The Covenant in Moab

1 1aThese are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the bcovenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

2 1And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land;

3 athe great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

4 “Yet to this day athe Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

5 “I have led you forty years in the wilderness; ayour clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

6 “aYou have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

7 “aWhen you 1reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, but we 2defeated them;

8 and we took their land and agave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

9 “aSo keep the words of this covenant to do them, bthat you may prosper in all that you do.

10 “You stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God: your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

11 your little ones, your wives, and the alien who is within your camps, from athe one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

12 that you may enter into the covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath which the Lord your God is making with you today,

13 in order that He may establish you today as His people and that aHe may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 “Now not with you alone am I amaking this covenant and this oath,

15 abut both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here today