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Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet; <span id="v05029005" class="ver">5</span>it was not bread that you ate, nor wine or beer that you drank—so that you might know that I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, am your God. <span id="v05029006" class="ver">6</span><a id="ren05029006-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029006-d">d</a> When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them <span id="v05029007" class="ver">7</span>and took their land, and gave it as a heritage to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.<a id="ren05029007-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029007-e">e</a> <span id="v05029008" class="ver">8</span>Observe carefully the words of this covenant, therefore, in order that you may succeed in whatever you do.<a id="ren05029008-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029008-f">f</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">All Israel Bound by Covenant.</span> <span id="v05029009" class="ver">9</span>You are standing today, all of you, in the presence of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God—your tribal heads, elders, and officials, all of the men of Israel, <span id="v05029010" class="ver">10</span>your children, your wives, and the resident alien who lives in your camp, from those who cut wood to those who draw water for you— <span id="v05029011" class="ver">11</span>to enter into the covenant of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, is making with you today, with its curse, <span id="v05029012" class="ver">12</span>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 ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. <span id="v05029013" class="ver">13</span><a id="ren05029013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029013-g">g</a> But it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant, with its curse, <span id="v05029014" class="ver">14</span>but with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, and with those who are not here with us<a id="rfn05029014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05029014-1">*</a> today.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Warning Against Idolatry.</span> <span id="v05029015" class="ver">15</span>You know that we lived in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the nations, that you too passed through <span id="v05029016" class="ver">16</span>and saw the loathsome things and idols of wood and stone, of gold and silver, that they possess. <span id="v05029017" class="ver">17</span>There may be among you a man or woman, or a clan or tribe, whose heart is now turning away from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; there may be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood; <span id="v05029018" class="ver">18</span>if any such persons, after hearing the words of this curse, should congratulate themselves, saying in their hearts, “I am safe, even though I walk in stubbornness of heart,” thereby sweeping away moist and dry alike,<a id="rfn05029018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05029018-1">*</a> <a id="ren05029018-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029018-h">h</a> <span id="v05029019" class="ver">19</span>the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will never consent to pardon them. Instead, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s burning wrath will flare up against them; every curse written in this book will pounce on them, and the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will blot out their names from under the heavens.<a id="ren05029019-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029019-i">i</a> <span id="v05029020" class="ver">20</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Punishment for Idolatry.</span> <span id="v05029021" class="ver">21</span><a id="ren05029021-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029021-j">j</a> Future generations, your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigners who will come here from distant lands, when they see the calamities of this land and the ills the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has inflicted upon it— <span id="v05029022" class="ver">22</span>all its soil burned out by sulphur and salt, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, like the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah,<a id="ren05029022-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029022-k">k</a> Admah and Zeboiim,<a id="rfn05029022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05029022-1">*</a> which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> overthrew in his furious wrath— <span id="v05029023" class="ver">23</span><a id="ren05029023-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029023-l">l</a> they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?” <span id="v05029024" class="ver">24</span>And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, <span id="v05029025" class="ver">25</span>and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not apportioned to them.<a id="ren05029025-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029025-m">m</a> <span id="v05029026" class="ver">26</span><a id="ren05029026-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05029026-n">n</a> So the anger of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> flared up against this land and brought on it every curse written in this book. <span id="v05029027" class="ver">27</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them out into another land, as they are today.” <span id="v05029028" class="ver">28</span>The hidden things<a id="rfn05029028-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05029028-1">*</a> belong to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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