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Deuteronomy 29 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:1 - These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them at Horeb.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:2 - And 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 to all his servants and to all his land,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:3 - the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:4 - but to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:6 - you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7 - And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8 - we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manas'sites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:9 - Therefore be careful to do the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - "You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, both he who hews your wood and he who draws your water,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God makes with you this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:13 - that he may establish you this day as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 - Nor is it with you only that I make this sworn covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:15 - but with him who is not here with us this day as well as with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:16 - "You know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - and you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD would not pardon him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy would smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book would settle upon him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - And the LORD would single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - And the generation to come, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick--
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomor'rah, Admah and Zeboi'im, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath--
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - yea, all the nations would say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:25 - Then men would say, 'It is because 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:26 - and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:27 - therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as at this day.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:29 - "The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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