For this reason, the anger of the LORD raged against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that were written in this book.

Though there were of you driven out unto the end of the heavens, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee;

Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.

And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, - and unto all the elders of Israel.

And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

then Moses commanded the Levites, who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying:

For I knew thy rebellion and thy hard neck: behold, in my yet living with you this day, ye were rebelling against Jehovah; and much more after my death.

Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended:

“But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God].
You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate!
Then he abandoned God who had made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

“They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.

“You were unmindful of the Rock who bore you,
And you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

“O that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they could discern their future and ultimate fate!

How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

So Moses and Nun's son Joshua came and recited all the words of this song while the people were assembled.

Yea he loved the tribes, All his holy ones, were in thy hand, - Yea, they, were encamped at thy feet, Each one bare away some of thy words.

“The Lord was King in Jeshurun (Israel),
When the heads of the people were gathered,
The tribes of Israel together.

And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;

and with the tops of mountains that were from the beginning and with the dainties of hills that last ever,

Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.

So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.