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The Darby Translation

Deuteronomy 29:11

your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Government;   Servant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Proselytes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Servant;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Life;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baptism, Christian;   Church;   Drawer of Water;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nethinim;   Proselytes;   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Hew;   Infant Baptism;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gomorrha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Drawer of Water;   Hewer;   Relationships, Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;   Drawer of Water;   Hewers of Wood;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
your dependents, your wives, and the resident aliens in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
Hebrew Names Version
your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
King James Version
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
Lexham English Bible
your little children, your women and your aliens who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppers of your wood to the drawers of your water,
English Standard Version
your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
New Century Version
your wives and children and the foreigners who live among you, who chop your wood and carry your water.
New English Translation
your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water—
Amplified Bible
your little ones, your wives, and the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your camps, from the one who chops and gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water—
New American Standard Bible
your little ones, your wives, and the stranger who is within your camps, from the one who gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,
Legacy Standard Bible
your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is within your camps, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
Complete Jewish Bible
The purpose is that you should enter into the covenant of Adonai your God and into his oath which Adonai your God is making with you today,
Easy-to-Read Version
Your wives and children are here and also the foreigners living among you—the people who cut your wood and bring you water.
George Lamsa Translation
Your little ones, your wives, and the stranger who is in your camp, from the gatherer of your wood to the drawer of your water;
Good News Translation
women, and children, and the foreigners who live among you and cut wood and carry water for you.
Literal Translation
your little ones, your wives, and your alien who is in the midst of your camps, from the woodchopper to the one drawing your water;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
youre children, youre wyues, ye straungers that are in thine hoost, from the hewer of yi wodd vnto ye drawer of yi water:
American Standard Version
your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
Bible in Basic English
And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Your childre also, your wiues, and the straunger that is in thine hoast, from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God--and into His oath--which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day;
King James Version (1611)
Your litle ones, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe, from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,
English Revised Version
your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
Berean Standard Bible
you children, wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water-
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
fre children, and youre wyues, and comelyngis that dwellen with thee in castels, outakun the heweris of stonus, and outakun hem that beren watris;
Young's Literal Translation
your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who [is] in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water --
Update Bible Version
your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner that is in the midst of your camps, from the cutter of your wood to the drawer of your water;
Webster's Bible Translation
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water:
World English Bible
your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
New King James Version
your little ones and your wives--also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water--
New Living Translation
Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
New Life Bible
your children, your wives, the stranger who is among your tents, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who gets your water.
New Revised Standard
your children, your women, and the aliens who are in your camp, both those who cut your wood and those who draw your water—
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
your little ones your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, - from him that heweth thy wood unto him that draweth thy water:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
Revised Standard Version
your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, both he who hews your wood and he who draws your water,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
your little ones, your wives, and the alien who is within your camps, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

Contextual Overview

10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God: your chiefs [of] your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water; 12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day; 13 that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be to thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and with him that is not here with us this day 16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed; 17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood, 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stranger: Deuteronomy 5:14, Exodus 12:38, Exodus 12:48, Exodus 12:49, Numbers 11:4

the hewer: Joshua 9:21-27, Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:14 - General Joshua 8:33 - all Israel Joshua 8:35 - women 2 Kings 6:4 - they cut down wood Ezekiel 16:20 - thy sons Joel 1:14 - the elders Joel 2:16 - assemble Mark 10:14 - Suffer Luke 18:16 - Suffer Acts 5:14 - multitudes Acts 21:5 - with

Cross-References

Genesis 27:26
And his father Isaac said to him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my son.
Genesis 29:13
And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house; and he told Laban all these things.
Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, Thou art indeed my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him a month's time.
Genesis 29:15
And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou serve me for nothing? tell me, what shall be thy wages?
Genesis 43:30
And Joseph made haste, for his bowels burned for his brother; and he sought [a place] to weep, and he went into the chamber, and wept there.
Genesis 45:2
And he raised his voice in weeping; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Exodus 4:27
And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him.
Exodus 18:7
And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other [after] their welfare, and went into the tent.
Romans 16:16
Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Your little ones, your wives,.... Who are scarce ever mentioned in any special law or solemn transaction:

and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp; not only the proselyte of righteousness, who embraced the Jewish religion entirely, but the proselyte of the gate, who was admitted to dwell among them, having renounced idolatry. These standing with the Israelites, when this covenant was made, has respect to the Gentiles, who as well as the Jews have an interest in the covenant of grace made with Christ; in whom there is, neither Jew nor Gentile, any difference between them:

from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water; that hewed wood for firing and other uses, and drew water for the camp; who were generally mean persons, and perhaps some that came out of Egypt with them are here intended; however, mean and abject persons are meant, and signifies that none should be excluded from a concern in this solemn affair on account of their meanness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The covenant was national, and therefore embraced all the elements which make up the nation. The “little ones” would of course be represented by their parents or guardians; the absent Deuteronomy 29:15 by those present; nor were the servants and proselytes to be excluded (compare Acts 2:39). The text is fairly alleged in justification of the Church’s practice of admitting little ones into covenant with God by Baptism, and accepting promises made on their behalf by sponsors.


 
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