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Deuteronomy 31:9-16 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

9. So Moses wrote down God's Law and gave it to the levitical priests, who were in charge of the Lord's Covenant Box, and to the leaders of Israel.

10. He commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, when the year that debts are cancelled comes round, read this aloud at the Festival of Shelters.

11. Read it to the people of Israel when they come to worship the Lord your God at the one place of worship.

12. Call together all the men, women, and children, and the foreigners who live in your towns, so that everyone may hear it and learn to honour the Lord your God and to obey his teachings faithfully.

13. In this way your descendants who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God will hear it. And so they will learn to obey him as long as they live in the land that you are about to occupy across the Jordan.”

14. Then the Lord said to Moses, “You haven't much longer to live. Call Joshua and bring him to the Tent, so that I may give him his instructions.” Moses and Joshua went to the Tent,

15. and the Lord appeared to them there in a pillar of cloud that stood by the door of the Tent.

16. The Lord said to Moses, “You will soon die, and after your death the people will become unfaithful to me and break the covenant that I made with them. They will abandon me and worship the pagan gods of the land they are about to enter.

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