1. These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2. And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3. The great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4. Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your shoes have not worn out upon your foot.
6. You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
7. And when you came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we defeated them:
8. And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10. You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11. Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood unto the drawer of your water:
12. That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:
13. That he may establish you today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto you a God, as he has said unto you, and as he has sworn unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15. But with him that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16. (For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;
17. And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18. Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose 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 root that bears bitterness or wormwood;