1 ¶ 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.

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, 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,

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

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 perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear until today.

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

5 A nd 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.

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 e have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that 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 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;

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

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

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

10 ¶ 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,

`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 thy strangers that dwell within thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy 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 thou may enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath, which the LORD thy God makes with thee 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 o 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.

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 N either with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

`And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;

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

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

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

and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which with them,

18 P eradventure 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;

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 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.

`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 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.

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 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.

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 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,

`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 a nd 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;

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

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 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;

`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 worshipped them, gods whom they knew not and who had not given anything unto 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 T herefore, the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land to bring 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 today.

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 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.

`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.