1“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. (De 4:26; Jos 24:27; Ps 50:4; Isa 34:1; Mic 1:2; Mic 6:1)2May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb. (Job 29:22; Ps 72:6; Isa 55:10; Mic 5:7)3For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God! (De 3:24)4“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. (De 32:15; De 32:18; De 32:30; De 32:37; 2Sa 22:2; Job 34:10; Ps 18:2; Ps 18:30; Ps 18:31; Isa 30:29; Da 4:37; Hab 1:12; Re 15:3)5They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. (Mt 17:17; Lu 9:41; Php 2:15; 2Pe 2:13)6Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you? (De 32:15; Ps 74:2; Isa 44:2; Isa 51:13; Isa 63:16; Isa 64:8)7Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. (Ps 44:1; Isa 63:11)8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders[1] of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.[2] (Ge 11:8; Ac 17:26)9But the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.10“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. (De 8:15; Ps 17:8; Ps 32:10; Pr 7:2; Jer 2:6; Ho 13:5; Zec 2:8)11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, (Ex 19:4)12the Lord alone guided him, no foreign god was with him. (Ps 78:52; Isa 43:12)13He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. (De 8:15; Job 29:6; Ps 81:16; Isa 58:14; Eze 36:2)14Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat[3] of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest[4] of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape. (Ge 49:11)15“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation. (De 31:16; De 31:20; De 32:6; De 33:5; De 33:26; 1Sa 2:29; 2Sa 22:47; Ps 89:26; Ps 95:1; Isa 44:2)16They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. (Nu 25:11; Ps 78:58)17They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. (Jud 5:8; Ps 106:37; 1Co 10:20)18You were unmindful of the Rock that bore[5] you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth. (2Sa 22:47; Ps 89:26; Ps 95:1; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:27; Jer 2:32; Ho 8:14)19“The Lord saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. (Jud 2:14; Isa 1:2)20And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. (De 31:17)21They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. (Nu 25:11; 1Ki 16:13; 1Ki 16:26; Ps 31:6; Ps 74:18; Ps 78:58; Ho 1:9; Jon 2:8; Ac 14:15; Ro 10:19)22For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Ps 86:13; Jer 15:14; Jer 17:4; La 4:11)23“And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; (Job 6:4; Ps 7:12; Ps 38:2; La 3:12; Eze 5:16)24they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust. (Le 26:22; Jer 8:17; Eze 5:17; Mic 7:17)25Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs. (La 1:20; Eze 7:15)26I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,” (Job 18:17; Ps 34:16; Ps 109:15; Eze 20:23)27had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the Lord who did all this.”’ (Nu 14:16; Ps 140:8; Isa 10:13)28“For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. (Isa 27:11; Jer 4:22)29If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end! (De 5:29; Ps 81:13; Isa 47:7; La 1:9; Lu 19:42)30How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up? (Le 26:8; Jud 2:14)31For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves. (1Sa 2:2; 1Sa 4:8)32For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter; (De 29:18; Isa 1:10; Jer 23:14; Eze 16:46)33their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps. (Job 20:14; Job 20:16; Ps 58:4)34“‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries? (Job 14:17; Ho 13:12; Ro 2:5)35Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[6] for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’ (Ps 94:1; Ps 94:18; Isa 1:24; Isa 59:18; Na 1:2; Ro 12:19; Heb 10:30; 2Pe 2:3)36For the Lord will vindicate[7] his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free. (Jud 2:18; 1Ki 14:10; 1Ki 21:21; 2Ki 9:8; 2Ki 14:26; Ps 90:13; Ps 106:45; Ps 135:14; Heb 10:30)37Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge, (De 32:31; Jud 10:14; 1Ki 18:27; Jer 2:28)38who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!39“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. (1Sa 2:6; 2Ki 5:7; Job 5:18; Isa 41:4; Isa 48:12; Ho 6:1)40For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever, (Ge 14:22)41if I sharpen my flashing sword[8] and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me. (Ps 7:12; Isa 27:1; Isa 34:5; Isa 66:16; Eze 21:9)42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’ (Ps 68:21; Jer 46:10)43“Rejoice with him, O heavens;[9] bow down to him, all gods,[10] for he avenges the blood of his children[11] and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him[12] and cleanses[13] his people’s land.”[14] (2Ki 9:7; Ps 79:10; Ro 15:10; Re 6:10; Re 19:2)44Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua[15] the son of Nun. (Nu 13:8; Nu 13:16)45And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,46he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. (De 4:9; De 6:6; De 11:18)47For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.” (Le 18:5; De 30:20)
Moses’ Death Foretold
48That very day the Lord spoke to Moses,49“Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession. (Nu 27:12)50And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, (Nu 20:24; Nu 20:28; Nu 33:38)51because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel. (Nu 20:11; Nu 27:14)52For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.” (De 3:27; De 34:4)
Deuteronomy 32
New International Version
1Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.2Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.3I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!4He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.5They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.6Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator,[1] who made you and formed you?7Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.[2]9For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.10In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,11like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.12The Lord alone led him; no foreign god was with him.13He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,14with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest grains of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.15Jeshurun[3] grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Saviour.16They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.17They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God – gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.18You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.19The Lord saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.20‘I will hide my face from them,’ he said, ‘and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.21They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.22For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.23‘I will heap calamities on them and expend my arrows against them.24I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.25In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with grey hair.26I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,27but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, “Our hand has triumphed; the Lord has not done all this.” ’28They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.29If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!30How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?31For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.34‘Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?35It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.’36The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no-one is left, slave or free.[4]37He will say: ‘Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,38the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!39‘See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no-one can deliver out of my hand.40I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear: as surely as I live for ever,41when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.’43Rejoice, you nations, with his people,[5] for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.44Moses came with Joshua[7] son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.45When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,46he said to them, ‘Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.47They are not just idle words for you – they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.’
Moses to die on Mount Nebo
48On that same day the Lord told Moses,49‘Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, opposite Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.50There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.51This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.52Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.’
Deuteronomy 32
King James Version
1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.8When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.9For the LORD' portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:12So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness ; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods , with abominations provoked they him to anger.17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.19And when the LORD saw it , he abhorred them , because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be : for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.44And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.48And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:50And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee ; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32
New International Reader’s Version
1Heavens, listen to me. Then I will speak. Earth, hear the words of my mouth.2Let my teaching fall like rain. Let my words come down like dew. Let them be like raindrops on new grass. Let them be like rain on tender plants.3I will make known the name of the LORD. Praise God! How great he is!4He is the Rock. His works are perfect. All his ways are right. He is faithful. He doesn’t do anything wrong. He is honest and fair.5Israel, you have sinned against him very much. It’s too bad for you that you aren’t his children anymore. You have become a twisted and evil nation.6Is that how you thank the LORD? You aren’t wise. You are foolish. Remember, he’s your Father. He’s your Creator. He made you. He formed you.7Remember the days of long ago. Think about what the LORD did through those many years. Ask your father. He will tell you. Ask your elders. They’ll explain it to you.8The Most High God gave the nations their lands. He divided up the human race. He set up borders for the nations. He did it based on the number of the angels in his heavenly court.9The LORD’s people are his share. Jacob is the nation he has received.10The LORD found Israel in a desert. He found them in an empty and windy land. He took care of them and kept them safe. He guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.11He was like an eagle that stirs up its nest. It hovers over its little ones. It spreads out its wings to catch them. It carries them up in the air on its feathers.12The LORD was the only one who led Israel. No other god was with them.13The LORD made them ride on the highest places in the land. He fed them what grew in the fields. He gave them the sweetest honey. He