All the Israelites, men, women, and children are to be present; also all “the foreigners who live in your towns” (Good News Translation); see 1.8.

Assemble: or “call together” (Good News Translation), or even “call all the men, women, … to come together.”

May hear and learn to fear the LORD your God: see 4.10.

Be careful to do all the words of this law: see 26.16; 28.58.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .