12. for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;
13. in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. `And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;
15. but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,
16. for ye have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have passed by;
17. and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them,