but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here today

The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today.

But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I give them to possess.’

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’

“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;