Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them in Horeb.

2 Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye yourselves have seen all that the Lord hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

3 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

The great proofs which thy eyes have seen, those great signs, and miracles:

4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

Yet the Lord gave you not a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

5 For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not fall worn out from off you, and thy shoe did not fall worn out from off thy foot.

6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Bread have ye not eaten, and wine or strong drink have ye not drunk; in order that ye might understand that I am the Lord your God.

7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

And when ye came unto this place, Sichon the king of Cheshbon, and 'Og the king of Bashan went out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Menassites.

9 So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

Keep ye therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

10 All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

Ye are standing this day, all of you, before the Lord your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

11 your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12 so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

That thou shouldst enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath of denunciation, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day.

13 and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

In order to raise thee up today unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath spoken unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

And not with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath;

15 but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

But with him that is standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with him that is not here with us this day.

16 For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

(For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we passed through the nations through which ye have passed;

17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

And ye saw their abominations, and their idols, of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them: )

18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

So that there may not be among you a man, or a woman, or a family, or a tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; that there may not be among you a root that beareth abundantly poison and wormwood.

19 because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

And it might come to pass, when he heareth the words of this denunciation, that he would bless himself in his heart, saying, There will be peace unto me, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; in order that the indulgence of the passions may appease the thirst [for them]:

20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens.

21 and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

And the Lord will single him out unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the denunciations of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.

22 Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

And the latest generation, your children that will rise up after you, and the stranger that will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sufferings with which the Lord hath smitten it;

23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

[That] the whole soil thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning waste, which is not sown, and beareth not, and in which no kind of grass springeth up, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: —

24 So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

Even all the nations will say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

25 And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Then shall men say, Because they had forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;

26 They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

And they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not assigned unto them;

27 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it the entire curse that is written in this book;

28 The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

And the Lord plucked them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and he cast them into another land, as it is this day.

29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are publicly known belong unto us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.