Deuteronomy 29:1-13
words <01697> [the words.]
covenant ....................... covenant <01285> [beside the.]
seen ..... Lord <07200 03068> [Ye have seen all.]
<03212> [I have led.]
clothing <08008> [your clothes.]
sandals <05275> [and thy shoe.]
eaten ... bread <03899 0398> [eaten bread.]
drunk <08354> [neither have.]
foreigners <01616> [stranger.]
chop <02404> [the hewer.]
may enter <05674> [thou shouldest.]
may enter <05674> [enter. Heb. pass.]
This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.
oath <0423> [into his oath.]
affirm <06965> [establish.]
God <0430> [he may be.]
