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Deuteronomy 31:30

in Deuteronomy 31

Then Moses recited aloud to the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning to end:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Moses spake in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

KJV

And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

This verse in Deuteronomy 31

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Nicetas of Remesiana

LITURGICAL SINGING 3 · Written before 414.

Moses again, when about to depart from this life, sang a fear-inspiring canticle in Deuteronomy. He left the song as a sort of testament to the people of Israel, to teach them the kind of funeral they should expect, if ever they abandoned God.

This site's exposition

And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation

One text gets four handlings in this chapter: put in their mouths at verse 19, written at verse 22, taught to the children of Israel in the same verse, and here spoken aloud to the whole assembly. Until they were ended marks the seam, and what follows in chapter 32 is that text set down whole. Adam Clarke notes that matter meant to last was commonly cast into verse in societies where few could write, and that even history was sung.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֣רand he spoke

    vaydaberH16961141 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֗הMoses

    moshehH4872765 times

  • בְּאָזְנֵי֙in [the] ears of

    beazeneiH241187 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • קְהַ֣ל[the] assembly of

    kehalH6951123 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] words of

    divreiH16971440 times

  • הַשִּׁירָ֖הthe song

    hashirahH789259 times

  • הַזֹּ֑את<the> this

    hazotH2063603 times

  • עַ֖דuntil

    ʾadH57041261 times

  • תֻּמָּֽם׃ פwere complete they

    tumamH855263 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Hebrews 3:5

    Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 12:7

      But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    John 12:49

    I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

    it leads to

    • John 14:10

      Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father…

    • John 5:30

      I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

    • John 8:26

      “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

    • John 17:8

      For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

    • Deuteronomy 18:18

      I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 4:5

    See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

    it leads to

    • 1 Thessalonians 4:1–2

      Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live,…

  • Through

    Acts 20:27

    For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

    it leads to

    • Acts 20:20

      I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Nicetas of Remesiana, LITURGICAL SINGING 3.