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Deuteronômio 29

ARC · Chapter 29/34

1Estas são as palavras do concerto que o Senhor ordenou a Moysés na terra de Moab, que fizesse com os filhos de Israel, além do concerto que fizera com elles em Horeb.

2E chamou Moysés a todo o Israel, e disse-lhes: Tendes visto tudo quanto o Senhor fez na terra do Egypto, perante vossos olhos, a Pharaó, e a todos os seus servos, e a toda a sua terra:

3As grandes provas que os teus olhos teem visto, aquelles signaes e grandes maravilhas:

4Porém não vos tem dado o Senhor um coração para entender, nem olhos para ver, nem ouvidos para ouvir, até ao dia de hoje

5E quarenta annos vos fiz andar pelo deserto: não se envelheceram sobre vós os vossos vestidos, e nem se envelheceu no teu pé o teu sapato.

6Pão não comestes, e vinho e bebida forte não bebestes: para que soubesseis que eu sou o Senhor vosso Deus.

7Vindo vós pois a este logar, Sehon, rei de Hesbon, e Og, rei de Basan, nos sairam ao encontro, á peleja, e nós os ferimos:

8E tomámos a sua terra, e a démos por herança aos rubenitas, e aos gaditas, e á meia tribu dos manassitas.

9Guardae pois as palavras d'este concerto, e fazei-as, para que prospereis em tudo quanto fizerdes.

10Vós todos estaes hoje perante o Senhor vosso Deus: os Cabeças de vossas tribus, vossos anciãos, e os vossos officiaes, todo o homem de Israel;

11Os vossos meninos, as vossas mulheres, e o estrangeiro que está no meio do teu arraial; desde o rachador da tua lenha até ao tirador da tua agua;

12Para que entres no concerto do Senhor teu Deus, e no seu juramento que o Senhor teu Deus hoje faz comtigo;

13Para que hoje te confirme a si por povo, e elle te seja a ti por Deus, como te tem dito, e como jurou a teus paes, Abrahão, Isaac e Jacob.

14E não sómente comvosco faço este concerto e este juramento,

15Mas com aquelle que hoje está aqui em pé comnosco perante o Senhor nosso Deus, e com aquelle que hoje não está aqui comnosco.

16Porque vós sabeis como habitámos na terra do Egypto, e como passámos pelo meio das nações pelas quaes passastes;

17E vistes as suas abominações, e os seus idolos, o pau e a pedra, a prata e o oiro que havia entre elles.

18Para que entre vós não haja homem, nem mulher, nem familia, nem tribu, cujo coração hoje se desvie do Senhor nosso Deus, para que vá servir aos deuses d'estas nações; para que entre vós não haja raiz que dê fel e absintho;

19E aconteça que, ouvindo as palavras d'esta maldição, se abençôe no seu coração, dizendo: Terei paz, ainda que ande conforme ao bom parecer do meu coração; para accrescentar á sêde a bebedice

20O Senhor não lhe quererá perdoar; mas então fumegará a ira do Senhor e o seu zelo sobre o tal homem, e toda a maldição escripta n'este livro jazerá sobre elle; e o Senhor apagará o seu nome de debaixo do céu.

21E o Senhor o separará para mal de todas as tribus de Israel, conforme a todas as maldições do concerto escripto no livro d'esta lei.

22Então dirá a geração vindoura, os vossos filhos, que se levantarem depois de vós, e o estranho que virá de terras remotas, vendo as pragas d'esta terra, e as suas doenças, com que o Senhor a terá affligido;

23E toda a sua terra abrazada com enxofre e sal, de sorte que não será semeada, e nada produzirá, nem n'ella crescerá herva alguma: assim como foi a destruição de Sodoma e de Gomorrha, de Adama e de Zeboim, que o Senhor destruiu na sua ira e no seu furor

24E todas as nações dirão: Porque fez o Senhor assim com esta terra? qual foi a causa do furor d'esta tão grande ira

25Então se dirá: Porquanto deixaram o concerto do Senhor, o Deus de seus paes, que com elles tinha feito, quando os tirou do Egypto.

26E elles foram-se, e serviram a outros deuses, e se inclinaram diante d'elles; deuses que os não conheceram, e nenhum dos quaes elle lhes tinha dado.

27Pelo que a ira do Senhor se accendeu contra esta terra, para trazer sobre ella toda a maldição que está escripta n'este livro.

28E o Senhor os tirou da sua terra com ira, e com indignação, e com grande furor, e os lançou em outra terra, como n'este dia se vê

29As coisas encobertas são para o Senhor nosso Deus; porém as reveladas são para nós e para nossos filhos para sempre, para fazer todas as palavras d'esta lei

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Moses summons the entire people — men, women, children, and foreigners — to solemnly reaffirm the covenant with God, warning against the false security of thinking one can secretly disobey without consequence, and prophetically describes the future desolation of the land should the covenant be broken.

