Narrative Interlude
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The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed
2Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the
3Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders.
4But to this very day the
5I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.
6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer – all so that you might know that I am the
7When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.
8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
The Present Covenant Setting
9“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.
10You are standing today, all of you, before the
11your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –
12so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the
13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,
15but with whoever stands with us here today before the
The Results of Disobedience
16“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.
17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
18Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the
19When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.
20The
21The
22The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the
23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the
24Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the
25Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the
26They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.
27That is why the
28So the
29Secret things belong to the
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