29The Lord commanded Moses to make an agreement with the Israelites in Moab in addition to the agreement he had made with them at Mount Sinai. These are the words of that agreement.

²Moses called all the Israelites together and said to them:

You have seen everything the Lord did before your own eyes to the king of Egypt and to the king’s leaders and to the whole country. ³With your own eyes you saw the great troubles, signs, and miracles. ⁴But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands; you don’t really understand what you see with your eyes or hear with your ears. ⁵I led you through the desert for forty years, and during that time neither your clothes nor sandals wore out. ⁶You ate no bread and drank no wine or beer. This was so you would understand that I am the Lord your God.

⁷When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight us, but we defeated them. ⁸We captured their land and gave it to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh to be their own.

⁹You must carefully obey everything in this agreement so that you will succeed in everything you do. ¹⁰Today you are all standing here before the Lord your God—your leaders and important men, your elders, officers, and all the other men of Israel, ¹¹your wives and children and the foreigners who live among you, who chop your wood and carry your water. ¹²You are all here to enter into an agreement and a promise with the Lord your God, an agreement the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹³This will make you today his own people. He will be your God, as he told you and as he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹⁴But I am not just making this agreement and its promises with you ¹⁵who are standing here before the Lord your God today, but also with those who are not here today.

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