Explanation

This chapter emphasizes that the covenant with God was not a contract meant only for leaders or a religious elite, but included every person present, from the one who cut the wood to the one who drew the water — a remarkably democratic inclusion by ancient standards, crossing lines of social class. The specific warning against anyone who might secretly think, 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my own heart,' anticipates a timeless spiritual danger: the illusion that private, hidden decisions carry no real consequences before God. The startling image of the land turned into something like Sodom and Gomorrah, prompting foreign nations to ask why the Lord did this to that land, shows how Israel's own experience of discipline would ironically serve as a public lesson on the seriousness of a broken covenant — even through failure, a spiritual message would be communicated to the nations.

Fun facts

  • The closing line, 'the secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong unto us' (v. 29), is frequently quoted in theological discussions about the limits of human knowledge before the mysteries of God, humbly acknowledging that not everything about the divine plan is accessible to human understanding.
  • The comparison of Israel's future desolation to the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim (v. 23) — cities first mentioned in Genesis 14 and destroyed in Genesis 19 — shows how events from the beginning of the Pentateuch continued to serve as a benchmark of divine judgment throughout the rest of the biblical narrative.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Deuteronômio 29:1Marks a second formal covenant, made in Moab, complementing — not replacing — the original covenant made at Horeb.
  2. Deuteronômio 29:2Moses summons the whole people, reminding them of what they saw with their own eyes: what God did against Pharaoh and all of Egypt.
  3. Deuteronômio 29:3Reinforces that this generation saw concrete proof — signs and great wonders — not secondhand stories.
  4. Deuteronômio 29:4Moses admits that even after seeing all the miracles of Egypt and the wilderness, the people still had not been given “an heart to perceive”: a rare admission, within the text itself, that witnessing a miracle does not guarantee understanding or automatic faithfulness.
  5. Deuteronômio 29:5Returns to God’s constant care in the wilderness: neither clothes nor sandals wore out in forty years.
  6. Deuteronômio 29:6The reason for the manna, and for going without ordinary wine, was to teach direct dependence on God, not on what the land normally produces.
  7. Deuteronômio 29:7Recalls the recent victories over Sihon and Og, still-fresh proof of God’s power before crossing the Jordan.
  8. Deuteronômio 29:8Recalls that the land of these two kings had already been distributed to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
  9. Deuteronômio 29:9Closes the historical introduction with a practical appeal: keeping this covenant is the key to prospering in everything.
  10. Deuteronômio 29:10Details who was gathered for this covenant renewal: leaders, elders, officers, and every man of Israel.
  11. Deuteronômio 29:11Expands the list to include children, women, and even the foreigner living in the camp, down to the humblest workers.
  12. Deuteronômio 29:12The purpose of the gathering is to formalize everyone’s entry into this covenant and into the oath made by God.
  13. Deuteronômio 29:13Repeats the covenant’s central formula: God confirms the people as His own, fulfilling what He swore to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  14. Deuteronômio 29:14Makes clear that this covenant does not apply only to those physically present at that moment.
  15. Deuteronômio 29:15Extends the covenant to future generations as well, not yet even born — a commitment that reaches across time.
  16. Deuteronômio 29:16Recalls the experience of passing through various foreign nations during the journey, each with its own customs.
  17. Deuteronômio 29:17Specifies what they saw among these peoples: idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold — the concrete idolatry they were to avoid.
  18. Deuteronômio 29:18The central fear is that someone — a family or an entire tribe — might quietly turn aside to serve those same foreign gods.
  19. Deuteronômio 29:19Describes the danger of a false security: someone thinking they can follow their own desires and still have peace — a dangerous self-deception.
  20. Deuteronômio 29:20God’s response to that self-deception would be harsh: a refusal to forgive and the full weight of every curse already written.
  21. Deuteronômio 29:21That person would be set apart as a warning example among all the tribes, bearing the weight of the covenant’s curses.
  22. Deuteronômio 29:22Anticipates a future scene: later generations and foreigners looking on from outside at the plagues and disasters that struck the land.
  23. Deuteronômio 29:23The image of the land devastated by “brimstone, and salt,” like Sodom and Gomorrah, draws on an already-familiar example of destruction to describe what would happen to Israel’s land if the people broke the covenant. The scorched landscape becomes visible proof of judgment for anyone passing through afterward.
  24. Deuteronômio 29:24Imagines the natural question from these onlookers: why would God do something so severe to His own land?
  25. Deuteronômio 29:25The anticipated answer is direct: the people abandoned the covenant made with the God who brought them out of Egypt.
  26. Deuteronômio 29:26Details the specific abandonment: serving and worshiping strange gods that God had never authorized or assigned to them.
  27. Deuteronômio 29:27That is why God’s anger would burn, bringing upon the land every curse already written in the law.
  28. Deuteronômio 29:28Describes the final outcome: expulsion from the land in fierce anger, cast into another place, as visible testimony to this day.
  29. Deuteronômio 29:29The phrase about “the secret things” acknowledges that not everything has an explanation available to the people: what was revealed, the law, is what they are responsible for living out and teaching their children, without trying to solve every mystery on their own.

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