your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
Parallel translations
- WEB your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
- KJV Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
- NKJV your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water—
- NASB your little ones, your wives, and the stranger who is within your camps, from the one who gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water,
- NLT Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
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Quick answer
Even children, wives, and the lowliest laborers and foreigners are included in the covenant. God's covenant reaches the humble and the outsider.
Overview
The covenant embraces not only leaders but little ones, women, and resident foreigners doing menial work. This breadth underscores that God's grace and claims extend to all, including the marginalized and the alien. It anticipates the gospel's reach to all peoples and stations, where in Christ there is neither slave nor free, but all are one.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 12:38And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Exod 12:48–49If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
- Col 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- Deut 5:14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
- Josh 9:21–27They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
- Num 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
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