Leviticus 20:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֹמַ֣ר לָכֶ֗ם אַתֶּם֮ תִּֽירְשׁ֣וּ אֶת־אַדְמָתָם֒ וַאֲנִ֞י אֶתְּנֶ֤נָּה לָכֶם֙ לָרֶ֣שֶׁת אֹתָ֔הּ אֶ֛רֶץ זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּדְבָ֑שׁ אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּי אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִן־הָֽעַמִּֽים׃

Transliteration

wā-ʾōmar to-you you tîrᵊšû ʾet-ʾadmātām and-I ʾettᵊnennāh to-you to-lārešet ʾōtāh ʾereṣ flowing ḥālāb and-dᵊbāš I YHWH ʾĕlōhêkem ʾăšer-hibdaltî you from-hā-ʿammîm

Grammar Details

*wā-ʾōmar*: conjunction + imperfect, 1st singular - and I said/say
*lākem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - to you
*ʾattem*: 2nd masculine plural personal pronoun - you
*tîrᵊšû*: imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall possess/inherit
*ʾet*-*ʾadmātām*: direct object marker + noun, feminine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their land
*wa-ʾănî*: conjunction + 1st singular personal pronoun - and I
*ʾettᵊnennāh*: imperfect, 1st singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - I will give it
*lā-rešet*: preposition + infinitive construct - to possess
*ʾōtāh*: direct object marker + 3rd feminine singular suffix - it
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
*zābat*: participle, feminine singular construct, Qal - flowing with
*ḥālāb*: noun, masculine singular - milk
*û-dᵊbāš*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and honey
*ʾănî*: 1st singular personal pronoun - I
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾĕlōhêkem*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your God
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who
*hibdaltî*: perfect, 1st singular, Hiphil - I have separated
*ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
*min*-*hā-ʿammîm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - from the peoples

Word Meanings

*ʾōmar*: said/say/told
*tîrᵊšû*: possess/inherit/take possession of
*ʾettᵊnennāh*: will give it/will grant it
*lā-rešet*: to possess/to inherit/to take possession of
*zābat* *ḥālāb* *û-dᵊbāš*: flowing with milk and honey/abundant with milk and honey
*hibdaltî*: have separated/have set apart/have distinguished

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Referenced Verses

Exod 33:16 : 16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?
Exod 3:8 : 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Deut 14:2 : 2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
1 Kgs 8:53 : 53 For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.
Exod 3:17 : 17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exod 6:8 : 8 And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.
Lev 20:26 : 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Num 23:9 : 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Exod 13:5 : 5 And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exod 33:3 : 3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I consume thee in the way.
John 15:19 : 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love {G302} its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore {G5124} the world hateth you.
2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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