14 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “Listen, you’ll soon die. Call Yehoshua (Joshua) present yourselves in the sacred tent, then I’ll give him his instructions.”

So Mosheh and Yehoshua went to the sacred tent. 15 Yahweh appeared to them there in a pillar of cloud that stood over the tent door.

16 Then Yahweh said to Mosheh, “Listen, you’ll soon go to join your ancestors, and these people will turn and prostitute themselves to the strange gods of the land that they’ll be going to. This nation will abandon me and break the agreement that I’ve made with it. 17 When that happens, my rage will burn against them, and I’ll abandon them and distance myself from them. They’ll be devoured by other kingdoms, and many disasters and troubles will hit them. Then they’ll say at that time, ‘Didn’t these disasters come to us because our God is no longer here amongst us?’ 18 Yes, I’ll definitely stay away on that day because of all the evil that they will have done when they turned to other gods. 19 So now, write down this song and teach it to the Israelis. Make them memorise it so that it can become a witness for me against them. 20 When I bring them to the very fertile land that I promised to their ancestors, and they eat well and become satisfied and fat, then they’ll turn to other gods and they’ll serve them, and they’ll despise me and break our agreement. 21 Then in the future when many evils and troubles hit the country, this song will testify to it as a witness (because it won’t be forgotten by their descendants). Because I know their intent today, even before I’ve taken them into the land that I promised.”

22 So Mosheh wrote down the song that day and taught it to the Israelis.

23 Then he instructed Nun’s son Yehoshua (Joshua), “Be strong and courageous; because you’ll be the one to take the Israelis into the land that I promised them, and I’ll be with you.”[ref]

24 After Mosheh had finished writing all those instructions from beginning to end onto a scroll, 25 he told the Levites who carry the box containing Yahweh’s agreement, 26 “Take this scroll with these instructions on it and place it beside the box containing your god Yahweh’s agreement, and then it’ll be there as a witness against your nation 27 because I know your rebellion and stubbornness. Listen while I’m still alive with you today: you’ve all been rebellious against Yahweh, and it’ll surely be worse after my death. 28 Bring all the elders and officials of your tribes here to me, so that I can speak these words in their ears and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them, 29 because I know that after my death, you’ll certainly corrupt yourselves and turn away from the ways that I have instructed you, and disaster will come to you in the future, because you’ll all do evil in Yahweh’s eyes, provoking him to anger by what you all do.”