Deuteronomy 29:12

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,”

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BSBPD

“so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 29:12 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 6:7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
  2. Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
  3. Deuteronomy 1:8See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
  4. Deuteronomy 5:2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
  5. Deuteronomy 26:17Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
  6. Deuteronomy 28:9The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
  7. Deuteronomy 29:14I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
  8. Joshua 24:25On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
  9. 2 Kings 11:17Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
  10. 2 Chronicles 15:12Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
  11. Nehemiah 10:28“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,

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