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 that Yahweh commanded Moses to tell the people of Israel in the land of Moab, words that were added to the covenant that 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 called to all Israel and said to them, “You have seen everything that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land—

3 the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

the great sufferings that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great 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.

But until today Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, 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.

I have led you for forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.

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 did not eat any bread, and you did not drink any wine or other alcoholic drinks, so that you might know that I am Yahweh 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 came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us to fight, and we struck them down.

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, to the Gadites, and to 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.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in everything that 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,

You stand today, all of you, before Yahweh your God; your chiefs, your tribes, your elders, and your officers—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 little ones, your wives, and the foreigner who is among you in your camp, from him who cuts your wood to him who draws 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;

You are here in order to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God and into the oath that Yahweh your God is making with you today,

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.

so that he may make you today into a people for himself, and that he may be God for you, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;

For it is not only with you that I am making this covenant and this oath—

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.

with everyone standing here with us today before Yahweh our God—but also with those who are not here with us 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.

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

You have seen their disgusting idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, that were among them.

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 not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.

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]:

When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with 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.

Yahweh will not pardon him, but instead, the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smolder against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book will come on him, and Yahweh 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.

Yahweh will set him apart for disaster out of all the tribes of Israel, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant that are 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,

The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will speak when they see the plagues on this land and the diseases with which Yahweh has made it sick—

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: )—

and when they see that the whole land has become sulfur and burning salt, where nothing is sown or bears fruit, where no vegetation grows, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, that Yahweh destroyed in his anger and wrath—

24 and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what [is] this great fierceness of anger?

they will say together with all the other nations, 'Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'

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:

Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, that 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.

and because they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods that they had not known and that he 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 Yahweh has been kindled against this land, so as to bring on it all the curses that are 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.

Yahweh has uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great fury, and has thrown them into another land, as 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 matters belong alone to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong forever to us and to our descendants, so that we may do all the words of this law.