Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with
the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides 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
Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his
servants, and unto all his land;
3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, 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 waxed
old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye
may know that I am Jehovah 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 the Manassites.
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 Jehovah your God; your heads, your
tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy
camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his
oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;
13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he
may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware 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 Jehovah our God, and
also with him that is not here with us this day
16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
midst of the nations through which ye passed;
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 Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of
those 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
stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy
will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book
shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the
law.
22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and
the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the
plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;
23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning,
[that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the
overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in
his anger, and in his wrath:
24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this
land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of
their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt,
26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not,
and that he had not given unto them:
27 therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon
it all the curse that is written in this book;
28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in
great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are
revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the
words of this law.