1. These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2. Moses, therefore, called unto all Israel and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his slaves and unto all his land,
3. the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles.
4. Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear until today.
5. And I have brought you forty years through the wilderness; your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and neither has thy shoe waxed old upon thy foot.
6. Ye have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.
7. And when ye came unto this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them;
8. and we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9. Thou shalt keep, therefore, the words of this covenant and do them that ye may understand all that ye do.
10. Ye stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God, your princes of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11. your little ones, your wives, and thy strangers that dwell within thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water,
12. that thou may enter into covenant with the Lord thy God and into his oath, which the Lord thy God makes with thee today,
13. to confirm thee today as his people and that he may be unto thee as God, as he has said unto thee, and as he has sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
15. but with those that stand here with us today before the Lord our God and also with those that are not here with us today.
16. For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the Gentiles which ye passed by;
17. and ye have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they have among them.