¶ These are the words¹ of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the² covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all³ that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

⁴The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

⁵Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

And I have led⁶ you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes⁷ are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe⁸ is not waxen old upon thy foot.

Ye have not eaten bread⁹, neither have¹⁰ ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

¹¹And 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:

¹²And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

¹³Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

¶¹⁴Ye 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,

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger¹⁵ that is in thy camp, from the hewer¹⁶ of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

That thou shouldest¹⁷ enter¹⁸ into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath¹⁹, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

That he may establish²⁰ thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be²¹ unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

²²Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him²³ that is not here with us this day:

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations²⁴ which ye passed by;

And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols²⁵, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

Lest there should be among you man²⁶, 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 root²⁷ that beareth gall and wormwood²⁸;

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse²⁹, that he bless³⁰ himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk³¹ in the imagination³² of mine heart, to add³³ drunkenness to thirst³⁴:

¶ The LORD will not spare³⁵ him, but then the anger³⁶ of the LORD and his jealousy³⁷ shall smoke³⁸ against that man, and all the curses³⁹ that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out⁴⁰ his name from under heaven.

And the LORD shall separate⁴¹ him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written⁴² in this book of the law:

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 the LORD hath laid upon it⁴³;

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone⁴⁴, and salt⁴⁵, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the⁴⁶ overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

⁴⁷Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Then men shall say, Because⁴⁸ they have forsaken⁴⁹ the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

For they went⁵⁰ and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom⁵¹ they knew not, and whom he had⁵² not given unto them:

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses⁵³ that are written in this book:

And the LORD rooted them⁵⁴ out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day⁵⁵.

The secret⁵⁶ things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed⁵⁷ belong unto us and to our⁵⁸ children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.