Deu 29:10-13 | NETfull | STEP | You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

Deuteronomy 29:10-13

10 You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ^{▼▼ Heb “your heads, your tribes.” The Syriac presupposes either “heads of your tribes” or “your heads, your judges,” etc. (reading שֹׁפְטֵכֶם [shof^etekhem] for שִׁבְטֵיכֶם [shivtekhem]). Its comparative difficulty favors the originality of the MT reading. Cf. KJV “your captains of your tribes”; NRSV “the leaders of your tribes”; NLT “your tribal leaders.”} your elders, your officials, every Israelite man, 11 your infants, your wives, and the ^{▼▼ Heb “your.”} foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water – 12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ^{▼▼ Heb “for you to pass on into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oath, which the Lord your God is cutting with you today.”} 13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, ^{▼▼ Heb “in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for God.” Verses 10–13 are one long sentence in Hebrew. The translation divides this into two sentences for stylistic reasons.} just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors ^{▼▼ Heb “fathers” (also in v. 25).} Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.