Tafsiran Ulangan 29:11: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Bekhor Shor & Chizkuni

“With its sanctions” [29:11]. With an oath. The Holy One commanded an adjuration and an oath. He will not exchange Israel and they will be His people forever, even when they will be evil. God is their God forever, as the verse says, “seeing that the Lord undertook to make you His people” [I Samuel, 12:22]. This means that the Holy One swore that Israel should be His people. The word “seeing that” means to swear, just as the word alah also means to swear.³Bahya, Deuteronomy, 29:11.

לעברך means THAT THOU SHOULDEST PASS [INTO THE COVENANT]. It would not, however, be correct to explain it as meaning “to make thee pass” (when the suffix would be objective), but it must be explained like (Deuteronomy 4:14) לעשתכם אתם, “that ye may do them”.

To cause you to cross over in the covenant All of you are ready to cross into the covenant, and all of you are together. And for this it's good to execute the commandment now, that not one of you is able to say: I was not in the covenant, and did not accept the covenant upon myself. Since when you will cross the Yarden and be scattered each man to his inheritance and portion, it will be impossible to gather all of you together as you are now - since it's impossible that there will be no birthing woman or sick person or person kept aaginst their will, or lame person, and it's impossible to leave the houses and cities without any creature. But now, behold all of you are in one area and one camp, and all of you hear and see the execution of the covenant, and not one of you is able to withdraw and say 'I was not in the covenant'. "Execution [lit. "cutting" כריתות] of the covenenant" since they cut the calf into two, and "to cause you to cross over" since they passed between the parts of the calf that Avraham our father did between the parts, as it says "and divided them in the midst" (Bereishit 15:10). And like they did when they executed the covenant to send the slaves free (Yirmiyahu 34:13), the calf which was cut into two and they passed between the parts, this is a sign that when you pass over the covenant this is how it will be cut. Like, "And Shmuel took one milk-goat" (I Samuel 7:9), "And Tzamad took a cow and cut it into parts" (I Samuel 11:7) -- to say, which will not go after Shaul and after Shmuel, so will be done to his cow.