Deuteronomy 29

Revised Geneva Translation

29 These are the words of the Covenant which the LORD Commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the Covenant which He had made with them in Horeb.

² And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all the Earth in the land of Egypt,

³ “the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those great miracles and wonders.

⁴ “Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

⁵ ‘And I have led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old upon you, nor has your shoe grown old upon your foot.

⁶ ‘You have neither eaten bread nor drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.’

⁷ “Afterward, you came to this place. And Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us to battle. And we killed them

⁸ “and took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁹ “Therefore, keep the words of this Covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in all that you shall do.

¹⁰ “Every one of you stands before the LORD your God this day—the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,

¹¹ “your children, your wives and the stranger who is in your camp (from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water) —

¹² “so that you could enter into the Covenant of the LORD your God and into His oath (which the LORD your God makes with you this day)

¹³ “to establish you this day as a people to Himself, and so that He may be to you a God, as He has said to you and as He has sworn to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ “Nor do I make this Covenant and this Oath with you only,

¹⁵ “but also with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, as with him who is not here with us this day.

¹⁶ “For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations by which you have passed.

¹⁷ “And you have seen their abominations and their idols (wood and stone, silver and gold) which were among them,

¹⁸ “so that there should not be among you man or woman or family or tribe which should turn his heart away from the LORD our God this day — to go and serve the gods of these nations — so that there should not be a root among you who brings forth bitterness and wormwood;

¹⁹ “so that when he hears the words of this curse, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, although I walk according to the stubbornness of my own heart’, thus adding drunkenness to thirst.

²⁰ “The LORD will not be merciful to him. But then the wrath of the LORD and His jealousy shall smolder against that man. And every curse that is written in this Book shall land upon him. And the LORD shall put out his name from under Heaven.

²¹ “And the LORD shall separate him for affliction, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the Covenant that are written in the Book of this Law.

²² “The generation to come — your children who shall rise up after you and the stranger who shall come from a far off land — shall say, when they shall see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD shall strike it

²³ “(All that land shall burn with brimstone and salt. It shall not be sown or bring forth fruit. Nor shall any grass grow in it, like as in the overthrowing of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His wrath and in His anger),

²⁴ “then shall all nations say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land? How fierce is this great wrath?’

²⁵ “And they shall answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He had made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²⁶ ‘And they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods which they did not know, and which had given them nothing.

²⁷ ‘Therefore the wrath of the LORD grew hot against this land, to bring upon it every curse that is written in this Book.

²⁸ ‘And the LORD has rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and has cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

²⁹ “The secret things belong to the LORD our God. But the revealed things belong to us and to our children, forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law.”