Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which 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 all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole 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 temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,

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

4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.

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

5 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

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

6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord 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 you came to this place: sand Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew 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 took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.

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

9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfill them: that you may understand all that you do.

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

10 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people 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 children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:

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

12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.

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 raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and 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 confirm these oaths,

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

15 But with all that are present and that are absent.

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 you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,

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

17 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.

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

18 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.

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 when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume 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 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

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 utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:

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 following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted 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 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:

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 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?

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 they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them 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 have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:

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

27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:

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

28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen 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 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may 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.