Opfordring til lydighed mod pagten
1-2Moses fortsatte med at tale til folket: „I har hørt om de vældige undere og frygtelige plager, som Herren sendte over egypterkongen, hans tjenere og hele hans folk. 3Men Herren har endnu ikke givet jer forstand til at fatte det, øjne til at se det eller ører til at høre det. 4I 40 år har han ført jer gennem ørkenen, uden at jeres tøj og sko blev slidt op. 5I fik hverken almindeligt brød eller vin og øl, men Herren sørgede for jeres behov for at lære jer at sætte jeres lid til ham som Herren, jeres Gud.
6Da vi kom hertil, rykkede kong Sihon af Heshbon og kong Og af Bashan ud imod os, men vi tilintetgjorde dem 7og overdrog deres land til Rubens og Gads stammer samt Manasses halve stamme. 8Overhold derfor omhyggeligt pagtens betingelser, så I må få velsignelse og fremgang i alt, hvad I tager jer for. 9I dag står I for Herrens ansigt sammen med jeres stammeoverhoveder og ledere på alle niveauer, 10jeres koner og børn og de fremmede, som hugger brænde og henter vand for jer. 11I står her for under ed at skulle tilslutte jer den pagt, som Herren i dag vil indgå med jer. 12Gør I det, skal I være hans folk, og han vil være jeres Gud, sådan som han også lovede jeres forfædre Abraham, Isak og Jakob. 13-14Denne pagt gælder ikke kun jer, som står her i dag, men også de kommende generationer i Israel.
Advarsel imod ulydighed mod pagten
15I husker, hvordan det var at bo i Egypten, og I husker, hvordan vi passerede gennem andre folkeslags territorier, 16og med jeres egne øjne så I deres afskyelige afgudsbilleder af træ, sten, sølv og guld. 17Der må ikke være nogen iblandt jer, mand eller kvinde, slægt eller stamme, der vender sig fra Herren for at dyrke den slags fremmede guder. Der må ikke være nogen bitter rod, som vokser op og spreder gift omkring sig. 18Skulle der findes nogen, som har hørt denne pagts ord og alligevel tror, at der ikke sker dem noget, hvis de gør oprør imod deres Gud, så vil Guds straf ramme både dem og andre omkring dem. 19-20Herren vil ikke tilgive sådanne mennesker, men straffe dem hårdt, for han vil ikke dele jeres hengivenhed med andre guder. Hans vrede vil blusse op imod dem, og han vil ramme dem med alle de forbandelser, som er nævnt i denne bog, indtil de er udryddet og deres slægtsnavn glemt.
21Hvis I bryder pagten med Herren, vil jeres efterkommere og de fremmede, der kommer langvejsfra, se følgerne af den katastrofe og de sygdomme, som Herren vil ramme landet med. 22De vil se øde, svovlholdige saltsletter, en gold og uopdyrket brandtomt uden vegetation overhovedet, når Herren i sin voldsomme vrede har gjort landet så øde som Sodoma, Gomorra, Adma og Sebojim.
23‚Hvad skyldes Herrens voldsomme vrede imod det land?’ vil man spørge. 24Svaret lyder: ‚Landets indbyggere brød deres pagt med Herren, deres fædres Gud, efter at han havde ført dem ud af Egypten. 25De dyrkede fremmede guder, som de aldrig før havde kendt, og som Herren havde forbudt dem at dyrke. 26Derfor blussede Herrens vrede op imod dem, så han ramte dem med alle de plager, der er nævnt i denne bog. 27I sin store vrede rykkede Herren dem op med rode og smed dem bort, bort til det land, hvor de nu bor.’
28Der findes hemmeligheder, som Herren ikke har åbenbaret for os. Men hvad han har åbenbaret, de ord, som er nedskrevet i denne lov, har vi pligt til at adlyde, både vi og vores børn.
1These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 6Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 9Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:29.12 enter: Heb. pass 13That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 16(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)29.17 idols: Heb. dungy gods 18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;29.18 gall: or, a poisonous herb: Heb. rosh 19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:29.19 imagination: or, stubbornness29.19 drunkenness…: Heb. the drunken to the thirsty 20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:29.21 are: Heb. is 22So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;29.22 which…: Heb. wherewith the LORD hath made it sick 23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:29.26 whom he…: or, who had not given to them any portion29.26 given: Heb. divided 27And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 29The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
