8. We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9. Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10. “You are standing today all of you before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
11. your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
12. so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today,
13. that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant,
15. but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.
16. “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
17. And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
18. Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,