1 These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.2 And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;3 The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.5 For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.6 You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.7 When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:8 And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.14 And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;15 But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:16 (For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;19 If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.21 He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.22 And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:28 Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.29 The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

1 Hc sunt verba fderis quod prcepit Dominus Moysi ut feriret cum filiis Isral in terra Moab : prter illud fdus, quod cum eis pepigit in Horeb.2 Vocavitque Moyses omnem Isral, et dixit ad eos : Vos vidistis universa, qu fecit Dominus coram vobis in terra gypti Pharaoni, et omnibus servis ejus, universque terr illius, 3 tentationes magnas, quas viderunt oculi tui, signa illa, portentaque ingentia, 4 et non dedit vobis Dominus cor intelligens, et oculos videntes, et aures qu possunt audire, usque in prsentem diem. 5 Adduxit vos quadraginta annis per desertum : non sunt attrita vestimenta vestra, nec calceamenta pedum vestrorum vetustate consumpta sunt. 6 Panem non comedistis, vinum et siceram non bibistis : ut sciretis quia ego sum Dominus Deus vester. 7 Et venistis ad hunc locum : egressusque est Sehon rex Hesebon, et Og rex Basan, occurrentes nobis ad pugnam. Et percussimus eos, 8 et tulimus terram eorum, ac tradidimus possidendam Ruben et Gad, et dimidi tribui Manasse. 9 Custodite ergo verba pacti hujus, et implete ea : ut intelligatis universa qu facitis.10 Vos statis hodie cuncti coram Domino Deo vestro, principes vestri, et tribus, ac majores natu, atque doctores, omnis populus Isral, 11 liberi et uxores vestr, et advena qui tecum moratur in castris, exceptis lignorum csoribus, et his qui comportant aquas : 12 ut transeas in fdere Domini Dei tui, et in jurejurando quod hodie Dominus Deus tuus percutit tecum : 13 ut suscitet te sibi in populum, et ipse sit Deus tuus sicut locutus est tibi, et sicut juravit patribus tuis, Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob. 14 Nec vobis solis ego hoc fdus ferio, et hc juramenta confirmo, 15 sed cunctis prsentibus et absentibus. 16 Vos enim nostis quomodo habitaverimus in terra gypti, et quomodo transierimus per medium nationum, quas transeuntes 17 vidistis abominationes et sordes, id est, idola eorum, lignum et lapidem, argentum et aurum, qu colebant.18 Ne forte sit inter vos vir aut mulier, familia aut tribus, cujus cor aversum est hodie a Domino Deo nostro, ut vadat et serviat diis illarum gentium : et sit inter vos radix germinans fel et amaritudinem. 19 Cumque audierit verba juramenti hujus, benedicat sibi in corde suo, dicens : Pax erit mihi, et ambulabo in pravitate cordis mei : et absumat ebria sitientem, 20 et Dominus non ignoscat ei : sed tunc quam maxime furor ejus fumet, et zelus contra hominem illum, et sedeant super eum omnia maledicta, qu scripta sunt in hoc volumine : et deleat Dominus nomen ejus sub clo, 21 et consumat eum in perditionem ex omnibus tribubus Isral, juxta maledictiones, qu in libro legis hujus ac fderis continentur.22 Dicetque sequens generatio, et filii qui nascentur deinceps, et peregrini qui de longe venerint, videntes plagas terr illius, et infirmitates, quibus eam afflixerit Dominus, 23 sulphure, et salis ardore comburens, ita ut ultra non seratur, nec virens quippiam germinet, in exemplum subversionis Sodom et Gomorrh, Adam et Seboim, quas subvertit Dominus in ira et furore suo. 24 Et dicent omnes gentes : Quare sic fecit Dominus terr huic ? qu est hc ira furoris ejus immensa ? 25 Et respondebunt : Quia dereliquerunt pactum Domini, quod pepigit cum patribus eorum, quando eduxit eos de terra gypti : 26 et servierunt diis alienis, et adoraverunt eos, quos nesciebant, et quibus non fuerant attributi : 27 idcirco iratus est furor Domini contra terram istam, ut induceret super eam omnia maledicta, qu in hoc volumine scripta sunt : 28 et ejecit eos de terra sua in ira et in furore, et in indignatione maxima, projecitque in terram alienam, sicut hodie comprobatur. 29 Abscondita, Domino Deo nostro ; qu manifesta sunt, nobis et filiis nostris usque in sempiternum, ut faciamus universa verba legis hujus.