NASB2020 ▾Deuteronomy ▾29 ▾Deuteronomy 291These are the words of the covenant which the L ord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.2And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that the L ord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants, and to all his land;3the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.4Yet to this day the L ord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.5And I have led you in the wilderness for forty years; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.6You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or other strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the L ord your God.7When you reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, but we defeated them;8and we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.9So you will keep the words of this covenant and do them, in order that you may be successful in everything that you do.10“You stand today, all of you, before the L ord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders and your officers, that is, all the men of Israel,11your little ones, your wives, and the stranger who is within your camps, from the one who gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water,12so that you may enter into the covenant with the L ord your God, and into His oath which the L ord your God is making with you today,13in order that He may establish you today as His people, and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.14“Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,15but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the L ord our God, and with those who are not with us here today16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the midst of the nations through which you passed;17moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them);18so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the L ord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.19And it shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will consider himself fortunate in his heart, saying, ‘I will do well though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land along with the dry.’20The L ord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the L ord and His wrath will burn against that person, and every curse that is written in this book will lie upon him, and the L ord will wipe out his name from under heaven.21Then the L ord will single him out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant which is written in this Book of the Law.22“Now the future generation, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which the L ord has afflicted it, will say,23‘All its land is brimstone and salt, burned debris, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the L ord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’24All the nations will say, ‘Why has the L ord done all this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’25Then people will say, ‘ It is because they abandoned the covenant of the L ord , the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.26And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they have not known and whom He had not assigned to them.27Therefore, the anger of the L ord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;28and the L ord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and in great wrath, and hurled them into another land, as it is this day.’29“The secret things belong to the L ord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may follow all the words of this Law.Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 30