Day 67 of 364

^29:1These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. ^29:2Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; ^29:3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. ^29:4But the LORD has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. ^29:5I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet. ^29:6You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. ^29:7When 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. ^29:8We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. ^29:9Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. ^29:10All of you stand today in the presence of the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, ^29:11your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water, ^29:12that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today, ^29:13that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ^29:14Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only, ^29:15but with those who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with those who are not here with us today ^29:16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed; ^29:17and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them); ^29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison; ^29:19and 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. ^29:20The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky. ^29:21The LORD will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. ^29:22The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick, ^29:23that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. ^29:24Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” ^29:25Then men will say, “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, ^29:26and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. ^29:27Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. ^29:28The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.” ^29:29The secret things belong to the LORD 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. ^30:1It shall happen, when all these things have 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 the LORD your God has driven you, ^30:2and return to the LORD your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, ^30:3that then the LORD your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. ^30:4If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back. ^30:5The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers. ^30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. ^30:7The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. ^30:8You shall return and obey the LORD’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today. ^30:9The LORD your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, ^30:10if you will obey the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ^30:11For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant. ^30:12It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?” ^30:13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?” ^30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. ^30:15Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil. ^30:16For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. ^30:17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them, ^30:18I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. ^30:19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants, ^30:20to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.