Deuteronomy 31:19
Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nunc itaque scribite vobis canticum istud, et docete filios Israël : ut memoriter teneant, et ore decantent, et sit mihi carmen istud pro testimonio inter filios Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ γράψατε τὰ ῥήματα τῆς ᾠδῆς ταύτης, καὶ διδάξετε αὐτὴν τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἐμβαλεῖτε αὐτὴν εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν, ἵνα μοι γένηται ἡ ᾠδὴ αὕτη κατὰ πρόσωπον, μαρτυροῦσα ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּתְב֤וּ לָכֶם֙ אֶת הַשִּׁירָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את וְלַמְּדָ֥הּ אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שִׂימָ֣הּ בְּפִיהֶ֑ם לְמַ֨עַן תִּהְיֶה לִּ֜י הַשִּׁירָ֥ה הַזֹּ֛את לְעֵ֖ד בִּבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
This canticle, which will be given in the following chapter. Hence this law, (ver. 9,) may comprise not only what had gone before, but also the remaining part of the book of Deuteronomy. This Moses would write before his death, and deliver entire, with the preceding books, to be kept with the utmost care, by the priests, as a testimony to remind all of what had happened in past ages, and what would befall the transgressors of God's law. (Haydock)
The canticle, containing an abridgment of the book of Deuteronomy, (Calmet) as the latter did of the whole law, was to be copied out more frequently, (Haydock) and committed to memory. Some suppose that Moses and Josue are here ordered to see this put in execution. Others think that Moses gives this commission to the priests.
That they. Hebrew, "put it in their mouths, (Calmet) that this song may be a witness for me against," &c. God foresaw that the Israelites would prove rebellious; but he leaves them without excuse, as they could not plead ignorance. (Haydock)
This testimony against them was written in the form of a canticle, that it might be more easily remembered. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.