="1" /> he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the <sc>Lordsc> your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.<n id="2" />p>

Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the <sc>Lordsc> our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.<n id="1" />