The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words of the covenant
which Yahweh commanded Moses to
make with the children ofIsrael in the land
of Moab, in addition to the covenant which
he made with them in Horeb.
2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to
them:
Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did
in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all
his servants, and to all his land;
3 the great trials which your eyes saw,
the signs, and those great wonders.
4ButYahwehhasnot givenyouaheartto
know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this
day.
5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on
you, and your sandals have not grown old
on your feet.
6 You have not eaten bread, neither have
you drunk wine or strong drink, that you
may know that I am Yahweh your God.
7 When you came to this place, Sihon
the king of Heshbon and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us to battle, and
we struck them.
8 We took their land, and gave it for an
inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9 Therefore keep the words of this
covenant and do them, that you may
prosper in all that you do.
10 All of you stand today in the presence
of Yahweh your God: your heads, your
tribes, your elders, and your officers, even
all the men of Israel,
11 your little ones, your wives, and the
foreigners who are in the middle of your
camps, from the one who cuts your wood
to the one who draws your water,
12 that you may enter into the covenant
of Yahweh your God, and into his oath,
which Yahweh your God makes with you
today,
13 that he may establish you today as his
people, and that he may be your God, as
he spoke to you and as he swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither do I make this covenant and
this oath with you only,
15 but with those who stand here with
us today before Yahweh our God, and also
with those who are not here with us today
16 (for youknow how we lived inthe land
of Egypt, and how we came through the
middle of the nations through which you
passed;
17 and you have seen their abominations
and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and
gold, which were among them);
18 lest there should be among you man,
woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns
away today from Yahweh our God, to go to
serve the gods of those nations; lest there
should be among you a root that produces
bitter poison;
19 and it happen, when he hears the
words of this curse, that he bless himself
in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace,
though I walk in the stubbornness of my
heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but
then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will
smoke against that man, and all the curse
that is written in this book will fall on him,
and Yahweh will blot out his name from
under the sky.
21 Yahweh will set him apart for evil out
of all the tribes of Israel, according to all
the curses of the covenant written in this
book of the law.
22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—
will say, when they see the plagues of that
land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,
23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the
overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah,
and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in
his anger, and in his wrath.
24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has
Yahweh done this to this land? What does
the heat of this great anger mean?”
25 Then men will say, “Because they
abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the
God of their fathers, which he made with
them when he brought them out of the
land of Egypt,
26 and went and served other gods and
worshiped them, gods that they didn’t
know and that he had not given to them.
27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned
against this land, to bring on it all the
curses that are written in this book.
28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land
in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as
it is today.”
29 The secret things belong to Yahweh
our God; but the things that are revealed
belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may do all the words of this law.