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¹ These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.² And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his slaves, and to all his land;³ the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:⁴ but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.⁵ And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old on you, and your shoes have not waxed old on your feet.⁶ You have not eaten bread, neither have you drank wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.⁷ And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:⁸ and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.⁹ Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

¹⁰ You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,¹¹ your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner that is in the midst of your camps, from the cutter of your wood to the drawer of your water;¹² that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;¹³ that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.¹⁴ Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,¹⁵ but with him that stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day¹⁶ (for you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;¹⁷ and you have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);¹⁸ or else if there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; and if there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;¹⁹ and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.²⁰ Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.²¹ And Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.²² And the generation to come, your sons that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;²³ [and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:²⁴ even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what [is the meaning of] the heat of this great anger?²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,²⁶ and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they did not know, and that he had not given to them:²⁷ therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;²⁸ and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.²⁹ The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.