Deuteronomy 29
- 1These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
- 2And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land.
- 3The great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
- 4Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
- 5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.
- 6You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
- 7And 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:
- 8And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
- 9Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
- 10You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God, your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
- 11Your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner that is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the drawer of your water:
- 12That you should enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you this day:
- 13That he may establish you today for a people to himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, And as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- 14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath.
- 15But with him who stands here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day:
- 16For you know how we have lived in the land of Egypt. How we came through the nations which you passed by.
- 17And you have seen their disgusting images, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:
- 18Or else there will be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations. Or else there will be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood.
- 19When he hears the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
- 20The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- 21And the Lord shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
- 22So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it.
- 23And that the whole land of it is burning sulfur, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, and does not produce, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- 24Even all nations shall say, Therefore has the Lord done this to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?
- 25Then men shall say, Because they have abandoned the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
- 26For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods they did not know, and that he had not given to them:
- 27And the anger of the Lord burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book:
- 28And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great anger, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
- 29The secret things belong to the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Deuteronomy 29 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVAnd Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
GIGAKJVAnd Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land.
KJVThe great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
GIGAKJVThe great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
KJVYet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
GIGAKJVYet the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
KJVAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
GIGAKJVAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.
KJVYe have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.
GIGAKJVYou have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
KJVAnd when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
GIGAKJVAnd 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:
KJVAnd we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
GIGAKJVAnd we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
KJVKeep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
GIGAKJVKeep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
KJVYe stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
GIGAKJVYou stand this day all of you before the Lord your God, your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
KJVYour little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
GIGAKJVYour little ones, your wives, and your foreigner that is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the drawer of your water:
KJVThat thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:
GIGAKJVThat you should enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you this day:
KJVThat he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
GIGAKJVThat he may establish you today for a people to himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, And as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
KJVNeither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
GIGAKJVNeither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath.
KJVBut with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
GIGAKJVBut with him who stands here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day:
KJV(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
GIGAKJVFor you know how we have lived in the land of Egypt. How we came through the nations which you passed by.
KJVAnd ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
GIGAKJVAnd you have seen their disgusting images, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:
KJVLest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
GIGAKJVOr else there will be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations. Or else there will be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood.
KJVAnd it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
GIGAKJVWhen he hears the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
KJVThe Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
GIGAKJVThe Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
KJVAnd the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
GIGAKJVAnd the Lord shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
KJVSo that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;
GIGAKJVSo that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it.
KJVAnd that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
GIGAKJVAnd that the whole land of it is burning sulfur, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, and does not produce, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
KJVEven all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
GIGAKJVEven all nations shall say, Therefore has the Lord done this to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?
KJVThen men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
GIGAKJVThen men shall say, Because they have abandoned the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
KJVFor they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
GIGAKJVFor they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods they did not know, and that he had not given to them:
KJVAnd the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
GIGAKJVAnd the anger of the Lord burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book:
KJVAnd the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
GIGAKJVAnd the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great anger, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
KJVThe secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
GIGAKJVThe secret things belong to the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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