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 the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from 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;

And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Ye -- ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to 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 wonders;

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

and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

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 cause you to go forty years in a wilderness; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off 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.

bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I Jehovah 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 ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon -- also Og king of Bashan -- doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite 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 take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the 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.

and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.

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 are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God -- your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities -- every man 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 infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who in the midst of thy camps, 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,

for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;

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.

in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

`And not with you alone am I making 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 him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,

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 have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have 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 see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which with 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,

lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall 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 hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the 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.

Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

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 Jehovah hath separated him for evil, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is 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—

`And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into 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—

( brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --

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?

yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what 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.

`And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them 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.

and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them -- gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to 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.

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is 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 Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as this day.

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 things hidden to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed to us and to our sons -- to the age, to do all the words of this law.