Deuteronomy 29

CLV(i) 1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh instructed Moses to contract with the sons of Israel in the country of Moab, aside from the covenant that He had contracted with them at Horeb. 2 Moses called to all Israel and said to them:You saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the country of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his country, 3 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and those great miracles. 4 Yet until this day Yahweh has not given to you a heart to realize and eyes to see and ears to hear. 5 When I conducted you forty years in the wilderness, your garments did not decay on you, and your sandal did not decay on your foot. 6 You did not eat bread, neither did you drink wine nor intoxicant, so that you might know that I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. 7 When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came forth to meet us for battle, and we smote them. 8 Then we took their country and gave it as an allotment to the Reubenite and to the Gadite and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 9 So you will observe the words of this covenant and obey them, so that you may proceed intelligently in all that you undertake. 10 You are stationed today, all of you, before Yahweh your Elohim--your heads, your tribal chiefs, your elders and your superintendents, every man of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, even your sojourner who is within your camps, from the chopper of your timbers to the bailer of your waters, 12 that you may enter into the covenant with Yahweh your Elohim and into His imprecation that Yahweh your Elohim is contracting with you today, 13 so that He may set you up today as His people. And He shall become your Elohim just as He promised to you and just as He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. 14 And not with you, you alone, am I contracting this covenant and this imprecation, 15 (for it is both with him who is here with us standing today before Yahweh our Elohim and with him who is not here with us today. 16 For you know that we had dwelt in the country of Egypt and that we had passed among the nations whom you passed; 17 and you saw their abominations and their idol clods, those of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were with them.. 18 Beware lest there may be among you a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart today is turning around from being with Yahweh our Elohim to go to serve the elohim of those nations; beware lest there may be among you a root, being fruitful with poison and wormwood. 19 And it will come to be when he hears the words of this imprecation that he will bless himself in his heart, saying:I shall come to have peace, though I am going in the obduracy of my own heart, seeing that the satiated may be swept up with the thirsty. 20 Yahweh shall not be willing to pardon him, because then Yahweh's anger and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the imprecation that is written in this scroll will lie on him. Yahweh will wipe out his name from under the heavens;" 21 and Yahweh will separate him from all the tribes of Israel for the evil visitation according to all the imprecations of the covenant that is written in this scroll of the law. 22 The latter generation of your sons who shall rise after you and the foreigner who shall come from a country afar will ask, when they see the smitings of that land of yours and its ailments with which Yahweh has made it ill-. 23 its whole land a burnt waste of sulfur and salt; it shall not be sown, neither shall it sprout, nor shall any herbage ascend in it, like the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in His anger and in His fury-. 24 hence all the nations will ask:Why did Yahweh do thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger? 25 Then some will answer:Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh Elohim of their fathers, that He had contracted with them when He brought them forth from the country of Egypt, 26 for they went off and served other elohim and bowed themselves down to them, elohim whom they had neither known, nor had He apportioned for them. 27 Hence the anger of Yahweh grew hot against that land so as to bring upon it all the malediction that is written in this scroll. 28 So Yahweh plucked them up off their ground in anger, in fury and in great wrath, and He flung them into another country as it is this day. 29 The things being concealed are Yahweh our Elohim's, yet the things being revealed are ours and our sons' until the eon, so that we might keep all the words of this law.