Deuteronomy 29 · Parashot Ki Tavo–Nitzavim

And Moshe called to all Yisra᾽el, and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Miżrayim to Par῾o, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

the great trials which thy eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

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

You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

And when you came to this place, Siĥon the king of Ḥeshbon, and ῾Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:

and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Re᾽uveni, and to the Gadi, and to the half tribe of the Menashshi.

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

You 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 Yisra᾽el,

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:

that thou shouldst enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God makes with thee this day:

that he may establish thee today for a people to himself, and that he may be to thee a God, as he has said to thee, and as he has sworn to thy fathers, to Avraham, to Yiżĥaq, and to Ya῾aqov.

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

but with him that stands here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

(for you know how we have dwelt in the land of Miżrayim; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;

and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns 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 bears gall and wormwood;

and it come to pass, 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 stubborness of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

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.

And the Lord shall mark him off for evil out of all the tribes of Yisra᾽el, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the Tora:

so that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the alien that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid upon it;

and that the whole land is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor does any grass grow on it, like the overthrow of Sedom, and ῾Amora, Adma, and Żevoyim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

then all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

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 out of the land of Miżrayim:

for they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

and the anger of the Lord burned against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

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.

The secret things belong to the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this Tora.