Deuteronomy 31:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁸ It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”^(A)

The Law to Be Read Every Seventh Year

⁹ Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.^{(B) 10} Moses commanded them, “Every seventh year, in the scheduled year of remission, during the Festival of Booths,^[a](C)