1. RASHI METHOD: REFERENCES BRIEF EXPLANATION: Commentary on a verse is provided thru a cross-reference to another verse. The cross references can either provide (1a) further details, (1b) confirm citations, or (1c) clarify word meaning. This examples applies to Rashis Dt29-10a URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n4.htm Brief Summary: Dt29-10a discussing 'Your ...elders, judges, ...from the wood cutters to water drawers' REFERENCES Jo09-04: 'The Givonim were made into wood-cutters...

Verse Dt29-10 discusses all Jews ...from your wood cutters to your water drawers Rashi clarifies that This cross-references verse Jo09-04,21 which discusses how the Givonim tricked the Jews into making a treaty with them. The Jews honored their treaty and made the Givonim wood cutters and water drawers. Apparently such conversions (people from hostile nations) were made in the time of Moses also (and they too were made into wood-cutters and water-drawers).

Text of Target Verse Dt29-09:10	Text of Reference Verse Jo09-04,21
Ye are standing this day all of you before HaShem your G-d: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;	And they [The Givonim] also behaved deceptively... And the princes said concerning them: 'Let them live'; so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken concerning them.
Rashi comments: Apparently converts from hostile nations were accepted also in the Days of Joshua and Moses. The treay was honored but because of the hostile nature of their nation they were made into hewers of wood and drawers of water.