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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Deuteronomy 29 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Deuteronomy 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/28.htm" title="Deuteronomy 28">◄</a> Deuteronomy 29 <a href="../deuteronomy/30.htm" title="Deuteronomy 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/deuteronomy/29.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Covenant Renewed in Moab</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 28:69 in Hebrew">a</a></sup></span> These are the words of the covenant that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 29:1 in Hebrew">b</a></sup></span> And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But to this day the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or deal wisely">c</a></sup></span> in all that you do.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“You are standing today, all of you, before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God: the heads of your tribes,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew your heads, your tribes">d</a></sup></span> your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is making with you today, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but with whoever is standing here with us today before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will blot out his name from under heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has made it sick— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> overthrew in his anger and wrath— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>all the nations will say, ‘Why has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“The secret things belong to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 28:69 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Ch 29:1 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>deal wisely</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew <i>your heads, your tribes</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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