English Bible Presentation Sharing - Deuteronomy Book, chapter 29, verse 45 in Nlv Version

Deuteronomy 29 : 1 (NLV)

These are the words of the agreement the Lord told Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, as well as the agreement He had made with them at Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 29 : 2 (NLV)

Moses called all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all the Lord did in front of you in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land.

Deuteronomy 29 : 3 (NLV)

You have seen great tests and powerful works.

Deuteronomy 29 : 4 (NLV)

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

Deuteronomy 29 : 5 (NLV)

I have led you forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not wear out. And your shoes did not wear out on your feet.

Deuteronomy 29 : 6 (NLV)

You did not eat bread, or drink wine or strong drink, so you might know that I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 29 : 7 (NLV)

When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came to meet us to fight. But we won the fight.

Deuteronomy 29 : 8 (NLV)

We took their land and gave it as a gift to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half family group of Manasseh.

Deuteronomy 29 : 9 (NLV)

So be careful to keep the words of this agreement and obey them so all that you do will go well.

Deuteronomy 29 : 10 (NLV)

"Today you all stand before the Lord your God, you, your rulers, your families, your leaders, all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29 : 11 (NLV)

your children, your wives, the stranger who is among your tents, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who gets your water.

Deuteronomy 29 : 12 (NLV)

You are here to take part in the agreement with the Lord your God, and in His promise which the Lord your God is making with you today.

Deuteronomy 29 : 13 (NLV)

So today He will make you His people. He will be your God, just as He told you and as He promised your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29 : 14 (NLV)

"I am not making this agreement and this promise with you alone.

Deuteronomy 29 : 15 (NLV)

I am making them with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and with those who are not here with us today.

Deuteronomy 29 : 16 (NLV)

You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the land of the nations on our way here.

Deuteronomy 29 : 17 (NLV)

You have seen their sinful things and their gods of wood, stone, silver and gold, which they had with them.

Deuteronomy 29 : 18 (NLV)

Be careful not to have any man or woman or family or group among you whose heart turns away from the Lord our God today to go and worship the gods of those nations. Do not let there be a root among you giving poison fruit and bad-tasting plants.

Deuteronomy 29 : 19 (NLV)

When one hears the words of this curse, he will say in his pride, 'I have peace even though I am strong-willed in my heart.' This will destroy the land that is watered along with the dry land.

Deuteronomy 29 : 20 (NLV)

The Lord will never be willing to forgive him. But the Lord will be jealous and His anger will burn against that man. Every curse written in this book will be upon him. And the Lord will take out his name from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 29 : 21 (NLV)

The Lord will set him apart for trouble from all the families of Israel, with all the curses of the agreement which are written in this book of the Law.

Deuteronomy 29 : 22 (NLV)

"The children to come, your sons who grow up after you, and the stranger who comes from a land far away, will see the troubles and diseases the Lord has sent upon the land. And they will say,

Deuteronomy 29 : 23 (NLV)

'The whole land is sulphur and salt, a burning waste, not planted and not giving any plants, and no grass grows in it. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in His anger.'

Deuteronomy 29 : 24 (NLV)

All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was He so angry?'

Deuteronomy 29 : 25 (NLV)

Then men will say, 'It is because they did not keep the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29 : 26 (NLV)

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they had not known and whom He had not given to them.

Deuteronomy 29 : 27 (NLV)

So the anger of the Lord burned against that land. Every curse was brought upon it that is written in this book.

Deuteronomy 29 : 28 (NLV)

The Lord drove them from their land in much anger. And He sent them into another land, as it is today.'

Deuteronomy 29 : 29 (NLV)

"The secret things belong to the Lord our God. But the things that are made known belong to us and to our children forever, so we may obey all the words of this Law.