The Covenant in Moab 1 ULT These{ are} the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to cut{ with} the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had cut with them at Horeb. BSB BSB: 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.
2 ULT And Moses called to all Israel and said to them,“You have seen everything that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land— BSB BSB: 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.
3 ULT the great sufferings that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. BSB BSB: You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
4 ULT But until this day, Yahweh has not given to you a heart to know or eyes to see or ears to hear. BSB BSB: Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
5 ULT ‘And I have led you 40 years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet. BSB BSB: For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
6 ULT You did not eat bread, and you did not drink wine or beer, so that you might know that I{ am} Yahweh your God.’ BSB BSB: You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 ULT And you came to this place, and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for the battle, and we struck them down. BSB BSB: When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
8 ULT And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh. BSB BSB: We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9 ULT And you shall keep the words of this covenant and do them so that you may prosper in everything that you do. BSB BSB: So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
10 ULT You stand today, all of you, to the face of Yahweh your God(your chiefs, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, BSB BSB: All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
11 ULT your children, your wives, and the foreigner who{ is} among you in your camp, from him who cuts your wood to him who draws your water), BSB BSB: your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
12 ULT to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God and into the oath that Yahweh your God is cutting with you today, BSB BSB: so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
13 ULT so that he may raise you up today into a people for himself and he may be God for you, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, BSB BSB: 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.
14 ULT and not only with you am I cutting this covenant and this oath, BSB BSB: I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
15 ULT but{ with} those who are standing here with us today to the face of Yahweh our God, and{ with} those who are not here with us today. BSB BSB: 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.
16 ULT For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we went through in the midst of the nations which you passed through, BSB BSB: For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
17 ULT and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, that{ were} among them, BSB BSB: You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
18 ULT lest there is among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God to go serve the gods of those nations, lest there is among you a root bearing gall and wormwood. BSB BSB: 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,
19 ULT And it will be, when he hears the words of this curse, then he will bless himself in his heart, saying,‘I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ so that the wet{ and} the dry are swept away. BSB BSB: 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.
20 ULT Yahweh is not willing to forgive him. Instead, the nose of Yahweh and his jealousy will smolder against that man, and all the curses written in this book will rest on him, and Yahweh will wipe out his name from under the heavens. BSB BSB: 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
21 ULT And Yahweh will separate him for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. BSB BSB: 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.
22 ULT And the latter generation, your children who will rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which Yahweh has made it sick, BSB BSB: 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.
23 ULT ‘All its land{ is} sulfur and burning salt; no one sows and nothing sprouts and not any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh destroyed in his nose and in his wrath,’ BSB BSB: 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.
24 ULT and all the nations will say,‘Because of what has Yahweh done such to this land? What{ is} the heat of this great nose?’ BSB BSB: So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
25 ULT And they will say,‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, that he cut with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt, BSB BSB: 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.
26 ULT and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods that they had not known, and they had no portion of. BSB BSB: They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
27 ULT So the nose of Yahweh burned against that land to bring on it all the curses written in this book, BSB BSB: Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
28 ULT and Yahweh has torn them away from their land in nose and in wrath and in great fury and has thrown them into another land, as this day.’ BSB BSB: 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.’
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