Deuteronomy 5:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּ֗ה פֹּה֮ עֲמֹ֣ד עִמָּדִי֒ וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה אֵלֶ֗יךָ אֵ֧ת כָּל־הַמִּצְוָ֛ה וְהַחֻקִּ֥ים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר תְּלַמְּדֵ֑ם וְעָשׂ֣וּ בָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לָהֶ֖ם לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ

Transliteration

And-you here ʿămōd with-me and-waʾădabbərāh to-you ʾēt all-the-miṣwāh and-the-ḥuqqîm and-the-mišpāṭîm which təlammədēm and-wəʿāśû in-the-ʾāreṣ which ʾānōkî nōtēn to-them to-lərištāh

Grammar Details

*ʿămōd*: Qal imperative 2ms - stand
*waʾădabbərāh*: waw conjunctive + Piel cohortative 1cs - and let me speak
*ʾēt*: direct object marker
*miṣwāh*: common noun, feminine singular - commandment
*ḥuqqîm*: common noun, masculine plural - statutes
*mišpāṭîm*: common noun, masculine plural - judgments
*təlammədēm*: Piel imperfect 2ms + 3mp suffix - you shall teach them
*wəʿāśû*: waw conjunctive + Qal perfect 3cp - and they shall do
*ʾāreṣ*: common noun, feminine singular - land
*ʾānōkî*: personal pronoun 1cs - I
*nōtēn*: Qal participle masculine singular - giving
*lərištāh*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct + 3fs suffix - to possess it

Word Meanings

*ʿămōd*: stand/remain/stay
*waʾădabbərāh*: and let me speak/and I will tell/and I may declare
*miṣwāh*: commandment/precept/instruction
*ḥuqqîm*: statutes/decrees/prescriptions
*mišpāṭîm*: judgments/ordinances/legal decisions
*təlammədēm*: you shall teach them/you shall instruct them
*nōtēn*: giving/granting/bestowing
*lərištāh*: to possess it/to take ownership of it/to inherit it

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Referenced Verses

Gal 3:19 : 19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till {G3739} the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Exod 24:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.
Deut 4:1 : 1 And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, giveth you.
Deut 4:5 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it.
Deut 4:45 : 45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,
Deut 5:1 : 1 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.
Deut 6:1 : 1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;
Deut 11:1 : 1 Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.
Deut 12:1 : 1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
Mal 4:4 : 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

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