This edition follows the Hebrew versification; the traditional number is given in brackets.
What your eyes have seen
1[29:2]Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen with your own eyes everything Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his whole land — 2[29:3]the great trials your own eyes saw, those great signs and wonders. 3[29:4]But to this day Yahweh has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear. 4[29:5]I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, nor did the sandals on your feet wear out. 5[29:6]You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you would know that I am Yahweh your God. 6[29:7]When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us for battle, and we struck them down. 7[29:8]We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 8[29:9]Keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
Entering the covenant, all of you
9[29:10]Today you are all standing before Yahweh your God — your tribal heads, your elders, your officials, every man of Israel, 10[29:11]your children, your wives, and the foreigner in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water — 11[29:12]so that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God is making with you today, 12[29:13]in order that he may establish you today as his people and be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 13[29:14]It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath, 14[29:15]but with those standing here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those not here with us today. 15[29:16]For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the midst of the nations you passed through,
A root bearing bitter poison
16[29:17]and you saw their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, that they kept among them. 17[29:18]See to it that there is no man or woman, family or tribe among you, whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God to go and serve the gods of those nations — that there be among you no root bearing such bitter poison. 18[29:19]When such a person hears the words of this oath, he may congratulate himself, thinking, “I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart” — so that the well-watered land will be swept away with the dry. 19[29:20]Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, the anger and jealousy of Yahweh will smoke against that man, and every curse written in this book will settle upon him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven. 20[29:21]Yahweh will single him out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. 21[29:22]The generation to come — your children who rise up after you — and the foreigner who comes from a distant land will see the disasters of that land and the diseases Yahweh has inflicted on it, 22[29:23]sulfur and salt, its whole land burned, unsown and unsprouting, with not a blade of grass growing on it — like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger and wrath — 23[29:24]and all the nations will ask, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?” 24[29:25]And people will say: “It is because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, that he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 25[29:26]They went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods they had not known, gods he had not allotted to them. 26[29:27]So the anger of Yahweh burned against that land, bringing on it every curse written in this book. 27[29:28]Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is today.” 28[29:29]The hidden things belong to Yahweh our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
