5. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your shoes have not worn out upon your foot.
6. You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
7. And when you came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we defeated them:
8. And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10. You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11. Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood unto the drawer of your water:
12. That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:
13. That he may establish you today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto you a God, as he has said unto you, and as he has sworn unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15. But with him that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16. (For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;