028:066 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall
fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
028:067 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even
you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your
heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes
which you shall see.
028:068 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way
of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again:
and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for
bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
029:001 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
029:002 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen
all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt
to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
029:003 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs,
and those great wonders:
029:004 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see,
and ears to hear, to this day.
029:005 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes
have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old
on your foot.
029:006 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink;
that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
029:007 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon,
and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle,
and we struck them:
029:008 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance
to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe
of the Manassites.
029:009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,
that you may prosper in all that you do.
029:010 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God;
your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers,
even all the men of Israel,
029:011 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is
in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood
to the one who draws your water;
029:012 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God,
and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
029:013 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people,
and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you,
and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.
029:014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
029:015 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh
our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
029:016 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came
through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
029:017 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols,
wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
029:018 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family,
or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God,
to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should
be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
029:019 and it happen, 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 stubbornness of my heart, to destroy
the moist with the dry.
029:020 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh
and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all
the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him,
and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
029:021 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that is written
in this book of the law.
029:022 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you,
and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses
with which Yahweh has made it sick;
029:023 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning,
[that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein,
like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
029:024 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus
to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
029:025 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh,
the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt,
029:026 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that
they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
029:027 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land,
to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
029:028 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land,
as at this day.
029:029 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may do all the words of this law.
030:001 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you,
and you shall call them to mind among all the nations,
where Yahweh your God has driven you,
030:002 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children,
with all your heart, and with all your soul;
030:003 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all
the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
030:004 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of
the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you,
and from there he will bring you back:
030:005 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do
you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
030:006 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart
of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, that you may live.
030:007 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies,
and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
030:008 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his
commandments which I command you this day.
030:009 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work
of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit
of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good:
for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced
over your fathers;
030:010 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book
of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul.
030:011 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off.
030:012 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up
for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
030:013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go
over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
030:014 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart,
that you may do it.
030:015 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good,
and death and evil;
030:016 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God,
to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply,
and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you
go in to possess it.
030:017 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
030:018 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish;
you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass
over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
030:019 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I
have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse:
therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
030:020 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him;
for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you
may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
031:001 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
031:002 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day;
I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me,
You shall not go over this Jordan.
031:003 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy
these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them:
[and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
031:004 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings
of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
031:005 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them
according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
031:006 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared
of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you;
he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
031:007 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of
all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall
go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn
to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them
to inherit it.
031:008 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you,
he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed.
031:009 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons
of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
and to all the elders of Israel.
031:010 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years,
in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,
031:011 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God
in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law
before all Israel in their hearing.
031:012 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones,
and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law;
031:013 and that their children, who have not known, may hear,
and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live
in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
031:014 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die:
call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting,
that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
031:015 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud:
and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
031:016 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers;
and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after
the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them,
and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them.
031:017 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day,
and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles
shall come on them; so that they will say in that day,
Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?
031:018 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they
shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
031:019 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it
the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this
song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I
swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey,
and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat;
then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me,
and break my covenant.
031:021 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them,
that this song shall testify before them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:
for I know their imagination which they frame this day,
before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
031:022 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it
the children of Israel.
031:023 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said,
Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring
the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them:
and I will be with you.
031:024 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
031:025 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh, saying,
031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there
for a witness against you.
031:027 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I
am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious
against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
031:028 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven
and earth to witness against them.
031:029 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you;
and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you
will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke
him to anger through the work of your hands.
031:030 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words
of this song, until they were finished.
032:001 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear
the words of my mouth.
032:002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall
condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
032:003 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness
to our God!
032:004 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice:
a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
032:005 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not
his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse
and crooked generation.
032:006 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you,
and established you.
032:007 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they
will tell you.
032:008 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of
the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
032:009 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot
of his inheritance.
032:010 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple
of his eye.
032:011 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them
on his feathers.
032:012 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
032:013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck
honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
032:014 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat.
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
032:015 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat.
You have grown thick. You have become sleek.
Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock
of his salvation.
032:016 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked
him to anger with abominations.
032:017 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods
that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late,
which your fathers didn't dread.
032:018 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
032:019 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation
of his sons and his daughters.
032:020 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their
end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
032:021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
032:022 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest
Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets
the foundations of the mountains on fire.
032:023 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
032:024 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals
on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
032:025 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror; on both
young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man.
032:026 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory
of them to cease from among men;
032:027 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say,
Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no
understanding in them.
032:029 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!
032:030 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand
to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had
delivered them up?
032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies
themselves being judges.
032:032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
032:033 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
032:034 Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
032:035 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their
foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand.
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
032:036 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion
on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone,
There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
032:037 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which
they took refuge;
032:038 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine
of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you!
Let them be your protection.
032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me.
I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,
032:041 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense
those who hate me.
032:042 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall
devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.
032:043 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge
the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance
to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land,
for his people.
032:044 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears
of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
032:045 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;
032:046 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I
testify to you this day, which you shall command your children
to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
032:047 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life,
and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land,
where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
032:048 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
032:049 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo,
which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho;
and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children
of Israel for a possession;
032:050 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered
to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor,
and was gathered to his people:
032:051 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children
of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness
of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of
the children of Israel.
032:052 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go
there into the land which I give the children of Israel.
033:001 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death.
033:002 He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them.
He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands
of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
033:003 Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand.
They sat down at your feet; [Everyone] shall receive
of your words.
033:004 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
033:005 He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.
033:006 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.
033:007 This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh,
the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help
against his adversaries.
033:008 Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your
godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove
at the waters of Meribah;
033:009 who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him;
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know
his own children: For they have observed your word,
and keep your covenant.
033:010 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law.
They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering
on your altar.
033:011 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands.
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
033:012 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell
in safety by him. He covers him all the day long.
He dwells between his shoulders.
033:013 Of Joseph he said, His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the
precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep
that couches beneath,
033:014 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious
things of the growth of the moons,
033:015 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious
things of the everlasting hills,
033:016 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
the good will of him who lived in the bush{i. e.
the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.}. Let [the blessing] come
on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was
separate from his brothers.
033:017 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are
the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples
all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten
thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.
033:018 Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
and Issachar, in your tents.
033:019 They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they will
offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall draw out
the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.
033:020 Of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown
of the head.
033:021 He provided the first part for himself, for there was the lawgiver's
portion reserved. He came [with] the heads of the people.
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.
033:022 Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps out of Bashan.
033:023 Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of
the blessing of Yahweh, Possess the west and the south.
033:024 Of Asher he said, Asher is blessed with children.
Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his
foot in oil.
033:025 Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so shall
your strength be.
033:026 There is none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens
for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
033:027 The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are
the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, Destroy.
033:028 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land