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 Heshbon
, 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 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
.
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
, Admah
, and Zeboim
, 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
for
ever
, that we may do
all the words
of this law
.