Deuteronomy 31:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    'Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to testify against them.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Gather unto me all the elrs of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Assemble{H6950} unto me all the elders{H2205} of your tribes,{H7626} and your officers,{H7860} that I may speak{H1696} these words{H1697} in their ears,{H241} and call{H5749} heaven{H8064} and earth{H776} to witness{H5749} against them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Gather{H6950}{(H8685)} unto me all the elders{H2205} of your tribes{H7626}, and your officers{H7860}{(H8802)}, that I may speak{H1696}{(H8762)} these words{H1697} in their ears{H241}, and call{H5749} heaven{H8064} and earth{H776} to record{H5749}{(H8686)} against them.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Gather vnto me al the elders of youre trybes and youre officers, that I maye speake these wordes in their eares and call heaue ad erth to recorde agenst them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Gather now vnto me all the Elders of youre trybes, and youre officers, yt I maye speake these wordes in their eares, and take heauen and earth to recorde agaynst them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Gather vnto me all the Elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speake these wordes in their audience, and call heauen and earth to recorde against them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Gather vnto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speake these wordes in their eares, and call heauen and earth to recorde against them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your authorities, and I speak in their ears these words, and cause to testify against them the heavens and the earth,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Deut 32:1 : 1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
  • Deut 30:19 : 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live:
  • Deut 31:12 : 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  • Luke 19:40 : 40 And he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would immediately cry out.
  • Deut 29:10 : 10 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God: your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
  • Gen 49:1-2 : 1 And Jacob called to his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
  • Exod 18:25 : 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
  • Num 11:16-17 : 16 And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with you. 17 And I will come down and talk with you there, and I will take of the Spirit which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you do not bear it yourself alone.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 31:25-27
    3 verses
    79%

    25 That Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,

    26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

    27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

  • Deut 31:29-30
    2 verses
    78%

    29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

    30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

  • Deut 4:26
    78%

    26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

  • Deut 30:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 I announce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go to possess it.

    19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live:

    20 That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cling to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

  • Deut 29:10
    76%

    10 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God: your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

  • Deut 32:46
    75%

    46 And he said to them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

  • Josh 23:2
    75%

    2 And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their leaders, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and advanced in age.

  • Deut 27:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

    2 And it shall be on the day when you pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

  • Josh 24:1
    74%

    1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their leaders, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

  • Josh 23:14
    74%

    14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass for you, and not one thing has failed thereof.

  • Deut 31:11-14
    4 verses
    73%

    11 When all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

    12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

    13 And that their children, who have not known anything, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.

    14 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Deut 30:1
    73%

    1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,

  • Deut 5:31
    73%

    31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.

  • Exod 19:7
    73%

    7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.

  • Deut 1:18
    72%

    18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

  • Deut 27:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I command you today.

    11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

  • Josh 24:27
    72%

    27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us: it shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.

  • Deut 31:19
    72%

    19 Now therefore write this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

  • Josh 8:33
    72%

    33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against Mount Gerizim, and half of them over against Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

  • Deut 5:1
    72%

    1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and keep, and do them.

  • Deut 11:32
    72%

    32 And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

  • Deut 4:10
    72%

    10 Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

  • Deut 12:28
    72%

    28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 11:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28 And a curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

    29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.

  • Deut 29:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

    2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

  • Num 32:28
    71%

    28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,

  • Deut 31:9
    71%

    9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

  • Num 26:3
    71%

    3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

  • Num 30:1
    71%

    1 And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

  • 2 Chr 34:29
    71%

    29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Deut 11:26
    71%

    26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

  • Deut 32:1
    71%

    1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

  • Deut 27:14
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    14 And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

  • Deut 31:21
    71%

    21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

  • Deut 27:8
    71%

    8 And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

  • Deut 8:1
    70%

    1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.

  • Deut 31:1
    70%

    1 And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

  • Deut 11:17
    70%

    17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.