Deuteronomy 26:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶת־יְהוָ֥ה הֶאֱמַ֖רְתָּ הַיּ֑וֹם לִהְיוֹת֩ לְךָ֨ לֽ͏ֵאלֹהִ֜ים וְלָלֶ֣כֶת בִּדְרָכָ֗יו וְלִשְׁמֹ֨ר חֻקָּ֧יו וּמִצְוֺתָ֛יו וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו וְלִשְׁמֹ֥עַ בְּקֹלֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

YHWH ʾāmar ha-yôm to hāyâ to you to ʾĕlōhîm and to hālak in derek his and to šāmar ḥôq his and miṣwâ his and mišpāṭ his and to šāmaʿ in qôl his

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper name - LORD
• *ʾāmar*: verb, perfect (hiphil), 2nd singular masculine - you have declared/caused to say
• *ha-yôm*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the day/today
• *hāyâ*: verb, infinitive construct - to be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - God
• *hālak*: verb, infinitive construct - to walk
• *derek*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his ways
• *šāmar*: verb, infinitive construct - to keep
• *ḥôq*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his statutes
• *miṣwâ*: noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his commandments
• *mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his judgments
• *šāmaʿ*: verb, infinitive construct - to hear/listen
• *qôl*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his voice

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmar*: declare/proclaim/cause to say
• *yôm*: day/time/period
• *hāyâ*: be/exist/become
• *hālak*: walk/go/come/behave
• *derek*: way/road/path/journey
• *šāmar*: keep/observe/guard/preserve
• *ḥôq*: statute/ordinance/decree
• *miṣwâ*: commandment/precept/decree
• *mišpāṭ*: judgment/ordinance/regulation
• *šāmaʿ*: hear/listen/obey/understand
• *qôl*: voice/sound/noise

Referenced Verses

• Exod 24:7 : 7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.
• Deut 5:2-3 : 2 The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.
• Deut 10:12-13 : 12 And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul, 13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?
• Deut 13:4-5 : 4 But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him. 5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
• Deut 13:18 : 18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
• Deut 15:5 : 5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.
• Deut 30:16 : 16 In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.
• Josh 22:5 : 5 Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.
• 1 Kgs 2:3-4 : 3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go, 4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
• 2 Chr 34:31 : 31 Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.
• Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
• Isa 44:5 : 5 One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
• Acts 27:23 : 23 For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,
• Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
• 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves; 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
• 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
• Exod 15:2 : 2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.
• Exod 20:19 : 19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.