Deuteronomy 29

These {are} the words of the covenant that God commanded Moses to cut {with} the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had cut with them at Horeb. \*

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

the great sufferings that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

But until this day, God has not given to you a heart to know or eyes to see or ears to hear. \*

‘And I have led you 40 years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.

You did not eat bread, and you did not drink wine or beer, so that you might know that I {am} God your God.’ \*

And you came to this place, and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for the battle, and we struck them down.

And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

And you shall keep the words of this covenant and do them so that you may prosper in everything that you do. \*

You stand today, all of you, to the face of God your God (your chiefs, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

your children, your wives, and the foreigner who {is} among you in your camp, from him who cuts your wood to him who draws your water), \*

to enter into the covenant of God your God and into the oath that God your God is cutting with you today,

so that he may raise you up today into a people for himself and he may be God for you, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,

and not only with you am I cutting this covenant and this oath,

but {with} those who are standing here with us today to the face of God our God, and {with} those who are not here with us today.

For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we went through in the midst of the nations which you passed through, \*

and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, that {were} among them,

lest there is among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from God our God to go serve the gods of those nations, lest there is among you a root bearing gall and wormwood.

And it will be, when he hears the words of this curse, then he will bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ so that the wet {and} the dry are swept away. \*

God is not willing to forgive him. Instead, the nose of God and his jealousy will smolder against that man, and all the curses written in this book will rest on him, and God will wipe out his name from under the heavens.

And God will separate him for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. \*

And the latter generation, your children who will rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which God has made it sick,

‘All its land {is} sulfur and burning salt; no one sows and nothing sprouts and not any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which God destroyed in his nose and in his wrath,’

and all the nations will say, ‘Because of what has God done such to this land? What {is} the heat of this great nose?’ \*

And they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of God, the God of their fathers, that he cut with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt,

and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods that they had not known, and they had no portion of. \*

So the nose of God burned against that land to bring on it all the curses written in this book,

and God has torn them away from their land in nose and in wrath and in great fury and has thrown them into another land, as this day.’ \*

The secret things {are} of God our God, but the revealed things {are} for us and for our sons until forever, in order to do all the words of this law. \*