10. Today all of you stand before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11. your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners who are in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water—
12. so that you should enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath, which the Lord your God is making with you today.
13. Today He will establish that you are His people and that He is your God, just as He has said to you and He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,
15. but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, and with him who is not here with us today
16. (for you know that we lived 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 of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them);
18. lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations, and lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit;
19. and it happens that, when he hears the words of this covenant, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” thus destroying the watered ground with the dry.