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,
Parallel translations
- WEB All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
- BSB All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
- NKJV “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,
- NASB “You stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders and your officers, that is, all the men of Israel,
- NLT All of you—tribal leaders, elders, officers, all the men of Israel—are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God.
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Quick answer
The whole nation, leaders and ordinary people alike, stands before God to enter the covenant. God's covenant embraces every member of his people.
Overview
Moses gathers all Israel, from tribal heads to common men, into the covenant assembly before the Lord. The comprehensive listing stresses that no one is exempt from covenant relationship and responsibility. This inclusive gathering before God foreshadows the gospel's gathering of a people from every rank and station into the new covenant community in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Rev 6:15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
- Deut 31:12–13Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
- Rev 20:12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Deut 4:10Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
- Joel 2:16–17Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
- Neh 9:38And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
- 2 Chr 34:29–32Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
- Neh 8:2And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
- Neh 9:1–2Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
- Neh 10:28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
- 2 Chr 23:16And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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