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Deuteronomy Chapter 29

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Moses strongly urges obedience

29:1 THESE [are] the words of the covenant, which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
commanded Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moabמוֹאָב‎
Transliteration:mô’āḇ Pronunciation:mo-awb Moab = “of his father” Son of Lot and his oldest daughter click here also the land of Moab’s descendants
, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
29:2 And Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
called to all Israel, and said to them, ya’ll have seen all that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land ;
29:3 Your eyes have seen great trials, the signs, and those great miracles
29:4 Yet YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
has not given you an heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness your clothes haven’t wore out on you, and your sandal hasn’t wore out on your foot.
29:6 Ya’ll haven’t eaten bread, or have ya’ll drunk wine or strong drink that ya’ll might know that I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
.
29:7 And when ya’ll 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
29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
29:9 For that reason keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that ya’ll may prosper in all that ya’ll do.

Convent entered into


29:10 Ya’ll stand this day all of you before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,
29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and your alien that [is] in your camp, from the woodsmen to the drawer of your water
29:12 That you should enter into covenant with YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
, and into His oath, which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
makes with ya’ll this day
29:13 That He may establish ya’ll today for a people to Himself, and [that] He may be to ya’ll a El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
, as he has said to ya’ll , and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here
, to Isaacיִצְחָק
(Yīṣḥāq) meaning “he will laugh”, reflecting the laughter, in disbelief, of Abraham and Sarah, when told by God that they would have a child.
, and to Bethelבֵּית אֵל
romanized: Bēṯ ‘Ēl, “House of El” or “House of God”
.
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath ;
29:15 But with [him] that stands here with us this day before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
our El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us today
29:16 (For ya’ll know how we have lived in the land of Egypt ; and how we came through the nations which ya’ll passed by;
29:17 And ya’ll have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them
29:18 Unless there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
our El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations ; unless there should be among you today a root that bears gall and wormwood ;
29:19 And it will happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peaceשָׁלוֹם
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, be well, prosperity For more info click here
, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst
29:20 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
and his anger shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
shall erase his name from under the heavens.
29:21 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, as stated by all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the Torahתּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; “Instruction”, “Teaching” or “Law”) The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot.

29:22 So that the generations to come of your sons that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
has laid on it;
29:23 [And that] the whole land [is] burned with brimstone, and salt, [that] it shall not be sown, or shall it sprout, or any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
toppled in His anger, and in His fury
29:24 Even all nations shall say, Why has YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
done this to this land ? what [is] the heat of this great anger?
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt
29:26 Because they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they didn’t know, and [whom ] he hadn’t given to them any portion.
29:27 And the anger of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
was ignited against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book
29:28 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
rooted them out of their land in anger, and in rage, and in great indignation, and threw them into another land, as [it is] today.

Secret things are God’s


29:29 The secret things [belong] to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
our El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
but those [things which are] revealed [belong] to us and to our sons forever, that [we] may do all the words of this Torahתּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; “Instruction”, “Teaching” or “Law”) The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot.
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