Ulangan 29:9-11

The Present Covenant Setting

29:9 “Therefore, keep the terms ¹  of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do. 29:10 You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ²  your elders, your officials, every Israelite man, 29:11 your infants, your wives, and the ³  foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

[29:9]  ¹ tn Heb “words.”

[29:10]  ² tc Heb “your heads, your tribes.” The Syriac presupposes either “heads of your tribes” or “your heads, your judges,” etc. (reading שֹׁפְטֵכֶם [shofÿtekhem] for שִׁבְטֵיכֶם [shivtekhem]). Its comparative difficulty favors the originality of the MT reading. Cf. KJV “your captains of your tribes”; NRSV “the leaders of your tribes”; NLT “your tribal leaders.”

[29:11]  ³ tn Heb “your.”