King James Version

1 And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that the Lord has done before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land." 2 The great signs that your eyes have seen, the signs and the great wonders, they are. 3 And the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear until this day. 4 I led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not wear out upon you, and your sandal did not wear out upon your foot. 5 You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 6 And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, and we defeated them. 7 And we took their land and gave it as a possession to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh. 8 And you shall keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may understand all that you do. 9 You are all standing today before the Lord your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every man of Israel. 10 Your women and your strangers who are in your camps, from your woodchoppers to your water drawers. 11 To pass through the covenant of the LORD your God and through His oath which the LORD your God is cutting with you today. 12 To establish you today as a people for Himself and He will be to you a God, as He spoke to you and as He swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 13 And I am not cutting this covenant and this oath only with you. 14 For whatever is here with us today before the LORD our God and whatever is not here with us today. 15 For you know what we did in the land of Egypt and what we encountered among the nations you passed through. 16 And you saw their idols, the wood and the stone, the silver and the gold, which were with them. 17 Beware, lest there be among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations, lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit. 18 And it shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, "Peace shall be to me, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart," to add drunkenness to the thirsty. 19 The LORD will not forgive him, for then the LORD’s anger and His jealousy will burn against that man, and all the curse written in this book will rest upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. 20 And the LORD separated him for evil from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. 21 And the last generation of your sons who will rise after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, and they will see the plagues of that land and the diseases which the Lord has brought upon it. 22 Sulfur and salt, a burning, all its land shall not be sown and shall not sprout, and no grass shall grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overturned in His anger and in His wrath. 23 And all the nations will say, "Why has the Lord done this to this land? What is this great anger?" 24 And they said concerning the fact that they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 25 And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that had not been allotted to them. 26 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against that land to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. 27 And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger and in hot displeasure and in great wrath, and He threw them into another land as this day. 28 The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to do all the words of this law. 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God (Elohim): but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.