12. “This is in order to confirm you today as His people. So He will be your God, just as He promised you and just as He swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
13. Not with you alone am I cutting this covenant and this oath,
14. but with whomever is standing here with us today before Adonai our God and with whomever is not here with us today.
15. “Indeed you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations that we passed through.
16. You saw their detestable things and their idols —wood and stone, silver and gold—that were with them.
17. Beware in case there is among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Adonai our God to go serve the gods of those nations. Beware in case there is among you a root producing poison and bitter fruit.
18. “Now when someone hears the words of this oath and in his heart considers himself blessed, thinking, ‘Shalom will be mine, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart’—thus sweeping away the moist with the dry—