Deuteronomio 31:12

12 Convoquen a todos —a hombres, mujeres, niños y a los extranjeros que vivan en sus ciudades— para que oigan lo que dice el libro de instrucción y aprendan a temer al Señor
su Dios y a obedecer cuidadosamente todas las condiciones de estas instrucciones.

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 Luego Moisés les dio la siguiente orden: «Al final de cada séptimo año —el año de liberación— y durante el Festival de las Enramadas,

11 leerán este libro de instrucción a todo el pueblo de Israel cuando se reúna ante el Señor
su Dios en el lugar que él elija.

12 Convoquen a todos —a hombres, mujeres, niños y a los extranjeros que vivan en sus ciudades— para que oigan lo que dice el libro de instrucción y aprendan a temer al Señor
su Dios y a obedecer cuidadosamente todas las condiciones de estas instrucciones.

13 Háganlo para que sus hijos que no saben nada de estas instrucciones, las oigan y aprendan a temer al Señor
su Dios. Háganlo mientras vivan en la tierra que van a poseer al cruzar el Jordán».

14 Predicción de la desobediencia de Israel
Luego el Señor
le dijo a Moisés: «Ha llegado la hora de tu muerte. Llama a Josué y preséntate con él en el tabernáculo
para entregarle mi encargo a Josué allí». Entonces Moisés y Josué fueron y se presentaron en el tabernáculo.