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Deuteronomy 31:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" Gather unto 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 record "
Deuteronomy 31:28
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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
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto 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 record
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 do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
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Deuteronomy 31:1
"And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel."
Deuteronomy 31:2
"And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan."
Deuteronomy 31:3
"The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said."
Deuteronomy 31:4
"And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed."
Deuteronomy 31:5
"And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded"
Deuteronomy 31:6
"Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake"
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