Deuteronomii 29
1 Hæc sunt verba fœderis quod præcepit Dominus Moysi ut feriret cum filiis Israel in Terra Moab: præter illud fœdus, quod cum eis pepigit in Horeb.
These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 Vocavitque Moyses omnem Israel, et dixit ad eos: Vos vidistis universa, quæ fecit Dominus coram vobis in Terra Ægypti Pharaoni, et omnibus servis eius, universæque terræ illius,
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3 tentationes magnas, quas viderunt oculi tui, signa illa, portentaque ingentia,
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
4 et non dedit vobis Dominus cor intelligens, et oculos videntes, et aures quæ possunt audire, usque in præsentem diem.
But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
5 Adduxit vos quadraginta annis per desertum: non sunt attrita vestimenta vestra, nec calceamenta pedum vestrorum vetustate consumpta sunt.
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
6 Panem non comedistis, vinum et siceram non bibistis: ut sciretis quia ego sum Dominus Deus vester.
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
7 Et venistis ad hunc locum: egressusque est Sehon rex Hesebon, et Og rex Basan, occurrentes nobis ad pugnam. Et percussimus eos,
When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
8 et tulimus terram eorum, ac tradidimus possidendam Ruben et Gad, et dimidiæ tribui Manasse.
We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9 Custodite ergo verba pacti huius, et implete ea: ut intelligatis universa quæ facitis.
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10 Vos statis hodie cuncti coram Domino Deo vestro, principes vestri, et tribus, ac maiores natu, atque doctores, omnis populus Israel,
All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11 liberi et uxores vestræ, et advena qui tecum moratur in castris, exceptis lignorum cæsoribus, et his, qui comportant aquas:
your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
12 ut transeas in fœdere Domini Dei tui, et in iureiurando quod hodie Dominus Deus tuus percutit tecum:
that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
13 ut suscitet te sibi in populum, et ipse sit Deus tuus sicut locutus est tibi, et sicut iuravit patribus tuis, Abraham, Isaac, et Iacob.
that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Nec vobis solis ego hoc fœdus ferio, et hæc iuramenta confirmo,
Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
15 sed cunctis præsentibus et absentibus.
but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
16 Vos enim nostis quomodo habitaverimus in Terra Ægypti, et quo modo transierimus per medium nationum, quas transeuntes
(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
17 vidistis abominationes et sordes, id est, idola eorum, lignum et lapidem, argentum et aurum, quæ colebant.
and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
18 Ne forte sit inter vos vir aut mulier, familia aut tribus, cuius cor aversum est hodie a Domino Deo nostro: ut vadat et serviat diis illarum gentium: et sit inter vos radix germinans fel et amaritudinem.
lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
19 Cumque audierit verba iuramenti huius, benedicat sibi in corde suo, dicens: Pax erit mihi, et ambulabo in pravitate cordis mei: et absumat ebria sitientem,
and it happen, when he hears 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 et Dominus non ignoscat ei: sed tunc quam maxime furor eius fumet, et zelus contra hominem illum, et sedeant super eum omnia maledicta, quæ scripta sunt in hoc volumine: et deleat Dominus nomen eius sub cælo,
Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
21 et consumat eum in perditionem ex omnibus tribubus Israel, iuxta maledictiones, quæ in Libro legis huius ac fœderis continentur.
Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
22 Dicetque sequens generatio, et filii qui nascentur deinceps, et peregrini, qui de longe venerint, videntes plagas Terræ illius, et infirmitates, quibus eam afflixerit Dominus,
The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,
23 sulphure, et salis ardore comburens, ita ut ultra non seratur, nec virens quippiam germinet, in exemplum subversionis Sodomæ et Gomorrhæ, Adamæ et Seboim, quas subvertit Dominus in ira et furore suo.
that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
24 Et dicent omnes gentes: Quare sic fecit Dominus Terræ huic? Quæ est hæc ira furoris eius immensa?
Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
25 Et respondebunt: Quia dereliquerunt pactum Domini, quod pepigit cum patribus eorum, quando eduxit eos de Terra Ægypti:
Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
26 et servierunt diis alienis, et adoraverunt eos, quos nesciebant, et quibus non fuerant attributi:
and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
27 idcirco iratus est furor Domini contra Terram istam, ut induceret super eam omnia maledicta, quæ in hoc volumine scripta sunt:
Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
28 et eiecit eos de terra sua in ira et in furore, et in indignatione maxima, proiecitque in terram alienam, sicut hodie comprobatur.
Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
29 Abscondita, Domino Deo nostro: quæ manifesta sunt, nobis et filiis nostris usque in sempiternum, ut faciamus universa verba legis huius.
The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
