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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 that 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 all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole 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 thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,
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the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present 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 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.
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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 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you 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 you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew 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 took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.
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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 fulfil them: that you may understand all that you 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 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people 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 children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring 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 mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.
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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 raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and 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 confirm these oaths,
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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 all that are present and that are absent.
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but also with those who are not here with us today.
16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,
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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 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
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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 perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
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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 when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,
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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 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should 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 utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:
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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 And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted 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 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
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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 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
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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 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them 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 And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
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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 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:
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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 he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen 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 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to 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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