fed them olive oil from a rocky hillside.14He gave them butter and milk from the herds and flocks. He fed them the fattest lambs and goats. He gave them the best of Bashan’s rams. He fed them the finest wheat. They drank the bubbling red juice of grapes.15When Israel grew fat, they became stubborn. When they were filled with food, they became fat and heavy. They left the God who made them. They turned away from the Rock who saved them.16They made him jealous by serving false gods. They made him angry by worshipping statues of gods. He hated those gods.17The people sacrificed to those false gods, not to God. They hadn’t known anything about those false gods. Those gods were new to them. Their people of long ago didn’t worship them.18But then they deserted the Rock. He was their Father. They forgot the God who created them.19When the LORD saw this, he turned away from them. His sons and daughters made him angry.20‘I will turn my face away from them,’ he said. ‘I will see what will happen to them in the end. They are sinful people. They are unfaithful children.21They made me jealous by serving what is not even a god. They made me angry by worshipping worthless statues of gods. I will use people who are not a nation to make them jealous. A nation that has no understanding will make them angry.22My anger will start a fire. It will burn all the way down to the kingdom of the dead. It will eat up the earth and its crops. It will set the base of the mountains on fire.23‘I will pile troubles on my people. I will shoot all my arrows at them.24I will send them hunger. It will make them weak. I will send terrible disease. I will send deadly plagues. I will send wild animals that will tear them apart. Snakes that glide through the dust will bite them.25In the streets their children will be killed by swords. Their homes will be filled with terror. The young men and women will die. The babies and old people will die.26I said I would scatter them. I said I would erase their name from human memory.27But I was afraid their enemies would make fun of that. I was afraid their attackers would not understand. I was sure they would say, “We’re the ones who’ve beaten them! The LORD isn’t the one who did it.” ’28Israel is a nation that doesn’t have any sense. They can’t understand anything.29I wish they were wise. Then they would understand what’s coming. They’d realise what would happen to them in the end.30How could one person chase a thousand? How could two make ten thousand run away? It couldn’t happen unless their Rock had deserted them. It couldn’t take place unless the LORD had given them up.31Their rock is not like our Rock. Even our enemies know that.32Their vine comes from the vines of Sodom. It comes from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison. Their bunches of grapes taste bitter.33Their wine is like the poison of snakes. It’s like the deadly poison of cobras.34The LORD says, ‘I have kept all those terrible things stored away. I have kept them sealed up in my strongbox.35I punish people. I will pay them back. The time will come when their feet will slip. Their day of trouble is near. Very soon they will be destroyed.’36The LORD will come to the aid of his people. He’ll show tender love to those who serve him. He will know when their strength is gone. He’ll see that no one at all is left.37He’ll say, ‘Where are their gods now? Where is the rock they went to for safety?38Where are the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices? Where are the gods who drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let those gods rise up to help you! Let them keep you safe!39‘Look! I am the One! There is no other God except me. I put some people to death. I bring others to life. I have wounded, and I will heal. No one can save you from my power.40I raise my hand to heaven. Here is the promise I make. You can be sure that I live for ever.41And you can be just as sure that I will sharpen my flashing sword. My hand will hold it when I judge. I will get even with my enemies. I will pay back those who hate me.42I will make my arrows drip with blood. My sword will destroy people. It will kill some. It will even kill prisoners. It will cut off the heads of enemy leaders.’43You nations, be full of joy. Be joyful together with God’s people. The LORD will get even with his enemies. He will pay them back for killing those who serve him. He will wipe away the sin of his land and people.44Moses spoke all the words of this song to the people. Joshua, the son of Nun, was with him.45Moses finished speaking all these words to all the Israelites.46Then he said to them, ‘Think carefully about all the words I have announced to you today. I want you to command your children to be careful to obey all the words of this law.47They aren’t just useless words for you. They are your very life. If you obey them, you will live in the land for a long time. It’s the land you are going across the River Jordan to take as your own.’
Moses will die on Mount Nebo
48On that same day the LORD said to Moses,49‘Go up into the Abarim mountains. Go to Mount Nebo in Moab. It is opposite Jericho. From there look out over Canaan. It is the land I am giving the Israelites to take as their own.50You will die there on the mountain you have climbed. You will join the members of your family who have already died. In the same way, your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor. He joined the members of his family who had already died.51You and Aaron disobeyed me in front of the Israelites. It happened at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin. You did not honour me among the Israelites as the holy God.52So you will see the land, but only from far away. You will not enter the land I am giving to the Israelites.’