Deuteronomio 31:12

12 Harás congregar el pueblo, varones y mujeres y niños, y tus extranjeros que estuvieren en tus ciudades, para que oigan y aprendan, y teman al SEÑOR vuestro Dios, y guardan de cumplir todas las palabras de esta ley

Deuteronomio 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.

Deuteronomio 31:12 In-Context

10 Y les mandó Moisés, diciendo: Al principio del séptimo año, en el tiempo del año de la remisión, en la fiesta de los tabernáculos

11 cuando viniere todo Israel a presentarse delante del SEÑOR tu Dios en el lugar que él escogiere, leerás esta ley delante de todo Israel a oídos de ellos

12 Harás congregar el pueblo, varones y mujeres y niños, y tus extranjeros que estuvieren en tus ciudades, para que oigan y aprendan, y teman al SEÑOR vuestro Dios, y guardan de cumplir todas las palabras de esta ley

13 Y sus hijos que no la supieron oigan, y aprendan a temer al SEÑOR vuestro Dios todos los días que viviereis sobre la tierra, para ir a la cual pasáis el Jordán para heredarla

14 Y el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés: He aquí tus días son ya cumplidos para que mueras; llama a Josué, y esperad en el tabernáculo del testimonio, y le daré mis órdenes. Fueron, pues, Moisés y Josué, y esperaron en el tabernáculo del testimonio