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Chapter 29
- 29:1
- 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.
- 29:2
- 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;
- 29:3
- The great temptations which thine
eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
- 29:4
- Yet the LORD hath not given you an
heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
- 29:5
- 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.
- 29:6
- Ye have not eaten bread, neither
have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the
LORD your God.
- 29:7
- 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:
- 29:8
- 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.
- 29:9
- Keep therefore the words of this
covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
- 29:10
- 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,
- 29:11
- 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:
- 29:12
- 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:
- 29:13
- 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.
- 29:14
- Neither with you only do I make
this covenant and this oath;
- 29:15
- 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:
- 29:16
- (For ye know how we have dwelt in
the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed
by;
- 29:17
- And ye have seen their
abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
were among them:)
- 29:18
- 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;
- 29:19
- 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:
- 29:20
- 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.
- 29:21
- 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:
- 29:22
- 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;
- 29:23
- 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:
- 29:24
- Even all nations shall say,
Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the
heat of this great anger?
- 29:25
- 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:
- 29:26
- For they went and served other
gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had
not given unto them:
- 29:27
- And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are
written in this book:
- 29:28
- 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.
- 29:29
- 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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