| NET Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. | 1 These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites while they were in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Mount Sinai. Moses Reviews the Covenant |
| 2Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: "You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land. | 2 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to his whole country— |
| 3Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders. | 3all the great tests of strength, the miraculous signs, and the amazing wonders. |
| 4But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! | 4But to this day the LORD has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear! |
| 5I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated. | 5For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out. |
| 6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer--all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God! | 6You ate no bread and drank no wine or other alcoholic drink, but he provided for you so you would know that he is the LORD your God. |
| 7When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them. | 7“When we came here, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them. |
| 8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. | 8We took their land and gave it to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh as their grant of land. |
| 9"Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do. | 9“Therefore, obey the terms of this covenant so that you will prosper in everything you do. |
| 10You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God--the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man, | 10All of you—tribal leaders, elders, officers, all the men of Israel—are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God. |
| 11your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water-- | 11Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water. |
| 12so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today. | 12You are standing here today to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God. The LORD is making this covenant, including the curses. |
| 13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. | 13By entering into the covenant today, he will establish you as his people and confirm that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
| 14It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath, | 14“But you are not the only ones with whom I am making this covenant with its curses. |
| 15but with whoever stands with us here today before the LORD our God as well as those not with us here today. | 15I am making this covenant both with you who stand here today in the presence of the LORD our God, and also with the future generations who are not standing here today. |
| 16"(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled. | 16“You remember how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the lands of enemy nations as we left. |
| 17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.) | 17You have seen their detestable practices and their idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold. |
| 18Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the LORD our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit. | 18I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit. |
| 19When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched. | 19“Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, ‘I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.’ This would lead to utter ruin! |
| 20The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory. | 20The LORD will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven. |
| 21The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. | 21The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the curses of the covenant recorded in this Book of Instruction. |
| 22The generation to come--your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places--will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it. | 22“Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD inflicts on it. |
| 23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. | 23They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.’ |
| 24Then all the nations will ask, "Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?" | 24“And all the surrounding nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why was he so angry?’ |
| 25Then people will say, "Because 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 the answer will be, ‘This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the LORD, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. |
| 26They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. | 26Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the LORD. |
| 27That is why the LORD's anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. | 27That is why the LORD’s anger has burned against this land, bringing down on it every curse recorded in this book. |
| 28So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today." | 28In great anger and fury the LORD uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’ |
| 29Secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law. | 29“The LORD our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions. |
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