11. Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
12. You are standing here today to enter into the covenant of the lord your God. The lord is making this covenant, including the curses.
13. By entering into the covenant today, he will establish you as his people and confirm that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14. “But you are not the only ones with whom I am making this covenant with its curses.
15. I am making this covenant both with you who stand here today in the presence of the lord our God, and also with the future generations who are not standing here today.
16. “You remember how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the lands of enemy nations as we left.
17. You have seen their detestable practices and their idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.