Deuteronomy 31:12 (YLT)

Passage

`Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law;

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 31:10 and Moses commandeth them, saying, `At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the feast of booths,

Deuteronomy 31:11 in the coming in of all Israel to see the face of Jehovah in the place which He chooseth, thou dost proclaim this law before all Israel, in their ears.

Deuteronomy 31:12 `Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law;

Deuteronomy 31:13 and their sons, who have not known, do hear, and have learned to fear Jehovah your God all the days which ye are living on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

Deuteronomy 31:14 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thy days have drawn near to die; call Joshua, and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, and I charge him;' and Moses goeth--Joshua also--and they station themselves in the tent of meeting,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "assemble", "people", "women", "infants", "sojourner", "within", "gates", and "hear". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "assemble" and "people", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "in the coming in of all Israel..." into verse 13's "and their sons who have not known...", so "assemble" and "people" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "assemble" and "people" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.