The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount,.... Meaning, not in that free, friendly, and familiar manner, in which he sometimes talked with Moses, of whom this phrase is used, Exo 33:11, but…
Barnes' Notes
The “fathers” are, as in Deu 4:37, the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. With them God did indeed make a covenant, but not the particular covenant now in question. The responsibilites of this…
Here, 1. Moses summons the assembly. He called all Israel; not only the elders, but, it is likely, as many of the people as could come within hearing, Deu 5:1. The greatest of them were not above…
Cambridge Bible
not … with our fathers Rather, forefathers, i.e. the Patriarchs -those great Grandfathers of thy Church 1 [119] with whom, however, D recognises a previous covenant, Deu 4:31; Deu 7:12; Deu 8:18. The…
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