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;
Parallel translations
- 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:
- BSB your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your 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.
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Cross-references · 7
- Exod 12:38A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Exod 12:48–49When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
- Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- Deut 5:14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
- Josh 9:21–27The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”
- Num 11:4The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
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