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Deuteronomy 29

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1 These 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.
1 These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
2 And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, Ye have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;
2 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.
3 the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.
4 Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.
5 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.
5 Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
6 Ye did not eat bread, ye did not drink wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I the Lord your God.
6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.”
7 And ye came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.
7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.
8 And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.
8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9 And ye shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that ye may understand all things that ye shall do.
9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
10 Ye all stand to-day before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,
10 All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,
11 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,
11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.
12 that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord thy God appoints thee this day;
12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,
13 that he may appoint thee to himself for a people, and he shall be thy God, as he said to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob.
13 to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
14 And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;
14 I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you
15 but to those also who are here with you to-day before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you to-day.
15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.
16 For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom ye came.
16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.
17 And ye beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.
17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
18 Lest there be among 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.
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 produces such bitter poison.
19 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 :
19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
20 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.
20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.
21 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.
21 The LORD will single them 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 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,
22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.
23 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:)—
23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
24 and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what this great fierceness of anger?
24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”
25 And 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:
25 And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
26 and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign to them.
26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.
27 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.
27 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
28 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.
28 In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”
29 The secret things to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.
29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

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