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.
16. For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,
17. You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
18. Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
19. And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,