(KJV) Deuteronomy 29¹

⥃The Covenant in Moab

[1] These [are] the words² of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the³ covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

[2] [¶]And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all⁴ 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:⁵ [4] Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.⁶ [5] And I have led⁷ you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes⁸ are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe⁹ is not waxen old upon thy foot. [6] Ye have not eaten bread¹⁰, neither have¹¹ 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:¹² [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.¹³ [9] Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.¹⁴

[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,¹⁵ [11] Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger¹⁶ that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer¹⁷ of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: [12] That thou shouldest¹⁸ enter¹⁹ into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath²⁰, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: [13] That he may establish²¹ thee to day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be²² 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;²³ [15] But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with [him²⁴] 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 nations²⁵ which ye passed by; [17] And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols²⁶, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:) [18] Lest there should be among you man²⁷, 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 root²⁸ that beareth gall and wormwood²⁹; [19] And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse³⁰, that he bless³¹ himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk³² in the imagination³³ of mine heart, to add³⁴ drunkenness to thirst³⁵: [20] The Lord will not spare³⁶ him, but then the anger³⁷ of the Lord and his jealousy³⁸ shall smoke³⁹ against that man, and all the curses⁴⁰ that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out⁴¹ his name from under heaven. [21] And the Lord shall separate⁴² him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written⁴³ 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 it⁴⁴; [23] [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone⁴⁵, and salt⁴⁶, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the⁴⁷ 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?⁴⁸ [25] Then men shall say, Because⁴⁹ they have forsaken⁵⁰ 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 went⁵¹ and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom⁵² they knew not, and [whom] he had⁵³ not given unto them: [27] And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses⁵⁴ that are written in this book: [28] And the Lord rooted them⁵⁵ out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day⁵⁶. [29] The secret⁵⁷ [things belong] unto the Lord our God: but those [things which are] revealed⁵⁸ [belong] unto us and to our⁵⁹ children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.