68AND HE WILL MAKE RETURN YOU YAHWEH EGYPT IN SHIPS BY THE WAY WHICH I SAID TO <THE> YOU NOT YOU WILL REPEAT AGAIN TO SEE IT AND YOU WILL SELL YOURSELVES THERE TO ENEMIES YOUR TO [MALE] SLAVES AND TO FEMALE SLAVES AND THERE NOT [WILL BE] A BUYER 68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
1THESE [ARE] [THE] WORDS OF THE COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YAHWEH <OBJ.> MOSES TO MAKE WITH [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IN [THE] LAND OF MOAB <FROM> <TO> BESIDES THE COVENANT WHICH HE HAD MADE WITH THEM AT HOREB The Covenant in Moab 1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.*NoteCloseThat is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai
2AND HE SUMMONED MOSES <TO> ALL ISRAEL AND HE SAID TO THEM YOU YOU HAVE SEEN <OBJ.> ALL THAT HE DID YAHWEH TO EYES YOUR IN [THE] LAND OF EGYPT TO PHARAOH AND TO ALL SERVANTS HIS AND TO ALL LAND HIS 2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
3THE TRIALS <THE> GREAT WHICH THEY SAW EYES YOUR THE SIGNS AND THE WONDERS <THE> GREAT <THE> THOSE 3You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
4AND NOT HE HAS GIVEN YAHWEH TO <THE> YOU A HEART TO KNOW AND EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR UNTIL THE DAY <THE> THIS 4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
5AND I LED <OBJ.> YOU FORTY YEAR[S] IN THE WILDERNESS NOT THEY WORE OUT CLOTHES YOUR FROM ON <THE> YOU AND SANDAL YOUR NOT IT WORE OUT FROM ON FOOT YOUR 5For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
6BREAD NOT YOU ATE AND WINE AND STRONG DRINK NOT YOU DRANK SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 6You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
7AND YOU CAME TO THE PLACE <THE> THIS AND HE CAME OUT SIHON [THE] KING OF HESHBON AND OG [THE] KING OF <THE> BASHAN TO MEET US FOR <THE> BATTLE AND WE DEFEATED THEM 7When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
8AND WE TOOK <OBJ.> LAND THEIR AND WE GAVE IT FOR AN INHERITANCE TO THE REUBENITE[S] AND TO THE GADITE[S] AND TO [THE] HALF OF [THE] TRIBE OF THE MANASSITE[S] 8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9AND YOU WILL KEEP <OBJ.> [THE] WORDS OF THE COVENANT <THE> THIS AND YOU WILL DO <OBJ.> THEM SO THAT YOU MAY CAUSE TO PROSPER <OBJ.> ALL THAT YOU WILL DO! 9So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
10YOU [ARE] STANDING THIS DAY ALL OF YOU <TO> BEFORE YAHWEH GOD YOUR CHIEFS YOUR TRIBES YOUR ELDERS YOUR AND OFFICIALS YOUR EVERY <THE> MAN OF ISRAEL 10All of you are standing today before the LORD your God— you leaders of tribes,*NoteCloseLXX and Syriac; Hebrew you leaders, tribes elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
11LITTLE ONE[S] YOUR WIVES YOUR AND SOJOURNER YOUR WHO [IS] IN [THE] MIDST OF CAMPS YOUR FROM [THE] CUTTER OF WOOD<S> YOUR UNTO [THE] DRAWER OF WATER YOUR 11your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
12TO PASS ON YOU IN [THE] COVENANT OF YAHWEH GOD YOUR AND IN OATH HIS WHICH YAHWEH GOD YOUR [IS] MAKING WITH YOU THIS DAY 12so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
13SO AS TO ESTABLISH <OBJ.> YOU THIS DAY OF HIM TO A PEOPLE AND HE HE WILL BECOME FOR <THE> YOU <INTO> GOD JUST AS HE SPOKE TO <THE> YOU AND JUST AS HE SWORE TO ANCESTORS YOUR TO ABRAHAM TO ISAAC AND TO JACOB 13and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14AND NOT WITH YOU TO ALONE YOU I [AM] MAKING <OBJ.> THE COVENANT <THE> THIS AND <OBJ.> THE OATH <THE> THIS 14I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
15FOR WITH [THE ONE] WHO THERE HE HERE WITH US [IS] STANDING THIS DAY <TO> BEFORE YAHWEH GOD OUR AND WITH [THE ONE] WHO THERE NOT HE HERE [IS] WITH US THIS DAY 15but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
16FOR YOU YOU KNOW <OBJ.> THIS: WE DWELT IN [THE] LAND OF EGYPT AND <OBJ.> THIS: WE PASSED IN [THE] MIDST OF THE NATIONS WHICH YOU PASSED THROUGH 16For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
