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Young's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 29:14

`And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Government;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Life;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Stranger;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Israel, Israelite;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gomorrha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Transmigration of Souls;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
Hebrew Names Version
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
King James Version
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Lexham English Bible
"Now I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone.
English Standard Version
It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant,
New Century Version
But I am not just making this agreement and its promises with you
New English Translation
It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,
Amplified Bible
"It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,
New American Standard Bible
"Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither make I this couenant, & this othe with you onely,
Legacy Standard Bible
"Now not with you alone am I cutting this covenant and this oath,
Complete Jewish Bible
Rather, I am making it both with him who is standing here with us today before Adonai our God and also with him who is not here with us today.
Darby Translation
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord is making this agreement with its promises with you people, but not only with you.
George Lamsa Translation
Neither is it with you only that I do make this covenant and this oath;
Good News Translation
You are not the only ones with whom the Lord is making this covenant with its obligations.
Literal Translation
And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I make not this couenaunt and this ooth with you onely,
American Standard Version
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
Bible in Basic English
And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I make not this bonde and this othe with you only:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day--
King James Version (1611)
Neither with you onely doe I make this couenant and this othe:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;
English Revised Version
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Berean Standard Bible
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And not to you aloone Y smyte this loond of pees, and conferme these othis,
Update Bible Version
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
Webster's Bible Translation
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
World English Bible
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
New King James Version
"I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone,
New Living Translation
"But you are not the only ones with whom I am making this covenant with its curses.
New Life Bible
"I am not making this agreement and this promise with you alone.
New Revised Standard
I am making this covenant, sworn by an oath, not only with you who stand here with us today before the Lord our God,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And not with you alone, am I solemnising this covenant and this oath;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,
Revised Standard Version
Nor is it with you only that I make this sworn covenant,
THE MESSAGE
I'm not making this Covenant and its oath with you alone. I am making it with you who are standing here today in the Presence of God , our God, yes, but also with those who are not here today. You know the conditions in which we lived in Egypt and how we crisscrossed through nations in our travels. You got an eyeful of their obscenities, their wood and stone, silver and gold junk-gods. Don't let down your guard lest even now, today, someone—man or woman, clan or tribe—gets sidetracked from God , our God, and gets involved with the no-gods of the nations; lest some poisonous weed sprout and spread among you, a person who hears the words of the Covenant-oath but exempts himself, thinking, "I'll live just the way I please, thank you," and ends up ruining life for everybody. God won't let him off the hook. God 's anger and jealousy will erupt like a volcano against that person. The curses written in this book will bury him. God will delete his name from the records. God will separate him out from all the tribes of Israel for special punishment, according to all the curses of the Covenant written in this Book of Revelation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath,

Contextual Overview

10 `Ye are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God -- your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities -- every man of Israel; 11 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 -- 12 for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day; 13 in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 `And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath; 15 but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day, 16 for ye have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have passed by; 17 and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them, 18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood: 19 `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:7-12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:12 - into his oath Esther 9:27 - and upon their seed

Cross-References

Genesis 2:23
and the man saith, `This [is] the [proper] step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;
Genesis 13:8
And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we [are] men -- brethren.
Genesis 29:12
and Jacob declareth to Rachel that he [is] her father's brother, and that he [is] Rebekah's son, and she runneth and declareth to her father.
Genesis 29:13
And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him, and bringeth him in unto his house; and he recounteth to Laban all these things,
Genesis 29:15
And Laban saith to Jacob, `Is it because thou [art] my brother that thou hast served me for nought? declare to me what [is] thy hire.'
Judges 9:2
`Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the masters of Shechem, Which [is] good for you -- the ruling over you of seventy men (all the sons of Jerubbaal), or the ruling over you of one man? -- and ye have remembered that I [am] your bone and your flesh.'
2 Samuel 5:1
And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, `Lo, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh;
Micah 7:5
Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.
Ephesians 5:30
because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath. That is, Moses; for he was ordered to make this covenant with them in the name of the Lord; what promises of good things, or declarations of his mind and will, God would make, Moses was to deliver to them; and what was required of them he would inform them of. Aben Ezra interprets it, not only you, but those that will come after you, your sons and your sons' sons.


 
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