⁹ Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant, carrying them out so that you’ll be wise in everything you do.”

Entering into a Covenant Relationship

¹⁰ “All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God—the heads of your tribes, your elders, your magistrates, all the men of Israel, ¹¹ along with your children, your wives, even the foreigner in your camp, including the woodchopper and the water drawer— ¹² to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God and into the oath that he^[a] is about to make with you today, ¹³ so that he will elevate you to be a people for him. And he will be God to you, just as he promised you and swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹⁴ Now, I’m not making this covenant and oath with you alone, ¹⁵ but with whoever is here with us standing in the presence of the Lord our God today, as well as with those who aren’t here with us today.”