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亲眼看见祂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，耶和华领你们走过旷野，你们身上的衣服没有穿破，脚上的鞋没有穿坏； 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出来攻击我们，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、妻子和寄居在你们营中为你们砍柴挑水的外族人， 12为要接受你们的上帝耶和华今天与你们立的誓约。 13这样，祂今天将确立你们作祂的子民、祂作你们的上帝，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你们也见过他们可憎的木、石、金、银偶像。 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，你们中间切不可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和义愤，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去供奉其他神明，祭拜他们不认识、也非耶和华分派给他们的神明。 27因此，耶和华向这片土地发怒，把这书上写的一切咒诅都降在这里。 28耶和华在怒气、义愤和烈怒中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。”
Renewal of the Covenant
In Hebrew texts 29:1 is numbered 28:69, and 29:2-29 is numbered 29:1-28. 1These are the terms of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
2Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them:
Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land. 3With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders. 4But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear. 5Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. 6You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.”
7When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them. 8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do. 10All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel, 11together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water. 12You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, 13to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 14I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you 15who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God but also with those who are not here today.
16You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here. 17You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. 18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
19When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. 20The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven. 21The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
22Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it. 23The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger. 24All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”
25And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. 26They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. 27Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book. 28In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”
29The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
