1 T hese are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children 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 N ow Moses called all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and 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 have seen, 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 perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.

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 led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on 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 similar drink, that you may 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 you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered 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, to the Gadites, and to half the 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 herefore keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may 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 “ All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, 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 and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws 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 covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath, which the Lord your God 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 today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you, and just as He has sworn to your fathers, to 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 make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone,

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

15 b ut with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is 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 ( for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you 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 you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold);

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

18 s o that there may not 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 these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or 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 so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

`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 “ The Lord would not spare him; for then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord would 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 would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, 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 coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on 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 ‘ The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and 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 “ All nations would say, ‘Why has the Lord done so 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 people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them 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 that they did not know 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 T hen the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is 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 uprooted them from their land in anger, 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 “ The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, 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.