Deuteronomy 29:10-20

10“All of you stand today before the Lord your God—your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

11your little ones, your wives, and the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your camps, from the one who chops and gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water—

12so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into His oath and agreement which the Lord your God is making with you today,

13so 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.

14“It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,

15but with those [future Israelites] who are not here with us today, as well as with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God

16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations along the way;

17and you have seen their detestable acts and their [repulsive] idols of wood and stone, [lifeless images] of silver and gold, which they had with them),

18so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).

19It will happen that when he (a renegade) hears the words of this oath, and he imagines himself as blessed, saying, ‘I will have peace and safety even though I walk within the stubbornness of my heart [rejecting God and His law], in order that the watered land dwindles away along with the dry [destroying everything],’

20the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.