1. Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and to all his land,
2. the great testings your own eyes have seen, and those great signs and wonders.
3. But the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear until this day.
4. I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;
5. it was not bread that you ate, nor wine or beer that you drank—so that you might know that I, the Lord, am your God.
6. When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them
7. and took their land, and gave it as a heritage to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
8. Observe carefully the words of this covenant, therefore, in order that you may succeed in whatever you do.
9. You are standing today, all of you, in the presence of the Lord, your God—your tribal heads, elders, and officials, all of the men of Israel,
10. your children, your wives, and the resident alien who lives in your camp, from those who cut wood to those who draw water for you—
11. to enter into the covenant of the Lord, your God, which the Lord, your God, is making with you today, with its curse,
12. so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
13. But it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant, with its curse,
14. but with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord, our God, and with those who are not here with us today.
15. You know that we lived in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the nations, that you too passed through
16. and saw the loathsome things and idols of wood and stone, of gold and silver, that they possess.
17. There may be among you a man or woman, or a clan or tribe, whose heart is now turning away from the Lord, our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; there may be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood;