1 T hese are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

¶ These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2 M oses called to all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land;

Moses, therefore, 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 slaves and unto all his land,

3 T he great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles.

4 Y et the Lord has not given you a heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day.

Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear until today.

5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

And I have brought you forty years through the wilderness; your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and neither has thy shoe waxed old upon thy foot.

6 Y ou have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you might recognize and know, I am the Lord your God.

Ye have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

7 A nd when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.

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 W e took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

and we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

9 T herefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may deal wisely and prosper in all that you do.

Thou shalt keep, therefore, the words of this covenant and do them that ye may understand all that ye do.

10 A ll of you stand today before the Lord your God—your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

¶ Ye stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God, your princes of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

11 Y our little ones, your wives, and the stranger and sojourner in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water—

your little ones, your wives, and thy strangers that dwell within thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water,

12 T hat you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into His oath which He makes with you today,

that thou may enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath, which the LORD thy God makes with thee today,

13 T hat He may establish you this day as a people for Himself, and that He may be to you a God as He said to you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

to confirm thee today as his people and that he may be unto thee as God, as he has said unto thee, and as he has sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 I t is not with you only that I make this sworn covenant

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

15 B ut with future Israelites who do not stand here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are here with us this day.

but with those that stand here with us today before the LORD our God and also with those that are not here with us today.

16 Y ou know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations you crossed.

For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the Gentiles which ye passed by;

17 A nd you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.

and ye have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they have among them.

18 B eware lest there should be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns 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 bears gall and wormwood,

Peradventure there shall be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those Gentiles; peradventure there shall be among you a root that bears poison and wormwood;

19 A nd lest, when he hears the words of this curse and oath, he flatters and congratulates himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace and safety, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart and sweep away the watered land with the dry.

and it shall be, when that one hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst.

20 T he Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.

The LORD will not forgive 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 A nd the Lord will single him out for ruin and destruction from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law,

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 S o that the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the Lord has made it sick—

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 has laid upon it,

23 T he whole land is brimstone and salt and a burned waste, not sown or bearing anything, where no grass can take root, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath—

and that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning, that it is not sown, nor shall it produce anything, nor shall any grass grow therein, like in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath;

24 E ven all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?

even all Gentiles shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land? What means the heat of this great anger?

25 T hen men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.

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 F or they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they knew not and that He had not given to them.

for they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not and who had not given anything unto them.

27 S o the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses that are written in this book.

Therefore, the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book.

28 A nd 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.

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 today.

29 T he secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.

The hidden things of the LORD our God are uncovered unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.