5. I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
6. You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
7. When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
8. We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9. Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10. All of you stand today in the presence of the Lord your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11. your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
12. that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today;
13. that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14. Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
15. but with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
16. (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
17. and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were amongst them);
18. lest there should be amongst you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be amongst you a root that produces bitter poison;
19. and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”
20. The Lord will not pardon him, but then the Lord’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under the sky.