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Chapter 29 |
| 1 | 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: |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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: |
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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. |
