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Covenant Renewal, Oaths, Restoration, Charges to the Nation

29 [a] These are the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the Israelites[b] in the land of Moab besides[c] the covenant that he made with them at Horeb.

And Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, “You saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt and to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land; that is, the great trials that your eyes saw, and those great signs and wonders. But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even to this day.[d] And I have led you forty years[e] in the desert; your clothes have not worn out on you,[f] and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.[g] You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. And when you came to this place then Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out to meet you for battle, and we defeated them. And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites[h] and to the Gadites[i] and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. And you must diligently observe the words of this covenant,[j] so that you may succeed in all that you do.

10 “You are standing today,[k] all of you, before[l] Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel, 11 your little children, your women and your aliens[m] who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppers[n] of your wood to the drawers[o] of your water, 12 in order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God,[p] and into[q] his oath that Yahweh your God is making with you[r] today,[s] 13 in order to establish you today[t] to himself[u] as a people and so that he may be for you as God, just as he promised[v] to you and just as[w] he swore to your ancestors,[x] to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 “Now I am not making this covenant[y] and this oath with you alone.[z] 15 But with whoever is standing here[aa] with us today[ab] before[ac] Yahweh our God, and with whoever is not standing here[ad] with us today.[ae] 16 For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveled[af] through. 17 And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that were among them, 18 so that there is not[ag] among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart[ah] turns today[ai] from being with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood. 19 And then when he hears the words of this oath, then[aj] he will assure himself[ak] in his heart, saying,[al]Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart,’[am] thereby destroying the well-watered land along with the parched.[an] 20 Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for by then the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Yahweh will single him out for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the scroll of this law.

22 “And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when[ao] they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, 23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown,[ap] and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.’ 24 And all the nations will say, ‘Why[aq] has Yahweh done such a thing[ar] to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?’ 25 And they will say,[as]It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,[at] which he made[au] with them when he brought them out[av] from the land of Egypt. 26 And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he[aw] had not allotted to them. 27 So the anger of Yahweh was kindled[ax] against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll, 28 and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, just as it is today.’[ay]

29 “The hidden things belong to Yahweh[az] our God, but the revealed things belong to us[ba] to know and to our children forever,[bb] in order to do all the words of this law.”

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:1 Deuteronomy 29:1–29 in the English Bible is 28.69–29:28 in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Deuteronomy 29:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Deuteronomy 29:1 Literally “from to alone”
  4. Deuteronomy 29:4 Literally “until the day the this”
  5. Deuteronomy 29:5 Hebrew “year”
  6. Deuteronomy 29:5 Literally “from on you”
  7. Deuteronomy 29:5 Literally “from on your foot”
  8. Deuteronomy 29:8 Hebrew “Reubenite”
  9. Deuteronomy 29:8 Hebrew “Gadite”
  10. Deuteronomy 29:9 Literally “you must keep the words of the covenant the this and you must do them”
  11. Deuteronomy 29:10 Literally “the day”
  12. Deuteronomy 29:10 Literally “to the face of”
  13. Deuteronomy 29:11 Hebrew “alien”
  14. Deuteronomy 29:11 Hebrew “chopper”
  15. Deuteronomy 29:11 Hebrew “drawer”
  16. Deuteronomy 29:12 Literally “for you to go over into the covenant of Yahweh your God”
  17. Deuteronomy 29:12 Or “with”
  18. Deuteronomy 29:12 Literally “cutting with you”
  19. Deuteronomy 29:12 Literally “the day”
  20. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “the day”
  21. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “for him”
  22. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “spoke”
  23. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “according to that which”
  24. Deuteronomy 29:13 Or “your fathers”
  25. Deuteronomy 29:14 Literally “cutting this covenant”
  26. Deuteronomy 29:14 Literally “with you to alone you”
  27. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “with who he is here with us standing”
  28. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “the day”
  29. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “to the face of”
  30. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “with who he is not standing here with us”
  31. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “the day”
  32. Deuteronomy 29:16 Or “journeyed”
  33. Deuteronomy 29:18 Literally “lest there be/develop”
  34. Deuteronomy 29:18 Literally “his heart”
  35. Deuteronomy 29:18 Literally “the day”
  36. Deuteronomy 29:19 Or “and”
  37. Deuteronomy 29:19 Literally “he will bless himself”; HALOT 160 suggests “to consider oneself fortunate”
  38. Deuteronomy 29:19 Literally “to say”
  39. Deuteronomy 29:19 Literally “Peace shall happen/be for me, although/even if in the stubbornness of my heart I go”
  40. Deuteronomy 29:19 Some translators prefer to include the last clause as a part of the words of the wicked man (NASV vs. NEB)
  41. Deuteronomy 29:22 Hebrew “and”
  42. Deuteronomy 29:23 Literally “all of its land will not be sown”
  43. Deuteronomy 29:24 Literally “On what basis
  44. Deuteronomy 29:24 Literally “so”
  45. Deuteronomy 29:25 Or “answer/respond”
  46. Deuteronomy 29:25 Or “fathers”
  47. Deuteronomy 29:25 Literally “cut”
  48. Deuteronomy 29:25 Literally “at/in his to bring them out from the land of Egypt”
  49. Deuteronomy 29:26 That is, Yahweh
  50. Deuteronomy 29:27 Literally “became hot the nose of Yahweh”
  51. Deuteronomy 29:28 Literally “as the day the this”
  52. Deuteronomy 29:29 Literally “are for Yahweh”
  53. Deuteronomy 29:29 Literally “are for us”
  54. Deuteronomy 29:29 Literally “until eternity”

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

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, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

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

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

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:

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

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

10 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy 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 standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

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

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

19 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 imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20 The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

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

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

25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

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

27 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

28 And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: 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.

Erneuerung des Bundes

29 Dies sind die Worte des Bundes, welchen der Herr dem Mose mit den Kindern Israel zu schließen gebot, in der Moabiter Land - außer dem Bunde, den er mit ihnen am Horeb schloß.

