Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.

These [are] 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.

2 And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;

And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, You have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;

3 The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:

the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

5 For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.

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.

6 You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.

You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know that I [am] the Lord your God.

7 When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:

And you came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.

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

And we struck them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.

9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand all things that you shall do.

10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,

You all stand today before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,

11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:

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,

12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord your God appoints you this day;

13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

that he may appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your God, as he said to you, and as he sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob.

14 And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;

And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;

15 But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:

but to those also who are here with you today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you today.

16 (For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;

For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you came.

17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them: )

And you saw their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.

18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

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.

19 If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

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 [him]:

20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

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.

21 He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.

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.

22 And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;

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,

23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

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: )—

24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what [is] this great fierceness of anger?

25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:

And [men] 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:

26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:

and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign [them] to them.

27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:

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.

28 Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.

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.

29 The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

The secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.