“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 made with them in Horeb. 2 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; 3 The great temptations which thine
eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 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 years in the wilderness: your
clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon
thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or
strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God. 7 And
when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king
of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 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. 9 Keep therefore the
words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye
do.”
“10 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, 11 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: 12 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: 13
That he may establish thee to day 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. 14 Neither
with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 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: 16 (For ye know how we
have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through 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
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; 19 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: 20 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. 21 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: 22
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; 23 [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, Admah,
and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this
land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger? 25 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: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped
them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them: 27
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon
it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 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. 29 The secret
[things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are]
revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do
all the words of this law.” (Deuteronomy 29:1-29 AV)
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