Moshe called to all of Yisroel and said to them, ‘‘You have seen everything that Adonoy did as you watched, in the land of Egypt, to Pharoah and to all his attendants and to his entire land.

The great miracles that you witnessed, those great signs and wonders.

Yet Adonoy did not grant you a knowledgeable mind and eyes to see, and ears to hear until this day.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness, your garments have not worn out on you and your shoes have not worn out on your feet.

Bread have you not eaten, neither fresh nor aged wine have you drunk, in order that you know that I, Adonoy, am your God.

Then when you came to this place, Sichon, king of Cheshbon, came out—and Og, king of Boshon [Masnon]—toward us to wage war and we smote them.

And we took the their land and gave it as territory to the [tribe of the] Reuvenites and to the [tribe of the] Gaddites, and to half the tribe of the Menashians.

You are to guard the tenets of this covenant and fulfill them, in order that you succeed in everything that you do.’’

‘‘You stand, this day all of you before Adonoy, your God; your tribal chieftains, your elders and your law officers, every man of Yisroel.

Your young, your wives, and your convert who is within your camps; from your wood cutters to the water drawers.

For your passage into the covenant of Adonoy, your God, and His oath-curse, that Adonoy, your God, is making with you today.

In order to sustain you today [before Him] as His people, and He will be for you a God as He promished you and as He promised your forefathers Avrohom, Yitzchok, and Yaakov.

And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath-curse.

But with whoever is here with us standing today in the presence of Adonoy, our God, and with those who are not here with us today.

For you are aware how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations whom you passed through.

Where you observed their abominations and their loathsomeness [idols], wood and stone, silver and gold, that they owned.

Perhaps there is among you a man or a woman or a family [offspring] or a tribe whose thoughts stray today from [being] with [the fear of] Adonoy, our God, to go serve the gods [idols] of those nations; lest there is within you a root producing gall and bitter fruit [a man who imagines sin or evil].

When he hears the statements of this oath-curse, he will imagine self-blessings [think to himself], saying, ‘‘Peace will be my lot when I shall follow what my thoughts envision,’’ so that the unintentional may be added to the sinful [I will add unintentional sins to the intentional].

Adonoy will be unwilling to forgive him, because then Adonoy’s nostrils will fume [anger will be aroused] and His vengeful fury will enflame against [cleave to] that man, and there will cling to him the entire oath-curse written in this book; and Adonoy will eliminate his name from beneath the sky.

And Adonoy will seperate him for harm from all the tribes of Yisroel, in accord with all the oath-curses of the covenant inscribed in this Torah scroll.

The latter generation will say—your children who will arise after you and the stranger [foreign alien] who will come from a distant land; and they will see the plagues of that land and its illnesses that Adonoy has harmed it with.

Sulfur and salt, all its land, will be burnt, it will not be seeded, and it will not sprout, and no grass will grow there; like the overturning of Sodom and Amoroh, Admoh and Tzevoyim, which Adonoy overturned in His anger and His wrath.

And all the nations will say, ‘‘For what did Adonoy do so to this land? Why the vigor of this great [aroused] anger?’’

And they will reply, ‘‘Because they forsook the covenant of Adonoy, the God of their forefathers, which He made with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt.

And they went and served other gods and prostrated themselves to them; gods unknown to them and [which] He had not apportioned to them.

And Adonoy became furious with that land, [causing Him] to bring on it the entire curse written in this book.

And Adonoy forced them away from their land with anger and wrath and great fury [aroused anger]; and He cast [exile] them into another land like this day.

The hidden [matters] are Adonoy’s, our God’s, and the revealed [matters] are ours and our children’s forever, to perform all the statements of this Torah.