1. These the words of the covenant, which יְהוָ֥ה commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2. And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that יְהוָ֥ה did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

3. The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

4. Yet יְהוָ֥ה hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

5. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

6. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that יְהוָ֥ה your Elohim.

7. And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

8. And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

10. Ye stand this day all of you before יְהוָ֥ה your Elohim; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

11. Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with יְהוָ֥ה thy Elohim, and into his oath, which יְהוָ֥ה thy Elohim maketh with thee this day:

13. That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and he may be unto thee Elohim, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

15. But with that standeth here with us this day before יְהוָ֥ה our Elohim, and also with that not here with us this day:

16. (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

17. And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which among them:)

18. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from יְהוָ֥ה our Elohim, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19. And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20. יְהוָ֥ה will not spare him, but then the anger of יְהוָ֥ה and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and יְהוָ֥ה shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21. And יְהוָ֥ה shall separate him unto 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:

22. So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which יְהוָ֥ה hath laid upon it;

23. the whole land thereof brimstone, and salt, burning, it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which יְהוָ֥ה overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

24. Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath יְהוָ֥ה done thus unto this land? what the heat of this great anger?

25. Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of יְהוָ֥ה Elohim of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

26. For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and he had not given unto them:

27. And the anger of יְהוָ֥ה was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

28. And יְהוָ֥ה rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as this day.

29. The secret unto יְהוָ֥ה our Elohim: but those revealed unto us and to our children for ever, that may do all the words of this law.