Deuteronomy 31:22-30

22So Moses wrote down this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.

23The Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I swore to them, and I will be with you.”

24When Moses had finished writing down on a scroll every single word of this law,

25he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

26“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!

28Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.

29For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him with what your hands have made.”

30Then Moses recited aloud every single word of this song to the entire assembly of Israel: