Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

2 Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

3 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

5 For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

9 So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

10 All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

11 your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

12 so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

13 and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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

15 but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

16 For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

19 because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

21 and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

22 Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

24 So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

25 And the people will answer, ‘It is 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 They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

27 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

28 The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

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, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.

7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

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

10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

15 But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day:

16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)

18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?

25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:

27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day.

29 The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

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, the second time after he had made it with them in Horeb.

2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Ye have seen all that the LORD hath done in Egypt before your eyes unto Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, that they were great signs and wonders.

4 And the LORD hath not yet given you unto this day a heart to understand, eyes to see, and ears to hear.

5 He hath made you to walk forty years in the wilderness: your garments are not become old upon you, neither is your shoe become old upon your feet.

6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither drunk wine, nor strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

7 And it came to pass, when ye were come into this place, that Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan went out to meet us to fight with us. And we smote them

8 And they took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites.

9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them; that ye may deal wisely in all your doings.

10 All ye stand before the LORD your God this day, the rulers of your tribes, your elders, your officers, every man of Israel,

11 Your children, your wives, your stranger that is in your camp, both your hewers of wood, and your drawers of water,

12 That thou mayest walk in the covenant of the LORD thy God, and in the oath which the LORD thy God maketh unto thee this day,

13 That he may establish thee this day for a people unto him, and that he may be thy God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 For I make not this covenant and this oath with you alone,

15 But both with you which are here this day, and stand with us before the LORD our God, and with them which are not with us this day.

16 For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and passed through the midst of the nations which ye passed through,

17 And behold their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them.

18 Lest there be among you a man, or a woman, or a servant, or a tribe, whose heart is turned this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and peradventure become a root among you, bearing gall and wormwood,

19 And though he hear the words of this curse, yet bless himself in his heart, saying, It is well with me, because I walk according to my heart: that the drunken woman may pass away with the thirsty.

20 Then shall not the LORD have mercy upon him; but then shall his wrath and his fury be kindled against such a man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall be laid upon him. And the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And he shall separate him for a calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.

22 Then shall say the children of your children come up after you, and the strangers that come from a far country, when they see the plagues of this land, and the diseases wherewith the LORD hath afflicted them,

23 For he hath burned all their land with brimstone and salt, that it should not be sown, nor grow, neither should any herb spring up therein; as Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Zebo, are turned back, which the LORD hath turned back in his wrath and fury.

24 Then shall all nations say, Why hath the LORD thus done unto this land? What is this great and fierce anger?

25 And it shall be said, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them, when he brought them up out of the land of Egypt;

26 And they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, such gods as they knew not, and which gave them nothing;

27 Therefore the wrath of the LORD is kindled against this land, because he hath brought upon them all the curses that are written in this book;

28 And the LORD thrust them out of their land with great wrath and fury and displeasure, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

29 The mystery of the LORD our God is revealed unto us, and unto our children for ever, that we should do all the words of this law.