Renewal of the Covenant

29 [a]These are the terms of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab,(A) in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.(B)

Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them:

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.(C) With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.(D) But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.(E) Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led(F) you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.(G) You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink.(H) I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.”(I)

When you reached this place, Sihon(J) king of Heshbon(K) and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.(L) We took their land and gave it as an inheritance(M) to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.(N)

Carefully follow(O) the terms of this covenant,(P) so that you may prosper in everything you do.(Q) 10 All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel, 11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.(R) 12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, 13 to confirm you this day as his people,(S) that he may be your God(T) as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 14 I am making this covenant,(U) with its oath, not only with you 15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God but also with those who are not here today.(V)

16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here. 17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.(W) 18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns(X) away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.(Y)

19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing(Z) on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,”(AA) they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. 20 The Lord will never be willing to forgive(AB) them; his wrath and zeal(AC) will burn(AD) against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot(AE) out their names from under heaven. 21 The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster,(AF) according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.(AG)

22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.(AH) 23 The whole land will be a burning waste(AI) of salt(AJ) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,(AK) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.(AL) 24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?(AM) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

25 And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.(AN) 26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. 27 Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.(AO) 28 In furious anger and in great wrath(AP) the Lord uprooted(AQ) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God,(AR) but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.(AS)

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:1 In Hebrew texts 29:1 is numbered 28:69, and 29:2-29 is numbered 29:1-28.

Cusboonayntii Axdiga

29 Kuwanu waa erayadii axdigii Rabbigu Muuse ku amray, oo uu reer binu Israa'iil kula dhigtay dalkii reer Moo'aab, oo aan ahayn axdigii uu iyaga kula dhigtay Buur Xoreeb.

Markaasaa Muuse u wada yeedhay reer binu Israa'iil oo dhan, oo wuxuu ku yidhi, Idinku waad wada aragteen wixii Rabbigu markaad Masar joogteen hortiinna ku sameeyey Fircoon iyo addoommadiisii oo dhan iyo dalkiisii oo dhan, kuwaas oo ahaa jirrabyadii waaweynaa oo indhihiinnu arkeen, iyo calaamooyinkii iyo yaababkii waaweynaa, laakiinse Rabbigu ilaa maantadan la joogo idinma siin qalbi wax garta iyo indho wax arka iyo dhego wax maqla toona. Oo anigu intii afartan sannadood ah ayaan cidlada idinku dhex kexeeyey, oo dharkiinnii korkiinna kuma duugoobin, kabihiinniina cagihiinna kuma dhammaanin. Idinku ma aydaan cunin kibis, mana aydaan cabbin khamri ama wax lagu sakhraamo toona si aad u garataan inaan anigu ahay Rabbiga Ilaahiinna ah. Oo markaad meeshan timaadeen waxaa inagu soo baxay Siixon oo ahaa boqorkii Xeshboon iyo Coog oo ahaa boqorkii Baashaan, oo innana waynu laynay. Oo dalkoodiina intaan qaadannay ayaan dhaxal u siinnay reer Ruubeen iyo reer Gaad iyo qabiilkii reer Manaseh badhkood. Haddaba erayada axdigan xajiya oo yeela inaad ku liibaantaan wax alla wixii aad samaysaan.

