📜WEB · Deuteronomy 29:16
What does Deuteronomy 29:16 mean?
"(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;"
— Deuteronomy 29:16 (World English Bible)
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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.
Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
(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;
and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
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;
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.”
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