Deuteronomy 29

1 These [are] the words of the covenant which YHWH has commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

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.

2 And Moses calls to all Israel and says to them, “You have seen all that which YHWH has done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land—

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;

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

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

4 And YHWH has not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

5 And I cause you to go in a wilderness [for] forty years; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and your shoe has not worn away from off your foot;

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.

6 you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you know that I [am] your God YHWH.

You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know that I [am] the Lord your God.

7 And you come to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon—also Og king of Bashan—comes out to meet us to battle, and we strike them,

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.

8 and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of the Manassite;

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.

9 and you have kept the words of this covenant and done them, so that you cause all that you do to prosper.

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

10 You are standing today, all of you, before your God YHWH: your heads, your tribes, your elderly, and your authorities, every man of Israel,

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,

11 your infants, your wives, and your sojourner who [is] in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water,

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,

12 for your passing over into the covenant of your God YHWH, and into His oath which your God YHWH is making with you today,

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;

13 in order to establish you to Himself for a people today, and He Himself is your God, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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.

14 And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone,

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

15 but with him who is here with us, standing before our God YHWH today, and with him who is not here with us today,

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.

16 for you have known how you dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which you have passed by;

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

17 and you see their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them,

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

18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning from our God YHWH today, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root bearing the fruit of gall and wormwood;

Lest there be amongst 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.

19 and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.

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]:

20 YHWH is not willing to be propitious to him, for then the anger of YHWH smokes, also His zeal, against that man, and all the oath which is written in this scroll has lain down on him, and YHWH has blotted out his name from under the heavens,

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.

21 and YHWH has separated him for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this Scroll of the Law.

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.

22 And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who comes in from a far-off land, have said, when they have seen the strokes of that land and its sicknesses which YHWH has sent into it:

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,

23 The whole land is burned [with] brimstone and salt, it is not sown, nor does it shoot up, nor does any herb go up on it there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which YHWH overturned in His anger and in His fury.

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: )—

24 Indeed, all the nations have said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger?

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

25 And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt,

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:

26 and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them—gods which they have not known, and which He has not apportioned to them;

and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign [them] to them.

27 and the anger of YHWH burns against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this scroll,

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.

28 and YHWH plucks them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and casts them into another land, as [at] this day.

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.

29 The things hidden [belong] to our God YHWH, and the things revealed [belong] to us and to our sons for all time, to do all the words of this law.”

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.