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Chapter 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, beside the covenant which he
made with them in Horeb. |
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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; |
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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. |
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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: |
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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: |
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| 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. |
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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: |
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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; |
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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: |
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Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this
land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? |
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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. |
