Deuteronomy 29:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God– the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

טַפְּכֶ֣ם נְשֵׁיכֶ֔ם וְגֵ֣רְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּקֶ֣רֶב מַחֲנֶ֑יךָ מֵחֹטֵ֣ב עֵצֶ֔יךָ עַ֖ד שֹׁאֵ֥ב מֵימֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

Ṭappᵉḵem nᵉšêḵem and-gērḵā that in-qereb maḥăneḵā; from-ḥōṭēb ʿēṣeḵā unto šōʾēb mêmeḵā.

Grammar Details

• *Ṭappᵉḵem*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your little ones
• *nᵉšêḵem*: noun feminine plural construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your wives
• *gērḵā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your stranger/foreigner
• *qereb*: noun masculine singular construct - midst of
• *maḥăneḵā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your camp
• *ḥōṭēb*: Qal participle masculine singular construct - one cutting/chopping
• *ʿēṣeḵā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your wood
• *šōʾēb*: Qal participle masculine singular construct - one drawing
• *mêmeḵā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your water

Word Meanings

• *Ṭappᵉḵem*: your little ones/children/dependents
• *gērḵā*: your stranger/sojourner/resident alien
• *ḥōṭēb*: cutter/chopper/gatherer of

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:10 : 10 You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me,“Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
• Deut 31:12-13 : 12 Gather the people– men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages– so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the LORD your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. 13 Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the LORD your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
• 2 Chr 23:16 : 16 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the LORD.
• 2 Chr 34:29-32 : 29 The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 The king went up to the LORD’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the LORD’s temple. 31 The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant before the LORD, agreeing to follow the LORD and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll. 32 He made all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. The residents of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.
• Neh 8:2 : 2 So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard.(This happened on the first day of the seventh month.)
• Neh 9:1-2 : 1 The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust. 2 Those truly of Israelite descent separated from all the foreigners, standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.
• Neh 9:38 : 38 The People Pledge to be Faithful(10:1)“Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant in written form; our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names on the sealed document.”
• Neh 10:28 : 28 “Now the rest of the people– the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand–
• Joel 2:16-17 : 16 Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters. 17 Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
• Rev 6:15 : 15 Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.