Study it in the app“Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your supervisors, so that I may speak in their ears these words and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.”
Assembleהַקְהִילוּto meאֵלַיallכָּלthe eldersזִקְנֵיof your tribesשִׁבְטֵיכֶםand your supervisors,וְשֹׁטְרֵיכֶםso that I may speakוַאֲדַבְּרָהin their earsבְאָזְנֵיהֶםtheseהָאֵלֶּהwordsהַדְּבָרִיםand callוְאָעִידָהthe heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםand the earthוְאֶת הָאָרֶץto witnessאָעִידָהagainst them.בָּם
assemble
Assemble people, call them together; gather.
Where else “hakhilu” appearselder
The senior men who led a city or the people.
Where else “zikne” appearstribe
Literally "the rod": one of the twelve great clans of Israel.
Where else “shivte” appearssupervisor
Supervisor: an official who keeps order and oversees others; in Egypt, the Israelite in charge of his own people's work who answered to the taskmasters (Exodus 5:14); in Israel, officials beside the judges and the elders (Deuteronomy 16:18).
Where else “shotre” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “adabra” appearshearing
The ear that listens: "incline your ear".
Where else “azne” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devarim” appearstestify
To declare what one knows, or summon others to vouch for one's words.
Where else “aida” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears27For I know your rebelliousness and your stubbornness. Look, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against YHWH; how much more after my death!
28 · This verse (above)
29For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the days to come, because you will do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH, provoking him to anger with the work of your hands.”
