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, besides the covenant which he made with them in Choreb.

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 the sons of Israel and said to them, You have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and 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 temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

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

4 Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until 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 he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.

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

6 You did not eat bread, you did not drink 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 as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.

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 struck them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.

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

9 And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand all things that you shall do.

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

10 You all stand today before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man 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 wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,

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

12 that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord your God appoints you 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 appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your God, as he said to you, and as he sware to your fathers, Abraam, and 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 And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;

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

15 but to those also who are here with you today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you today.

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 lived in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you came.

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 you saw their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.

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

18 Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with 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 it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]:

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 God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall 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 the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this 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 another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon 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 brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger: )—

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 has the Lord done thus to this land? what [is] this great fierceness of 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 forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to 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 went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign [them] 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 Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.

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

28 And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.

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 secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children 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.