Deuteronomy 29

Deuteronomy 29:1

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.

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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.

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You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

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Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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Deuteronomy 29:5

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

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You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

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Deuteronomy 29:7

When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

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Deuteronomy 29:8

We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Deuteronomy 29:9

So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

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Deuteronomy 29:10

All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

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Deuteronomy 29:11

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

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Deuteronomy 29:12

so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

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enter Heb. pass , This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations , when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims , slain as a sacrifice on this occasion , were divided , and and parts laid asunder . the contracting parties then passed between them , imprecating , as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact , that they might in like manner be cut asunder . Genesis 15 . 10. St. Cyril , in his work against Julian , shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

Deuteronomy 29:13

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Deuteronomy 29:14

I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

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Deuteronomy 29:15

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.

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Deuteronomy 29:16

For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

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Deuteronomy 29:17

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

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Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you 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 among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

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gall and wormwood or , a poisonful herb , Heb. rosh

Deuteronomy 29:19

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I 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.

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to add A very forcible metaphor , denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor , without regard to the consequences. Some render , "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions , which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst Heb. the drunken to the thirsty

Deuteronomy 29:20

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

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Deuteronomy 29:21

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.

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are written Heb. is written

Deuteronomy 29:22

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 on it.

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Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

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Deuteronomy 29:24

So all the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

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Deuteronomy 29:25

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.

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Deuteronomy 29:26

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

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whom he had etc. or , who had not given to them any portion , given. Heb. divided.

Deuteronomy 29:27

Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

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Deuteronomy 29:28

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.’

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Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

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