8. And we took their land and delivered it as a possession to Ruben and to Gad, and to half of the tribe of Manasseh.
9. Therefore, keep the words of this covenant, and fulfill them, so that you may understand all that you are doing.
10. Today, you all stand in the sight of the Lord your God: your leaders, and tribes, and those greater by birth, and teachers, all the people of Israel,
11. your children and wives, and the new arrival who dwells with you in the camp, aside from those who cut wood, and those who bring water,
12. so that you may cross into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into the oath which the Lord your God strikes with you today.
13. So shall he raise you up as a people to himself, and so shall he be your God, just as he has spoken to you, and just as he swore to your fathers: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14. And I am not forming this covenant and confirm these oaths with you alone,
15. but with all those who are present as well as those who are absent.
16. For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the midst of nations. And when passing through them,
17. you saw their abominations and filth, that is, their idols of wood and of stone, of silver and of gold, which they worshipped,
18. so that there would not be among you man or woman, family or tribe, whose heart has been turned away this day from the Lord our God, so as to go and serve the gods of those nations. For then there would be among you a root springing forth gall and bitterness.