Deuteronomy 29:10
in Deuteronomy 29All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
KJV
Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
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This verse in Deuteronomy 29
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
All of you are standing today before the LORD your God
on Deuteronomy 29:10-11
The roll runs from the leaders of the tribes down to those “who cut your wood and draw your water”, with children, wives and foreigners. Joshua 9:21 later gives that pair of tasks to the Gibeonites, the lowest place an outsider held.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
) what was the design of their appearing before God now in a body--they were to enter into covenant with him. (1.) Even their great men, the captains of their tribes, their elders and officers, must not think it any disparagement to their honour, or any diminution of their power, to put their necks under the yoke of this covenant, and to draw in it.
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Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God,.... Being gathered together at the door of the tabernacle, at the summons of Moses.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
It was of the greatest consequence to impress all with the strong and abiding conviction, that while the covenant of grace had special blessings belonging to it, it at the same time had curses in reserve for transgressors, the infliction of which would be as certain, as lasting and severe. This was the advantage contemplated in the law being rehearsed a second time.
Ye stand - all of you before the Lord - They were about to enter into a covenant with God; and as a covenant implies two parties contracting, God is represented as being present, and they and all their families, old and young, come before him.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
מחטב עציך FROM THE WOODCUTTER [UNTO THE DRAWER OF THE WATER] — This teaches that some of the Canaanites came in Moses' days to become proselytes just as the Gibeonites came in the days of Joshua, — and this is the meaning of what is stated of the Gibeonites, (Joshua:4) “And they also acted cunningly”; — and Moses made them woodcutters and drawers of water (cf. Midrash Tanchuma, Nitzavim 2).
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Your young, your wives, and your convert who is within your camps; from your wood cutters to the water drawers.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַתֶּ֨ם | ʾatem | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| נִצָּבִ֤ים | nitzavim | [are] standing | H5324 → | |
| הַיּוֹם֙ | haiyom | this day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| כֻּלְּכֶ֔ם | kulekhem | all of you | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| לִפְנֵ֖י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| רָאשֵׁיכֶ֣ם | rasheikhem | chiefs your | H7218 → | 599 times |
| שִׁבְטֵיכֶ֗ם | shivteikhem | tribes your | H7626 → | 190 times |
| זִקְנֵיכֶם֙ | zikneikhem | elders your | H2205 → | 178 times |
| וְשֹׁ֣טְרֵיכֶ֔ם | veshotereikhem | and officials your | H7860 → | 25 times |
| כֹּ֖ל | kol | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אִ֥ישׁ | ʾish | <the> man of | H376 → | 1663 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
אַתֶּ֨םyou
ʾatemH859 →1094 times
נִצָּבִ֤ים[are] standing
nitzavimH5324 →
הַיּוֹם֙this day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
כֻּלְּכֶ֔םall of you
kulekhemH3605 →5413 times
לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑םGod your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
רָאשֵׁיכֶ֣םchiefs your
rasheikhemH7218 →599 times
שִׁבְטֵיכֶ֗םtribes your
shivteikhemH7626 →190 times
זִקְנֵיכֶם֙elders your
zikneikhemH2205 →178 times
וְשֹׁ֣טְרֵיכֶ֔םand officials your
veshotereikhemH7860 →25 times
כֹּ֖לevery
kolH3605 →5413 times
אִ֥ישׁ<the> man of
ʾishH376 →1663 times
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nehemiah 10:28“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all…
it leads to
- Nehemiah 9:2
Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14–17
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- Jeremiah 4:2
and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
- Nehemiah 9:2
Through
Deuteronomy 4:10The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all…
it leads to
- Exodus 19:9
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in…
- Hebrews 12:18–19
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
- Exodus 19:16
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the…
- Deuteronomy 17:19
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all…
- Exodus 20:18
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
- Exodus 19:9
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.