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(RY: vi, LY: v) Adonai said to Moshe, "The time is coming for you to die. Summon Y'hoshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, so that I can commission him." Moshe and Y'hoshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

"Therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the people of Isra'el. Have them learn it by heart, so that this song can be a witness for me against the people of Isra'el.

So Moshe wrote this song that same day and taught it to the people of Isra'el.

"Take this book of the Torah and put it next to the ark with the covenant of Adonai your God, so that it can be there to witness against you.

For I know how rebellious and stiffnecked you are! Here, even while I am still alive with you today, you have rebelled against Adonai ; so how much more will you do so after my death?

(Maftir) Assemble for me all the leaders of your tribes and your officials, so that I can say these things in their hearing, calling heaven and earth to witness against them —

You foolish people, so lacking in wisdom, is this how you repay Adonai ? He is your father, who made you his! It was he who formed and prepared you!

he said to them, "Take to heart all the words of my testimony against you today, so that you can use them in charging your children to be careful to obey all the words of this Torah.

So you will see the land from a distance, but you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Isra'el." Haftarah Ha'azinu: Sh'mu'el Bet (2 Samuel) 22:1–51 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Ha'azinu: Romans 10:14 –21; 12:14–21; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 12:28–39

Of Gad he said: "Blessed is he who makes Gad so large; he lies there like a lion, tearing arm and scalp.

So Isra'el lives in security; the fountain of Ya‘akov is alone in a land of grain and new wine, where the skies drip with dew.

So Moshe, the servant of Adonai , died there in the land of Mo'av, as Adonai had said.

"Moshe my servant is dead. So now, get up and cross over this Yarden, you and all the people, to the land I am giving to them, the people of Isra'el.

No one will be able to withstand you as long as you live. Just as I was with Moshe, so I will be with you. I will neither fail you nor abandon you.

Yes, keep this book of the Torah on your lips, and meditate on it day and night, so that you will take care to act according to everything written in it. Then your undertakings will prosper, and you will succeed.

Haven't I ordered you, ‘Be strong, be bold'? So don't be afraid or downhearted, because Adonai your God is with you wherever you go."

Just as we listened to everything Moshe said, so will we listen to you. Only may Adonai your God be with you as he was with Moshe.

So, please, swear to me by Adonai that, since I have been kind to you, you will also be kind to my father's family. Give me some evidence of your good faith,

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers and sisters and all who are theirs, so that we won't be killed."

The men replied to her, "Our lives are certainly worth yours, provided you don't betray our mission. So when Adonai gives us the land, we will treat you kindly and in good faith."