These are the words of the covenant that the LORD - commanded Moses to make with the Israelites ... in the land of Moab , in addition to the covenant - He had made with them at Horeb.
Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed ... to them , “ You have seen - with your own eyes - everything - the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh , to all his officials , and to all his land.
You saw with your own eyes the great - trials , and those miraculous signs and wonders.
Yet to this day the LORD has not given a mind to understand , eyes to see , or ears to hear.
For forty years I led you in the wilderness , yet your clothes and sandals ... ... ... ... ... did not wear out.
You ate no bread and drank (no) wine or strong drink ... , so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
When you reached ... this place , Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle , but we defeated them.
We took - their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites , the Gadites , and the half-tribe ... of Manasseh.
So keep - and follow the words of this covenant , - that you may prosper - in all - you do.
All of you are standing today before the LORD your God — you leaders of tribes , elders , officials , and all the men of Israel ,
your children and wives , and the foreigners - in your camps who cut your wood ... and draw your water —
so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God , which He ... is making with you today ... , and into His oath ,
and so that He may establish you today people , and He may be God as He promised and as He swore to your fathers , to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob.
I am making - this - covenant and this oath not only with you ,
but also with those who ... are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God , as well as with those who are not here today ... ....
For you yourselves know - how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations - on the way (here).
You saw - the abominations - and idols - among them made of wood and stone , of silver and gold.
Make sure there is no man or woman , ... clan ... or tribe today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship - the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit ,
- because when such a person hears - the words of this oath , he invokes a blessing on himself , saying , will have peace , even though I walk ... in the stubbornness of my own heart. ’ This will bring disaster on the watered (land) as well as the dry.
The LORD will never be willing to forgive Instead , ... (His) anger and jealousy will burn against that man , and every curse written in this book will fall The LORD - will blot out his name from under heaven
and single him out ... from all the tribes of Israel for disaster , according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
- Then the generation to come — your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land — will see - the plagues of the land ... - and the sicknesses - the LORD has inflicted
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt , unsown ... and unproductive ... , with no plant growing ... just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah , Admah and Zeboiim , which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger ....
So all the nations will ask , ‘ Why ... has the LORD done such a thing to this land ? Why this great outburst of anger ? ’
And (the people) will answer , ‘ It is because - they abandoned - the covenant of the LORD , the God of their fathers , which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
They went and served other gods , and they worshiped gods - they had not known — gods that (the LORD) had not given
Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land , and He brought upon it - every curse written in this book.
The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger , rage , and great wrath , and He cast them into another land , where they are today .... ’
The secret (things belong) to the LORD our God , but the things revealed and to our children forever ... , so that we may follow - all the words of this law. (’’)