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 Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides 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.

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Jehovah did 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 saw, 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.

but Jehovah has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

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

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your shoes have not worn out on your feet.

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, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Jehovah 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.

When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck 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 to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

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

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

You stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even 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 your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws 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,

that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into his oath, which Jehovah your God makes with you 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.

so that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

Neither with you only 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 who stands here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him who 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 you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

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

and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among 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 should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears 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 happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

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

God will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall rest on him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

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.

Jehovah will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that 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.

The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Jehovah has made it sick;

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.

and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah 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 shall say, "Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

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 men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, 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 went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they did not know, and that he had not given to them:

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

therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the 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 Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast 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 secret things belong to Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.