Moshe went and he addressed these statements to all of Yisroel.

He said to them, ‘‘I am 120 years old today, I cannot any longer go forth and return; for Adonoy has said to me, ‘You will not cross this Yardein.’

Adonoy, your God, He [His word] is crossing before you, He will destroy these nations before you and you will inherit them. Yehoshua, he is crossing before you as Adonoy has stated.

And Adonoy will do to them as He did to Sichon and to Og, kings of the Emorites, and to their land; whom He destroyed.

Adonoy will defeat [deliver] them before you, and you will do to them in accord with the mitzvah that I commanded you.

Be courageous and bold, do not fear and do not quake before them; for Adonoy, your God, it is He Who is going with you, He will not enfeeble you nor will He abandon you.’’

Moshe called Yehoshua and said to him as all of Yisroel watched, ‘‘Be courageous and bold, for you shall enter with this people into the land that Adonoy swore to their forefathers to give them, and you will apportion it to them.

And Adonoy is the One Who is going ahead of you, He [His word] will be with you [your support], will not enfeeble you and will not abandon [distance] you; do not fear and do not quake.

Moshe wrote this Torah and he gave it to the kohanim, descendants of Levi, who carry the ark of Adonoy’s covenant; and to all the elders of Yisroel.

Moshe commanded them, saying: After seven years have ended, on the holy day of the Sh’mittah year, during the Sukkos festival;

When all of Yisroel comes to be seen in the presence of Adonoy, your God, in the place that He chooses, you shall read this Torah facing [before] all of Yisroel for them to hear.

Assemble the people—the men and the women and the infants, and your convert who is in your towns; in order for them to hear and in order for them to learn to fear [before] Adonoy, your God, and they will make sure to fulfill all the statements of this Torah.

And their children who did not understand will hear and will learn to fear Adonoy, your God, all the years that you are living on the land that you are crossing the Yardein there to inherit.

Adonoy said to Moshe, ‘‘Look! Your time is approaching to die. Call Yehoshua and present yourselves in Ohel Moed and I shall exhort him.’’ Moshe went with Yehoshua and they presented themselves in Ohel Moed.

Adonoy revealed Himself in the Ohel in a pillar of cloud; the pillar of cloud remained at the entrance of the Ohel.

Adonoy said to Moshe, ‘‘You are about to die, and this people will arise and stray after the gods of the stranger [people] [foreign idols] of the land that they are going there among them, and they will forsake [the fear of] Me and break My covenant that I made with them.

And I will wax angry at them on that day and I will forsake [distance] them and I shall conceal My face [Shechinah] from them and they will be for consuming [scorned] and many evils and troubles will happen to them; and they will say on that day, ‘‘Look! Because [the Shechinah of] my God is not within me did these evils happen to me.’’

And I will surely conceal My face [remove My Shechinah from them] on that day because of all the wickedness that they did, because they turned to other gods [idols of other nations].

And now write for yourselves this song [praise] and teach it to Bnei Yisroel to place it in their mouths; in order that this song [praise] will be for [before] Me a witness against Bnei Yisroel.

For I will bring them to the land that I swore to their forefathers, flowing milk and honey, and they will eat, and be full, and wax fat; and they will turn to other gods [idols of other nations] and serve them and they will infuriate [before] Me and break My covenant.

Should many evils and troubles happen to them, this song [praise] shall [return and] serve [before Me] as testimony before them as witness—for it shall never be forgotten from the lips of their progeny—for I know [it is revealed before Me] their impulse that they are gratifying today prior to My bringing them to the land that I swore.

Moshe wrote this song [praise] on that day, and he taught it to Bnei Yisroel.

He commanded Yehoshua, the son of Nun and said, ‘‘Be courageous and bold, for you will bring Bnei Yisroel to the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you.’’

When Moshe finished writing the statements of this Torah in a book, till they were complete,

Moshe commanded the Levites, bearers of the ark of Adonoy’s covenant, saying:

‘‘Take this book of the Torah and place it on the side of the ark of Adonoy, your God’s covenant; and it will be there as witness against you.

For I know your rebelliousness your stubborness. Look! even while I live with you today you have been defiers [rebellious] with [before] Adonoy, surely after my death.

Assemble to me all the judges of your tribes and your enforcers, and I will declare [before Me] in their hearing these statements, and invoke as witnesses against them heaven and earth,

For I know after my death, that you will become depraved and you will veer from the way that I commanded you; and harm will happen to you at the end of time, when you do what is wicked in [before] Adonoy’s eyes to spite [before] Him with your actions.

Moshe spoke in the hearing of [before] all the assemblage of Yisroel the statements of this song, till they were complete.