Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant which YHWH commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides 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 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that YHWH did 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 saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

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

4 but YHWH has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to 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 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your shoes have not worn out on your feet.

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, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am YHWH your God.

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 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck 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 we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

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 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

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 stand this day all of you before YHWH your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men 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 little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws 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 that you may enter into the covenant of YHWH your God, and into his oath, which YHWH your God makes with you this day,

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 so that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore 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 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

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

15 but with him who stands here with us this day before YHWH our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day

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 know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

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 have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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

18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from YHWH our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears 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 happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

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 God will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall rest on him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under heaven.

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 YHWH will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book 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 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which YHWH has made it sick;

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 and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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 even all the nations shall say, "Why has YHWH done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

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

25 Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of YHWH, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth 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 went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they did not know, and that he had not given to them:

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

27 therefore the anger of YHWH was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

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 rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast 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 secret things belong to YHWH our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may 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.