Deu Deuteronomy, chapter Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 29
These [are] the words of the covenant which YHWH has commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. And Moses calls to all Israel and says to them, “Yöu have seen all that which YHWH has done before yöur eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land— the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. And YHWH has not given to yöu a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day. And I cause yöu to go in a wilderness [for] forty years; yöur garments have not been consumed from off yöu, and your shoe has not worn away from off your foot; yöu have not eaten bread, and yöu have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that yöu know that I [am] yöur God YHWH. And yöu come to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon—also Og king of Bashan—comes out to meet us to battle, and we strike them, and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of the Manassite; and yöu have kept the words of this covenant and done them, so that yöu cause all that yöu do to prosper. Yöu are standing today, all of yöu, before yöur God YHWH: yöur heads, yöur tribes, yöur elderly, and yöur authorities, every man of Israel, yöur infants, yöur wives, and your sojourner who [is] in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water, for your passing over into the covenant of your God YHWH, and into His oath which your God YHWH is making with you today, in order to establish you to Himself for a people today, and He Himself is your God, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I am not making this covenant and this oath with yöu alone, but with him who is here with us, standing before our God YHWH today, and with him who is not here with us today, for yöu have known how yöu dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which yöu have passed by; and yöu see their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them, lest there be among yöu a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning from our God YHWH today, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in yöu a root bearing the fruit of gall and wormwood; and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty. YHWH is not willing to be propitious to him, for then the anger of YHWH smokes, also His zeal, against that man, and all the oath which is written in this scroll has lain down on him, and YHWH has blotted out his name from under the heavens, and YHWH has separated him for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this Scroll of the Law. And the latter generation of yöur sons who rise after yöu, and the stranger who comes in from a far-off land, have said, when they have seen the strokes of that land and its sicknesses which YHWH has sent into it: The whole land is burned [with] brimstone and salt, it is not sown, nor does it shoot up, nor does any herb go up on it there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which YHWH overturned in His anger and in His fury. Indeed, all the nations have said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger? And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt, and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them—gods which they have not known, and which He has not apportioned to them; and the anger of YHWH burns against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this scroll, and YHWH plucks them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and casts them into another land, as [at] this day. The things hidden [belong] to our God YHWH, and the things revealed [belong] to us and to our sons for all time, to do all the words of this law.”