Deuteronomy 29
1 The following are the terms of the agreement that the Lord ordered Moses to make with the Israelites in the country of Moab This was in addition to the agreement 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 called all the Israelites together and announced to them, You saw with your own eyes everything the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his whole country.
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 amazing tests, and those great signs and miracles.
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
4 But up to now the Lord has not given you minds that understand, or eyes that see, or ears that hear, saying,
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 through the desert, but your clothes and sandals didn't 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 didn't have bread to eat, or wine or alcohol to drink in order that you would realize 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 we arrived here, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan marched out to fight 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 to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh to own.
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 make sure you keep and follow the terms of this agreement in order that you may be successful in everything you do.
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10 Every one of you is stand here today before the Lord your God: you tribal leaders, 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 firewood and carry 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 You're here so you can enter into the agreement of the Lord your God, which he is making with you today, and accept his solemn promise,
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 he can confirm you today as his people. He will be your God as he told you and as he promised your forefathers 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 It's not only with you that the Lord is making this agreement and solemn promise,
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
15 those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God, but also 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 You know very well what it was like when we lived in the land of Egypt and our experiences as 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 their disgusting religious practices and their idols of wood and stone, and silver and gold.
and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
18 You need to make sure today that there's no man or woman, family or tribe of yours who wants to turn from the Lord our God and go and worship the gods of these nations. Make sure there is nothing like that among you that would produce such poison and bitterness.
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 For when someone like that hears the words of this solemn promise, they think they'll still receive a blessing, telling themselves, “I'll be safe, even though I'll go on doing whatever I feel like.” Such an attitude would destroy good and bad alike.
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 would never want to pardon them. In fact, his passionate anger will burn against them, and every curse written in this book will fall on them. The Lord will erase their name from the earth,
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 punish them as an example of them for all the Israelite tribes, in accordance with all the curses of the agreement 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 Later generations, your descendants and foreigners from far away, will see how the Lord has brought disaster on the country and devastated 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 The whole country will be burning wasteland of sulfur and salt. Nothing is sown; it's totally unproductive; no plant grows there—just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his furious 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 Everyone everywhere will ask, “Why did the Lord do this to the country? Why did he get so terribly angry?”
even all the nations shall say, "Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"
25 The people will answer, “It's because they abandoned the agreement of the Lord, the God of their forefathers, which he made with them when he led them out 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 off and worshiped other gods, bowing down to gods they'd never heard of—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 That's why the Lord was so angry with this land, and he rained down on 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 country in his anger, rage, and fury, and he threw them out, leaving them in another land, where they are to this day.”
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 Lord our God has secrets that belong to him, but what has been revealed belong to us and to our descendants forever, so that we may follow everything in 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.
