Shēnméngjì 31:12

12 Yào zhāo jù tāmen nán , nǚ , háizi , bìng chéng lǐ jìjū de , shǐ tāmen tīng , shǐ tāmen xuéxí , hǎo jìngwèi Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén , jǐn shǒu , zūnxíng zhè lǜfǎ de yīqiè huà ,

Shēnméngjì 31:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 31:12

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children
At the three grand festivals in other years, only males were obliged to appear; women might if they would, but they were not bound to it; but at this time all of every age and sex were to be summoned and assembled together; and it is said ^F26, when the king read in the book of the law, all the people were obliged to come and bring their families, as it is said ( Deuteronomy 31:12 ) ; "gather the people" and as it could not be done when it happened on the sabbath day, the reading of the section was put off to the day following:

and thy stranger that [is] within thy gates;
not only the proselyte of righteousness, but the proselyte of the gate that renounced idolatry, for his further conviction and thorough conversion to the religion of the true God; or, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, that they might see the honour and glory of the law. The end is more fully expressed as follows,

that they may hear;
all the laws which God had given:

and that they may learn;
and attain unto the true knowledge and right understanding of them:

and fear the Lord your God;
serve and worship him internally and externally, according to these laws:

and observe to do all the words of this law;
so take notice of them as to put them in practice; and reading them in such a solemn and reverent manner made them the more servable, and raised the greater attention to them, to the importance of them; otherwise they were read in their families, and on sabbath days in their synagogues; see ( Deuteronomy 6:7 ) ( Acts 13:15 ) ( 15:21 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Bartenora in Misn. Megillah, c. 1. sect. 3.

Shēnméngjì 31:12 In-Context

10 Móxī fēnfu tāmen shuō , mĕi fùng qī nián de mò yī nián , jiù zaì huō miǎn nián de déng qī zhù péng jié de shíhou ,

11 Yǐsèliè zhòngrén lái dào Yēhéhuá nǐ shén suǒ xuǎnzé de dìfang chaójiàn tā . nàshí , nǐ yào zaì Yǐsèliè zhòngrén miànqián jiàng zhè lǜfǎ niàn gĕi tāmen tīng .

12 Yào zhāo jù tāmen nán , nǚ , háizi , bìng chéng lǐ jìjū de , shǐ tāmen tīng , shǐ tāmen xuéxí , hǎo jìngwèi Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén , jǐn shǒu , zūnxíng zhè lǜfǎ de yīqiè huà ,

13 Yĕ shǐ tāmen wèicéng xiǎodé zhè lǜfǎ de érnǚ déyǐ tīngjian , xuéxí jìngwèi Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén , zaì nǐmen guō Yuēdànhé yào de wéi yè zhī dì , cún huó de rìzi , chángcháng zhèyàng xíng .

14 Yēhéhuá duì Móxī shuō , nǐde sǐ qī línjìn le . yào zhào Yuēshūyà lái , nǐmen èr rén zhàn zaì huì mù lǐ , wǒ hǎo zhǔfu tā . yúshì Móxī hé Yuēshūyà qù zhàn zaì huì mù lǐ .