Deuteronomy Chapter 29

Deuteronomy Chapter 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 had made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called 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,
3 The great temptations which thine eyes
have seen, those great miracles and
wonders:
4 Yet the Lord hath not given you an
heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and
ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty year in the
wilderness: your clothes are not waxed
old upon you, neither is thy shoe waxed
old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have eaten no bread, neither drunk
wine, nor strong drink, that ye might
know, how that I am the Lord your God.
7 After ye came unto this place, and
Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of
Bashan came out against us unto battle,
and we slew them,
8 And took their land, and gave it for an
inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to
the Gadites, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh.
9 Keep therefore the words of this
covenant and do them, that ye may
prosper in all that ye shall do.
10 Ye stand this day every one of you
before the Lord your God: your heads of
your tribes, your elders and your
officers, even all the men of Israel: 11
Your children, your wives, and thy
stranger that is in thy camp from the
hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of
thy water,
12 That thou shouldest pass into the
covenant of the Lord thy God, and into
his oath which the Lord thy God maketh
with thee this day,
13 For to establish thee this day 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, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14 Neither make I this covenant, and this
oath with you only,
15 But as well with him that standeth
here with us this day before the Lord our
God, as with him that is not here with us
this day.
16 For ye know, how we have dwelt in
the land of Egypt, and how we passed
through the midst of the nations, which
ye passed by.
17 And ye have seen their abominations
and their idols (wood, and stone, silver
and gold) which were among them,
18 That there should not be among you
man nor woman, nor family, nor tribe,
which should turn his heart away this
day from the Lord our God, to go and
serve the gods of these nations, and that
there should not be among you any root
that bringeth forth gall and wormwood,
19 So that when he heareth the words of
this curse, he bless himself in his heart,
saying, I shall have peace, although I
walk according to the stubbornness of
mine own heart, thus adding drunkenness
to thirst. 20 The Lord will not be
merciful unto him, but then the wrath of
the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke
against that man, and every curse that is
written in this book, shall light upon him,
and the Lord shall put out his name from
under heaven,
21 And the Lord shall separate him unto
evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according unto all the curses of the
covenant that is written in the book of
this law.
22 So that the generation to come, even
your children that shall rise up after you,
and the stranger that shall come from a
far land, shall say, when they shall see
the plagues of this land, and the diseases
thereof, wherewith the Lord shall smite
it:
23 ( For all that land shall burn with
brimstone and salt: it shall not be sown,
nor bring forth, nor any grass shall grow
therein, like as in the overthrowing of
Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and
Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his
wrath and in his anger)
24 Then shall all nations say, Wherefore
hath the Lord done thus unto this land?
How fierce is this great wrath?
25 And they shall answer, Because they
have forsaken the covenant of the Lord
God of their fathers, which he had made
with them, when he brought them out of
the land of Egypt,
26 And went and served other gods and
worshiped them: even gods which they
knew not, and which had given them
nothing,
27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord
waxed hot against this land, to bring
upon it every curse that is written in this
book.
28 And the Lord hath rooted them out of
their land in anger, and in wrath, and in
great indignation, and hath cast them into
another land, as appeareth this day.
29 The secret things belong to the Lord
our God, but the things revealed belong
unto us, and to our children forever, that
we may do all the words of this law.