that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today,
Parallel translations
- WEB that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today;
- KJV That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
- BSB so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
- NASB so that you may enter into the covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath which the Lord your God is making with you today,
- NLT You are standing here today to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God. The Lord is making this covenant, including the curses.
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Quick answer
The purpose of the assembly is to enter into covenant and sworn oath with the Lord. Covenant with God is a solemn, binding commitment.
Overview
Moses states the aim of the gathering: to enter God's covenant sealed by oath. This solemn, sworn relationship binds Israel to the Lord and the Lord to Israel. The seriousness of covenant oath-taking points to the surety of God's promises, ultimately guaranteed in Christ, the mediator of a better covenant established on better promises.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Chr 15:12–15They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
- Neh 10:28–29The 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 —
- Deut 5:2–3Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- Josh 24:25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
- Deut 29:14Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
- 2 Kgs 11:17Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.
- Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
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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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