Vayeilech

Moses goes and speaks these words to all Israel: "I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in, and the LORD has said to me, 'You shall not cross this Jordan.'" The LORD your God — He crosses before you; and Joshua crosses before you, as the LORD has spoken. Before all Israel Moses charges him: "Be strong and courageous, for you shall come with this people into the land... the LORD — He goes before you; He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear, and do not be dismayed."

Moses writes this Torah and gives it to the priests who carry the ark, and to all the elders, with the command of hakhel: at the end of every seven years, in the year of release, at the feast of Sukkot, the Torah is read before all Israel — "assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your stranger within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God" — including the children who have not known it.

Then God summons Moses and Joshua to the tent of meeting, where He appears in the pillar of cloud and tells Moses plainly what is coming: this people will rise up and stray after foreign gods in the land, and forsake the covenant — "and I will hide My face from them." Therefore: "write for yourselves this song and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel" — for it will not be forgotten from the mouth of their offspring. Moses writes the song that day. The Torah scroll is placed beside the ark of the covenant as a witness; and Moses, telling the elders he knows their rebellion — "behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD; how much more after my death" — assembles all the elders and officers to speak the words of the song into their ears, calling heaven and earth to witness.