Deuteronomy · Berean Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 29 Berean Standard Bible
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1 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh 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.
2 Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
5 For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
5 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.
6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
7 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.
8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
8 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.
9 So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10 All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
10 All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11 your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
11 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,
12 so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
13 and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
13 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.
14 I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
14 Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
15 but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
15 but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
16 For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
16 (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;
17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
18 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
19 because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
19 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.
20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’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 Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
21 and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
21 Yahweh 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.
22 Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
22 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 Yahweh has made it sick,
23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
23 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 Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
24 So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
25 And the people will answer, ‘It is 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.
25 Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
26 They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
27 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
28 The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
29 The secret things belong to Yahweh 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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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 5:2–3; Jeremiah 31:32; 2 Kings 23:3; Hebrews 8:9; Exodus 24:2–8
- 2 Exodus 19:4; Joshua 24:5–6; Exodus 8:12; Psalm 78:43–51; Psalm 105:27–36
- 3 Nehemiah 9:9–11; Deuteronomy 7:18–19; Deuteronomy 4:32–35
- 4 Ephesians 4:18; Isaiah 6:9–10; Proverbs 20:12; John 8:43; Matthew 13:11–15
- 5 Deuteronomy 8:4; Nehemiah 9:21; Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 1:3; Matthew 10:10
- 6 Deuteronomy 8:3; Ephesians 5:18; Nehemiah 9:15; Exodus 16:12; 1 Corinthians 10:4
- 7 Numbers 21:21–35; Psalm 135:10–12; Psalm 136:17–22; Numbers 32:33–42; Deuteronomy 2:24–3:17
- 8 Deuteronomy 3:12–13; Numbers 32:33
- 9 1 Kings 2:3; Deuteronomy 4:6; Luke 11:28; Joshua 1:7; Deuteronomy 29:1
- 10 Nehemiah 9:38; Revelation 20:12; Nehemiah 8:2; Deuteronomy 31:12–13; Nehemiah 9:1–2
- 11 Exodus 12:38; Numbers 11:4; Galatians 3:28; Deuteronomy 5:14; Joshua 9:21–27
- 12 2 Chronicles 15:12–15; Nehemiah 10:28–29; 2 Kings 11:17; Joshua 24:25; Deuteronomy 5:2–3
- 13 Genesis 17:7; Exodus 6:7; Deuteronomy 28:9; Jeremiah 32:38; Deuteronomy 7:6
- 14 Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 8:7–12
- 15 Acts 2:39; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Deuteronomy 5:3; Jeremiah 32:39; Jeremiah 50:5
- 16 Deuteronomy 2:19; Deuteronomy 3:1–2; Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 2:24
- 17 Deuteronomy 28:36
- 18 Hebrews 12:15; Deuteronomy 11:16–17; Deuteronomy 13:1–15; Jeremiah 9:15; Acts 8:23
- 19 Jeremiah 7:24; Numbers 15:39; Numbers 15:30; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Jeremiah 7:3–11
- 20 Psalm 74:1; Deuteronomy 9:14; Psalm 79:5; Ezekiel 23:25; Ezekiel 14:7–8
- 21 Ezekiel 13:9; Matthew 24:51; Matthew 25:32; Malachi 3:18; Matthew 25:46
- 22 Jeremiah 19:8
- 23 Zephaniah 2:9; Jeremiah 17:6; Genesis 19:24–25; Jeremiah 20:16; Isaiah 34:9
- 24 Jeremiah 22:8–9; 1 Kings 9:8–9; Romans 2:5; Lamentations 2:15–17; Lamentations 4:12
- 25 Hebrews 8:9; Jeremiah 50:7; 1 Kings 19:10–14; Isaiah 24:1–6; Jeremiah 22:9
- 26 Jeremiah 44:2–6; Jeremiah 19:3–13; 2 Chronicles 36:12–17; Deuteronomy 28:64; Judges 5:8
- 27 Daniel 9:11–14; Deuteronomy 28:15–68; Leviticus 26:14–46; Deuteronomy 29:20–21; Deuteronomy 27:15–26
- 28 2 Chronicles 7:20; 1 Kings 14:15; Proverbs 2:22; Psalm 52:5; Jeremiah 42:10
- 29 Daniel 2:22; Acts 1:7; Romans 11:33–34; Matthew 13:11; Job 11:6–7
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