29 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.