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42 I’ll make my arrows drink much blood,
    while my sword devours flesh,
    the blood of the dead and captured,
        flowing from the heads of enemy generals.”[a]
43 Heavens:[b] Rejoice with God![c]
    All you gods: bow down to the Lord![d]
    Because he will avenge his children’s[e] blood;
        he will pay back his enemies;
        he will punish in kind those who hate him;[f]
        he will cleanse his people’s land.[g]

44 So Moses came and recited all the words of this poem in everyone’s hearing; Joshua,[h] Nun’s son, joined him.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:42 Heb uncertain
  2. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT nations
  3. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT his people
  4. Deuteronomy 32:43 This line is missing in Heb; it is found in DSS (4QDeutq); LXX him for the Lord.
  5. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT his servants’
  6. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT lacks this line.
  7. 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.
  8. Deuteronomy 32:44 Sam, Syr, Tg Neofiti; MT Hoshea

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