Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.

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.

2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his bondmen, and to all his land:

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.

3 the great trials that thine eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

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

4 But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

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

5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;

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

6 ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God.

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

7 And ye came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle, and we smote them.

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

8 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.

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

9 Ye shall keep then the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

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

10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God: your chiefs [of] your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

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

11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water;

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

12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;

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

13 that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be to thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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.

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

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

15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and with him that is not here with us this day

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.

16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed;

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

17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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

18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood,

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,

19 and it come to pass, when he heareth 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 sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

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.

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

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

21 and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

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.

22 And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,

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.

23 [that] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, [and] burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:

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.

24 even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

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

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

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.

26 and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.

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

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

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

28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it appears] this day.

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.’

29 The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law.

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.