6. You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer – all so that you might know that I am the Lord your God!
7. When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.
8. Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
9. “Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.
10. You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,
11. your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –
12. so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.
13. Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14. It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,