Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 206
The Five Books of Moses
did in your sight, in the land of Mitzeraim, to Pharoh and to all his o$cers, and to all his country, their great defeats which your eyes saw,—·the wonders, and the great manifestations upon them. But the »Ev1m—1.1v1NG did not give you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until to·day. Although you wandered forty years
in the desert, you were not deficient in clothing upon yourselves, and your shoes were not stripped from your feet. You did not eat bread or drink wine or beer, so that you might learn that I am your Evan-Livmo Gon. Then you came to this place and met Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, and you advanced to fight, and slew them, and took their country, and give it to be divided by the Reubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh. Therefore re- member the contents of this covenant and practise them, so that you may reflect upon all you are bound to do, You are to-day all of you stationed
before the EvER~1.1v1Ne, your Gon; your nobles, your governors, your
judges, and your otiicials, every man of Israel ; your children, your wives, and the foreigners who are amongst you; —·— the hewers of wood, and drawers of water for you ;-·—to assent to the Covenant of your EvER·L1\/ING GOD, and to swear to what the EVER- LIVING, your GOD, has agreed with you to·day, so that you may rise up
1 V. 69 of Ch. xxviii., and v. 1 of Ch. xxix.,
are an editorial note, probably by Aliazer the Priest, when editing his Masters Orations for the Ark of ‘Witnesses.—-F. F. from to-day to be a People for HIM, and HE may be a GOD to you, as HE promised you, and as HE swore to your fathers,——to Abraham, to Isaac, and to jacob. Since it is not I alone who made this Covenant and this confirmation with you, that is established here with us to-day before the Evan-Livmo our Gon, and which is confirmed to us here to—day. For you know that we resided in the land of the Mitzeraim, and that you were slaves amongst the heathen whom you served; andyou saw their cor· ruptions, and their idols, of wood, and stone, of silver and gold, that they have! Take special care to yourselves, man or woman, or family or tribe, who has a heart, from turn-· ing to—day from our EvBR~L1v1NG GOD, to go and serve the gods of those Heathen;-1est there should be a root bearing poison and anguish amongst you. But should anyone listening to the
words of this oath say to himself in I shall prosper, although I walk in the ideas of my heart, for ·—- the Even-Lrvmo will not be ready to forgive him, but the LoR1>’s anger and indignation will smoke at that person, and HE willheap upon him all that is written in this record, and the Evan-Livmo will wipe his name from under-the skies, and the LORD will set him apart for evil,. in every tribe of Israel, for all the curses of the covenant written in the record of this Law. And the future genera- tions of your sons, who may arise after you, and the strangers who come from distant countries and see the affiictions of the country, and the curses with which the Even-ravine has cursed it, shall exclaim, ‘ Brim- stone and salt burn all the country! It is not sown——~does not grow,——and produces no vegetation, like ruined Sodom and Gomorah, Admah and Tzeboim, whom the EVER-Llv1NG destroyed in His anger and in His And all the nations shall ask,
‘ Why has the Even-Livme afflicted this land? Why should His great When they :6 18 20 2I 22
