Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Deuteronomy
Chapter 29
1. THESE
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
Phar-aoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3. The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
those great miracles:
4. Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5. And 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.
6. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink:
that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7. And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
the king of Ba-shan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8. And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Ma-nas-seh.
9. Keep 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 you God; your captains
of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of
Israel.
11. Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp,
from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
12. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
13. That he may establish thee today 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.
14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15. But 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;
17. And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, and go and
serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root
that beareth gall and wormwood;
19. And 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:
20. The 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.
21. And 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:
22. So 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;
23. And 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 Go-mor-rah, Ad-mah, and Ze-bo-im, which the
LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
24. Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25. Then 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:
26. For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom
they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28. And 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.
29. The 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.
Mar. 16 Daily
reading schedule.. No NT reading today.
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