The Covenant in Moab 1 WBS These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in 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 WBS And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Ye have seen all that the LORD 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 WBS The great temptations which thy eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: BSB BSB: You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
4 WBS Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. BSB BSB: Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
5 WBS And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not become old upon you, and thy shoe hath not become old upon thy foot. BSB BSB: For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
6 WBS Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drank wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD 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 WBS And when ye came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them: 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 WBS And we took their land, and gave it for 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 WBS Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. BSB BSB: So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
10 WBS Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with 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 WBS Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water: BSB BSB: your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
12 WBS That thou shouldst enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 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 WBS That he may establish thee to-day for a people to himself, and that he may be to thee a God, as he hath said to thee, and as he hath sworn to thy 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 WBS Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; BSB BSB: I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
15 WBS But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 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 WBS (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 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 WBS And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) BSB BSB: You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
18 WBS Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth 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 WBS And it should come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 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 WBS The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 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 WBS And the LORD shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that are 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 WBS So that the generation to come of your children that shall arise after you, and the stranger that shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 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 WBS And that the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor doth it bear, nor doth any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger 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 WBS Even all the nations shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 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 WBS Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth 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 WBS For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not given to them: 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 WBS And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are 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 WBS And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is 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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