📜WEB · Deuteronomy 31:22

What does Deuteronomy 31:22 mean?

"So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel."

— Deuteronomy 31:22 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

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For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

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It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

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So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

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He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”

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When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

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Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, saying,

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