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: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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 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.

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

The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,

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

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

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.

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 have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk 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 to this place: sand Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.

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 took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.

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

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfill them: that you may understand all that you 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 this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people 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 children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring 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 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.

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 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.

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

Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,

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 with all that are present and that are absent.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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,

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,

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,

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 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:

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 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,

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.

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:

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 hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?

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 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:

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 have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:

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

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

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 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.

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.”

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.