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1모세가 가서 온 이스라엘에게 이 말씀을 베푸니라 2곧 그들에게 이르되 내가 오늘날 일백이십 세라 내가 더는 출입하기 능치 못하고 여호와께서도 내게 이르시기를 너는 이 요단을 건너지 못하리라 하셨느니라 3여호와께서 이미 말씀하신 것과 같이 여호수아가 너를 거느리고 건널 것이요 네 하나님 여호와 그가 네 앞서 건너가사 이 민족들을 네 앞에서 멸하시고 너로 그 땅을 얻게 하실 것이며 4여호와께서 이미 멸하신 아모리 왕 시혼과 옥과 및 그 땅에 행하신 것과 같이 그들에게도 행하실 것이라 5여호와께서 그들을 너희 앞에 붙이시리니 너희는 내가 너희에게 명한 모든 명령대로 그들에게 행할 것이라 6너는 마음을 강하게 하고 담대히 하라 그들을 두려워 말라 그들 앞에서 떨지 말라 이는 네 하나님 여호와 그가 너와 함께 행하실 것임이라 반드시 너를 떠나지 아니하시며 버리지 아니하시리라 하고 7모세가 여호수아를 불러 온 이스라엘 목전에서 그에게 이르되 너는 마음을 강하게 하고 담대히 하라 너는 이 백성을 거느리고 여호와께서 그들의 열조에게 주리라고 맹세하신 땅에 들어가서 그들로 그 땅을 얻게 하라 8여호와 그가 네 앞서 행하시며 너와 함께 하사 너를 떠나지 아니하시며 버리지 아니하시리니 너는 두려워 말라 놀라지 말라 9모세가 이 율법을 써서 여호와의 언약궤를 메는 레위 자손 제사장들과 이스라엘 모든 장로에게 주고 10그들에게 명하여 이르기를 매 칠년 끝 해 곧 정기 면제년의 초막절에 11온 이스라엘이 네 하나님 여호와 앞 그 택하신 곳에 모일 때에 이 율법을 낭독하여 온 이스라엘로 듣게 할지니 12곧 백성의 남녀와 유치와 네 성안에 우거하는 타국인을 모으고 그들로 듣고 배우고 네 하나님 여호와를 경외하며 이 율법의 모든 말씀을 지켜 행하게 하고 13또 너희가 요단을 건너가서 얻을 땅에 거할 동안에 이 말씀을 알지 못하는 그들의 자녀로 듣고 네 하나님 여호와 경외하기를 배우게 할지니라 14여호와께서 모세에게 이르시되 너의 죽을 기한이 가까웠으니 여호수아를 불러서 함께 회막으로 나아오라 내가 그에게 명을 내리리라 모세와 여호수아가 나아가서 회막에 서니 15여호와께서 구름 기둥 가운데서 장막에 나타나시고 구름 기둥은 장막 문 위에 머물렀더라 16여호와께서 모세에게 이르시되 너는 너의 열조와 함께 자려니와 이 백성은 들어가 거할 그 땅에서 일어나서 이방신들을 음란히 좇아 나를 버리며 내가 그들과 세운 언약을 어길 것이라 17그 때에 내가 그들에게 진노하여 그들을 버리며 내 얼굴을 숨겨 그들에게 보이지 않게 할 것인즉 그들이 삼킴을 당하여 허다한 재앙과 환난이 그들에게 임할 그 때에 그들이 말하기를 이 재앙이 우리에게 임함은 우리 하나님이 우리 중에 계시지 않은 까닭이 아니뇨 할 것이라 18그들이 돌이켜 다른 신을 좇는 모든 악행을 인하여 내가 그 때에 반드시 내 얼굴을 숨기리라 19그러므로 이제 너희는 이 노래를 써서 이스라엘 자손에게 가르쳐서 그 입으로 부르게 하여 이 노래로 나를 위하여 이스라엘 자손에게 증거가 되게 하라 20내가 그들의 열조에게 맹세한바 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅으로 그들을 인도하여 들인 후에 그들이 먹어 배부르고 살지면 돌이켜 다른 신들을 섬기며 나를 멸시하여 내 언약을 어기리니 21그들이 재앙과 환난을 당할 때에 그들의 자손이 부르기를 잊지 아니한 이 노래가 그들 앞에 증인처럼 되리라 나는 내가 맹세한 땅으로 그들을 인도하여 들이기 전 오늘날에 나는 그들의 상상하는 바를 아노라 22모세가 당일에 이 노래를 써서 이스라엘 자손에게 가르쳤더라 23여호와께서 또 눈의 아들 여호수아에게 명하여 가라사대 너는 이스라엘 자손을 인도하여 내가 그들에게 맹세한 땅으로 들어가게 하리니 마음을 강하게 하고 담대히 하라 내가 너와 함께 하리라 24모세가 이 율법의 말씀을 다 책에 써서 마친 후에 25여호와의 언약궤를 메는 레위 사람에게 명하여 가로되 26이 율법책을 가져다가 너희 하나님 여호와의 언약궤 곁에 두어 너희에게 증거가 되게 하라 27내가 너희의 패역함과 목이 곧은 것을 아나니 오늘날 내가 생존하여 너희와 함께 하여도 너희가 여호와를 거역하였거든 하물며 내가 죽은 후의 일이랴 28너희 지파 모든 장로와 유사들을 내 앞에 모으라 내가 이 말씀을 그들의 귀에 들리고 그들에게 천지로 증거를 삼으리라 29내가 알거니와 내가 죽은 후에 너희가 스스로 부패하여 내가 너희에게 명한 길을 떠나서 여호와의 목전에 악을 행하여 너희의 손으로 하는 일로 그를 격노케 하므로 너희가 말세에 재앙을 당하리라 하니라 30모세가 이스라엘 총회에게 이 노래의 말씀을 끝까지 읽어 들리니라

1Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old this day. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ 3Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 4Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. 5Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. 6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.” 7Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 8Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.” 9Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 10Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, 11when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 13and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.” 14Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. 15Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door. 16Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’ 18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods. 19“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. 20For 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. 21It 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 this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.” 22So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23He 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.” 24When Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, 26“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. 27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death? 28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.” 30Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

1Daarna ging Mozes heen, en sprak deze woorden tot gans Israel, 2En zeide tot hen: Ik ben heden honderd en twintig jaren oud; ik zal niet meer kunnen uitgaan en ingaan; daartoe heeft de HEERE tot mij gezegd: Gij zult over deze Jordaan niet gaan. 3De HEERE, uw God, Die zal voor uw aangezicht overgaan; Die zal deze volken van voor uw aangezicht verdelgen, dat gij hen erfelijk bezit. Jozua zal voor uw aangezicht overgaan, gelijk als de HEERE gesproken heeft. 4En de HEERE zal hun doen, gelijk als Hij aan Sihon en Og, koningen der Amorieten, en aan hun land, gedaan heeft, die Hij verdelgd heeft. 5Wanneer hen nu de HEERE voor uw aangezicht zal gegeven hebben, dan zult gij hun doen naar alle gebod, dat ik ulieden geboden heb. 6Weest sterk en hebt goeden moed, en vreest niet, en verschrikt niet voor hun aangezicht; want het is de HEERE, uw God, Die met u gaat; Hij zal u niet begeven, noch u verlaten. 7En Mozes riep Jozua, en zeide tot hem voor de ogen van gans Israel: Wees sterk en heb goeden moed, want gij zult met dit volk ingaan in het land dat de HEERE hun vaderen gezworen heeft, hun te zullen geven; en gij zult het hun doen erven. 8De HEERE nu is Degene, Die voor uw aangezicht gaat; Die zal met u zijn; Hij zal u niet begeven, noch u verlaten; vrees niet, en ontzet u niet. 9En Mozes schreef deze wet, en gaf ze aan de priesteren, de zonen van Levi, die de ark des verbonds des HEEREN droegen, en aan alle oudsten van Israel. 10En Mozes gebood hun, zeggende: Ten einde van zeven jaren, op den gezetten tijd van het jaar der vrijlating, op het feest der loofhutten. 11Als gans Israel zal komen, om te verschijnen voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, uws Gods, in de plaats, die Hij zal verkoren hebben, zult gij deze wet voor gans Israel uitroepen, voor hun oren; 12Vergadert het volk, de mannen, en de vrouwen, en de kinderen, en uw vreemdelingen, die in uw poorten zijn; opdat zij horen, en opdat zij leren, en vrezen den HEERE, uw God, en waarnemen te doen alle woorden dezer wet. 13En dat hun kinderen, die het niet geweten hebben, horen en leren, om te vrezen den HEERE, uw God, al de dagen, die gij leeft op het land, naar hetwelk gij over de Jordaan zijt heengaande, om dat te erven. 