Exodus 6:7

Coverdale Bible (1535)

and will receaue you for my people, & will be yor God: so that ye shal knowe, that I the LORDE am yor God, which brynge you out from the burthen of Egipte,

📖 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 you hath the LORDE taken, and broughte you out of the yron fornace, namely, out of Egipte, that ye shulde be the people of his enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art an holy people vnto the LORDE thy God. The hath the LORDE thy God chosen, that thou shuldest be his awne peculier people, from amonge all nacions that are vpon the earth.
• Deut 29:13 : 13 that he mighte set the vp this daye to be a people vnto himself, and that he mighte be thy God, as he hath sayde vnto the, and as he sware vnto yi fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.
• 2 Sam 7:23-24 : 23 For where is there a people vpon earth as thy people of Israel? For whose sake God wente to delyuer him a people, and to make him selfe a name, and to do them soch greate and terrible thinges in thy lode before yt people, whom thou hast delyuered vnto thy selfe fro Egipte, from the people, and from their goddes. 24 And thy people of Israel hast thou prepared the to be a people vnto thyne owne selfe for euer, and thou O LORDE art become their God.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For thou art an holy people vnto the LORDE thy God. And the LORDE hath chosen the to be his awne peculier people, from amoge all the nacions that are vpon the earth.
• Deut 26:18 : 18 And the LORDE promysed the vpo the same daye, that thou shuldest be his awne peculier people, like as he hath sayde vnto the (so yt thou kepe all his commaundementes)
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 Morouer I wil make my couenaut betwene me and the, and thy sede after the thorow out their posterities, that it maye be an euerlastinge couenaunt, so that I wyll be the God of the, and of thy sede after the. 8 And vnto the and to thy sede after the, will I geue the lande, wherin thou art a straunger: euen all the lande of Canaan for an euerlastinge possession, and will be their God.
• Exod 29:45-46 : 45 And I wyl dwell amonge the children of Israel, & wyll be their God: 46 so yt they shal knowe, how that I am the LORDE their God, which brought them out of the londe of Egipte, that I might dwell amonge them, euen I the LORDE their God.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that ouercommeth, shal inheret all thinges I wil be his God, and he shalbe my sonne.
• Exod 5:4-5 : 4 The sayde ye kynge of Egipte vnto the: Why make ye ye people (thou Moses & Aaron) to leaue their worke? Get you hece to yor laboure. 5 Pharao saide morouer: Beholde, ye people are to many in ye lande, and yet wil ye byd them ceasse from their laboure.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Therfore saye vnto the childre of Israel: I am the LORDE, & wil brynge you out from yor burthens in Egipte, & wil rydd you from youre laboure, and wil delyuer you thorow a stretched out arme & greate iudgmetes,
• Exod 16:12 : 12 I haue herde the murmuringe of ye children of Israel. Tell them: At euen shall ye haue flesh to eate, and in the mornynge shal ye be fylled with bred, & ye shall knowe, that I am the LORDE youre God.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Yf ye wyll harken now vnto my voyce, and kepe my couenaunt, ye shalbe myne owne before all people: for the whole earth is myne: 6 and ye shall be vnto me a presterly kingdome, and an holy people. These are the wordes that thou shalt saye vnto the children of Israel.
• Ps 81:6 : 6 When he eased his shulder from the burthe, & when his hondes were delyuered fro the pottes.
• Isa 41:20 : 20 All this do I, yt they altogether maye se and marcke, perceaue with their hertes, & considre: that the honde of the LORDE maketh these thinges, and that the holyone of Israel bringeth them to passe.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shalbe the couenaunt that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saieth the LORDE: I will plante my lawe in the inwarde partes of them, and write it in their hertes, and wilbe their God, and they shalbe my people.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 And though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see, which can nether be measured ner tolde: Yet in the place where it is sayde vnto them, ye be not my people: euen there shall it be thus reported of them: they be ye childre of the lyuynge God.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And the same thirde parte wil I brynge thorow the fyre, and will clense them, as the syluer is clensed: Yee and trye them, like as golde is tryed. Then shall they call vpon my name, and I wil heare them: I wil saye: it is my people. And they shal saye: LORDE, my God.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and ye God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? Yet is not God a God of the deed, but of the lyuynge.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What shal we saye then vnto these thinges? Yff God be on oure syde, who can be agaynst vs.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desyre a better, that is to saye, a heauely. Wherfore God is not ashamed of the, eue to be called their God: for he hath prepared a cite for them.
• 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Euen you which in tyme past were not a people, but now are the people of God: which were not vnder mercy, but now haue optayned mercy.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And I herde a greate voyce from the seate, sayenge: beholde, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he wil dwell with them. And they shalbe his people, and God himselfe shalbe with the, and shalbe their God.