Chapter 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, beside the covenant which He
made with them in Horeb.
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.
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great
miracles.
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to
hear unto this day.
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.
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might
know that I am the Lord your God.
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Hezbon, and Og the king
of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them.
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.
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all
that ye do.
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,
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, 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, that he may establish thee today 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.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 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.
For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
nations which ye passed by, and ye have seen 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 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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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, Adma, and Zeboam, which the Lord overthrew
in his anger, and in his wrath.
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land?
What meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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.
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew
not, and whom he had not given unto them.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all
the curses that are written in this book.
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.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed
belong unto us, and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of
this law.