| NET Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. | 1These 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. |
| 2Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: "You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land. | 2Moses 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. |
| 3Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders. | 3You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders. |
| 4But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! | 4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear. |
| 5I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated. | 5For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out. |
| 6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer--all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God! | 6You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God. |
| 7When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them. | 7When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them. |
| 8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. | 8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. |
| 9"Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do. | 9So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do. |
| 10You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God--the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man, | 10All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel, |
| 11your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water-- | 11your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water— |
| 12so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today. | 12so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath, |
| 13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. | 13and 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. |
| 14It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath, | 14I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, |
| 15but with whoever stands with us here today before the LORD our God as well as those not with us here today. | 15but 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. |
| 16"(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled. | 16For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here. |
| 17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.) | 17You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold. |
| 18Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the LORD our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit. | 18Make 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, |
| 19When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched. | 19because 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. |
| 20The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory. | 20The 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 |
| 21The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. | 21and 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. |
| 22The generation to come--your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places--will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it. | 22Then 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. |
| 23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. | 23All 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. |
| 24Then all the nations will ask, "Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?" | 24So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’ |
| 25Then people will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. | 25And 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. |
| 26They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. | 26They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them. |
| 27That is why the LORD's anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. | 27Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book. |
| 28So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today." | 28The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’ |
| 29Secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law. | 29The 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. |
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