³ The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.

¹⁰ You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,

¹¹ And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:

¹² With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

¹³ And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;

¹⁵ But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:

⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

²¹ But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

⁸ He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

⁹ The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

¹⁰ And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

³⁸ And they will be my people, and I will be their God:

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

⁴⁰ And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

¹⁷ For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

¹⁸ Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

²⁰ Now a go-between is not a go-between of one; but God is one.

²¹ Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

⁸ For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;

⁹ Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.