14 “I make this covenant and this oath, (A)not with you alone, 15 but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, (B)as 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 [a]abominations 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, (C)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, (D)and that there may not be among you a root bearing (E)bitterness or wormwood;

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:17 detestable things

(A)For the lips of [a]an immoral woman drip honey,
And her mouth is (B)smoother than oil;
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Lit. a strange

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