Exodus 6:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלָקַחְתִּ֨י אֶתְכֶ֥ם לִי֙ לְעָ֔ם וְהָיִ֥יתִי לָכֶ֖ם לֵֽאלֹהִ֑ים וִֽידַעְתֶּ֗ם כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם הַמּוֹצִ֣יא אֶתְכֶ֔ם מִתַּ֖חַת סִבְל֥וֹת מִצְרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

and-lāqaḥtî you to-me for-ʿām and-hāyîtî to-you for-ʾĕlōhîm and-yədaʿtem that I YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem the-one-bringing-out you from-under siḇlôt Miṣrāyim

Grammar Details

• and-*lāqaḥtî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will take
• you: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix *ʾetḵem* - you
• to-me: preposition + 1st singular suffix *lî* - to me
• for-*ʿām*: preposition + noun, masculine singular *lə-ʿām* - for a people
• and-*hāyîtî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will be
• to-you: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix *lāḵem* - to you
• for-*ʾĕlōhîm*: preposition + noun, masculine plural *lē-ʾlōhîm* - for God
• and-*yədaʿtem*: conjunction + qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you will know
• that: conjunction *kî* - that, because
• I: personal pronoun, 1st singular *ʾănî* - I
• *YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem*: divine name + noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - Yahweh your God
• the-one-bringing-out: definite article + hiphil participle, masculine singular *ham-môṣîʾ* - the one bringing out
• from-under: preposition compound *mi-taḥat* - from under
• *siḇlôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - burdens of
• *Miṣrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

• *lāqaḥtî*: I will take, I will receive, I will accept
• *ʿām*: people, nation, folk
• *hāyîtî*: I will be, I will become, I will exist as
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God, gods, divine beings
• *yədaʿtem*: you will know, you will recognize, you will acknowledge
• *YHWH*: Yahweh, LORD, the divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêḵem*: your God, your deity
• *ham-môṣîʾ*: the one bringing out, the deliverer, the one who extracts
• *siḇlôt*: burdens, loads, forced labors
• *Miṣrāyim*: Egypt, Egyptians

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:20 : 20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
• Deut 29:13 : 13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• 2 Sam 7:23-24 : 23 And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people? 24 But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
• Deut 26:18 : 18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
• Exod 29:45-46 : 45 Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God. 46 And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Exod 5:4-5 : 4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work. 5 And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments.
• Exod 16:12 : 12 The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
• Ps 81:6 : 6 I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
• Isa 41:20 : 20 So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
• 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.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
• 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.