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Deuteronomy 29

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Deuteronomy 29 Bible text

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These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:

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And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

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the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

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the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

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But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

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but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

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I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.

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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

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Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

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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 struck them.

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And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

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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.

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and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

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

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Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

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All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

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Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

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your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

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your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;

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that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,

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that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;

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that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,

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Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

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but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

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but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day

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(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;

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(for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed;

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and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);

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and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

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lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless 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.

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and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless 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.

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Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

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Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

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Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

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And Jehovah will set him apart unto 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.

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The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,

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And the generation to come, your children 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 wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;

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that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

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and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

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even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

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Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

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Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

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and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.

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and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:

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Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.

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therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

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Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

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and Jehovah 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.

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The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.