1 And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, You have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharaoh and his servants, and all his land; 2 the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 3 Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day. 4 And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet. 5 You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know that this is the Lord your God. 6 And you came as far as this place; and there came forth Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, to meet us in war; and we struck them. 7 And we took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Reuben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. 8 And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand all things that you shall do. 9 You all stand today before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel, 10 your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water, 11 that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord your God appoints you this day; 12 that he may appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your God, as he said to you, and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. 13 And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath; 14 but to those also who are here with us today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with us today. 15 For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you came. 16 And you saw their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them. 17 For fear that there might be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; for fear that there might be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.⁠a 18 And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, for fear that the sinner might destroy the guiltless with him: 19 God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the fierce anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in the book of this law, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. 20 And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law. 21 And another generation shall say, even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it, 22 brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in his fierce anger and anger), 23 and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger? 24 And men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt: 25 and they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, which they did not know, neither did he assign them to them. 26 And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law. 27 And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and fury, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present. 28 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.