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Renewal of the Sinai covenant. Deut.29:1. These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that the Lord made with them at Horeb. The solemn renewal of the covenant made by Jehovah with the previous generation at Sinai. Deut.29:5. He led you forty years in the wilderness, and your clothes did not wear out, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet; Deut.29:6. You did not eat bread or wine or drink strong drink, so that you might know that I am the Lord your God. Wed. Lev.10.8–10. Bread and wine of ordinary origin were replaced by bread and water miraculously sent down. Deut.29:7. And when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to fight with us, and we defeated them; Deut.29:8. and they took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the tribe of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh. Wed. Number 21:21–35, 32:1; Deuteronomy 2:24–37, 3:1–20. Deut.29:18. Let there not be among you a man or a woman, or a family or a tribe, whose heart will now turn away from the Lord our God to go serve the gods of those nations; Let there not be a root among you that produces poison and wormwood, “Poison and wormwood” is a figurative expression of moral harm and the bitterness of idolatry. Deut.29:19. such a person who, having heard the words of this curse, would boast in his heart, saying: “I will be happy, despite the fact that I will walk according to the will of my heart”; and thus the well-fed will perish with the hungry; “And thus the well-fed will perish with the hungry” according to the Greek-Slavic text: “Let the sinner not destroy the sinless with himself,” which is more in harmony with the beginning of the verse. Deut.29:20. The Lord will not forgive such a person, but immediately the anger of the Lord and His wrath will kindle against such a person, and all the curse [of this covenant] written in this book [of the law] will fall on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven; “And the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven,” just as the name of many pagan peoples of antiquity has been blotted out and how the historical fame of more than half of the Jewish people - the Israelites, taken into captivity by Assyria - has already ceased. Deut.29:22. And the next generation, your children who will come after you, and the stranger who comes from a distant land, will say, when he sees the defeat of this land and the diseases with which the Lord wears it out: Deut.29:23. sulfur and salt, conflagration - the whole earth; it is not sown and does not grow, and no grass grows on it, as after the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath. The present state of Palestine does not at all resemble a land flowing with honey and milk. Deut.29:27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, and He brought upon it all the curses [of the covenant] written in this book [of the law], Deut.29:28. and the Lord cast them out of their land in anger, rage, and great indignation, and cast them into another land, as we see now. This refers to the period of successive foreign dominions in Palestine and the captivities inevitably associated with them, as well as the present period of general dispersion of the Jews. Deut.29:29. The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, and the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may fulfill all the words of this law. “This is said so that the Jews do not labor to search and study the hidden, because it is incomprehensible, but would delve into whether they really listen and follow what is revealed and commanded to them” (St. Ephraim the Syrian, Commentary on Book Deuteronomy, Chapter XXIX). You might be interested in: