1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:

Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet. 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. 7 When you 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. 8 We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 10 All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water, 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today, 13 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only, 15 but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed; 17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison; 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart," to destroy the moist with the dry. 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. 21 Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick, 23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. 24 Even all the nations will say, "Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

25 Then men will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. 27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. 28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today."

29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

1 这些是耶和华在摩押地， 吩咐摩西与以色列人所立的约的话， 是耶和华和他们在何烈山所立的约以外的。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为28:69）

2 摩西把以色列众人召了来， 对他们说： "耶和华在埃及地， 在你们面前， 向法老和他的众臣仆， 以及他的全国所行的一切， 你们都看见了， （本节在《马索拉抄本》为29:1）

3 就是你亲眼见过的大试验和神迹， 以及那些大奇事；

4 但是直到今日， 耶和华还没有给你们一颗能明白的心， 能看见的眼睛， 能听见的耳朵。

5 我在旷野四十年之久领导你们； 你们身上的衣服没有穿破， 脚上的鞋也没有穿坏。

6 饭你们没有吃， 清酒或烈酒你们没有喝， 这是要使你们知道耶和华是你们的 神。

7 你们来到了这地方， 希实本王西宏和巴珊王噩就出来， 与我们交战， 我们击败了他们。

8 夺取了他们的地， 分给流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派作产业。

9 所以你们要谨守这约的话， 并且遵行， 好使你们在所行的一切事上都亨通。

10 "今日你们全都站在耶和华你们的 神面前； 你们的首领、族长、长老、官长和以色列所有的男子，

11 你们的小孩、妻子和在你营中的寄居者， 以及为你们劈柴挑水的人， 都站在耶和华你们的 神面前，

12 为要叫你遵守耶和华你的 神今日与你所立的约， 和他向你所起的誓；

13 这样， 他今日可以立你作他的子民， 他可以作你的 神， 正如他曾经对你说过的， 又对你的列祖亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起过誓的。

14 "我不但与你们立这约， 起这誓；

15 而且也与那些今日和我们在这里， 一同站在耶和华我们的 神面前的人， 以及那些今日不与我们同在这里的人立这约， 起这誓。

16 你们清楚知道我们怎样在埃及地住过， 怎样从列国中经过；

17 你们也见过他们的可憎之物， 和他们那里那些木、石、金、银的偶像。

18 恐怕你们中间有男人或女人， 家族或支派， 今日心里偏离了耶和华我们的 神， 去事奉那些国的神， 又恐怕你们中间有恶根， 生出毒草和苦堇来；

19 如果人听了这咒诅的话， 心里仍然自夸说： ‘我虽然照着顽梗的心而行， 使好人和恶人一起灭亡， 我还有平安。’

20 耶和华必不肯饶恕他； 耶和华的怒气和愤恨必向这人发作， 这书上所写的一切咒诅都要降在那人身上， 耶和华也必从天下涂抹他的名。

21 耶和华必照着写在这律法书上的约的一切咒诅， 把他从以色列众支派中分别出来， 使他遭受灾祸。

22 "后代的人， 就是你们以后兴起来的子孙， 和从远方来的外族人， 看见了这地的灾难和耶和华降与这地的疾病，

23 又看见了遍地有硫磺， 有盐卤， 有火烧， 没有播种， 没有出产， 寸草不生， 好像耶和华在烈怒和怒火中毁灭的所多玛、蛾摩拉、押玛、洗扁一样，

24 看见了这些的人和万国的人都要问： ‘耶和华为什么向这地这样行呢？为什么大发烈怒呢？’

25 人就必回答： ‘是因为他们离弃了耶和华他们列祖的 神的约， 就是耶和华把他们从埃及地领出来的时候， 与他们所立的；

26 去事奉别的神， 向他们叩拜， 就是他们不认识的神， 也是耶和华没有给他们指定要拜的神；

27 所以耶和华向这地大发烈怒， 把这书上所写的一切咒诅都降在这地上；

28 于是耶和华在烈怒、忿怒和大怒中， 把他们从他们的地土拔出来， 丢在别的地方， 像今天一样。’

29 "奥秘的事， 是属于耶和华我们的 神的， 只有显露的事， 是永远属于我们和我们子孙的， 好叫我们遵行这律法上的一切话。"