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 ^(A)the 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 ^(B)into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, ¹³ that He may ^(C)establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, ^(D)just as He has spoken to you, and ^(E)just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ “I make this covenant and this oath, ^(F)not with you alone, ¹⁵ but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, ^(G)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, ^(H)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, ^(I)and that there may not be among you a root bearing ^(J)bitterness 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 ^[b]follow the ^(K)dictates of my heart’—^(L)as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

^20 (M)“The Lord would not spare him; for then ^(N)the anger of the Lord and ^(O)His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord ^(P)would blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And the Lord ^(Q)would 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 ^(R)Law,