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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.
02 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;
03 The great temptations which thine eyes have
seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
04 Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto
this day.
05 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.
06 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk
wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I
am the Lord your God.
07 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:
08 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.
09 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:)
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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.
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