Exodus 6:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And I will take you for my people, and wilbe to you a God: And ye shall knowe that I am the Lord your God which bring you out from the burthens 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 Lorde hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, euen out of Egypt, to be vnto hym a people & inheritaunce, as ye be this day.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a speciall people vnto hym selfe, aboue all nations that are vpon the earth.
• Deut 29:13 : 13 For to make thee a people vnto hym selfe, and that he may be vnto thee a God, as he hath sayde vnto thee, and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob.
• 2 Sam 7:23-24 : 23 And what one people in the earth is lyke thy people, lyke Israel, whose God went and redeemed them to hym selfe, that they myght be his people, and that he myght make hym a name, and do for you great thynges and terrible for thy lande, O Lorde euen for thy people which thou redeemedst to thee out of Egypt euen from the nations and their gods. 24 For thou hast ordeyned thy people Israel to be thy people for euer, and thou Lorde art become their God.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For thou art an holye people vnto the Lorde thy God, and the Lorde hath chosen thee to be a seuerall people vnto hym selfe, aboue all the nations that are vpon the earth.
• Deut 26:18 : 18 And the Lorde hath set thee vp this day, to be a seuerall people vnto hym, as he hath promised thee, and that thou kepe his commaundementes:
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee. 8 And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger euen al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
• Exod 29:45-46 : 45 And I will dwell amongst the chyldren of Israel, and will be their God: 46 And they shall knowe that I am the Lord theyr God, that brought them out of the lande of Egypt, for to dwell amongst them euen I the Lord their God.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all thynges, and I wyl be his God, and he shalbe my sonne.
• Exod 5:4-5 : 4 Then saide the kyng of Egypt vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moyses and Aaron let the people from their workes? get you vnto your burthens. 5 And Pharao sayde furthermore: beholde, there is much people nowe in the lande, and you make them leaue theyr burthens.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Wherfore say vnto the children of Israel: I am Iehouah, I wil bryng you out from the burthens of the Egyptians, and will ryd you out of their bondage, and will deliuer you in a stretched out arme, and in great iudgementes.
• Exod 16:12 : 12 I haue hearde the murmuringes of the children of Israel, tell them therfore and say: at euen ye shall eate fleshe, and in the mornyng ye shalbe fylled with bread, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde your God.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Nowe therefore yf ye wyll heare my voyce in deede, and kepe my couenaunt, ye shall be as a deare treasure vnto me aboue all nations: for al the earth is myne. 6 Ye shalbe vnto me also a kingdome of priestes, & an holy people: And these are the wordes whiche thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel.
• Ps 81:6 : 6 I eased his shoulder from the burthen: and his handes ceassed from making pottes.
• Isa 41:20 : 20 All this do I, that they altogether may see and marke, perceaue with their heartes and consider that the hande of the Lorde maketh these thinges, and that the holy one of Israel bringeth them to passe.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shalbe the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lorde: I wyll plant my lawe in the inwarde partes of them, and write it in their heartes, and wyll be their God, and they shalbe my people.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the chyldren of Israel shalbe as the sand of the sea, which can neither be measured nor tolde: and in the place where it was sayde vnto them, Ye are not my people: it shall be saide vnto them, Ye are the chyldren of the liuing God.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And the same third part wyl I bring through the fire, & wyl cleanse them as the siluer is cleansed, yea and trye them lyke as golde is tryed: then shal they call vpon my name and I wyll heare them, I wyll say it is my people, and they shall say, Lorde my God.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the lyuyng.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What shall we then say to these thynges? If God be on our syde, who can be agaynst vs?
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie.
• 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are nowe the people of God: which sometime had not obteyned mercy, but nowe haue obteyned mercy.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And I hearde a great voyce out of heauen, saying: Beholde, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he wyll dwell with them, and they shalbe his people, and God hym selfe shalbe with them, and be their God.