What Does Deuteronomy 29:11 Mean in the King James?
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The covenant gathering includes the resident outsider and the people whose work keeps the camp supplied, alongside its families.
THE MEANING
This verse holds the whole community in view: children, wives, the resident outsider, and people who cut wood and draw water. The gathering includes people across family, origin, and daily work; none is left outside the roll call.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Belonging here is not limited to leaders, household heads, or those born within the community.
THE ROOT
גֵּר
gēr
GROWS FROM
גור
To sojourn or reside among a people.
English “stranger” can sound like someone unknown or merely passing through; גֵּר (gēr), a resident outsider or sojourner, points to someone dwelling among the people. The verse places this person within the same gathering as the families, while also naming workers who cut wood and draw water.
ALSO GROWS
gûr: To sojourn or dwell among others.
גּוּר
The action behind גֵּר (gēr) shows that the person named as a stranger is defined by living among the community.
gēr: A sojourner or resident outsider.
גֵּר
This is the word used in the verse: the resident outsider is named as part of the gathered people.
THE PATTERN
The gathering around God’s promise includes people across differences of age, origin, sex, and social standing.
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.THE THREAD
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.The same Hebrew word גֵּר (gēr), meaning a sojourner or resident outsider, appears in both verses. Exodus states that one law applies to the homeborn and the sojourner, opening up why the stranger stands within this gathering.
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