1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to cut with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant that he cut with them at Horeb.2Moses called to all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land.3The great trials that your eyes saw, and the signs and those great wonders.4Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear to this very day.5I led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not wear out from you, and your sandal did not wear out from your foot.6You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you would know that I am the LORD your God.7You came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, and we struck them.8We captured their land and assigned it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.9You shall keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may act wisely in all that you do.10Today all of you stand before the LORD your God: your tribal heads, your elders, your officials, and every man of Israel.11Your children and your wives, together with the resident alien who lives in your camp, from woodcutter to water carrier.12You are passing into the covenant of the LORD your God and into his oath, which the LORD your God is cutting with you today.13In order to establish you today as a people to himself, and that he may be God to you, just as he spoke to you and just as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.14It is not with you alone that I am cutting this covenant and this oath.15For with him who is here with us today standing before the LORD our God, and with him who is not here with us today.16You yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations you also passed through.17You saw their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, that were with them.18Lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go serve the gods of those nations, lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.19It shall be, when he hears the words of this oath, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, for I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.20The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and every oath written in this scroll will rest upon him, and the LORD will wipe out his name from under heaven.21The LORD will separate him for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this book of the instruction.22The later generation, your sons who rise after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will see the wounds of that land and its diseases with which the LORD afflicted it.23Brimstone and salt, a burning; all its land will not be sown and will not sprout, and no vegetation will rise in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.24All the nations will ask why the LORD has treated this land this way and why his anger has burned so fiercely.25They will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he cut with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt.26They went and served other gods, bowing down to them, gods they had never known and that he had not assigned to them.27The anger of the LORD burned against that land, to bring upon it all the curse written in this scroll.28The LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and in rage and in great wrath, and he cast them to another land, as at this day.29The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, to do all the words of this instruction.