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Deut 31:30

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Deut 31:30 · Douay-Rheims
“Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end,”
Patristic before A.D. 750
414
A.D.
Nicetas of Remesiana Patristic
c. A.D. 335–414
“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.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.