Deuteronomy 29:9-15

The Covenant Renewed in Moab

9 l Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper 1 in all that you do.

10 "You are standing today all of you before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, 2 your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and the m sojourner who is in your camp, from n the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water, 12 so that you may enter into the o sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today, 13 that he may p establish you today as his people, and that q he may be your God, as he promised you, and r as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 It is not with you alone s that I am making this sworn covenant, 15 but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, t and with whoever is not here with us today.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:6
    Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 12:38
    A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
  3. Cross References
    Joshua 9:21
    And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.
    Joshua 9:23
    Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
    Joshua 9:27
    But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place that he should choose.
  4. Cross References
    Nehemiah 10:29
    Join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:9
    The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 6:7
    I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 17:7
    And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
    Genesis 50:24
    And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:31 - 33
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
    Hebrews 8:8 - 10
    For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
  9. Cross References
    Acts 2:39
    For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
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