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43 Heavens:[a] Rejoice with God![b]
    All you gods: bow down to the Lord![c]
    Because he will avenge his children’s[d] blood;
        he will pay back his enemies;
        he will punish in kind those who hate him;[e]
        he will cleanse his people’s land.[f]

44 So Moses came and recited all the words of this poem in everyone’s hearing; Joshua,[g] Nun’s son, joined him. 45 When Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT nations
  2. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT his people
  3. Deuteronomy 32:43 This line is missing in Heb; it is found in DSS (4QDeutq); LXX him for the Lord.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT his servants’
  5. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT lacks this line.
  6. Deuteronomy 32:43 Sam, DSS (4QDeutq), LXX, Vulg; MT his land his people or his land for his people; or, correcting, he will wipe away his people’s tears.
  7. Deuteronomy 32:44 Sam, Syr, Tg Neofiti; MT Hoshea

43 Rejoice,(A) you nations, with his people,[a][b]
    for he will avenge the blood of his servants;(B)
he will take vengeance on his enemies(C)
    and make atonement for his land and people.(D)

44 Moses came with Joshua[c](E) son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45 When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations
  2. Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
  3. Deuteronomy 32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua