9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that you may understand all that you do.
10. You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,
11. Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
12. That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.
13. That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,
15. But with all that are present and that are absent.