19. Now therefore write ye this song for you and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.
20. For I shall bring them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey, and they shall eat and fill themselves and wax fat; then they will turn unto other gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant.
21. And it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall reply to them in their face as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
22. Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel.
23. And he gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a charge and said, Be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore unto them, and I will be with thee.
24. And it came to pass when Moses had finished writing the words of this law in the book until they were finished,
25. that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,
26. Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God that it may be there for a witness against thee.
27. For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you today, ye are rebels against the Lord, and how much more after my death?
28. Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, and I shall speak these words in their ears and call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.
29. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days because ye will have done evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.