Chapter 29
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Moses 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."
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the great tests that your eyes have seen, the great signs and the great mighty acts, those
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And the LORD did not give you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, until this day.
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I led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.
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You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you know that I am the LORD your God.
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You 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 down.
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We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
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And you shall keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you prosper in all that you do.
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You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God—your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every man of Israel.
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your dependents, your wives, and the sojourner who is in the midst of your camps—from the woodcutter of your wood to the water-drawer of your waters.
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to cross over into the covenant of the LORD your God and into his oath, which the LORD your God has cut with your people today.
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in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for a God just as he spoke to you and just as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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I am not cutting this covenant and this oath with you alone.
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for the one who is here with us, standing today before the LORD our God, and the one who is not here with us today
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for you know what we dwelt in the land of Egypt and what we passed through in the midst of the nations through which you passed.
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You saw their abominations and their idols—wood and stone, silver and gold—that were with them.
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lest there be among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose heart has turned away from the LORD our God today to go serve the gods of those nations, lest there be among you a root bearing fruit of poison and wormwood.
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When he hears the words of this oath and blesses himself in his heart, saying, "I will have peace, for in the stubbornness of my heart I will go," then he will add the watered to the thirsty.
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The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man and will settle upon him all the curse written in this book, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
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The LORD will separate him for evil from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant, the written one in this book of the Torah.
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And the LORD will say, "The last generation, your sons who will arise after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land—they will see the plagues of that land and its sicknesses, which the LORD has made sick in it."
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sulfur and salt, a burning of all its land; it will not be sown, nor will it sprout, nor will any herb go up in it—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his fury.
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And all the nations will say, "On account of what did the LORD do thus to this land? What is the cause of the burning of this great anger?"
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And they will say, "On account of which they abandoned the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he cut with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt."
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And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not allotted to them.
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And the anger of the LORD burned against that land to bring upon it all the curse written in this book.
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And the LORD set it above their Admah in anger and in heat and in great wrath and hurled you to another land, as this day.
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The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may do all the words of this Torah.