I am making this covenant both with you who stand here today in the presence of the Lord our God, and also with the future generations who are not standing here today.
Parallel translations
- WEB but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
- KJV But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
- BSB but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
- NKJV but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today
- NASB but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here today
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Quick answer
It binds both those present and those not yet here, including future generations. God's covenant claims reach across the generations.
Overview
Completing the prior verse, Moses includes both the assembled and 'those who are not here with us today.' The covenant is not a private transaction but a multigenerational bond. This anticipates the gospel promise that is 'for you and for your children and for all who are far off' (Acts 2:39), embracing all whom the Lord calls.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
- 1 Cor 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
- Jer 50:5They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’
- Deut 5:3Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
- Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
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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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