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And you must diligently observe the words of this covenant,[a] so that you may succeed in all that you do.

10 “You are standing today,[b] all of you, before[c] Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel, 11 your little children, your women and your aliens[d] who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppers[e] of your wood to the drawers[f] of your water, 12 in order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God,[g] and into[h] his oath that Yahweh your God is making with you[i] today,[j] 13 in order to establish you today[k] to himself[l] as a people and so that he may be for you as God, just as he promised[m] to you and just as[n] he swore to your ancestors,[o] to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 “Now I am not making this covenant[p] and this oath with you alone.[q] 15 But with whoever is standing here[r] with us today[s] before[t] Yahweh our God, and with whoever is not standing here[u] with us today.[v]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:9 Literally “you must keep the words of the covenant the this and you must do them”
  2. Deuteronomy 29:10 Literally “the day”
  3. Deuteronomy 29:10 Literally “to the face of”
  4. Deuteronomy 29:11 Hebrew “alien”
  5. Deuteronomy 29:11 Hebrew “chopper”
  6. Deuteronomy 29:11 Hebrew “drawer”
  7. Deuteronomy 29:12 Literally “for you to go over into the covenant of Yahweh your God”
  8. Deuteronomy 29:12 Or “with”
  9. Deuteronomy 29:12 Literally “cutting with you”
  10. Deuteronomy 29:12 Literally “the day”
  11. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “the day”
  12. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “for him”
  13. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “spoke”
  14. Deuteronomy 29:13 Literally “according to that which”
  15. Deuteronomy 29:13 Or “your fathers”
  16. Deuteronomy 29:14 Literally “cutting this covenant”
  17. Deuteronomy 29:14 Literally “with you to alone you”
  18. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “with who he is here with us standing”
  19. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “the day”
  20. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “to the face of”
  21. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “with who he is not standing here with us”
  22. Deuteronomy 29:15 Literally “the day”