14En de HEERE zeide tot Mozes: Zie, uw dagen zijn genaderd, om te sterven; roep Jozua, en stelt ulieden in de tent der samenkomst, dat Ik hem bevel geve. Zo ging Mozes, en Jozua, en zij stelden zich in de tent der samenkomst. 15Toen verscheen de HEERE in de tent, in de wolkkolom; en de wolkkolom stond boven de deur der tent. 16En de HEERE zeide tot Mozes: Zie, gij zult slapen met uw vaderen; en dit volk zal opstaan, en nahoereren de goden der vreemden van dat land, waar het naar toe gaat, in het midden van hetzelve; en het zal Mij verlaten en vernietigen Mijn verbond, dat Ik met hetzelve gemaakt heb. 17Zo zal Mijn toorn te dien dage tegen hetzelve ontsteken, en Ik zal hen verlaten, en Mijn aangezicht van hen verbergen, dat zij ter spijze zijn, en vele kwaden en benauwdheden zullen het treffen; dat het te dien dage zal zeggen: Hebben mij deze kwaden niet getroffen, omdat mijn God in het midden van mij niet is? 18Ik dan zal Mijn aangezicht te dien dage ganselijk verbergen, om al het kwaad, dat het gedaan heeft; want het heeft zich gewend tot andere goden. 19En nu, schrijft ulieden dit lied, en leert het den kinderen Israels; legt het in hun mond; opdat dit lied Mij ten getuige zij tegen de kinderen Israels. 20Want Ik zal dit volk inbrengen in het land, dat Ik zijn vaderen gezworen heb, vloeiende van melk en honig, en het zal eten, en verzadigd, en vet worden; dan zal het zich wenden tot andere goden, en hen dienen, en zij zullen Mij tergen, en Mijn verbond vernietigen. 21En het zal geschieden, wanneer vele kwaden en benauwdheden hetzelve zullen treffen, dan zal dit lied voor zijn aangezicht antwoorden tot getuige; want het zal uit den mond zijns zaads niet vergeten worden; dewijl Ik weet zijn gedichtsel dat het heden maakt, aleer Ik het inbreng in het land, dat Ik gezworen heb. 22Zo schreef Mozes dit lied te dien dage, en hij leerde het den kinderen Israels. 23En Hij gebood Jozua, den zoon van Nun, en zeide: Zijt sterk en heb goeden moed, want gij zult de kinderen Israels inbrengen in het land, dat Ik hun gezworen heb; en Ik zal met u zijn. 24En het geschiedde, als Mozes voleind had de woorden dezer wet te schrijven in een boek, totdat zij voltrokken waren; 25Zo gebood Mozes den Levieten, die de ark des verbonds des HEEREN droegen, zeggende: 26Neemt dit wetboek, en legt het aan de zijde van de ark des verbonds des HEEREN, uws Gods, dat het aldaar zij ten getuige tegen u. 27Want ik ken uw wederspannigheid, en uw harden nek. Ziet, terwijl ik nog heden met ulieden leve, zijt gij wederspannig geweest tegen den HEERE; hoe veel te meer na mijn dood! 28Vergadert tot mij al de oudsten uwer stammen, en uw ambtlieden; dat ik voor hun oren deze woorden spreke, en tegen hen den hemel en de aarde tot getuigen neme. 29Want ik weet, dat gij het na mijn dood zekerlijk zult verderven, en afwijken van den weg, dien ik u geboden heb; dan zal u dit kwaad in het laatste der dagen ontmoeten, wanneer gij zult gedaan hebben, dat kwaad is in de ogen des HEEREN, om Hem door het werk uwer handen tot toorn te verwekken. 30Toen sprak Mozes, voor de oren der ganse gemeente van Israel, de woorden dezes lieds, totdat zij voltrokken waren.