14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15. But with him that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16. (For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;
17. And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18. Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitterness or wormwood;
19. And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: