^{1 Ref} These `are' the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

^{2 Ref} And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Ye -- ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

^{3 Ref} the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders;

^{4 Ref} and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

^{5 Ref} and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off thy foot;

^{6 Ref} bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I `am' Jehovah your God.

^{7 Ref} `And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon -- also Og king of Bashan -- doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them,

^{8 Ref} and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh;

^{9 Ref} and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.

^{10 Ref} `Ye are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God -- your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities -- every man of Israel;

^{11 Ref} your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who `is' in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water --

^{12 Ref} for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;

^{13 Ref} in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

^{14 Ref} `And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;

^{15 Ref} but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,