10You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
13that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
15but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;