10 Maanta dhammaantiin waxaad hor taagan tihiin Rabbiga Ilaahiinna ah. Waxaa wada jooga madaxdiinnii, iyo qabiilooyinkiinnii, iyo odayaashiinnii, iyo saraakiishiinnii, iyo xataa nimankii reer binu Israa'iil oo dhan, 11 iyo dhallaankiinnii, iyo naagihiinnii, iyo qariibkiinnii xeryihiinna ku dhex jira, xataa kan geedaha idiin jara iyo kan biyaha idiin dhaansha, 12 inaad gashaan axdiga Rabbiga Ilaahiinna ah iyo dhaarta Rabbiga Ilaahiinna ahu uu maanta idinla dhiganayo, 13 inuu maanta dad idinka dhigto iyo inuu Ilaah idiin noqdo, siduu idiin sheegay oo uu ugu dhaartay awowayaashiin oo ahaa Ibraahim iyo Isxaaq iyo Yacquub. 14 Oo idinka keligiinna idinla dhigan maayo axdigan iyo dhaartan, 15 laakiinse waxaan la dhiganayaa ka maanta inala taagan halkan Rabbiga Ilaaheenna ah hortiisa, iyo ka aan maanta halkan inala taagnaynba, 16 (waayo, waad ogtihiin sidaan Masar ku dhex degganaan jirnay iyo sidaan u soo dhex marnay quruumihii aad ka soo dhex gudubteen, 17 waanad aragteen waxyaalahoodii karaahiyada ahaa iyo sanamyadoodii ahaa qoryaha, iyo dhagaxa, iyo lacagta, iyo dahabka, oo iyaga dhex yiil,) 18 waaba intaasoo uu dhexdiinna ku jiraa nin, ama naag, ama reer, ama qabiil, qalbigiisu maanta uga sii jeestay Rabbiga Ilaaheenna ah inuu u adeego quruumahaas ilaahyadooda, oo waaba intaasoo uu idinku dhex jiraa xidid dhalaa xammeeti iyo dacar, 19 oo ay noqon doontaa markuu maqlo habaarkan erayadiisa inuu isagu qalbigiisa ka ducaysto oo isyidhaahdo, Nabad baan heli doonaa, in kastoo aan ku socday madaxadayggayga inaan sakhraannimo ku harraadbeelo. 20 Rabbigu ninkaas saamixi maayo, laakiinse Rabbiga cadhadiisa iyo masayrkiisa ayaa ninkaas ku kululaan doona, oo inkaarta kitaabkan ku qoran oo dhammuna isagay saarnaan doontaa, oo Rabbiguna magiciisa wuu ka tirtiri doonaa inta samada ka hoosaysa oo dhan. 21 Oo Rabbigu wuxuu isaga qabiilooyinka reer binu Israa'iil oo dhan uga dhex sooci doonaa inuu belaayo ugu dejiyo siday yihiin dhammaan inkaaraha axdiga ee ku qoran kitaabkan sharciga. 22 Oo qarniga soo socda oo ah carruurtiinna dabadiin kici doonta, iyo shisheeyaha dal fog ka iman doonaaba markay arkaan dalkaas belaayadiisa iyo cudurrada Rabbigu ku riday, 23 iyo in dalka oo dhammu yahay baaruud, iyo cusbo, iyo meel guban, oo aan waxba lagu beerin, aanna dhalin, oo aan cawsna ka bixin innaba sidii markii la afgembiyey Sodom iyo Gomora, iyo Admaah iyo Seboyim oo Rabbigu ku afgembiyey cadhadiisa iyo xanaaqiisa, 24 markaasay quruumaha oo dhammu odhan doonaan, Rabbigu muxuu dalkan sidaas ugu galay? Oo kulaylka xanaaqan weyn micnihiisu waa maxay? 25 Markaasaa dadku waxay odhan doonaan, Maxaa yeelay, iyagu waxay ka tageen axdigii uu Rabbiga ah Ilaaha awowayaashood la dhigtay markuu ka soo bixiyey dalkii Masar, 26 oo intay tageen ayay u adeegeen oo caabudeen ilaahyo kale oo ayan aqoon, isaguna uusan siin, 27 oo sidaas daraaddeed ayaa Rabbigu ugu xanaaqay dalkan, inuu ku soo dejiyo kulli inkaarta kitaabkan ku qoran oo dhan. 28 Oo Rabbigu dhulkoodii ayuu kaga rujiyey cadho iyo xanaaq iyo dhirif weyn, oo wuxuu ku dhex tuuray dal kaleeto siday maantadan tahay. 29 Waxyaalaha qarsoon waxaa iska leh Rabbiga Ilaaheenna ah, laakiinse waxyaalaha la muujiyey waxaa iska leh innaga iyo carruurteenna weligeenba inaan sharcigan erayadiisa oo dhan yeelno.

The Covenant Renewed in Moab

29 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the (A)covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: (B)“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— (C)the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. Yet (D)the Lord has not given you a heart to [a]perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. (E)And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. (F)Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. (G)You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. And when you came to this place, (H)Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered them. We took their land and (I)gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh. Therefore (J)keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may (K)prosper in all that you do.

10 “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from (L)the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water— 12 that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and (M)into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, 13 that He may (N)establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, (O)just as He has spoken to you, and (P)just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 “I make this covenant and this oath, (Q)not with you alone, 15 but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, (R)as well as with him who is not here with us today 16 (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by, 17 and you saw their [b]abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold); 18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, (S)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, (T)and that there may not be among you a root bearing (U)bitterness or wormwood; 19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I [c]follow the (V)dictates of my heart’—(W)as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

20 (X)“The Lord would not spare him; for then (Y)the anger of the Lord and (Z)His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord (AA)would blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the Lord (AB)would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the (AC)Law, 22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they (AD)see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:

23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, (AE)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, (AF)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ 24 All nations would say, (AG)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ 25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 27 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, (AH)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28 And the Lord (AI)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:4 understand or know
  2. Deuteronomy 29:17 detestable things
  3. Deuteronomy 29:19 walk in the stubbornness or imagination