“Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 31 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.