Deuteronomy 29:29
Good News Translation
"There are some things that the LORD our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it forever.

New Revised Standard Version
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD our God hasn't explained the present or the future, but he has commanded us to obey the laws he gave to us and our descendants.

New American Bible
The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

secret

Job 11:6,7 That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth. . . .

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Psalm 25:14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

Proverbs 3:32 Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed.

Daniel 2:18,19,22,27-30 To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. . . .

Daniel 4:9 Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it.

Amos 3:7 For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Matthew 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

John 15:15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

John 21:22 Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee? Follow thou me.

Acts 1:7 But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:

Romans 11:33,34 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! . . .

Romans 16:25,26 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity; . . .

1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

revealed

Psalm 78:2-7 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning. . . .

Isaiah 8:20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Matthew 11:27-30 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him. . . .

Matthew 13:11 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

John 20:31 But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his name.

Romans 16:26 (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

2 Timothy 1:5 Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:

and to our

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Deuteronomy 30:2 And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

Context
The Covenant in Moab
28And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day. 29Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Cross References
John 5:39
Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me.

Acts 1:7
But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:

Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures, whether these things were so.

2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:

Genesis 41:16
Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.

Deuteronomy 29:28
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