King James VersionDeuteronomy29

Deuteronomy

1 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 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 The great temp­ta­tions which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great mir­a­cles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not giv­en you an heart to per­ceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 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 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 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 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 Keep there­fore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may pros­per in all that ye do. 10 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 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 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 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 Nei­ther with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 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 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the na­tions which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their abom­i­na­tions, and their idols, wood and stone, sil­ver and gold, which were among them:) 18 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 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 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 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 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 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 Even all na­tions shall say, Where­fore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 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 For they went and served oth­er gods, and wor­shipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not giv­en unto them: 27 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 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 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.