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.
Hæc sunt verba fœderis quod præcepit Dominus Moysi ut feriret cum filiis Israel in Terra Moab: præter illud fœdus, quod cum eis pepigit 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—
Vocavitque Moyses omnem Israel, et dixit ad eos: Vos vidistis universa, quæ fecit Dominus coram vobis in Terra Ægypti Pharaoni, et omnibus servis eius, universæque terræ illius,
3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
tentationes magnas, quas viderunt oculi tui, signa illa, portentaque ingentia,
4 And YHWH has not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
et non dedit vobis Dominus cor intelligens, et oculos videntes, et aures quæ possunt audire, usque in præsentem diem.
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;
Adduxit vos quadraginta annis per desertum: non sunt attrita vestimenta vestra, nec calceamenta pedum vestrorum vetustate consumpta sunt.
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.
Panem non comedistis, vinum et siceram non bibistis: ut sciretis quia ego sum Dominus Deus vester.
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,
Et venistis ad hunc locum: egressusque est Sehon rex Hesebon, et Og rex Basan, occurrentes nobis ad pugnam. Et percussimus eos,
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;
et tulimus terram eorum, ac tradidimus possidendam Ruben et Gad, et dimidiæ tribui Manasse.
9 and you have kept the words of this covenant and done them, so that you cause all that you do to prosper.
Custodite ergo verba pacti huius, et implete ea: ut intelligatis universa quæ facitis.
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,
Vos statis hodie cuncti coram Domino Deo vestro, principes vestri, et tribus, ac maiores natu, atque doctores, omnis populus 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,
liberi et uxores vestræ, et advena qui tecum moratur in castris, exceptis lignorum cæsoribus, et his, qui comportant aquas:
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,
ut transeas in fœdere Domini Dei tui, et in iureiurando quod hodie Dominus Deus tuus percutit tecum:
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.
ut suscitet te sibi in populum, et ipse sit Deus tuus sicut locutus est tibi, et sicut iuravit patribus tuis, Abraham, Isaac, et Iacob.
14 And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone,
Nec vobis solis ego hoc fœdus ferio, et hæc iuramenta confirmo,
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,
sed cunctis præsentibus et absentibus.
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;
Vos enim nostis quomodo habitaverimus in Terra Ægypti, et quo modo transierimus per medium nationum, quas transeuntes
17 and you see their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them,
vidistis abominationes et sordes, id est, idola eorum, lignum et lapidem, argentum et aurum, quæ colebant.
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;
Ne forte sit inter vos vir aut mulier, familia aut tribus, cuius cor aversum est hodie a Domino Deo nostro: ut vadat et serviat diis illarum Gentium: et sit inter vos radix germinans fel et amaritudinem.
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.
Cumque audierit verba iuramenti huius, benedicat sibi in corde suo, dicens: Pax erit mihi, et ambulabo in pravitate cordis mei: et absumat ebria sitientem,
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,
et Dominus non ignoscat ei: sed tunc quammaxime furor eius fumet, et zelus contra hominem illum, et sedeant super eum omnia maledicta, quæ scripta sunt in hoc volumine: et deleat Dominus nomen eius sub cælo,
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.
et consumat eum in perditionem ex omnibus tribubus Israel, iuxta maledictiones, quæ in Libro legis huius ac fœderis continentur.
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:
Dicetque sequens generatio, et filii qui nascentur deinceps, et peregrini, qui de longe venerint, videntes plagas Terræ illius, et infirmitates, quibus eam afflixerit Dominus,
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.
sulphure, et salis ardore comburens, ita ut ultra non seratur, nec virens quippiam germinet, in exemplum subversionis Sodomæ et Gomorrhæ, Adamæ et Seboim, quas subvertit Dominus in ira et furore suo.
24 Indeed, all the nations have said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger?
Et dicent omnes Gentes: Quare sic fecit Dominus Terræ huic? quæ est hæc ira furoris eius immensa?
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,
Et respondebunt: Quia dereliquerunt pactum Domini, quod pepigit cum patribus eorum, quando eduxit eos de Terra Ægypti:
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;
et servierunt diis alienis, et adoraverunt eos, quos nesciebant, et quibus non fuerant attributi:
27 and the anger of YHWH burns against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this scroll,
idcirco iratus est furor Domini contra Terram istam, ut induceret super eam omnia maledicta, quæ in hoc volumine scripta sunt:
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.
et eiecit eos de terra sua in ira et in furore, et in indignatione maxima, proiecitque in terram alienam, sicut hodie comprobatur.
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.”
Abscondita, Domino Deo nostro: quæ manifesta sunt, nobis et filiis nostris usque in sempiternum, ut faciamus universa verba legis huius.
