Deuteronomy 28:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־שָׁמ֤וֹעַ תִּשְׁמּ‪[t]‬ַע֙ בְּקוֹל֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֤ר לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם וּנְתָ֨נְךָ֜ יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ עֶלְי֔וֹן עַ֖ל כָּל־גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

And hāyāh if šāmôaʿ you will tišmaʿ in qôl YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā to šĕmōr to ʿăśôt ʾet-all-miṣwōtāyw which ʾānōkî mĕṣawwĕkā the hayyôm, and will nĕtānĕkā YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā ʿelyôn upon all-gôyê the hāʾāreṣ.

Grammar Details

• *hāyāh*: perfect, consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and it will be/come to pass
• *šāmôaʿ*: infinitive absolute - hearing [emphatic]
• *tišmaʿ*: imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will hear/listen/obey
• *qôl*: construct masculine singular - voice/sound of
• *YHWH*: proper name - the LORD
• *ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
• *šĕmōr*: infinitive construct - to keep/observe
• *ʿăśôt*: infinitive construct - to do/perform
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miṣwōtāyw*: feminine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his commandments
• *ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *mĕṣawwĕkā*: participle, Piel, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - commanding you
• *hayyôm*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the day/today
• *nĕtānĕkā*: perfect, consecutive with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he will set/place you
• *ʿelyôn*: masculine singular adjective - high/supreme/highest
• *gôyê*: masculine plural construct - nations/peoples of
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the earth/land

Word Meanings

• *šāmôaʿ tišmaʿ*: you will surely listen/diligently obey [emphatic construction]
• *qôl*: voice/sound/utterance
• *šĕmōr*: to keep/observe/guard/preserve
• *ʿăśôt*: to do/make/perform/accomplish
• *ʿelyôn*: high/highest/supreme/elevated

Referenced Verses

• Exod 15:26 : 26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
• Exod 23:22 : 22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
• Lev 26:3-9 : 3 If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them, 4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit; 5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely. 6 And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land. 7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords. 8 Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords. 9 And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you. 10 And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new; 11 And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust. 12 And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.
• Deut 7:12-26 : 12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers. 13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you. 14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters. 16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you. 17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them? 18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt; 19 The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears. 20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off. 21 Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared. 22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you. 23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete. 24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete. 25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God: 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
• Deut 11:13 : 13 And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,
• Isa 1:19 : 19 If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
• Isa 55:2-3 : 2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure. 3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
• Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
• John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
• Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
• Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
• Jas 2:10-11 : 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. 11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
• Jer 11:4 : 4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
• Jer 12:16 : 16 And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.
• Jer 17:24 : 24 And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;
• Luke 1:6 : 6 They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
• Luke 9:48 : 48 And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.
• 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 26:19-27:1 : 19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said. 1 Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep all the orders which I have given you this day;
• Ps 91:14 : 14 Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
• Ps 106:3 : 3 Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
• Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
• Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
• Ps 119:128 : 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
• Ps 148:14 : 14 He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.
• Isa 3:10 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.