1 aThese are the words
of the covenant
which
the LORD
commanded
Moses
to make
with the sons
of Israel
in the land
of Moab
, besides
the bcovenant
which
He had made
with them at Horeb
.
1And Moses summoned
all
Israel
and said
to them, "You have seen
all
that the LORD
did
before your eyes
in the land
of Egypt
to Pharaoh
and all
his servants
and all
his land
;
athe great trials
which
your eyes
have seen
, those
great
signs
and wonders
.
"Yet to this day
athe LORD
has not given
you a heart
to know
, nor
eyes
to see
, nor
ears
to hear
.
"I have led you forty
years
in the wilderness
; ayour clothes
have not worn
out on you, and your sandal
has not worn
out on your foot
.
" aYou have not eaten bread
, nor
have you drunk
wine
or strong
drink
, in order
that you might know
that I am the LORD
your God
.
" aWhen you 1reached this
place
, Sihon
the king
of Heshbon
and Og
the king
of Bashan
came
out to meet
us for battle
, but we 2defeated
them;
and we took their land
and agave
it as an inheritance
to the Reubenites
, the Gadites
, and the half-tribe
of the Manassites
.
" aSo keep the words
of this
covenant
to do
them, bthat you may prosper
in all
that you do
.
"You stand today
, all
of you, before
the LORD
your God
: your chiefs
, your tribes
, your elders
and your officers
, even all
the men
of Israel
,
your little ones
, your wives
, and the alien
who
is within
your camps
, from athe one who chops
your wood
to the one who draws
your water
,
that you may enter into the covenant
with the LORD
your God
, and into His oath
which
the LORD
your God
is making
with you today
,
in order that He may establish
you today
as His people
and that aHe may be your God
, just
as He spoke
to you and as He swore
to your fathers
, to Abraham
, Isaac
, and Jacob
.
"Now not with you alone am I amaking
this
covenant
and this
oath
,
abut both with those who stand
here
with us today
in the presence
of the LORD
our God
and with those who
are not with us here
today
(for you know how
we lived
in the land
of Egypt
, and how
we came
through the midst
of the nations
through
which
you passed
;
moreover, you have seen their abominations
and their idols
of awood
, stone
, silver
, and gold
, which
they had with them);
aso that there
will not be among you a man
or
woman
, or
family
or
tribe
, whose
heart
turns
away
today
from the LORD
our God
, to go
and serve
the gods
of those
nations
; that there
will not be among you ba root
bearing
poisonous
fruit
and wormwood
.
"It shall be when he hears the words
of this
curse
, that he will 1boast
, saying
, `I have
peace
though
I walk
in the stubbornness
of my heart
in order
2to destroy
the watered
land with the dry
.'
"The LORD shall never
be willing
to forgive
him, but rather
the anger
of the LORD
and aHis jealousy
will 1 bburn
against that man
, and every
curse
which is written
in this
book
will 2rest
on him, and the LORD
will cblot
out his name
from under
heaven
.
"Then the LORD will single
him out for 1adversity
from all
the tribes
of Israel
, according to all
the curses
of the covenant
awhich are written
in this
book
of the law
.
"Now the generation to come
, your sons
who
rise
up after
you and athe foreigner
who
comes
from a distant
land
, when they see
the plagues
of the land
and the diseases
with which
the LORD
has 1afflicted
it, will say
,
`All its land
is abrimstone
and salt
, ba burning
waste, 1unsown
and unproductive
, and no
grass
grows
in it, like the overthrow
of cSodom
and Gomorrah
, Admah
and Zeboiim
, which
the LORD
overthrew
in His anger
and in His wrath
.'
"All the nations
will say
, ` aWhy
has the LORD
done
thus
to this
land
? Why
this
great
1outburst
of anger
?'
"Then men will say, ` aBecause
they forsook
the covenant
of the LORD
, the God
of their fathers
, which
He made
with them when He brought
them out of the land
of Egypt
.
`They went and served
other
gods
and worshiped
them, gods
whom
they have not known
and whom He had not 1allotted
to them.
`Therefore, the anger of the LORD
burned
against that land
, ato bring
upon it every
curse
which is written
in this
book
;
and athe LORD uprooted
them from their land
in anger
and in fury
and in great
wrath
, and cast
them into another
land
, as it is this
day
.'
" aThe secret things
belong to the LORD
our God
, but bthe things
revealed
belong to us and to our sons
forever
, that we may observe
all
the words
of this
law
.