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12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your towns,[a] so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and they shall diligently observe[b] all the words of this law. 13 And then their children,[c] who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days that you live[d] on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to get there[e] to take possession of it.”

14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you are about to die;[f] call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of assembly,[g] so that I may instruct him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in[h] the tent of assembly.[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 31:12 Literally “gates”
  2. Deuteronomy 31:12 Literally “they shall keep to do”
  3. Deuteronomy 31:13 Hebrew “child”
  4. Deuteronomy 31:13 Literally “that you are alive”
  5. Deuteronomy 31:13 Literally “there”
  6. Deuteronomy 31:14 Literally “are near your days to die”
  7. Deuteronomy 31:14 Or “meeting”
  8. Deuteronomy 31:14 Or “at”
  9. Deuteronomy 31:14 Or “meeting”