THE LORD WILL NOT FAIL THEE

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And Moses went and spake these words 

unto all Israel.  And he said unto them, 

I am an hundred and twenty years old this 

day; I can no more go out and come in: 

also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt 

not go over this Jordan.  The LORD thy God, 

he will go over before thee, and he will destroy 

these nations from before thee, and thou shalt 

possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over 

before thee, as the LORD hath said.

And the LORD shall do unto them 

as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings 

of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, 

whom he destroyed.  And the LORD shall give 

them up before your face, that ye may do unto 

them according unto all the commandments 

which I have commanded you. Be strong and of a 

good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: 

for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth 

go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake 

thee.  And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto 

him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a 

good courage: for thou must go with this people 

unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their 

fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to 

inherit it.  And the LORD, he it is that doth 

go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not 

fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, 

neither be dismayed.  And Moses wrote this law, 

and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, 

which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, 

and unto all the elders of Israel.  And Moses 

commanded them, saying, At the end of every 

seven years, in the solemnity of the year 

of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

When all Israel is come to appear before the 

LORD thy God in the place which he shall 

choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel 

in their hearing.  Gather the people together, men, 

and women, and children, and thy stranger that is 

within thy gates, that they may hear, and that 

they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, 

and observe to do all the words of this law:

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.

DEUTERONOMY 31:1-13