Deuteronomy 31:22

THE MESSAGE

So Moses wrote down this song that very day and taught it to the People of Israel.

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.

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

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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

²² So Moses wrote down this song that very day and taught it to the People of Israel. ²³ Then God commanded Joshua son of Nun saying, "Be strong. Take courage. You will lead the People of Israel into the land I promised to give them. And I'll be right there with you." ²⁴After Moses had finished writing down the words of this Revelation in a book, right down to the last word, he ordered the Levites who were responsible for carrying the Chest of the Covenant of God , saying, "Take this Book of Revelation and place it alongside the Chest of the Covenant of God , your God. Keep it there as a witness. ²⁷"I know what rebels you are, how stubborn and willful you can be. Even today, while I'm still alive and present with you, you're rebellious against God . How much worse when I've died! So gather the leaders of the tribes and the officials here. I have something I need to say directly to them with Heaven and Earth as witnesses. I know that after I die you're going to make a mess of things, abandoning the way I commanded, inviting all kinds of evil consequences in the days ahead. You're determined to do evil in defiance of God —I know you are—deliberately provoking his anger by what you do." ³⁰ So with everyone in Israel gathered and listening, Moses taught them the words of this song, from start to finish.

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 31:12
"He said, ‘Watch closely. Notice that all the goats in the flock that are mating are streaked, speckled, and mottled. I know what Laban's been doing to you. I'm the God of Bethel where you consecrated a pillar and made a vow to me. Now be on your way, get out of this place, go home to your birthplace.'"

Genesis 31:31
Jacob answered Laban, "I was afraid. I thought you would take your daughters away from me by brute force. But as far as your gods are concerned, if you find that anybody here has them, that person dies. With all of us watching, look around. If you find anything here that belongs to you, take it." Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

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.