1. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2. Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3. the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
4. But the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
5. I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
6. You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
7. When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
8. We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9. Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10. All of you stand today in the presence of the Lord your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11. your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
12. that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today;