Deuteronomy, 29

1. These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

1. Moses summoned all the people of Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to his servants and to all his land,

2. And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

2. the great plagues which you yourselves witnessed, the signs and the marvels.

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

3. But to this very day, Yahweh has not given you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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

4. Yahweh made you wander in the desert for forty years, but your clothes did not wear out and neither did your sandals from so much journeying.

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.

5. You did not have bread to eat, or wine or fermented liquor to drink, so that you might know that I, Yahweh, am your God.

6. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.

6. And when we came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, set out to fight against us, but we defeated them

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:

7. and seized their lands, which we then gave as an inheritance and a possession to Reuben, Gad and to half of the tribe of Manasseh.

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.

8. So observe the conditions of this Covenant and put them into practice, that you may succeed in whatever you do.

9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

9. You are all here today in the presence of Yahweh, your God: your leaders, your elders, your secretaries, all the men of Israel,

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

10. with your sons and daughters, and with your wives, together with the foreigner who lives in your field, who cuts the firewood or fetches water for you.

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:

11. You are here in this place to celebrate a Covenant with Yahweh, your God.

12. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

12. Through this oath he makes you his people and he becomes your God, as he said to you and promised to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

13. That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

13. And not only with you do I make this covenant and this oath today,

14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

14. but I make it both with those who are here with you today in the presence of Yahweh and with those who are not here.

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

15. You know very well how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through other lands.

16. (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

16. You have seen the abominations and the loathsome idols they kept: of stone, wood, gold and silver.

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

17. So may there be no man or woman, family or tribe among you whose heart turns away from Yahweh to go and serve the gods of those nations. May no poisonous and bitter plants sprout among you.

18. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

18. If anyone does not heed the words of this sworn Covenant, thinking, "I shall have peace though I do as I please, the just and the sinner perish together,"

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:

19. Yahweh shall not pardon him. His rage and jealousy shall burn against that man, and all the curses written in this book await him. Yahweh will wipe out his name from under the heavens,

20. The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

20. and will separate him from the tribes of Israel to his misfortune, according to all the curses of the Covenant expressed in this book of the Law.

21. And the LORD 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:

21. The future generations that will come after you and the foreigners who come from distant countries shall see the plagues of this land and the plagues Yahweh inflicted on it, and they shall say,

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 the LORD hath laid upon it;

22. "A land of salt and sulfur is this one, burned and unsown; not even grass can be seen. So it was with Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, when Yahweh destroyed them and laid them waste in his anger and rage."

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 the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

23. All the nations shall ask: "Why has Yahweh dealt so with this nation? What does such anger mean?"

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

24. And they shall answer: "This happened because they abandoned the Covenant which Yahweh, the God of their fathers, made with them when he brought them out of Egypt,

25. Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

25. because they went to serve other gods and worshiped them, gods that were not theirs and to whom Yahweh had not entrusted them.

26. For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:

26. Therefore Yahweh was angry with that land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book.

27. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

27. Yahweh has pulled them out of their land with anger, rage and great indignation, and cast them into another land, as you can see today.

28. And the LORD 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.

28. The secret things belong to Yahweh, our God, but what he made known to us belongs to us and our children forever. So we have to put into practice all the provisions of this Law!

29. The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: 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.

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