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 that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that 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 to all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his bondmen, and to all his land:

3 Y ou have seen great tests and powerful works.

the great trials that thine eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

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

But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to 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 grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown 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 Jehovah 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 ye came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for 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 to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites.

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

Ye shall keep then 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 Jehovah your God: your chiefs your tribes, your elders, and your officers, 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, as well the hewer of thy wood as 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 mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah 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 this day for a people unto himself, and he may be to 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 Jehovah our God, and 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 dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed;

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 Jehovah 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 stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

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.

Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;

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 Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is 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,

And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited 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.’

the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:

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, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence 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.

And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had 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.

and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to 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 Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is 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 Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as 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 hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law.