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;
17. And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18. Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitterness or wormwood;
19. And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20. The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21. And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
22. So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;
23. And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: