Deuteronomy 30:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י תִשְׁמַ֗ע בְּקוֹל֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֤ר מִצְוֺתָיו֙ וְחֻקֹּתָ֔יו הַכְּתוּבָ֕ה בְּסֵ֥פֶר הַתּוֹרָ֖ה הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֤י תָשׁוּב֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֖ וּבְכָל־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ

Transliteration

When kî tišmaʿ to the qôl of YHWH your ʾĕlōhîm to lišmōr his miṣwōtāyw and his ḥuqqōtāyw the hakkətûbāh in sēper the tôrāh this, when kî tāšûb unto YHWH your ʾĕlōhîm with all your lēbābəkā and with all your napšekā

Grammar Details

*kî tišmaʿ*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - when you will hear/obey
*qôl*: masculine singular construct - voice of
*lišmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to keep/observe
*miṣwōtāyw*: feminine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his commandments
*ḥuqqōtāyw*: feminine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his statutes
*hakkətûbāh*: qal passive participle, feminine singular with definite article - the written
*sēper*: masculine singular construct - book of
*tôrāh*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the law/instruction
*kî tāšûb*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - when you will return
*lēbābəkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your heart
*napšekā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your soul

Word Meanings

*tišmaʿ*: hear/listen to/obey
*qôl*: voice/sound
*lišmōr*: to keep/observe/guard
*miṣwōtāyw*: his commandments/precepts/ordinances
*ḥuqqōtāyw*: his statutes/decrees/ordinances
*hakkətûbāh*: the written/inscribed/recorded
*sēper*: book/scroll/document
*tôrāh*: law/instruction/teaching
*tāšûb*: return/turn back/repent
*lēbābəkā*: your heart/mind/inner being
*napšekā*: your soul/life/self/person

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Referenced Verses

Deut 4:29 : 29 But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Deut 30:2 : 2 and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;
Deut 30:8 : 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
Neh 1:9 : 9 but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
Isa 55:2-3 : 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Ezek 18:21 : 21 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezek 33:14 : 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Ezek 33:19 : 19 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
Acts 26:20 : 20 but declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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