13. That He may establish you this day as a people for Himself, and that He may be to you a God as He said to you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14. It is not with you only that I make this sworn covenant
15. But with future Israelites who do not stand here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are here with us this day.
16. You know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations you crossed.
17. And you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
18. Beware lest there should be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose [mind and] heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a [poisonous] root that bears gall and wormwood,
19. And lest, when he hears the words of this curse and oath, he flatters and congratulates himself in his [mind and] heart, saying, I shall have peace and safety, though I walk in the stubbornness of my [mind and] heart [bringing down a hurricane of destruction] and sweep away the watered land with the dry.
20. The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.
21. And the Lord will single him out for ruin and destruction from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law,
22. So that the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the Lord has made it sick–
23. The whole land is brimstone and salt and a burned waste, not sown or bearing anything, where no grass can take root, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath–
24. Even all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?
25. Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.
26. For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they knew not and that He had not given to them.
27. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses that are written in this book.
28. And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.