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 YHWH has commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He 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 calls to all Israel and says to them, “You have seen all that which YHWH has done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land—

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

the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

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

And YHWH has not given to you a heart to know, 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 cause you to go in a wilderness [for] forty years; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and your shoe has not worn away from off your 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.

you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you know that I [am] your God YHWH.

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 you come to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon—also Og king of Bashan—comes out to meet us to battle, and we strike them,

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

and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of the Manassite;

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

and you have kept the words of this covenant and done them, so that you cause all that you do to prosper.

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

You are standing today, all of you, before your God YHWH: your heads, your tribes, your elderly, and your authorities, every man of Israel,

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

your infants, your wives, and your sojourner who [is] in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your 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,

for your passing over into the covenant of your God YHWH, and into His oath which your God YHWH is making with you today,

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 establish you to Himself for a people today, and He Himself is your God, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone,

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 who is here with us, standing before our God YHWH today, and with him who is not here with us today,

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 you have known how you dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which you have passed by;

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

and you see their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] 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,

lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning from our God YHWH today, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root bearing the fruit of gall 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 has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.

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

YHWH is not willing to be propitious to him, for then the anger of YHWH smokes, also His zeal, against that man, and all the oath which is written in this scroll has lain down on him, and YHWH has blotted 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 YHWH has separated him for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this Scroll 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 latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who comes in from a far-off land, have said, when they have seen the strokes of that land and its sicknesses which YHWH has sent into 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.

The whole land is burned [with] brimstone and salt, it is not sown, nor does it shoot up, nor does any herb go up on it there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which YHWH overturned in His anger and in His fury.

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

Indeed, all the nations have said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why 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.

And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them 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 go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them—gods which they have not known, and which He has not apportioned to 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 YHWH burns against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this scroll,

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 YHWH plucks them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and casts them into another land, as [at] 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 things hidden [belong] to our God YHWH, and the things revealed [belong] to us and to our sons for all time, to do all the words of this law.”