Und Mose berief ganz Israel und sprach zu ihnen:

Ihr habt alles gesehen, was der Herr in Ägyptenland vor euren Augen dem Pharao und allen seinen Knechten und seinem ganzen Lande getan hat, die großen Beweise, welche deine Augen gesehen haben, diese Zeichen und großen Wunder. Und der Herr hat euch bis auf den heutigen Tag noch kein verständiges Herz gegeben, Augen, welche sehen, und Ohren, die da hören. Ich habe euch vierzig Jahre lang in der Wüste geführt. Eure Kleider sind an euch nicht zerlumpt und dein Schuh ist an deinem Fuß nicht zerrissen. Ihr habt kein Brot gegessen und weder Wein noch starkes Getränk getrunken, auf daß ihr erfahret, daß ich der Herr, euer Gott, bin.

Und als ihr an diesen Ort kamet, zogen Sihon, der König zu Hesbon, und Og, der König zu Basan, uns entgegen, um mit uns zu streiten; und wir schlugen sie und nahmen ihr Land ein und gaben es den Rubenitern und Gaditern und dem halben Stamme Manasse zum Erbteil. So bewahret nun die Worte dieses Bundes und tut darnach, damit ihr alles weislich vollbringet, was ihr tut.

10 Ihr alle steht heute vor dem Herrn, eurem Gott, eure Häupter, eure Stämme, eure Ältesten und eure Amtleute, alle Männer Israels; 11 eure Kinder, eure Weiber und dein Fremdling, der in deinem Lager ist, deine Holzhauer sowohl als deine Wasserschöpfer:

12 um einzutreten in den Bund des Herrn, deines Gottes, und in seinen Eid, den der Herr, dein Gott, heute mit dir macht, 13 auf daß er dich heute einsetze als sein Volk, und daß er dein Gott sei, wie er zu dir geredet, und wie er deinen Vätern Abraham, Isaak und Jakob, geschworen hat. 14 Denn ich schließe diesen Bund und diesen Eid nicht mit euch allein, 15 sondern sowohl mit euch, die ihr heute hier seid und mit uns stehet vor dem Herrn, unserm Gott, als auch mit denen, die heute nicht bei uns sind.

Folgen einer Abwendung von Gott

16 Denn ihr wisset, wie wir in Ägyptenland gewohnt haben und mitten durch die Völker gezogen sind, wie ihr an ihnen vorüberginget; 17 und ihr sahet ihre Greuel und ihre Götzen von Holz und Stein, Silber und Gold, die bei ihnen sind. 18 Darum hütet euch, daß nicht etwa ein Mann oder ein Weib, ein Geschlecht oder ein Stamm unter euch sei, dessen Herz sich heute von dem Herrn, unserm Gott, abwende, und der hingehe, den Göttern dieser Völker zu dienen; daß nicht etwa eine Wurzel unter euch sei, die Gift und Wermut trage; 19 und daß keiner, wenn er die Worte dieses Fluches hört, sich dennoch in seinem Herzen glücklich preise und spreche: „Ich werde Frieden haben, wenn ich schon wandle in der Verstocktheit meines Herzens!“ - so daß alsdann weggerafft würde das Getränkte mit dem Durstigen.

20 Denn der Herr wird nicht geneigt sein, einem solchen zu vergeben, sondern alsdann wird der Herr seinen Zorn und seinen Eifer rauchen lassen über einen solchen Mann, und es werden sich auf ihn alle Flüche legen, die in diesem Buche geschrieben sind; und der Herr wird seinen Namen unter dem Himmel austilgen; 21 und der Herr wird ihn aus allen Stämmen Israels zum Unglück absondern, gemäß allen Flüchen des Bundes, die in dem Buche dieses Gesetzes geschrieben sind; 22 so daß die Nachkommen, eure Kinder, die nach euch aufkommen werden, und die Fremden, die aus fernen Ländern kommen, sagen werden - wenn sie die Plagen dieses Landes und die Krankheiten sehen, welche der Herr demselben auferlegt hat, 23 und wie er dieses ganze Land mit Schwefel und Salz verbrannt hat, daß es nicht besät werden kann und nichts hervorbringt, daß nichts Grünes darauf wächst, gleichwie Sodom, Gomorra, Adama und Zeboim umgekehrt worden sind, welche der Herr in seinem Zorn und Grimm umgekehrt hat 24 ja, alle diese Völker werden fragen: Warum hat der Herr diesem Lande also getan? Was bedeutet dieser gewaltige, grimmige Zorn?

25 Dann wird man antworten: Weil sie den Bund des Herrn, des Gottes ihrer Väter, verlassen haben, den er mit ihnen schloß, als er sie aus Ägyptenland führte; 26 und weil sie hingegangen sind und andern Göttern gedient und sie angebetet haben, Göttern, die sie nicht kannten, und die er ihnen nicht zugeteilt hat. 27 Darum entbrannte der Zorn des Herrn über dieses Land, daß er über sie alle Flüche kommen ließ, die in diesem Buche geschrieben sind! 28 Und der Herr hat sie aus ihrem Lande verstoßen mit Zorn, Grimm und großer Ungnade und hat sie in ein anderes Land geworfen, wie es heute der Fall ist!

29 Die Geheimnisse sind des Herrn, unseres Gottes, die geoffenbarten Dinge aber sind für uns und unsere Kinder bestimmt ewiglich, damit wir alle Worte dieses Gesetzes tun.