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,
in addition to
the covenant which
he made with
them in Horeb.
2 Moses called
to all Israel,
and said to them:
Your eyes have
seen all that
the LORD did
in the land
of Egypt to Pharaoh,
and to all
his servants, and
to all his land;
3 the great
trials which your
eyes saw,
the signs, and
those great wonders.
4 But
the LORD has
not given you
a heart to know, eyes
to see, and ears
to hear, to
this day.
5 I
have led you forty
years in the wilderness.
Your clothes have
not grown old on
you, and
your sandals have
not grown old on
your feet.
6 You
have not eaten bread, neither
have you drunk wine
or strong drink, that
you may 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.
8 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.
9 Therefore keep
the words of
this covenant and
do them, that
you may prosper in
all that you
do.
10 All
of you stand today
in the presence
of the LORD
your God: your heads,
your tribes, your elders,
and your officers,
even all the
men of Israel,
11 your little
ones, your wives, and
the foreigners who
are in the middle
of your camps,
from the one
who cuts your wood
to the one
who draws your water,
12 that
you may enter into
the covenant of
the LORD your God,
and into his
oath, which the
LORD your God
makes with you
today,
13 that
he may establish
you today as his
people, and that
he may be
your God, as
he spoke to you
and as he swore to
your fathers, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and
to Jacob.
14 Neither
do I make
this covenant and
this oath with you
only,
15 but
with those who
stand here with
us today before
the LORD our God,
and also with
those who are
not here with
us today
16 (for
you know how we lived
in the land
of Egypt, and how
we came through
the middle of
the nations through
which you passed;
17 and
you have seen
their abominations and
their idols of wood, stone, silver,
and gold, which
were among them);
18 lest
there should
be among you man,
woman, family, or tribe whose
heart turns away today
from the LORD
our God, to go
to serve the gods
of those nations;
lest there should
be among you a root
that produces bitter poison;
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.
20 The
LORD will
not pardon him,
but then the
LORD’s anger and
his jealousy will smoke
against that man,
and all the curse
that is written
in this book
will fall on him,
and the LORD
will blot out
his name from
under the sky.
21 The
LORD will set
him apart for evil
out of all
the tribes of Israel, according
to all the curses
of the covenant written
in this book of
the law.
22 The generation to
come—your children
who will rise
up after you,
and the foreigner
who will come
from a far land—will
say, when they see
the plagues of
that land, and
the sicknesses with
which the LORD
has made it sick,
23 that
all of its land
is sulfur, salt, and burning,
that it is
not sown, doesn’t produce, nor
does any grass grow
in it, like
the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah,
Admah, and Zeboiim, which
the LORD overthrew
in his anger, and
in his wrath.
24 Even
all the nations
will say, “Why has
the LORD done this
to this land? What
does the heat of
this great anger mean?”
25 Then men
will say, “Because they abandoned
the covenant of
the LORD, the
God of
their fathers, which he
made with them
when he brought
them out of
the land of Egypt,
26 and
went and served
other gods and worshiped
them, gods that
they didn’t know and
that he had
not given to them.
27 Therefore
the LORD’s
anger burned against
this land, to bring
on it all
the curses that
are written in
this book.
28 The
LORD rooted them
out of their land
in anger, in wrath,
and in
great indignation, and thrust
them into another land,
as it is today.”
29 The secret things belong to
the LORD 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.