Deuteronomy 29

vayyiqra mosheh el-kol-yisra'el vayyomer alehem attem re'item et kol-asher asah Adonai le'enekhem be'erets mitsrayim lefaroh ulekhol-avadayw ulekhol-artso

Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that GOD did before your very eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his courtiers and to his whole country:

hammassot haggedolot asher ra'u enekha ha'otot vehammofetim haggedolim hahem

the wondrous feats that you saw with your own eyes, those prodigious signs and marvels.

velo-natan Adonai lakhem lev lada'at ve'enayim lirot ve'oznayim lishmoa ad hayyom hazzeh

Yet to this day GOD has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

va'olekh etkhem arba'im shanah bammidbar lo-valu salmotekhem me'alekhem vena'alkha lo-valetah me'al raglekha

I led you through the wilderness forty years; the clothes on your back did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet;

lekhem lo akhaltem veyayin veshekhar lo shetitem lema'an tede'u ki ani Adonai elohekhem

you had no bread to eat and no wine or other intoxicant to drink—that you might know that I the ETERNAL am your God.

vattavo'u el-hammaqom hazzeh vayyetse sikhon melekh-kheshbon ve'og melekh-habbashan liqratenu lammilkhamah vannakkem

When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them.

vanniqqakh et-artsam vannittenah lenakhalah laruveni velaggadi velakhatsi shevet hamenashi

We took their land and gave it to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as their heritage.

ushemartem et-divre habberit hazzot va'asitem otam lema'an taskilu et kol-asher ta'asun

Therefore observe faithfully all the terms of this covenant, that you may succeed in all that you undertake.

attem nitsavim hayyom kullekhem lifne Adonai elohekhem rashekhem shivtekhem ziqnekhem veshoterekhem kol ish yisra'el

You stand this day, all of you, before the ETERNAL your God: your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials—the entire body of Israel—

tappekhem neshekhem vegerekha asher beqerev makhanekha mekhotev etsekha ad sho'ev memekha

your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer,

le'ovrekha bivrit Adonai elohekha uve'alato asher Adonai elohekha koret immekha hayyom

to enter into the covenant of the ETERNAL your God, which the ETERNAL your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions;

lema'an haqim-otekha hayyom lo le'am vehu yihyeh-llekha lelohim ka'asher dibber-lakh vekha'asher nishba la'avotekha le'avraham leyitskhaq uleya'aqov

in order to establish you this day as God’s people and in order to be your God, as promised you and as sworn to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

velo ittekhem levaddekhem anokhi koret et-habberit hazzot ve'et-ha'alah hazzot

I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone,

ki et-asher yeshno poh immanu omed hayyom lifne Adonai elohenu ve'et asher enennu poh immanu hayyom

but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the ETERNAL our God and with those who are not with us here this day.

ki-attem yedatem et asher-yashavnu be'erets mitsrayim ve'et asher-avarnu beqerev haggoyim asher avartem

Well you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of various other nations;

vattiru et-shiqqutsehem ve'et gillulehem ets va'even kesef vezahav asher immahem

and you have seen the detestable things and the fetishes of wood and stone, silver and gold, that they keep.

pen-yesh bakhem ish o-isha o mishpakhah o-shevet asher levavo foneh hayyom me'im Adonai elohenu lalekhet la'avod et-elohe haggoyim hahem pen-yesh bakhem shoresh poreh rosh vela'anah

Perchance there is among you some man or woman, or some clan or tribe, whose heart is even now turning away from the ETERNAL our God to go and worship the gods of those nations—perchance there is among you a stock sprouting poison weed and wormwood.

vehayah beshomo et-divre ha'alah hazzot vehitbarekh bilvavo lemor shalom yihyeh-lli ki bishrirut libbi elekh lema'an sefot haravah et-hatseme'ah

When hearing the words of these sanctions, they may imagine a special immunity, thinking, “I shall be safe, though I follow my own willful heart”—to the utter ruin of moist and dry alike.

lo-yoveh Adonai seloakh lo ki az yeshan af-Adonai veqinato ba'ish hahu veravetsah bo kol-ha'alah hakketuvah bassefer hazzeh umakhah Adonai et-shemo mittakhat hashamayim

GOD will never forgive them. Rather, GOD’s anger and passion will rage against them, till every sanction recorded in this book comes down upon them, and GOD blots out their name from under heaven.

vehivdilo Adonai lera'ah mikkol shivte yisra'el kekhol alot habberit hakketuvah besefer hattorah hazzeh

[As for such a clan or tribe,] GOD will single it out from all the tribes of Israel for misfortune, in accordance with all the sanctions of the covenant recorded in this book of Teaching.

ve'amar haddor ha'akharon benekhem asher yaqumu me'akharekhem vehannokhri asher yavo me'erets rekhoqah vera'u et-makkot ha'arets hahiv ve'et-takhalu'eha asher-khillah Adonai bah

And later generations will ask—the children who succeed you, and foreigners who come from distant lands and see the plagues and diseases that GOD has inflicted upon that land,

gofrit vamelakh serefah khol-artsah lo tizzara velo tatsmiakh velo-ya'aleh vah kol-esev kemahpekhat sedom va'amorah admah (vtsvyym) [utsevoyim] asher hafakh Adonai be'appo uvakhamato

all its soil devastated by sulfur and salt, beyond sowing and producing, no grass growing in it, just like the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which GOD overthrew in fierce anger—

ve'ameru kol-haggoyim al-meh asah Adonai kakhah la'arets hazzot meh khori ha'af haggadol hazzeh

all nations will ask, “Why did GOD do thus to this land? Wherefore that awful wrath?”

ve'ameru al asher azevu et-berit Adonai elohe avotam asher karat immam behotsi'o otam me'erets mitsrayim

They will be told, “Because they forsook the covenant that the ETERNAL, God of their ancestors, made with them upon freeing them from the land of Egypt;

vayyelekhu vayya'avdu elohim akherim vayyishtakhavu lahem elohim asher lo-yeda'um velo khalaq lahem

they turned to the service of other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not experienced and who had not been allotted to them.

vayyikhar-af Adonai ba'arets hahiv lehavi aleha et-kol-haqqelalah hakketuvah bassefer hazzeh

So GOD was incensed at that land and brought upon it all the curses recorded in this book.

vayyitteshem Adonai me'al admatam be'af uvekhemah uveqetsef gadol vayyashlikhem el-erets akheret kayyom hazzeh

GOD uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is still the case.”

hannistarot la-Adonai elohenu vehanniglot laׄnׄuׄ uׄleׄvaׄneׄnׄuׄ aׄd-olam la'asot et-kol-divre hattorah hazzot

Concealed acts concern the ETERNAL our God; but with overt acts, it is for us and our children ever to apply all the provisions of this Teaching.