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"So you will keep the words of this covenant and do them, in order that you may be successful in everything that you do.

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

"You stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders and your officers, that is, all the men of Israel,

Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

your little ones, your wives, and the stranger who is within your camps, from the one who gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water,

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

so that you may enter into the covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath which the LORD your God is making with you today,

That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

in order that He may establish you today as His people, and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

"Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, and with those who are not with us here today

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: