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These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

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 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 all his servants, and to all his land;

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 trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

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 in the wilderness for forty years; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

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.

"You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or other strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

"When you reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, but we defeated them;

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 as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

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.

"So you will keep the words of this covenant and do them, in order that you may be successful in everything that you do.

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

"You stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders and your officers, that is, all the men of Israel,

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 the stranger who is within your camps, from the one who gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water,

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:

so that you may enter into the covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath which the LORD your God is making with you today,

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:

in order that He may establish you today as His people, and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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.

"Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, and with those who are not with us here today

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 you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them);

And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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 shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will consider himself fortunate in his heart, saying, 'I will do well though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land along with the dry.'

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 be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His wrath will burn against that person, and every curse that is written in this book will lie upon him, and the LORD will wipe out his name from under heaven.

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.

"Then the LORD will single him out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant which is written in this Book of the Law.

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:

"Now the future generation, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,

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;

'All its land is brimstone and salt, burned debris, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.'

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:

"All the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done all this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

"Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned 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.

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:

'And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they have not known and whom He had not assigned to them.

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

'Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

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 uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and in great wrath, and hurled them into another land, as it is this day.'

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 to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may follow all the words of this Law.

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.