Deuteronomy, Chapter 29, King James Bible

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deuteronomy, chapter twenty nine. 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. And Moses
called unto all Israel and said, unto them, ye have

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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, the great temptations which thine
eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles. Yet
the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive,
and eyes to see, and ears to hear unto this day.

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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. Ye have
not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink,
that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon, the king

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of Heshbon, and Og the king of Batin, came out
against us unto battle. And we smote them, and we
took their land and gave it for an inheritance under
the Rubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half
tribe of Menesse. Keep therefore the words of this covenant,
and do them, that ye may prosper in all that
ye do. Ye stand this day, all of you before

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the Lord your God, your captains of your tribes, your elders,
and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your
little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in
thy cap from the hewer of thy wood unto the
drawer of thy water, that thou shouldst enter into covenant
with the Lord, thy God, and into his oath, which

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the Lord thy God maketh with THEE this day, that
he may establish THEE to day for a people unto himself,
and that he may be unto THEE a god, as
ye hath said unto THEE, and as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and

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this oult, 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. For
ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt,
and how we came through the nations which he passed by,
And ye have seen their abominations and their idols, wood

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and stones, silver and gold, which were among them. Lest
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. And it come to pass

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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. 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

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are written in this book shall lie upon him, and
the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
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. So that the generation to come of your
children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger

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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, And that the
whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning, that
it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass growth therein,
like the overthrow of Sodom and gomorrah Admah and Zeboim,

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which the Lord overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.
Even all nations shall say, where hath the Lord done
thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this
great anger? Then men shall say, because they have forsaken
the covenant of the Lord God of their father twhich
he made with them when he brought them forth out

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of the land of Egypt. For they went and served
other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they knew not,
and whom He had not given unto them. And the
anger of the Lord was kindled against this land to
bring upon it all the curses that are written in
this book. And the Lord rooted them out of their
land in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation,

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and cast them into another land. As it is this day.
The secret things belong unto the Lord are God. But
those things which are revealed belong unto us and to
our children, forever that we may do all the words
of this law.