In 5.10-18: Everyone is to celebrate, both aristocrats who ride and sit on rich carpets and ordinary folk who walk.
Watering places were customary spots for social interaction.
In verses 14-18: Reflecting a stage of tribal affinity earlier than the conventional twelve-tribe system, The poem alludes to ten groups and censures four of them for not participating.
Machir (v. 14) and Gilead (v. 17) appear in place of Manaaseh and Gad.
Judah, Simeon, and Levi are not mentioned at all.
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