and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 31:13 in context
Deuteronomy 31:10–16
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Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
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when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
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Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,
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and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
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The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.”
Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
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The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door.
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The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
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