Chapter 29

These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded¹⁴ Moses to make² with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made¹ with them in Horeb.

And Moses called⁴ unto all Israel, and said⁴ unto them, Ye have seen¹ all that the LORD did¹ before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen,¹ the signs, and those great miracles:

Yet the LORD hath not given¹ you an heart to perceive,² and eyes to see,² and ears to hear,² unto this day.

And I have led⁵⁵ you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old¹ upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old¹ upon thy foot.

Ye have not eaten¹ bread, neither have ye drunk¹ wine or strong drink: that ye might know⁴ that I [am] the LORD your God.

And when ye came⁴ unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out⁴ against² us unto battle, and we smote⁵⁵ them:

And we took⁴ their land, and gave⁴ it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

Keep¹ therefore the words of this covenant, and do¹ them, that ye may prosper⁵⁵ in all that ye do.⁴

Ye stand¹² this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers,⁶ [with] all the men of Israel,

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer⁶ of thy wood unto the drawer⁶ of thy water:

That thou shouldest enter² into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh⁶ with thee this day:

That he may establish⁵³ thee to day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said¹⁴ unto thee, and as he hath sworn⁸ unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Neither with you only do I make⁶ this covenant and this oath;

But with [him] that standeth⁶ here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day:

(For ye know¹ how we have dwelt¹ in the land of Egypt; and how we came¹ through the nations which ye passed by;¹

And ye have seen⁴ their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away⁶ this day from the LORD our God, to go² [and] serve² the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth⁶ gall and wormwood;

And it come to pass, when he heareth² the words of this curse, that he bless⁹⁸ himself in his heart, saying,² I shall have peace, though I walk⁴ in the imagination of mine heart, to add² drunkenness to thirst:

The LORD will⁴ not spare² him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke⁴ against that man, and all the curses that are written⁷ in this book shall lie¹ upon him, and the LORD shall blot out¹ his name from under heaven.

And the LORD shall separate⁵² him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written⁷ in this book of the law:

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up⁴ after you, and the stranger that shall come⁴ from a far land, shall say,¹ when they see¹ the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid¹⁴ upon it;

[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown,¹¹ nor beareth,⁵⁵ nor any grass groweth⁴ therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew¹ in his anger, and in his wrath:

Even all nations shall say,¹ Wherefore hath the LORD done¹ thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?

Then men shall say,¹ Because they have forsaken¹ the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made¹ with them when he brought them forth⁵³ out of the land of Egypt:

For they went⁴ and served⁴ other gods, and worshipped¹⁰¹ them, gods whom they knew¹ not, and [whom] he had not given¹ unto them:

And the anger of the LORD was kindled⁴ against this land, to bring⁵³ upon it all the curses that are written⁷ in this book:

And the LORD rooted them out⁴ of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast⁵⁵ them into another land, as [it is] this day.

The secret¹² [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed¹² [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do² all the words of this law.