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Friday, November 28th, 2025
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

申命记 29:11

你們的小孩、妻子和在你營中的寄居者,以及為你們劈柴挑水的人,都站在耶和華你們的 神面前,

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

Chinese Union (Simplified)
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Contextual Overview

10 Today you are all standing here before the Lord your God—your leaders and important men, your elders, officers, and all the other men of Israel, 11 your wives and children and the foreigners who live among you, who chop your wood and carry your water. 12 You are all here to enter into an agreement and a promise with the Lord your God, an agreement the Lord your God is making with you today. 13 This will make you today his own people. He will be your God, as he told you and as he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 14 But I am not just making this agreement and its promises with you 15 who are standing here before the Lord your God today, but also with those who are not here today. 16 You know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries when we came here. 17 You saw their hateful idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold. 18 Make sure no man, woman, family group, or tribe among you leaves the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. They would be to you like a plant that grows bitter, poisonous fruit. 19 These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, "We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do." Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.

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
Then Isaac said to him, "My son, come near and kiss me."
Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him. Laban hugged him and kissed him and brought him to his house, where Jacob told Laban everything that had happened.
Genesis 29:14
Then Laban said, "You are my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a month.
Genesis 29:15
Then Laban said to Jacob, "You are my relative, but it is not right for you to work for me without pay. What would you like me to pay you?"
Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph hurried off because he had to hold back the tears when he saw his brother Benjamin. So Joseph went into his room and cried there.
Genesis 45:2
Joseph cried so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and the people in the king's palace heard about it.
Exodus 4:27
Meanwhile the Lord said to Aaron, "Go out into the desert to meet Moses." When Aaron went, he met Moses at Sinai, the mountain of God, and kissed him.
Exodus 18:7
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. After the two men asked about each other's health, they went into Moses' tent.
Romans 16:16
Greet each other with a holy kiss. All of Christ's churches send greetings to 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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