9. Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may deal wisely and prosper in all that you do.
10. All of you stand today before 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 stranger and sojourner in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water–
12. That you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into His oath which He makes with you today,
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,