Deuteronomy 29:16

for ye know, etc.] The necessity for such a covenant with Jehovah: viz. Israel's experiences of the idolatry of other peoples, which otherwise might seduce them to itself. The Egyptian idolatry has not before been mentioned in Deut. Came throughand passedare the same vb.: the idem per idemconstruction, see Deuteronomy 1:46.