Deuteronomy 29

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The Covenant in Moab

¹These 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 He had made with them at Horeb.^a

¹These are the words of the covenant that YHWH commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that He made with them in Horeb.

²Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

²And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that YHWH did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land—

³You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

³the great trials that your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

⁴Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

⁴And YHWH has not given to you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day.

⁵For forty years I led you in the wilderness,

yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

⁵And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments have not worn out from you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

⁶You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink,

so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

⁶Bread you have not eaten, and wine and strong drink you have not drunk, so that you may know that I am YHWH your God.

⁷When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

⁷And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered them.

⁸We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁸And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half-tribe of the Manassite.

⁹So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

⁹And you shall keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that in all that you do you may prosper.

¹⁰All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes,^a elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

¹⁰You stand today, all of you, before the face of YHWH your God—your leaders of your tribes, and your elders, and your officers—all the men of Israel,

¹¹your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

¹¹your little ones, and your wives, and the sojourner who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water—

¹²so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

¹²that you may enter into the covenant of YHWH your God and into His oath, which YHWH your God makes with you today,

¹³and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹³so that He may establish you today as a people unto Himself, and that He may be unto you God, as He has spoken to you and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁴I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

¹⁴And not with you alone am I cutting this covenant and this oath,

¹⁵but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

¹⁵but with those who are here with us today standing before the face of YHWH our God, and with him who is not here with us today.

¹⁶For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

¹⁶For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed over in the midst of the nations that you passed over.

¹⁷You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

¹⁷And you saw their abominations, and their idols—wood and stone and silver and gold—that were among them,

¹⁸Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,^a

¹⁸lest there be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from YHWH our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations, lest there be among you a root bearing gall and wormwood,

¹⁹because when such a person hears the words of this oath,^a he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’

This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

¹⁹and it will come to pass in his hearing the words of this oath, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ so that the wet are swept away with the dry.

²⁰The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

²⁰YHWH will not spare him, for then the anger of YHWH and His jealousy would burn against that man, and upon him will rest every oath written in this book, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens.

²¹and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

²¹And YHWH will separate him for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

²²Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

²²And the latter generation of your sons who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses that YHWH has laid on it:

²³All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

²³Of sulfur and salt is all the land burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in His anger and His wrath.

²⁴So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

²⁴And all the nations will say, ‘What has YHWH done to this land upon thus? Why the heat of this great anger?’

²⁵And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²⁵And they will say, ‘Upon that they have forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²⁶They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

²⁶For they went and served other gods and worshiped them—gods that they did not know, that He had not apportioned to them—

²⁷Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

²⁷and the anger of YHWH was kindled against that land, to bring on it every curse written in this book.

²⁸The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

²⁸And YHWH uprooted them from their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

²⁹The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

²⁹The things hidden are of YHWH our God, and the things revealed are to us and to our sons even to forever, that we may do all the words of this law.