Deu 29 | ABEn | STEP | These are the words of the covenant, which the lord gave charge to Moses to establish with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant of which he ordained with them in Horeb.

‏ Deuteronomy 29

CHAPTER 29 The LORD Preserves Israel

1 These are the words of the covenant, which the lord gave charge to Moses to establish with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant of which he ordained with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called all the sons of Israel, and he said to them, You see all as many things as [³did ¹the lord ²your God] in the land of Egypt before you to Pharaoh and his attendants, and all his land; 3 the [²tests ¹great] which [²have seen ¹your eyes]; the signs and [²miracles ¹those great], by the [²hand ¹strong], and the [²arm ¹high]. 4 And [³did not give ¹the lord ²God] to you a heart to behold, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day. 5 And he led you forty years in the wilderness. [²did not ³become old ¹Your garments], and your sandals did not wear away from your feet. 6 [³bread ¹You did not ²eat]; [³wine ⁴and ⁵liquor ¹you did not ²drink], that you should know that I am the lord your God. 7 And you came unto this place. And came forth Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan to meet us in war. 8 And we struck them, and we took their land, and we gave it by lot to Reuben, and to Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

Guard the Covenant

9 And you shall guard all the words of this covenant, to do them, that you should perceive all as much as you do. 10 You all stand today before the lord your God; your tribal chiefs, and your council of elders, and your judges, and your judicial recorders, every man of Israel; 11 your wives, and your children, and the foreigner in the midst of your camp; from your woodcutter and unto your water-carrier, 12 to go in the covenant of the lord your God, and in his oaths, as many as the lord your God ordains for you today. 13 That he should establish you to himself for a people, and he will be your God, in which manner he said to you, and in which manner he swore by an oath to your fathers -- Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. 14 And not to you alone I ordain this covenant and this oath, 15 but also to the ones here being with you today before the lord your God, and to the ones not being with you here today. 16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, as we went by in the midst of the nations which you went by. 17 And you beheld their abominations, and their idols -- wood and stone, silver and gold, which is among them. 18 Lest there is among you, a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose thought turned aside from the lord your God, to go to serve to the gods of those nations; lest there is among you a root [⁵upward ¹germinating ²bile ³and ⁴bitterness]. 19 And it shall be if you should hear the words of this imprecation, and one should portend in his heart, saying, [²sacred things ⁴to me ¹May ³happen], for [²by ³the ⁴digression ⁵of my heart ¹I shall go], that [³should not ⁴be destroyed together with ¹the ²sinner] the sinless, 20 in no way should God want to propitiate for him, but then [³shall be burned away ¹the anger ²of the lord], and his zeal against that man. Then shall cleave to him all the imprecations of this covenant, the ones being written in [²scroll ³of the ⁴law ¹this]. And the lord will wipe away his name from under heaven. 21 And [²shall separate him ¹the lord] for evils from all the sons of Israel, according to all the imprecations of the covenant, the ones being written in [²scroll ³of the ⁴law ¹this]. 22 And [³shall say ²generation ¹another] -- even your sons who rise up after you, and the alien which ever should come from out of a land far off, that they shall see the calamities of that land, and its diseases, which the lord sent unto it, 23 sulphur and salt incinerating; all its land shall not be sown, nor shall rise, nor should ascend upon it any green thing. As [⁴were eradicated ¹Sodom ²and ³Gomorrah] -- Admah and Zeboim, which the lord eradicated in rage and anger, 24 and [⁴shall say ¹all ²the ³nations], Why did [²do ¹the lord] thus to this land? What is [²rage ³of anger ¹this great]? 25 And they shall say, Because they left the covenant of the lord, God of their fathers, which he ordained with their fathers, when he led them out of the land of Egypt. 26 And going, they served other gods, and they did obeisance to them, ones which they had no knowledge of, nor knowledge spread to them. 27 And [²was provoked to anger ³in rage ¹the lord] over that land, to bring upon it according to all the imprecations being written in [²scroll ³of the ⁴law ¹this]. 28 And [²lifted ³them ¹the lord] from their land in rage and anger, and [³fit of temper ²great ¹an exceedingly], and cast them into [²land ¹another] as now. 29 The secret things belong to the lord your God. But the open things are to you, and to your children into the eon, to do all the words of this law.