Deuteronomy 29

1 These were the words of the covenant which YHWH had commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that which YHWH has done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land— 3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 And YHWH had not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day. 5 And I cause you to go in a wilderness for 40 years. Your garments had not been consumed from off you, and your shoe had not worn away from off your foot. 6 You had not eaten bread, and you had not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you knew that I was your God YHWH. 7 And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon—also Og king of Bashan—came out to meet us to battle, and we struck them, 8 and took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of the Manassite. 9 And you kept the words of this covenant and did them, so that you cause all that you do to prosper. 10 You are standing today, all of you, before your God YHWH: your heads, your tribes, your elderly, and your authorities, every man of Israel, 11 your infants, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the middle of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water, 12 for your passing over into the covenant of your God YHWH, and into His oath which your God YHWH is making with you today, 13 in order to establish you to Himself for a people today, and He Himself is your God, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone, 15 but with him who is here with us, standing before our God YHWH today, and with him who is not here with us today, 16 for you know how you stayed in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the middle of the nations which you have passed by. 17 And you saw their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them, 18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning from our God YHWH today, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root bearing the fruit of gall and wormwood. 19 And it will be, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he will bless himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I will go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty. 20 YHWH will not be willing to be propitious to him, for then the anger of YHWH will smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and all the oath which was written in this scroll will be laid down on him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens, 21 and YHWH will separate him for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which was written in this Scroll of the Law. 22 And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who comes in from a far-off land, will say, when they have seen the strokes of that land and its sicknesses which YHWH had sent into it: 23 The whole land is burned with brimstone and salt, it will not be sown, nor will it shoot up, nor will any herb go up on it there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which YHWH overturned in His anger and in His fury. 24 Indeed, all the nations will say, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger? 25 And they will say, Because that they had forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and they went and served other gods, and bowed themselves to them—gods which they do not know, and which He had not apportioned to them. 27 And the anger of YHWH will burn against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that was written in this scroll, 28 and YHWH will pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and throw them into another land, as at this day. 29 The things hidden belong to our God YHWH, and the things revealed belong to us and to our sons to a distant age, to do all the words of this law.”


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