Deuteronomy:29

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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 . * 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 ; * the great trials which thine eyes saw , the signs and those great wonders ; * but the LORD hath not given you a heart to know , and eyes to see , and ears to hear , unto this day . * 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 . * Ye have not eaten bread , neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink ; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God . * 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 . * And we took their land , and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites , and to the Gadites , and to the half-tribe of the Manassites . * Observe therefore the words of this covenant , and do them , that ye may make all that ye do to prosper . * Ye are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God : your heads , your tribes , your elders , and your officers , even all the men of Israel , * your little ones , your wives , and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp , from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water ; * that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God--and into His oath--which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day ; * that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people , and that He may be unto thee a God , as He spoke unto thee , and as He swore unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob . * Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath ; * 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 -- * for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt ; and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed ; * and ye have seen their detestable things , and their idols , wood and stone , silver and gold , which were with them -- * 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 to serve the gods of those nations ; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood ; * 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 stubbornness of my heart--that the watered be swept away with the dry '; * the LORD will not be willing to pardon him , but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man , and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him , and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven ; * and the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel , according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law . * And the generation to come , your children that shall rise up after you , and the foreigner that shall come from a far land , shall say , when they see the plagues of that land , and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick ; * and that the whole land thereof is brimstone , and salt , and a burning , that it is not sown , nor beareth , nor any grass groweth therein , like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah , Admah and Zeboiim , which the LORD overthrew in His anger , and in His wrath ; * even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land ? what meaneth the heat of this great anger ?' * then men shall say : 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD , the God of their fathers , which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt ; * and went and served other gods , and worshipped them , gods that they knew not , and that He had not allotted unto them ; * therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land , to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book ; * 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 '.-- * The secret things belong unto the LORD our God ; but the things that 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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