10 “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from lthe one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water—12 that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and minto His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, 13 that He may nestablish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, ojust as He has spoken to you, and pjust as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 “I make this covenant and this oath, qnot with you alone, 15 but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, ras well as with him who is not here with us today 16 (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by, 17 and you saw their 2abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold); 18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, swhose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, tand that there may not be among you a root bearing ubitterness or wormwood; 19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I 3follow the vdictates of my heart’—was though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

20 x“The Lord would not spare him; for then ythe anger of the Lord and zHis jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord awould blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the Lord bwould separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the cLaw,