Deuteronomy 29:12-15

29:12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹  29:13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, ²  just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors ³  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 29:14 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath, 29:15 but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “for you to pass on into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oath, which the Lord your God is cutting with you today.”

² tn Heb “in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for God.” Verses 10-13 are one long sentence in Hebrew. The translation divides this into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 25).

⁴ tn This is interpreted by some English versions as a reference to generations not yet born (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).