Deuteronomy 29: Moses warned Israel, not the modern State
Deuteronomy 29: Moses gathers the people of Israel and warns of plagues and scorched land if they abandon the Covenant. It is not about the modern State.
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The passage in Deuteronomy 29 contains no curse against the modern State of Israel, created in 1948. Moses warns the people of Israel of plagues and scorched land if they abandon the Covenant with Yahweh.
## What Deuteronomy 29 says
Chapter 29 of Deuteronomy opens with **Moses** summoning the whole people of Israel. He reminds them of what **Yahweh** did before their eyes to **Pharaoh**, his officials and his entire land.
Further on, verses 21 to 24 describe a scenario of punishment: future generations and foreigners will see plagues and diseases, sulphur, saltpetre and scorched land. Nothing will be sown and no grass will grow, as peine in Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim.
## The broken Covenant and the question of the nations
The nations will ask why **Yahweh** treated that land this way. The answer is that they abandoned the Covenant made with their forefathers when they left Egypt.
The text does not speak of the modern State of Israel, created in **1948**, but of the people of Israel in the biblical narrative. It is a conditional warning, not a statement about a contemporary country.
## What Deuteronomy 29 says
Chapter 29 of Deuteronomy opens with **Moses** summoning the whole people of Israel. He reminds them of what **Yahweh** did before their eyes to **Pharaoh**, his officials and his entire land.
Further on, verses 21 to 24 describe a scenario of punishment: future generations and foreigners will see plagues and diseases, sulphur, saltpetre and scorched land. Nothing will be sown and no grass will grow, as peine in Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim.
## The broken Covenant and the question of the nations
The nations will ask why **Yahweh** treated that land this way. The answer is that they abandoned the Covenant made with their forefathers when they left Egypt.
The text does not speak of the modern State of Israel, created in **1948**, but of the people of Israel in the biblical narrative. It is a conditional warning, not a statement about a contemporary country.
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