Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord instructed Moses to form with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, beside that covenant which he struck with them at 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 called all of Israel, and he said to them: “You have seen all the things that the Lord has done in your sight in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to his entire 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 trials, which your eyes have seen, those immense signs and wonders.

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

4 But the Lord has not given you an understanding heart, and seeing eyes, and ears that are able to hear, even to this present day.

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

5 He led you for forty years through the desert. Your garments have not been worn out, nor have the shoes on your feet been consumed by age.

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 did not eat bread, nor did you drink wine or liquor, so that you would know 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 And you arrived at this place. And Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, went out to meet us in battle. And we struck them down.

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 delivered it as a possession to Ruben and to Gad, and to half of the tribe of Manasseh.

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 Therefore, keep the words of this covenant, and fulfill them, so that you may understand all that you are doing.

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

10 Today, you all stand in the sight of the Lord your God: your leaders, and tribes, and those greater by birth, and teachers, all the people 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 your children and wives, and the new arrival who dwells with you in the camp, aside from those who cut wood, and those who bring water,

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 so that you may cross into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into the oath which the Lord your God strikes 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 So shall he raise you up as a people to himself, and so shall he be your God, just as he has spoken to you, and just as he swore 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 I am not forming this covenant and confirm these oaths with you alone,

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

15 but with all those who are present as well as those who are absent.

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 know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the midst of nations. And when passing through them,

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 you saw their abominations and filth, that is, their idols of wood and of stone, of silver and of gold, which they worshipped,

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

18 so that there would not be among you man or woman, family or tribe, whose heart has been turned away this day from the Lord our God, so as to go and serve the gods of those nations. For then there would be among you a root springing forth gall and bitterness.

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 And if he were to hear the words of this oath, he would bless himself in his own heart saying: ‘There will be peace for me, and I will walk in the depravity of my heart.’ And so, the one who is inebriated would consume the one who is thirsty.

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 But the Lord would not ignore him. Instead, at that time, his fury and zealousness would be very greatly enflamed against that man, and all the curses which have been written in this volume would settle upon him. And the Lord would abolish his name from under heaven,

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 and consume him unto perdition out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses which are contained in the book of this law and in the covenant.

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 the subsequent generation would speak out, along with the sons who will be born afterward. And the sojourners, who will arrive from far away, will see the plagues of that land and the infirmities with which the Lord will have afflicted 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 having burned it with sulphur and molten salt, so that it can no longer be sown. And certainly no greenery would spring up, as in the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overturned with his wrath and fury.

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 And so, all the nations would say: ‘Why has the Lord acted this way toward this land? What is this immense wrath of his fury?’

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

25 And they will respond: ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, which he formed with their fathers, when he led them away from 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 have served foreign gods, and adored them, though they did not know them, and though they had not been allotted to them.

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

27 For this reason, the fury of the Lord was enraged against this land, so as to lead over it all the curses which have been written in this volume.

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 And he has cast them out of their own land, with anger and fury, and with a very great indignation, and he has thrown them into a strange land, just as has been proven 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 These hidden things of the Lord our God have been revealed to us and to our sons in perpetuity, so that we may accomplish 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.