Therefore, observe the words of this covenant(A) and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do.(B)

10 “All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel, 11 your dependents, your wives, and the resident aliens in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water— 12 so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath 13 and so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(C) 14 I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, 15 but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not here today.

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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”