your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
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your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
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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:
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(29-10) your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 29:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 12:38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
- Exodus 12:48-49 When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
- Numbers 11:4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
- Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
- Joshua 9:21-27 The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them. Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us? Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.” They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.” He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them. That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy…
Deu 29:11 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:
Ver. 11. From the hewer of thy wood.] The meanest amongst you, such as afterwards were the Gibeonites, who also by faith became covenanters, and are called Nethinims in Ezra and Nehemiah. They were made drawers of water to the temple, as a kind of punishment: God made it a mercy; for the nearer they were to the Church, the nearer they came to God.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thy stranger; such strangers as had embraced their religion.
Thy stranger; such strangers as had embraced their religion.
From the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; all sorts of persons, yea, even the meanest of them, such as these were, Jos 9:27, all sorts and ranks of servants.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Your little ones, your wives,.... Who are scarce ever…
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:
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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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thy stranger - Such strangers as had embraced their…
Thy stranger - Such strangers as had embraced their religion: all sorts of persons, yea, even the meanest of them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The covenant was national, and therefore embraced all the…
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 Deu 29:15 by those present; nor were the servants and proselytes to be excluded (compare Act 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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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Besides, (exceptis,) which may signify all were present; or…
Besides, (exceptis,) which may signify all were present; or rather that the strangers of Egypt, &c., who were employed in servile offices, were alone excluded, as having no part in the covenant made with the Israelites. (Calmet) --- St. Jerome seems to have rendered min, præter, in the latter sense; but the Chaldean, Septuagint, &c., take it in the former, as if none at all were absent, from the highest to the lowest. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Little ones,… wives — As the covenant was…
11. Little ones,… wives — As the covenant was with the nation in its organic unity it included all the members — the men, the women, the children, the Egyptians who left Egypt with them, (see Exo_12:38,) and the Midianites who united with Israel. See Num_10:29-31.
Thy stranger — The proselyte. Comp. Exo_12:38-48.
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The hewer of thy wood — Comp. Jos_9:21.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) Your little ones.—Compare St. Peter’s words on the…
(11) Your little ones.—Compare St. Peter’s words on the day of Pentecost: “The promise is unto you and to your children” (Act_2:39). The covenant with Abraham was that the Almighty would be a God to him and to his seed (Gen_17:7), including the child of eight days old (Deu_29:12), and the slave (Deu_29:13), who were to receive the sign of His covenant in their flesh for an everlasting covenant.
From the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water.—From this Rashi infers that “there were Canaanites who became proselytes in the time of Moses, in the same way as the Gibeonites in the days of Joshua.” It may have been so. And we know that there were many female captives of the Midianites who became slaves. (See Numbers 31)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 11-14. The covenant was a national engagement, and…
Vers. 11-14. The covenant was a national engagement, and as such included not only the adults anti existing generation, but the little ones, the strangers resident in Israel, the lowest menial servants, that is, all the elements of which the nation was composed, as well as their posterity in coming, generations. That thou shouldest enter into covenant. The expression in the Hebrew is a strong one, indicating not a mere formal engagement, but a going thoroughly into the covenant; the phrase is used of the sword going through the land, (Lev_26:6) and of one going into the pit. (Job_33:28) Into his oath. Covenants were confirmed by (Gen_26:28; Heb_6:17) hence in Scripture the covenant of God is sometimes called his oath. (ver. 14; Heb_7:28) On ver. 13, cf. Deu_28:9 Deu_27:9; Exo_19:5, Exo_19:6)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 29:11 foreigners (literally sojourners): See study note on 10:18.…
29:11 foreigners (literally sojourners): See study note on 10:18. • The saying chop your wood and carry your water was a cliché for any servile work (see Josh 9:22-27).
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