1 T hese are the words of the agreement the Lord told Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, as well as the agreement He had made with them at Mount Sinai.

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.

2 M oses called all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all the Lord did in front of you in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land.

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;

3 Y ou have seen great tests and powerful works.

the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

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

yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

5 I have led you forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not wear out. And your shoes did not wear out on your feet.

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 Y ou did not eat bread, or drink wine or strong drink, so you might know that I am the Lord your God.

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 W hen you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came to meet us to fight. But we won the fight.

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 a gift to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half family group of Manasseh.

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 S o be careful to keep the words of this agreement and obey them so all that you do will go well.

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

10 “ Today you all stand before the Lord your God, you, your rulers, your families, your leaders, all the men of Israel,

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 y our children, your wives, the stranger who is among your tents, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who gets your water.

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 Y ou are here to take part in the agreement with the Lord your God, and in His promise which the Lord your God is making with you today.

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:

13 S o today He will make you His people. He will be your God, just as He told you and as He promised your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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.

14 “ I am not making this agreement and this promise with you alone.

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

15 I am making them with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and with those who are not here with us today.

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 Y ou know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the land of the nations on our way here.

(for ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

17 Y ou have seen their sinful things and their gods of wood, stone, silver and gold, which they had with them.

and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

18 B e careful not to have any man or woman or family or group among you whose heart turns away from the Lord our God today to go and worship the gods of those nations. Do not let there be a root among you giving poison fruit and bad-tasting plants.

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 W hen one hears the words of this curse, he will say in his pride, ‘I have peace even though I am strong-willed in my heart.’ This will destroy the land that is watered along with the dry land.

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 T he Lord will never be willing to forgive him. But the Lord will be jealous and His anger will burn against that man. Every curse written in this book will be upon him. And the Lord will take out his name from under heaven.

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 T he Lord will set him apart for trouble from all the families of Israel, with all the curses of the agreement which 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 “ The children to come, your sons who grow up after you, and the stranger who comes from a land far away, will see the troubles and diseases the Lord has sent upon the land. And they will say,

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;

23 ‘ The whole land is sulphur and salt, a burning waste, not planted and not giving any plants, and no grass grows in it. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in His anger.’

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:

24 A ll the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was He so angry?’

even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

25 T hen men will say, ‘It is because they did not keep the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them 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 T hey went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they had not known and whom He had not given to them.

for they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

27 S o the anger of the Lord burned against that land. Every curse was brought upon it that is written in this book.

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 T he Lord drove them from their land in much anger. And He sent them into another land, as it is today.’

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 to the Lord our God. But the things that are made known belong to us and to our children forever, so we may obey all the words of this Law.

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.