But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

But with all that are present and that are absent.

but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,

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

but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day-

but with all those who are present as well as those who are absent.

Sed cum eo qui est hic nobiscum stans hodie coram Jehova Deo nostro, et cum eo qui non est hic nobiscum hodie.

With him that is not here with us - i. e. as the Jews explain, posterity; which throughout all generations was to be taken as bound by the act and deed of those present and living.

Him that standeth here - The present generation. Him that is not here - all future generations of this people.

But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] (h) that [is] not here with us this day:
(h) Meaning, their posterity.

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God,.... Who are before specified according to their dignity, age, sex, and station of life; or rather, "but as with him that standeth", &c.
and so with him that is not here with us this day; detained at home by illness and indisposition of body, or by one providence or another; so that they could not come out of their tents, and make their appearance before the tabernacle; though Jarchi interprets this of the people of future generations.

So also - With your posterity. For so the covenant was made at first with Abraham and his seed, by which as God engaged himself to continue the blessing of Abraham upon his posterity, so he also engaged them to the same duties which were required of Abraham. So it is even among men, where a king confers an estate upon a subject and his heirs for ever, upon some certain conditions, all his heirs who enjoy that benefit, are obliged to the same conditions. It may likewise include those who were then constrained to be absent, by sickness, or any necessary occasion. Nay one of the Chaldee pharaphrasts reads it, all the generations that have been from the first days of the world, and all that shall arise to the end of the whole world, stand with us here this day. And so taking this covenant as a typical dispensation of the covenant of grace, 'tis a noble testimony to the Mediator of that covenant, who is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.