Deuteronomy
Chapter 29
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1These are the words of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses to cut with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that he cut with them at Horeb.
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English Bibles number this sentence 29:1. Leningrad numbers it 28:69, and the next Leningrad chapter begins after it.
2Moses called all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land,
3the great trials that your eyes saw, those great signs and Striking signs that something is about to happen..
4But God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
5I led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not wear out from on you, and your sandal did not wear out from on your foot.
6You did not eat bread, and you did not drink wine or intoxicating drink, so that you would know that I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
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Shekhar is intoxicating drink.
7You came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, and we struck them.
8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to the half-tribe of the Manassite.
9You shall keep the words of this A solemn agreement that binds God and people. and do them, so that you succeed in all that you do.
10You are standing today, all of you, before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, every man of Israel,
11your little ones, your wives, and your A person living in a land that is not their own. who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
12for you to cross into the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God and into his oath, which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is cutting with you today,
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Alah is his oath, the sworn curse that goes with the covenant.
13so that he establishes you today as his people, and he will be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14Not with you alone am I cutting this A solemn agreement that binds God and people. and this oath.
15It is with the one who is here with us, standing today before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God, and with the one who is not here with us today.
16For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the midst of the nations that you passed through,
17and you saw their detestable things and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, that were with them.
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Shiqqutzim are detestable things. Gillulim are idols. The line names wood, stone, silver, and gold.
18Beware that there is not among you a man or a woman, or a clan or a tribe, whose heart turns today from God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware that there is not among you a root bearing poison and A bitter plant..
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Rosh is poison. La’anah is wormwood.
19And it shall be, when he hears the words of this oath, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, Peace will be mine, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, so as to sweep the watered away with the thirsty.
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Sherirut lev is stubbornness of heart. Sefot ha-ravah et ha-tseme’ah is to sweep the watered away with the thirsty. The line does not explain the picture further.
20God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will not be willing to pardon him. For then God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and every oath written in this scroll will lie down on him, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will wipe out his name from under the heavens.
21God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will single him out for evil from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. written in this scroll of the instruction.
22The later generation will say, your children who rise after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, when they see the blows of that land and its sicknesses that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has made sick in it,
23sulfur and salt, a burning of its whole land, it is not sown and it does not grow, and no grass comes up on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. overthrew in his anger and in his fury,
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Leningrad writes the city’s name tsvyyim. The Masoretic reading is tsvoyim. “Zeboiim” is the name in both spellings.
24all the nations will say, Why has God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. done this to this land? What is this great burning of anger?
25And they will say, Because they forsook the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of their fathers, which he cut with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
26They went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods they had not known and that he had not allotted to them.
27God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s anger burned against that land, to bring on it every curse written in this scroll.
28God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. uprooted them from their soil in anger, in fury, and in great wrath, and he threw them into another land, as at this day.
29The hidden things belong to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God, and the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to do all the words of this instruction.
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The Leningrad copy places dots over the words for us and for our children. The words are printed. The dots are not a different reading.