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## Deuteronomy 31:16-17 in Context (Verses 13–20 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/13) And *that* their children, which have not known *any thing*, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/14) ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/15) And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/16) ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go *to be* among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.*
 
 [17 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/17) Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God *is* not among us?*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/18) And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/19) Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/31/20) For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
 
[Deuteronomy 30](/kjv/deuteronomy/30) [Deuteronomy 32](/kjv/deuteronomy/32)

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