Deuteronomy 29:11-12

29:11 your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water – 29:12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

Joshua 24:15

24:15 If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship 10  the Lord!”

Joshua 24:2

24:2 Joshua told all the people, “Here is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘In the distant past your ancestors 11  lived beyond the Euphrates River, 12  including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped 13  other gods,

Joshua 20:1

Israel Designates Cities of Refuge

20:1 The Lord instructed Joshua:

Nehemiah 12:43

12:43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from far away.

Matthew 14:21

14:21 Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.


tn Heb “your.”

tn Heb “for you to pass on into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oath, which the Lord your God is cutting with you today.”

tn Heb “if it is bad in your eyes.”

tn Or “to serve.”

tn Or “will serve.”

tn Heb “your fathers.”

tn Or “served.”

tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity; see v. 3.

tn Heb “house.”

10 tn Or “will serve.”

11 tn Heb “your fathers.”

12 tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.

13 tn Or “served.”