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1 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides 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 Jehovah 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 yet Jehovah has not given you* a heart to know and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day.
5 And I have led you* forty years in the wilderness. Your* clothes have not grown old upon you* and your shoe has not grown old upon your foot. 6 You* have not eaten bread, neither have you* drunk wine or strong drink, that you* may know that I am Jehovah your* God.
7 And 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 killed* 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 Jehovah 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 traveler who is in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water– 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God and into his oath, which Jehovah 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 I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Jehovah our God and also with him who is not here with us this day 16 (for you* know how we dwelt 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 Jehovah 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 happens, when he hears the words of this curse, that he graces himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man and all the curse that is written in this book will lie upon him and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Jehovah 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 And the generation to come, your* sons who will rise up after you* and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the calamities of that land and the sicknesses with which Jehovah has made it sick. 23 The whole land of it is brimstone and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath, 24 even all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men will say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, 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 did not know and that he had not given to them. 27 Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. 28 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons until everlasting, that we may do all the words of this law.
2 And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You* have seen all that Jehovah 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 yet Jehovah has not given you* a heart to know and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day.
5 And I have led you* forty years in the wilderness. Your* clothes have not grown old upon you* and your shoe has not grown old upon your foot. 6 You* have not eaten bread, neither have you* drunk wine or strong drink, that you* may know that I am Jehovah your* God.
7 And 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 killed* 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 Jehovah 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 traveler who is in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water– 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God and into his oath, which Jehovah 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 I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Jehovah our God and also with him who is not here with us this day 16 (for you* know how we dwelt 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 Jehovah 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 happens, when he hears the words of this curse, that he graces himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man and all the curse that is written in this book will lie upon him and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Jehovah 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 And the generation to come, your* sons who will rise up after you* and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the calamities of that land and the sicknesses with which Jehovah has made it sick. 23 The whole land of it is brimstone and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath, 24 even all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men will say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, 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 did not know and that he had not given to them. 27 Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. 28 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons until everlasting, that we may do all the words of this law.