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

10 Ye stand this day everyone of you before the Lord your [a]God: your heads of your tribes, your Elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel:

11 Your children, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of thy water,

12 That thou shouldest [b]pass into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day,

13 For to establish thee this day 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, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 Neither make I this covenant and this oath with you only,

15 But as well with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, as with him [c]that is not here with us this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:10 Who knoweth your hearts, and therefore ye may not think to dissemble with him.
  2. Deuteronomy 29:12 Alluding to them, that when they made a sure covenant, divided a beast in twain, and passed between the parts divided, Gen. 15:10.
  3. Deuteronomy 29:15 Meaning, their posterity.

Carefully follow(A) the terms of this covenant,(B) so that you may prosper in everything you do.(C) 10 All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel, 11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.(D) 12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, 13 to confirm you this day as his people,(E) that he may be your God(F) as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 14 I am making this covenant,(G) with its oath, not only with you 15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God but also with those who are not here today.(H)

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