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Deuteronomy 29

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

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    WEBThese are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
    KJVThese 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. 2
    WEBMoses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
    KJVAnd 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 Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
  3. 3
    WEBthe great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
    KJVThe great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
  4. 4
    WEBBut Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
    KJVYet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
  5. 5
    WEBI have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
    KJVAnd 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. 6
    WEBYou have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
    KJVYe have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
  7. 7
    WEBWhen you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
    KJVAnd when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
  8. 8
    WEBWe took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
    KJVAnd we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
  9. 9
    WEBTherefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
    KJVKeep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
  10. 10
    WEBAll of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
    KJVYe stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
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    WEByour little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
    KJVYour 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. 12
    WEBthat you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
    KJVThat 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. 13
    WEBthat he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
    KJVThat he may establish thee to day 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. 14
    WEBNeither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
    KJVNeither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
  15. 15
    WEBbut with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
    KJVBut 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:
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    WEB(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
    KJV(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
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    WEBand you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
    KJVAnd ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
  18. 18
    WEBlest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
    KJVLest 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;
  19. 19
    WEBand it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
    KJVAnd 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. 20
    WEBYahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
    KJVThe 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.
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    WEBYahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
    KJVAnd 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:
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    WEBThe generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,
    KJVSo 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;
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    WEBthat all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
    KJVAnd 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 Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
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    WEBEven all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
    KJVEven all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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    WEBThen men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
    KJVThen 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:
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    WEBand went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
    KJVFor they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
  27. 27
    WEBTherefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
    KJVAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
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    WEBYahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
    KJVAnd 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. 29
    WEBThe secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
    KJVThe 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.
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  • King James Version (1769 text), public domain outside the United Kingdom, where Crown letters patent apply.