Deuteronomy Chapter 29
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Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
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Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
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and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.
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Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.
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Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
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The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;
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so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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Jehovah will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.
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Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
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And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.
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Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather
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the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
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Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast
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its fruit.
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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
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All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.
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The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
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and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
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Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
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therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.
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And Moses called to all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his bondmen, and to all his land:
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the great trials that thine eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.
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But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
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And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;
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ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah yourGod.
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And ye came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle, and we smote them.
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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.
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Ye shall keep then the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
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Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah yourGod: your chiefs [of] your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
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your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water;
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that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thyGod, and into his oath, which Jehovah thyGod maketh with thee this day;
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that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be to thee aGod, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
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but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah ourGod, and with him that is not here with us this day
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(for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed;
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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, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah ourGod, to go and serve thegods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood,
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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 sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.
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Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
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and Jehovah will separate him for mischief 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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And the generation to come, your children who 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 its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,
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[that] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, [and] burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
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even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
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And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah theGod of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
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and they went and served othergods, and bowed down to them,gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
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And 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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and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it appears] this day.
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The hidden things belong to Jehovah ourGod; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law.
lxxbrent (lxxbrent) - Septuagint (Brenton 1851) eBible USFM
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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 covenant which he made with them in Choreb.
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And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, Ye have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;
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the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
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Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
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And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.
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Ye did not eat bread, ye did not drink wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I [am] the Lord your God.
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And ye came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.
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And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.
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And ye shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that ye may understand all things that ye shall do.
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Ye all stand to-day before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,
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your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,
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that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord thy God appoints thee this day;
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that he may appoint thee to himself for a people, and he shall be thy God, as he said to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob.
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And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;
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but to those also who are here with you to-day before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you to-day.
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For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom ye came.
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And ye beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.
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Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.
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And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]:
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God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
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And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.
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And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,
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brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)—
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and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what [is] this great fierceness of anger?
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And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
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and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign [them] to them.
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And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.
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And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.
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The secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.
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Hæc sunt verba fœderis quod præcepit Dominus Moysi ut feriret cum filiis Israel in Terra Moab: præter illud fœdus, quod cum eis pepigit in Horeb.
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Vocavitque Moyses omnem Israel, et dixit ad eos: Vos vidistis universa, quæ fecit Dominus coram vobis in Terra Ægypti Pharaoni, et omnibus servis eius, universæque terræ illius,
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tentationes magnas, quas viderunt oculi tui, signa illa, portentaque ingentia,
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et non dedit vobis Dominus cor intelligens, et oculos videntes, et aures quæ possunt audire, usque in præsentem diem.
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Adduxit vos quadraginta annis per desertum: non sunt attrita vestimenta vestra, nec calceamenta pedum vestrorum vetustate consumpta sunt.
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Panem non comedistis, vinum et siceram non bibistis: ut sciretis quia ego sum Dominus Deus vester.
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Et venistis ad hunc locum: egressusque est Sehon rex Hesebon, et Og rex Basan, occurrentes nobis ad pugnam. Et percussimus eos,
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et tulimus terram eorum, ac tradidimus possidendam Ruben et Gad, et dimidiæ tribui Manasse.
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Custodite ergo verba pacti huius, et implete ea: ut intelligatis universa quæ facitis.
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Vos statis hodie cuncti coram Domino Deo vestro, principes vestri, et tribus, ac maiores natu, atque doctores, omnis populus Israel,
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liberi et uxores vestræ, et advena qui tecum moratur in castris, exceptis lignorum cæsoribus, et his, qui comportant aquas:
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ut transeas in fœdere Domini Dei tui, et in iureiurando quod hodie Dominus Deus tuus percutit tecum:
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ut suscitet te sibi in populum, et ipse sit Deus tuus sicut locutus est tibi, et sicut iuravit patribus tuis, Abraham, Isaac, et Iacob.
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Nec vobis solis ego hoc fœdus ferio, et hæc iuramenta confirmo,
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sed cunctis præsentibus et absentibus.
