Deuteronomy 29
29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which
commanded Moses to make with the
children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in
Horeb.
29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that
did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and
unto all his land;
29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
29:4 Yet
hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to
hear, unto this day.
29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might
know that I am
your Elohim.
29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before
your Elohim; your captains of your
tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with
thy Elohim, and into his
oath, which
thy Elohim maketh with thee this day:
29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee an Elohim, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before
our Elohim, and
also with him that is not here with us this day:
29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
29:17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart
turneth away this day from
our Elohim, to go and serve the elohim of these nations;
lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
29:20
will not spare him, but then the anger of
and his jealousy shall
smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon
him, and
shall blot out his name from under heaven.
29:21 And
shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
29:22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and
the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that
land, and the sicknesses which
hath laid upon it;
29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is
not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath
done thus unto this land? what
meaneth the heat of this great anger?
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of
Elohim of
their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt:
29:26 For they went and served other elohim, and worshipped them, elohim whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
29:27 And the anger of
was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the
curses that are written in this book:
29:28 And
rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great
indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29:29 The secret things belong unto
our Elohim: but those things which are
revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this
law.