1 These 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.2 Moses 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.3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.5 Yet 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.6 You 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."7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.10 All 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,11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.12 You 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,13 to 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.14 I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.18 Make 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.19 When 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.20 The 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.21 The 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.22 Your 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.23 The 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.24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"25 And 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.26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.27 Therefore the LORD's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.28 In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now."29 The 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.

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.