Deuteronomy 29:10-11

29:10 You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ¹  your elders, your officials, every Israelite man, 29:11 your infants, your wives, and the ²  foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

Deuteronomy 29:2

The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed

29:2 Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the Lord did ³  in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

Deuteronomy 20:13

20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you ⁴  and you must kill every single male by the sword.

Nehemiah 9:2-3

9:2 Those truly of Israelite descent ⁵  separated from all the foreigners, ⁶  standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. ⁷  9:3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins ⁸  and worshiping the LORD their God.

¹ 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.”

² tn Heb “your.”

³ tn The Hebrew text includes “to your eyes,” but this is redundant in English style (cf. the preceding “you have seen”) and is omitted in the translation.

⁴ tn Heb “to your hands.”

⁵ tn Heb “the seed of Israel.”

⁶ tn Heb “sons of a foreigner.”

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 16, 23, 32, 34, 36).

⁸ tn Heb “confessing.” The words “their sins” are not present in the Hebrew text of v. 3, but are clearly implied here because they are explicitly stated in v. 2.