All of you—tribal leaders, elders, officers, all the men of Israel—are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God.
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,
- 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,
- 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,
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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
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- Rev 6:15The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
- Deut 31:12–13Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
- Rev 20:12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Deut 4:10the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
- Joel 2:16–17Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.
- Neh 9:38Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
- 2 Chr 34:29–32Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
- Neh 8:2Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
- Neh 9:1–2Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
- Neh 10:28The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and understanding —
- 2 Chr 23:16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’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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