17AND YOU SAW <OBJ.> DETESTABLE THINGS THEIR AND <OBJ.> IDOLS THEIR WOOD AND STONE SILVER AND GOLD WHICH [WERE] WITH THEM 17You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
18LEST THERE [BE] AMONG <THE> YOU A MAN OR A WOMAN OR A CLAN OR A TRIBE WHO HEART HIS [IS] TURNING AWAY THIS DAY FROM WITH YAHWEH GOD OUR TO GO TO SERVE <OBJ.> [THE] GODS OF THE NATIONS <THE> THOSE LEST THERE [BE] AMONG <THE> YOU A ROOT BEARING FRUIT POISON AND WORMWOOD 18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,*NoteCloseSee Hebrews 12:15
19AND IT WILL BE WHEN HEARS HE <OBJ.> [THE] WORDS OF THE OATH <THE> THIS AND HE WILL BLESS HIMSELF IN HEART HIS <TO> SAYING PEACE IT WILL BELONG TO <THE> ME FOR IN [THE] STUBBORNNESS OF HEART MY I WALK SO AS TO SWEEP AWAY THE WATERED [GROUND] WITH THE THIRSTY [GROUND] 19because when such a person hears the words of this oath,*NoteCloseOr curse he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
20NOT HE WILL BE WILLING YAHWEH TO FORGIVE <TO> <THE> HIM FOR THEN IT WILL SMOKE [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH AND JEALOUSY HIS ON THE MAN <THE> THAT AND IT WILL LIE DOWN ON <THE> HIM EVERY <THE> OATH THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK <THE> THIS AND HE WILL WIPE OUT YAHWEH <OBJ.> NAME HIS FROM UNDER THE HEAVENS 20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
21AND HE WILL SEPARATE HIM YAHWEH FOR HARM FROM ALL [THE] TRIBES OF ISRAEL ACCORDING TO ALL [THE] OATHS OF THE COVENANT THAT IS WRITTEN IN [THE] BOOK OF THE LAW <THE> THIS 21and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
22AND IT WILL SAY THE GENERATION <THE> LATER CHILDREN YOUR WHO THEY WILL ARISE FROM AFTER YOU AND THE FOREIGNER WHO HE WILL COME FROM A LAND DISTANT AND THEY WILL SEE <OBJ.> [THE] PLAGUES OF THE LAND <THE> THAT AND <OBJ.> DISEASES ITS WHICH HE HAS MADE SICK YAHWEH <IN> <THE> IT 22Then the generation to come— your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land— will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
23[IS] SULFUR AND SALT A BURNING WASTE ALL LAND ITS NOT IT IS SOWN AND NOT IT CAUSES TO GROW AND NOT IT COMES UP IN <THE> IT ANY VEGETATION LIKE [THE] OVERTHROW OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH ADMAH AND ZEBOIIM WHICH HE OVERTHREW YAHWEH IN ANGER HIS AND IN RAGE HIS 23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
24AND THEY WILL SAY ALL THE NATIONS CONCERNING WHAT? HAS HE DONE YAHWEH THUS TO THE LAND <THE> THIS WHY? [IS] [THE] HEAT OF THE ANGER <THE> GREAT <THE> THIS 24So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
25AND PEOPLE WILL SAY ON THAT THEY FORSOOK <OBJ.> [THE] COVENANT OF YAHWEH [THE] GOD OF ANCESTORS THEIR WHICH HE MADE WITH THEM WHEN BROUGHT OUT HE <OBJ.> THEM FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT 25And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
26AND THEY WENT AND THEY SERVED GODS OTHER AND THEY BOWED DOWN TO <THE> THEM GODS WHICH NOT THEY HAD KNOWN THEM AND NOT HE HAD ASSIGNED TO <THE> THEM 26They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known— gods that the LORD had not given to them.
27AND IT BURNED [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH ON THE LAND <THE> THAT TO BRING ON IT <OBJ.> EVERY <THE> CURSE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK <THE> THIS 27Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
28AND HE PLUCKED UP THEM YAHWEH FROM ON LAND THEIR IN ANGER AND IN RAGE AND IN WRATH GREAT AND HE THREW OUT THEM TO A LAND ANOTHER AS THE DAY <THE> THIS 28The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today
29THE HIDDEN [THINGS] [BELONG] TO YAHWEH GOD OUR AND THE REVEALED [THINGS] [BELONG] TO US AND TO DESCENDANTS OUR UNTIL PERPETUITY TO DO <OBJ.> ALL [THE] WORDS OF THE LAW <THE> THIS 29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law. [’’]