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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 MSB</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" 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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.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For forty years I led you in the wilderness, <p class="indent2"> yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, <p class="indent2"> so that you might know that I am the LORD your God. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> elders, officials, and all the men of Israel, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water— <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because when such a person hears the words of this oath,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ <p class="reg"> This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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 <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’ <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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.’ <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai<br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> LXX and Syriac; Hebrew <i>you leaders, tribes</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> See <a href="../hebrews/12.htm#15">Hebrews 12:15</a><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>curse</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Majority Standard Bible, MSB is produced in cooperation with <a href=//biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a>, <a href=//discoverybible.com>Discovery Bible</a>, <a href=//openbible.com>OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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