Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
- BSB He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
- NKJV The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.
- NASB The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us who are alive here today.
- NLT The Lord did not make this covenant with our ancestors, but with all of us who are alive today.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 29:10–15All 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,
- Heb 8:8–9For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
- Gen 17:21But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
- Jer 32:38–40and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
- Gal 3:17–21Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
- Ps 105:8–10He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
- Matt 13:17For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
- Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
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