Deuteronomy 29:15

15 But with {whoever is standing here} with us {today} {before} Yahweh our God, and with {whoever is not standing here} with us {today}.

Deuteronomy 29:15 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 29:15

But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the
Lord our God
Who are before specified according to their dignity, age, sex, and station of life; or rather, "but [as] with him that standeth"

and so with [him] that [is] not here with us this day;
detained at home by illness and indisposition of body, or by one providence or another; so that they could not come out of their tents, and make their appearance before the tabernacle; though Jarchi interprets this of the people of future generations.

Deuteronomy 29:15 In-Context

13 in order to establish you {today} {to himself} as a people and [so that] he may be for you [as] God, [just] as he {promised} to you and {just as} he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 "Now I am not {making this covenant} and this oath {with you alone}.

15 But with {whoever is standing here} with us {today} {before} Yahweh our God, and with {whoever is not standing here} with us {today}.

16 For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveled through.

17 And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that [were] among them,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "with who he is here with us standing"
• [b]. Literally "the day"
• [c]. Literally "to the face of"
• [d]. Literally "with who he is not standing here with us"
• [e]. Literally "the day"