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.