Deuteronomy 29

1These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.Cross-references: Ex 19:3 · Ex 24:2 · Lev 26:44 · Deut 4:10 · Deut 4:13 · Deut 4:23 · +11 more

2Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;Cross-references: Ex 8:12 · Ex 19:4 · Josh 24:5 · Ps 78:43 · Ps 105:27

3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.Cross-references: Deut 4:32 · Deut 7:18 · Neh 9:9

4But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.Cross-references: Deut 2:30 · Prov 20:12 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 63:17 · Ezek 36:26 · Matt 13:11 · +9 more

5I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.Cross-references: Deut 1:3 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:4 · Josh 9:5 · Josh 9:13 · Neh 9:21 · +2 more

6You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.Cross-references: Ex 16:12 · Ex 16:35 · Num 16:14 · Num 20:8 · Deut 8:3 · Neh 9:15 · +4 more

7When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.Cross-references: Num 21:21 · Num 32:33 · Deut 2:24 · Ps 135:10 · Ps 136:17

8We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.Cross-references: Num 32:33 · Deut 3:12

9Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · Deut 29:1 · Josh 1:7 · 1Ki 2:3 · Ps 25:10 · Ps 103:17 · +5 more

10All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,Cross-references: Deut 4:10 · Deut 31:12 · 2Chr 23:16 · 2Chr 34:29 · Neh 8:2 · Neh 9:1 · +5 more

11your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,Cross-references: Ex 12:38 · Ex 12:48 · Num 11:4 · Deut 5:14 · Josh 9:21 · Gal 3:28 · +1 more

12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 5:2 · Deut 29:14 · Josh 24:25 · 2Ki 11:17 · 2Chr 15:12 · +1 more

13that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 28:13 · Ex 6:7 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 26:18 · +4 more

14Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,Cross-references: Jer 31:31 · Heb 8:7

15but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us todayCross-references: Deut 5:3 · Jer 32:39 · Jer 50:5 · Acts 2:39 · 1Cor 7:14

16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;Cross-references: Deut 2:4 · Deut 2:9 · Deut 2:19 · Deut 2:24 · Deut 3:1

17and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);Cross-references: Deut 28:36

18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;Cross-references: Deut 11:16 · Deut 13:1 · Deut 17:2 · Jer 9:15 · Hos 10:4 · Amos 6:12 · +3 more

19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Num 15:30 · Num 15:39 · Deut 17:2 · Deut 29:12 · Ps 10:4 · +18 more

20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 32:32 · Ex 34:14 · Deut 9:14 · Deut 25:19 · Deut 27:15 · +30 more

21Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.Cross-references: Josh 7:1 · Ezek 13:9 · Mal 3:18 · Matt 24:51 · Matt 25:32 · Matt 25:41 · +1 more

22The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,Cross-references: Jer 19:8

23that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.Cross-references: Gen 14:2 · Gen 19:24 · Judg 9:45 · Job 18:15 · Ps 107:34 · Isa 34:9 · +9 more

24Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”Cross-references: 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 7:21 · Jer 22:8 · Lam 2:15 · Lam 4:12 · Ezek 14:23 · +1 more

25Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,Cross-references: 1Ki 19:10 · Isa 24:1 · Isa 47:6 · Jer 22:9 · Jer 31:32 · Jer 40:2 · +2 more

26and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.Cross-references: Deut 28:64 · Judg 2:12 · Judg 5:8 · 2Ki 17:7 · 2Chr 36:12 · Jer 19:3 · +1 more

27Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 27:15 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:20 · Dan 9:11

28Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”Cross-references: Deut 6:24 · Deut 8:18 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · 1Ki 14:15 · +9 more

29The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.Cross-references: Deut 6:7 · Deut 30:2 · Job 11:6 · Job 28:28 · Ps 25:14 · Ps 78:2 · +20 more