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These [are] the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab , apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
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And Moses calleth unto all Israel , and saith unto them, `Ye -- ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt , to Pharaoh , and to all his servants , and to all his land ;
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the great trials which thine eyes have seen , the signs , and those great wonders;
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and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know , and eyes to see , and ears to hear , till this day ,
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and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness ; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off thy foot ;
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bread ye have not eaten , and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk , so that ye know that I [am] Jehovah your God .
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`And ye come in unto this place , and Sihon king of Heshbon -- also Og king of Bashan -- doth come out to meet us , to battle , and we smite them,
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and take their land , and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh;
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and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.
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`Ye are standing to-day , all of you, before Jehovah your God -- your heads , your tribes , your elders , and your authorities -- every man of Israel ;
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your infants, your wives , and thy sojourner who [is] in the midst of thy camps , from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water --
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for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God , and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day ;
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in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God , as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob .
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`And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath ;
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but with him who is here with us , standing to-day before Jehovah our God , and with him who is not here with us to-day ,
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for ye have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt , and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have passed by;
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and ye see their abominations, and their idols , wood and stone , silver and gold , which [are] with them,
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lest there be among you a man or woman , or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God , to go to serve the gods of those nations , lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood :
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`And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath , and he hath blessed himself in his heart , saying, I have peace , though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.
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Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal , against that man , and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book , and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens ,
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and Jehovah hath separated him for evil , out of all the tribes of Israel , according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.
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`And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land , and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, --
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([with] brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb , like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah , Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger , and in His fury ,) --
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yea, all the nations have said , Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land ? what the heat of this great anger ?
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`And they have said , Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah , God of their fathers , which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt ,
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and they go and serve other gods , and bow themselves to them -- gods which they have not known , and which He hath not apportioned to them;
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and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land , to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book ,
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and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger , and in fury , and in great wrath , and doth cast them unto another land , as [at] this day .
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`The things hidden [are] to Jehovah our God , and the things revealed [are] to us and to our sons -- to the age, to do all the words of this law.