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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.
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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 that he had made with them at 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;
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Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
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the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
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But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
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.
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I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;
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.
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you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink—so that you may 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:
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When you came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us for battle, but we defeated 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.
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We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and 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.
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Therefore diligently observe the words of this covenant, in order that you may succeed in everything that you 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,
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You stand assembled today, all of you, before the Lord your God—the leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officials, 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:
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your children, your women, and the aliens who are in your camp, both those who cut your wood and those who draw your 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:
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to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, sworn by an oath, which the Lord your God is making with you today;
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.
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in order that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
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I am making this covenant, sworn by an oath, not only with you who stand here with us today before the Lord our God,
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:
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but also with those who are not here with us today.
16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
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You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
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You have seen their detestable things, the filthy idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, that 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;
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It may be that there is among you a man or woman, or a family or tribe, whose heart is already turning away from the Lord our God to serve the gods of those nations. It may be that there is among you a root sprouting poisonous and bitter growth.
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:
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All who hear the words of this oath and bless themselves, thinking in their hearts, "We are safe even though we go our own stubborn ways" (thus bringing disaster on moist and dry alike) —
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.
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the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for the Lord's anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names 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:
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The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant 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;
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The next generation, your children who rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who comes from a distant country, will see the devastation of that land and the afflictions with which the Lord has afflicted 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:
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all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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they and indeed all the nations will wonder, "Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of 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:
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They will conclude, "It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them 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:
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They turned and served other gods, worshiping them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to 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:
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so the anger of the Lord was kindled against that land, bringing on it every curse 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.
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The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is now the case."
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.
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The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.
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