6. You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
7. And when you came to this place then Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out to meet you for battle, and we defeated them.
8. And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9. And you must diligently observe the words of this covenant, so that you may succeed in all that you do.
10. “You are standing today, all of you, before Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel,
11. your little children, your women and your aliens who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppers of your wood to the drawers of your water,
12. in order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath that Yahweh your God is making with you today,
13. in order to establish you today to himself as a people and so that he may be for you as God, just as he promised to you and just as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. “Now I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone.
15. But with whoever is standing here with us today before Yahweh our God, and with whoever is not standing here with us today.
16. For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveled through.
17. And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that were among them,
18. so that there is not among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart turns today from being with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.