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Deuteronomy 31:22

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and 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 - Hafṭarah;   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.
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.
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 So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites, 23 and the Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, "Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you." 24 When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety, 25 he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord 's covenant, 26 "Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you, 27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord ; you will be even more rebellious after my death! 28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the Lord , inciting him to anger because of your actions." 30 Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

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 he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban's flocks.
Genesis 31:5
There he said to them, "I can tell that your father's attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:12
Then he said, ‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.'"
Genesis 31:31
"I left secretly because I was afraid!" Jacob replied to Laban. "I thought you might take your daughters away 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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