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.
在摩押立约
1耶和华除了与以色列人在何烈山立约外，还在摩押吩咐摩西与以色列人立以下的约。
2摩西召来所有以色列人，对他们说：“你们曾亲眼见过耶和华在埃及怎样对付法老及其臣仆和国民， 3怎样降下巨大的灾难，行伟大的神迹奇事。 4但耶和华至今还没有赐给你们能明白的心、能看见的眼、能听清的耳。 5四十年来，我领你们走过旷野，你们身上的衣服没有穿破，脚上的鞋子没有穿坏； 6你们没有吃饼，也没有喝淡酒和烈酒。这是为了让你们知道耶和华是你们的上帝。 7我们来到这里的时候，希实本王西宏和巴珊王噩都来攻击我们，我们击败了他们， 8并将占领的土地分给吕便支派、迦得支派和玛拿西半个支派作产业。 9所以，你们要谨遵这约上的话，以便你们可以凡事顺利。
10“今天，你们全都站在你们的上帝耶和华面前，包括你们的族长、长老、官员、所有以色列男子、 11你们的孩子、妻子和寄居在你们中间为你们砍柴挑水的外族人， 12为要接受你们的上帝耶和华与你们立的誓约。 13这样，祂今天将宣告你们是祂的子民、祂是你们的上帝，正如祂对你们的应许和对你们祖先亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的誓言。 14耶和华的这誓约不仅是与你们立的， 15也是与今天一同站在我们的上帝耶和华面前的人，以及今天不在这里的人29:15 “今天不在这里的人”或译“我们将来的子孙”。立的。
16“你们知道我们如何在埃及生活，也知道我们如何穿越列国来到这里。 17你们也见过他们用木、石、金、银造的可憎神像。 18你们中间，不论男人或女人，家族或支派，切不可有人背弃我们的上帝耶和华，去祭拜列国的神明，免得你们中间有残根长出苦毒的果实， 19免得有人听了这誓言后，心存侥幸地说，‘即使我一意孤行，连累他人，也必平安无事。’ 20耶和华绝不会赦免这样的人，祂必向这样的人发烈怒，使记在这书上的一切咒诅临到他身上，从世上抹去他的名字。 21耶和华必把他从以色列各支派中隔离出来，使他按律法书上约中的一切咒诅受惩罚。
22“你们的子孙后代和从远方来的外族人，必看见耶和华降在这地方的灾祸和疾病。 23遍地将是硫磺和盐，无法耕种，寸草不生，如同耶和华盛怒之下毁灭的所多玛、蛾摩拉、押玛和洗扁。 24万国必问，‘耶和华为什么要这样对待这地方？祂为什么大发烈怒？’ 25必有人回答说，‘因为这地方的人背弃了他们祖先的上帝耶和华领他们出埃及时与他们所立的约， 26去供奉、祭拜他们所不认识、并非耶和华所分派的神明。 27因此，耶和华向这片土地发怒，把这书上的一切咒诅都降在这里。 28耶和华盛怒之下把他们从这地方连根拔起，扔到别的地方，正如今日的情形。’
29“奥秘的事属于我们的上帝耶和华，只有显明的事永远属于我们和我们的子孙，以便我们可以遵守这律法上的一切话。”
