Deut 29
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These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the
children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them
in Choreb.
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And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, You have seen all things
that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and
all his land;
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the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
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Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear,
until this day.
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And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and
your sandals were not worn away off your feet.
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You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know
that I am the Lord your God.
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And you came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og
king of Basan, to meet us in war.
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And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and
Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.
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And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand
all things that you shall do.
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You all stand to-day before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your
elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,
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your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp,
from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,
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that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oaths, as
many as the Lord your God appoints you this day;
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that he may appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your God, as he said
to you, and as he swore to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob.
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And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;
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but to those also who are here with you to-day before the Lord your God, and to those
who are not here with you to-day.
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For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the
nations through whom you came.
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And you beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold,
which are among them.
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Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned
aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest
there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.
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And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself
in his heart, saying, Lit. May holy things happen to me; See the use of osia in Isa 55:3; Ac 13:34 Let good happen to me,
for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner
destroy the guiltless with him:
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God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and
his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant
shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall
blot out his name from under heaven.
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And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according
to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.
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And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the
stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land
and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,
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brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green
thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim,
which the Lord overthrew in his anger and anger:)—
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and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this
great fierceness of anger?
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And men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers,
the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land
of Egypt:
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and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign them
to them.
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And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all
the curses which are written in the book of this law.
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And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and anger, and very great indignation,
and cast them out into another land as at present.
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The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong
to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.