Deuteronomy 11:1

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You shall love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣ מִשְׁמַרְתּ֗וֹ וְחֻקֹּתָ֧יו וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֛יו וּמִצְוֺתָ֖יו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃

Transliteration

And ʾāhaḇtā ʾēt yhwh ʾĕlōhêḵā and šāmartā mišmarəttô and ḥuqqōtāyw and mišpāṭāyw and miṣwōtāyw all-hayyāmîm.

Grammar Details

• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *ʾāhaḇtā*: perfect verb, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall love
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *yhwh*: proper noun - YHWH/LORD
• *ʾĕlōhêḵā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
• *šāmartā*: perfect verb, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall keep/observe
• *mišmarəttô*: noun feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his charge/obligation
• *ḥuqqōtāyw*: noun feminine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his statutes
• *û-*: conjunction - and
• *mišpāṭāyw*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his judgments/ordinances
• *miṣwōtāyw*: noun feminine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his commandments
• *kol*: noun masculine singular construct - all
• *hayyāmîm*: noun masculine plural with definite article - the days

Word Meanings

• *ʾāhaḇtā*: love/care for/show affection
• *mišmarəttô*: charge/obligation/duty/requirement
• *ḥuqqōtāyw*: statutes/decrees/ordinances
• *mišpāṭāyw*: judgments/ordinances/legal decisions
• *miṣwōtāyw*: commandments/precepts/orders
• *kol-hayyāmîm*: all the days/continually/always

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Therefore, you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Therefore thou shalt love{H157} Jehovah{H3068} thy God,{H430} and keep{H8104} his charge,{H4931} and his statutes,{H2708} and his ordinances,{H4941} and his commandments,{H4687} alway.{H3117}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Therefore thou shalt love{H157}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430}, and keep{H8104}{(H8804)} his charge{H4931}, and his statutes{H2708}, and his judgments{H4941}, and his commandments{H4687}, alway{H3117}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Loue the Lorde thi God and kepe his obseruaunces, his ordinaunces, his lawes and his commaundmentes alwaye.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Therfore shalt thou loue the LORDE yi God, & kepe his comaundemetes, his ordinaunces, his lawes, & his preceptes all yi life loge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and shalt keepe that, which he commandeth to be kept: that is, his ordinances, and his lawes, and his commandements alway.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Therefore thou shalt loue ye Lord thy God, & kepe his obseruannces, his ordinaunces, his lawes, & his commaudementes alway.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Reiteration of the Call to Obedience You must love the LORD your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 6:5 : 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
• Deut 10:12 : 12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Zech 3:7 : 7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among those standing here.'
• Luke 1:74-75 : 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, would serve Him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
• Lev 8:35 : 35 You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the Lord's charge so that you will not die, for this is what I was commanded.
• Deut 4:1 : 1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and judgments that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live and enter to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you.
• Deut 4:5 : 5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may act according to them in the land you are entering to possess.
• Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep His statutes and commandments that I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
• Deut 6:1 : 1 These are the commandments, statutes, and judgments that the LORD your God commanded to teach you to carry out in the land you are about to cross into and possess.
• Deut 30:16-20 : 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, so that you may live and multiply, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away and you do not obey, and if you are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you shall surely perish and will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, 20 loving the LORD your God, obeying His voice, and holding fast to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.
• Ps 105:45 : 45 so that they might keep His statutes and observe His laws. Praise the LORD!
• Ps 116:1 : 1 I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my pleas for mercy.