Deut 29
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These are the words of the covenant which YHWH commanded Moses to make with the children
of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
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And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that YHWH did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to
all his land;
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the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
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but YHWH has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to
this day.
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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon
you, and your shoe is not waxed old upon your foot.
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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may
know that I am YHWH your God.
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And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan,
came out against us to battle, and we smote them:
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and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
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Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all
that you do.
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You stand this day all of you before YHWH your God; your heads, your tribes, your
elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
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your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner that is in the midst of your camps,
from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water;
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that you may enter into the covenant of YHWH your God, and into his oath, which YHWH
your God makes with you this day;
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that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to
you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.
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Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
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but with him whom stands here with us this day before YHWH our God, and also with
him whom is not here with us this day
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(for you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst
of the nations through which you passed;
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and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and
gold, which were among them);
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lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns
away this day from YHWH our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there
should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
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and it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself
in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my
heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
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YHWH will not pardon him, but then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy will smoke against
that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and YHWH
will blot out his name from under heaven.
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And YHWH will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to
all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
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And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner
that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land,
and the sicknesses wherewith YHWH has made it sick;
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[and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that]
it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom
and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger, and in his anger:
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even all the nations shall say, Wherefore has YHWH done thus to this land? what means
the heat of this great anger?
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Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of YHWH, the God of their fathers,
which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
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and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they knew not, and that
he had not given to them:
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therefore the anger of YHWH was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the
curse that is written in this book;
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and YHWH rooted them out of their land in anger, and in anger, and in great indignation,
and cast them into another land, as at this day.
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The secret things belong to YHWH our God; but the things that are revealed belong
to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.