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Contemporary English Version

Deuteronomy 31:22

Moses wrote down the words to the song right away, and he taught it to the Israelites.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Courage;   Death;   Minister, Christian;   Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Pentateuch;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Prophet, Christ as;   Testimony;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Joshua;   Moloch;   Moses;   Writing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Deuteronomy;   Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Joshua, Book of;   Sidra;   Song of Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses wrote down this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.
Hebrew Names Version
So Moshe wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.
English Standard Version
So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.
New Century Version
So Moses wrote down the song that day, and he taught it to the Israelites.
New English Translation
So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,
Amplified Bible
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses wrote down this song on the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Moshe wrote this song that same day and taught it to the people of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
So that same day Moses wrote down the song and taught it to the Israelites.
George Lamsa Translation
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
Good News Translation
That same day Moses wrote down the song and taught it to the people of Israel.
Literal Translation
And Moses wrote this song on that day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses wrote this songe at the same tyme, and taughte it the children of Israel.
American Standard Version
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
So that same day Moses made this song, teaching it to the children of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moyses therfore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Moises wroot the song, and tauyte the sones of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses writeth this song on that day, and doth teach it the sons of Israel,
Update Bible Version
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
World English Bible
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
New King James Version
Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
New Living Translation
So that very day Moses wrote down the words of the song and taught it to the Israelites.
New Life Bible
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
That very day Moses wrote this song and taught it to the Israelites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moses therefore wrote this Song on that day, - and taught it unto the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the children of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the people of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
So Moses wrote down this song that very day and taught it to the People of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

22 Moses wrote down the words to the song right away, and he taught it to the Israelites. 23 The Lord told Joshua, "Be brave and strong! I will help you lead the people of Israel into the land that I have promised them." 24 Moses wrote down all these laws and teachings in a book, 25 then he went to the Levites who carried the sacred chest and said: 26 This is The Book of God's Law. Keep it beside the sacred chest that holds the agreement the Lord your God made with Israel. This book is proof that you know what the Lord wants you to do. 27 I know how stubborn and rebellious you and the rest of the Israelites are. You have rebelled against the Lord while I have been alive, and it will only get worse after I am gone. 28 So call together the leaders and officials of the tribes of Israel. I will bring this book and read every word of it to you, and I will call the sky and the earth as witnesses that all of you know what you are supposed to do. 29 I am going to die soon, and I know that in the future you will stop caring about what is right and what is wrong, and so you will disobey the Lord and stop living the way I told you to live. The Lord will be angry, and terrible things will happen to you. 30 Moses called a meeting of all the people of Israel, so he could teach them the words to the song that the Lord had given him. And here are the words:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 31:9, Deuteronomy 31:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:44 - spake Isaiah 30:8 - write Jeremiah 30:2 - General Habakkuk 2:2 - Write

Cross-References

Genesis 30:36
Then Laban made Jacob keep the rest of the sheep and goats at a distance of three days' journey.
Genesis 31:5
and he told them: Your father isn't as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God my ancestors worshiped has been on my side.
Genesis 31:12
and he said, "Notice that all the rams are either spotted or speckled. I know everything Laban is doing to you,
Genesis 31:13
and I am the God you worshiped at Bethel, when you poured olive oil on a rock and made a promise to me. Leave here right away and return to the land where you were born."
Genesis 31:31
Jacob answered, "I left secretly because I was afraid you would take your daughters from me by force.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moses therefore wrote this song the same day,.... The same day it was dictated to him by divine inspiration; he wrote it, as Josephus says d,

"in hexameter verse, which he left in the holy Bible or book (the Pentateuch), containing (as he adds) a prophecy of things future, according to which all things have been done, and are done; and in nothing of it has he erred from the truth;''

which is a very just account of it, and worthy of observation:

and taught it the children of Israel; instructed them in the meaning of it, directed them to repeat it frequently, to lay it up in their memories, and often meditate upon it; as being a divine composition, and of great importance, as the consideration of it will make appear.

d Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 44.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The transaction recorded in these verses may be regarded as the solemn inauguration of Joshua to the office to which he had some time before Numbers 27:22 been called, and his recognition in it by God, which were manifested by his being summoned into the tabernacle with Moses while the Lord appeared in the pillar of cloud (compare Numbers 11:25; Numbers 12:5).

Deuteronomy 31:16

The future apostasy of the people is announced in the presence of Joshua that the latter might be fully aware of the danger and strive in his day to avert it. This he faithfully did (compare Joshua 24:31); but we find him in his own last address to Israel repeating Joshua 23:15-16 the self-same prediction and warning.

Deuteronomy 31:19

A witness for me against them - i. e., an attestation from their own mouths at once of God’s benefits, their own duties, and their deserts when they should fall away. Being in verse it would be the more easily learned and kept in memory. The use of songs for such didactic purposes was not unknown to the legislators of antiquity. Compare also the advice of Paul, “teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” Colossians 3:16.

Deuteronomy 31:23

He gave - i. e., the Lord gave.


 
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