TO STAND, be stationed — a legal-sounding verb for a party physically present and accounted for, the root behind matzevah, a standing stone set up to fix a moment in place. This verse's plural participle, NITZAVIM, names the weekly Torah-reading portion that opens here: the whole camp made to stand and be counted, ranked from the heads of the tribes down to the one who draws water. → first discussed at Deut 29:9