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Vos enim nostis quomodo habitaverimus in Terra Ægypti, et quo modo transierimus per medium nationum, quas transeuntes
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vidistis abominationes et sordes, id est, idola eorum, lignum et lapidem, argentum et aurum, quæ colebant.
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Ne forte sit inter vos vir aut mulier, familia aut tribus, cuius cor aversum est hodie a Domino Deo nostro: ut vadat et serviat diis illarum Gentium: et sit inter vos radix germinans fel et amaritudinem.
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Cumque audierit verba iuramenti huius, benedicat sibi in corde suo, dicens: Pax erit mihi, et ambulabo in pravitate cordis mei: et absumat ebria sitientem,
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et Dominus non ignoscat ei: sed tunc quammaxime furor eius fumet, et zelus contra hominem illum, et sedeant super eum omnia maledicta, quæ scripta sunt in hoc volumine: et deleat Dominus nomen eius sub cælo,
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et consumat eum in perditionem ex omnibus tribubus Israel, iuxta maledictiones, quæ in Libro legis huius ac fœderis continentur.
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Dicetque sequens generatio, et filii qui nascentur deinceps, et peregrini, qui de longe venerint, videntes plagas Terræ illius, et infirmitates, quibus eam afflixerit Dominus,
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sulphure, et salis ardore comburens, ita ut ultra non seratur, nec virens quippiam germinet, in exemplum subversionis Sodomæ et Gomorrhæ, Adamæ et Seboim, quas subvertit Dominus in ira et furore suo.
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Et dicent omnes Gentes: Quare sic fecit Dominus Terræ huic? quæ est hæc ira furoris eius immensa?
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Et respondebunt: Quia dereliquerunt pactum Domini, quod pepigit cum patribus eorum, quando eduxit eos de Terra Ægypti:
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et servierunt diis alienis, et adoraverunt eos, quos nesciebant, et quibus non fuerant attributi:
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idcirco iratus est furor Domini contra Terram istam, ut induceret super eam omnia maledicta, quæ in hoc volumine scripta sunt:
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et eiecit eos de terra sua in ira et in furore, et in indignatione maxima, proiecitque in terram alienam, sicut hodie comprobatur.
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Abscondita, Domino Deo nostro: quæ manifesta sunt, nobis et filiis nostris usque in sempiternum, ut faciamus universa verba legis huius.
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These are the words of the covenant which the LORD 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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Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
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the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
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But the LORD has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to 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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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD 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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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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Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
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All of you stand today in the presence of the LORD 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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that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,
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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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Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
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but with those who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
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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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and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, 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 the LORD 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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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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The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’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 the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.
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The LORD 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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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 the LORD has 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 the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
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Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
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Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them 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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Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
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The LORD 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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The secret things belong to the LORD 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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These <FI>are<Fi> the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
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And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Ye--ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
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the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders;
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and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,
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and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off thy foot;
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bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.
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`And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon--also Og king of Bashan--doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them,
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and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh;
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and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.
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`Ye are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God--your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities--every man of Israel;
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your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water--
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for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;
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in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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`And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;
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but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,
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for ye have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have passed by;
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and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which <FI>are<Fi> with them,
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lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:
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`And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.
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Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,
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and Jehovah hath separated him for evil, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.
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`And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, --
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(<FI> with<Fi> brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --
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yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?
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`And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt,
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and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them--gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them;
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and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book,
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and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as <FI>at<Fi> this day.
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`The things hidden <FI>are<Fi> to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed <FI>are<Fi> to us and to our sons--to the age, to do all the words of this law.
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Explain Like I'm 5
A long, long time ago, there was nothing at all - no earth, no sky, no animals, no people. It was all dark and empty. But God was there! God is so powerful that He can make anything just by speaking. So God said "Let there be light!" and BOOM! There was light everywhere! God saw that the light was beautiful and good. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night." This was the very first day when God started making our wonderful world!
Explain Like I'm 10
Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.
Explain Like I'm 15
Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).