1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses
to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant
which he made with them in Horeb. 2 Moses called to all Israel, and said
to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did 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 saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears
to hear, to this day. 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your
clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your
foot. 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or
strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. 7 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 and 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 Keep therefore the
words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that
you do. 10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God;
your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of
Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the
midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws
your water; 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God,
and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day; 13 that
he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to
you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant
and this oath, 15 but with him who stands here with us this day before
Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day 16 (for
you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
midst of the nations through which you passed; 17 and you have
seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold,
which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman,
or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to
go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root
that bears gall and wormwood; 19 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 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his
jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in
this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the
sky. 21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of
the law. 22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after
you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they
see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made
it sick; 23 and that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt,
and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass
grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the
nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat
of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the
covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other
gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not
given to them: 27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this
land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; 28 and
Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great
indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 29 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.
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