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Deuteronomy 31:11-13
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Deuteronomy 31:11-13
New English Translation
11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them[a] within their hearing. 12 Gather the people—men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners[b] in your villages—so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. 13 Then their children, who have not known this law,[c] will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
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- Deuteronomy 31:11 tn Heb “before all Israel.”
- Deuteronomy 31:12 sn The ger (גֵּר) “foreign resident” or “naturalized citizen,” (see Exod 12:19 and Deut 29:10-13) could make sacrifices (Lev 17:8; 22:18; Num 15:14) and participate in Israel’s religious festivals: Passover Exod 12:48; Day of Atonement Lev 16:29; Feast of Weeks Deut 16:10-14; Feast of Tabernacles/Temporary Shelters Deut 31:12.
- Deuteronomy 31:13 tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).
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