Deuteronomy 29

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
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.	1 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt before your very eyes to Pharaoh and all his servants and to all his land;
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;	2 the great testings your own eyes have seen, and those great signs and wonders.
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:	3 But not even at the present day has the LORD yet given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.	4 'I led you for forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;
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.	5 bread was not your food, nor wine or beer your drink. Thus you should know that I, the LORD, am your God.'
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.	6 When we came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them
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:	7 and took over their land, which we then gave as a heritage to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
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.	8 Keep the terms of this covenant, therefore, and fulfill them, that you may succeed in whatever you do.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.	9 "You are all now standing before the LORD, your God--your chiefs and judges, your elders and officials, and all of the men of Israel,
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,	10 together with your wives and children and the aliens who live in your camp, down to those who hew wood and draw water for you--
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:	11 that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD, your God, which he concluded with you today under this sanction of a curse;
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:	12 so that he may now establish you as his people and he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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.	13 But it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant, under this sanction of a curse;
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;	14 it is just as much with those who are not here among us today as it is with those of us who are now here present before the LORD, our God.
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:	15 "You know in what surroundings we lived in the land of Egypt and what we passed by in the nations we traversed,
16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;	16 and you saw the loathsome idols of wood and stone, of gold and silver, that they possess.
17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)	17 Let there be, then, no man or woman, no clan or tribe among you, who would now turn away their hearts from the LORD, our God, to go and serve these pagan gods! Let there be no root that would bear such poison and wormwood among you.
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;	18 If any such person, upon hearing the words of this curse, should beguile himself into thinking that he can safely persist in his stubbornness of heart, as though to sweep away both the watered soil and the parched ground,
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:	19 the LORD will never consent to pardon him. Instead, the LORD'S wrath and jealousy will flare up against that man, and every curse mentioned in this book will alight on him. The LORD will blot out his name from under the heavens
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.	20 and will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant inscribed in this book of the law.
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:	21 "Future generations, your own descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigners who will come here from far-off lands, when they see the calamities of this land and the ills with which the LORD has smitten it--
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;	22 all its soil being nothing but sulphur and salt, a burnt-out waste, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his furious wrath--
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:	23 they and all the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD dealt thus with this land? Why this fierce outburst of wrath?'
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?	24 And the answer will be, 'Because they forsook the covenant which the LORD, the God of their fathers, had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
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:	25 and they went and served other gods and adored them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not let fall to their lot:
26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:	26 that is why the LORD was angry with this land and brought on it all the imprecations listed in this book;
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:	27 in his furious wrath and tremendous anger the LORD uprooted them from their soil and cast them out into a strange land, where they are today.'
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.	28 (Both what is still hidden and what has already been revealed concern us and our descendants forever, that we may carry out all the words of this law.)
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.