15. but with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
16. (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
17. and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were amongst them);
18. lest there should be amongst you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be amongst you a root that produces bitter poison;
19. and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”
20. The Lord will not pardon him, but then the Lord’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under the sky.
21. The Lord will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this scroll of the Torah.
22. The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick;
23. and that all of its land is sulpher, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;
24. even all the nations will say, “Why has the Lord done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
25. Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,