31  Moses encourages the people and Joshua, Deu 31:1-8, Deu 31:23
Delivers to the priests the law, to be read every seventh year, Deu 31:9-13.
God informs Moses of his approaching death, and the future apostasy of Israel, Deu 31:14-18.
Orders him to write a song, which should be a testimony against them, Deu 31:19-22.
Moses gives the law to the Levites to lay up beside the ark, and bids them assemble the people to hear his song, Deu 31:24-30.

31:1 Went and spake - Continued to speak, an usual Hebrew phrase.

31:2 Go out and come in - Perform the office of a leader or governor, because the time of my death approaches.

18 

18:1 Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? - Which of us shall be thy prime minister? They still dreamed of a temporal kingdom.

18:2 And Jesus calling to him a little child - This is supposed to have been the great Ignatius, whom Trajan, the wise, the good Emperor Trajan, condemned to be cast to the wild beasts at Rome! Mar 9:36; Luk 9:47.

18:3 Except ye be converted - The first step toward entering into the kingdom of grace, is to become as little children: lowly in heart, knowing yourselves utterly ignorant and helpless, and hanging wholly on your Father who is in heaven, for a supply of all your wants. We may farther assert, (though it is doubtful whether this text implies so much,) except ye be turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God:, except ye be entirely, inwardly changed, renewed in the image of God, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of glory. Thus must every man be converted in this life, or he can never enter into life eternal.Ye shall in no wise enter - So far from being great in it. Mat 19:14.

18:5 And all who are in this sense little children are unspeakably dear to me. Therefore help them all you can, as if it were myself in person, and see that ye offend them not; that is, that ye turn them not out of the right way, neither hinder them in it. Mat 10:40; Luk 10:16; Joh 13:20.