1 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.
2 ¶ And 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 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 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. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And 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 And 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 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10 ¶ Ye 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, 11 Your 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 That 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 That 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 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 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: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) 18 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; 19 And 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 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 are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 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: 22 So 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; 23 And 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: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then 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: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And 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 The 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.
Moāba zemē atjaunotā derība
1 Tad Mozus sauca uz Israēla dēliem un tiem sacīja: “Jūs redzējāt visu, ko Kungs Ēģiptē darīja jūsu acu priekšā faraonam, visiem viņa kalpiem un visai viņa zemei, 2 redzējāt lielo sodību, visas lielās zīmes un brīnumus. 3 Līdz pat šai dienai Kungs nav jums devis sirdi zināt, acis redzēt un ausis dzirdēt. 4 Četrdesmit gadus es jūs vedu pa tuksnesi – nevienam drānas uz miesas nenovalkājās un sandales kājās nenoplīsa. 5 Maizi jūs neēdāt un ne vīnu, ne stipru dzērienu jūs nedzērāt, lai zinātu, ka es esmu Kungs, jūsu Dievs. 6 Kad jūs atnācāt šurp, tad mums pretī uz karu iznāca Hešbonas ķēniņš Sīhons un Bāšānas ķēniņš Ogs, bet mēs viņus sakāvām. 7 Mēs ieņēmām viņu zemi un devām to mantojumā rūbeniešiem, gādiešiem un pusei Manases cilts. 8 Tad nu ievērojiet šīs derības vārdus un pildiet tos, lai jums būtu saprašana it visā, ko jūs darāt.
9 Šodien jūs visi stāvat Kunga, sava Dieva, priekšā – jūsu cilšu galvenie, jūsu vecajie un jūsu virsnieki, visi Israēla vīri, 10 jūsu bērni, sievas un svešinieki, kas mīt jūsu nometnē, no koku cirtēja līdz ūdens smēlējam, 11 lai tu varētu stāties derībā ar Kungu, savu Dievu, un zvērestā ar viņu, ko Kungs, tavs Dievs, šodien ar tevi slēdz, 12 lai viņš tevi šodien varētu ņemt sev par tautu – viņš būs tavs Dievs, kā pats tev ir solījis un kā zvērējis taviem tēviem Ābrahāmam, Īzakam un Jēkabam. 13 Ne ar jums vien es slēdzu šo derību un zvērestu, 14 ne tikai ar tiem, kuri šeit kopā ar mums šodien stāv Kunga, mūsu Dieva, priekšā, bet arī ar tiem, kuru šodien šeit nav. 15 Jo jūs zināt, kā mēs mitām Ēģiptes zemē, kā mēs gājām cauri tautām, kas mums bija ceļā, 16 un jūs redzējāt viņu preteklības un elkus, kas tiem bija no koka, akmens, sudraba un zelta. 17 Lai starp jums nav ne vīra, ne sievas, ne dzimtas, ne cilts, kuru sirds šodien novērstos no Kunga, mūsu Dieva, un ietu kalpot to tautu dieviem, lai nav jums saknes, kam indīgs un rūgts auglis! 18 Un, ja kāds no jums dzirdēs šī zvēresta vārdus un svētīsies savā sirdī, sacīdams: labāk man klāsies, ja pēc savas sirds stūrgalvības es darīšu! – tad padzērušais tiks aizrauts kopā ar slāpstošo! 19 Kungs tādam negribēs piedot, un jo drīzi sāks kūpēt Kunga dusmas un viņa greizsirdība pret šo vīru, un tam tiks uzlikti visi lāsti, kas rakstīti šajā grāmatā, un Kungs izdzēsīs viņa vārdu zem debesīm! 20 Kungs ļaunuma dēļ viņu nošķirs no visām Israēla ciltīm pēc visiem derības lāstiem, kas rakstīti šajā bauslības grāmatā.
21 Nākamā paaudze, jūsu dēli, kas nāks pēc jums, un svešinieks, kas nāks no tālas zemes, kas redzēs visas šīs zemes brūces un slimības, ar ko Kungs tai būs licis sirgt, teiks tā: 22 sērs, sāls, viss izdedzis, visa zeme neapsēta, nedīgst nekas, tur nepaceļas ne zāle, tā apgriezta otrādi kā Sodoma un Gomora, ko Kungs apvērsa savās dusmās un niknumā! 23 Tad arīdzan visas tautas teiks: kādēļ Kungs šai zemei tā darīja?! Par ko šī lielā dusmu kvēle?! 24 Tad sacīs: tādēļ, ka viņi atmeta Kunga, savu tēvu Dieva, derību, ko viņš ar tiem slēdza, kad bija tos izvedis no Ēģiptes zemes, 25 tādēļ, ka viņi gāja un kalpoja citiem dieviem un tiem zemojās – dieviem, kurus tie nepazina un ko viņš tiem nebija atvēlējis. 26 Tad pret šo zemi iedegās Kunga dusmas un pār to nāca visi lāsti, kas rakstīti šajā grāmatā. 27 Un Kungs niknumā un lielās dusmās izrāva viņus no pašu zemes un aizmeta uz citu zemi, kā šodien! 28 Kas apslēpts, tas Kungam, mūsu Dievam, bet, kas atklāts, tas mums un mūsu dēliem uz mūžiem, lai pildām visus šīs bauslības vārdus.
