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22 Moyses therfore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gaue Iosuah the sonne of Nun a charge, and sayde: Be bolde and strong, for thou shalt bryng the children of Israel into the lande which I sware vnto them: & I wil be with thee. 24 And when Moyses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this lawe in a booke, vntyll he had finished them, 25 Moyses commaunded the Luites, which bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, saying: 26 Take ye the booke of this lawe, and put it in the syde of the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde your God, that it may be there for a witnesse agaynst thee. 27 For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke: whyle I am yet alyue with you this day, ye haue ben disobedient vnto the Lorde, and howe much more after my death? 28 Gather vnto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speake these wordes in their eares, and call heauen and earth to recorde against them. 29 For I am sure, that after my death ye will vtterly be corrupt, and turne from the way which I haue commaunded you: and tribulation wyll come vpon you in the latter dayes, because ye shall haue wrought wickednesse in the syght of the Lorde, to prouoke hym through the workes of your handes. 30 And Moyses spake in the eares of all the congregation of Israel the wordes of this song, vntyll he had ended them. Deuteronomy 31:22-30, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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