^{19 Ref} Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

^{20 Ref} For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

^{21 Ref} It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

^{22 Ref} So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

^{23 Ref} He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.

^{24 Ref} It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

^{25 Ref} that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,

^{26 Ref} Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.