Exodus 24:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּבֹ֣א מֹשֶׁ֗ה וַיְסַפֵּ֤ר לָעָם֙ אֵ֚ת כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑ים וַיַּ֨עַן כָּל־הָעָ֜ם ק֤וֹל אֶחָד֙ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃

Transliteration

wayyābōʾ Mōšeh wayəsappēr lāʿām ʾēt kol-dibrê YHWH wə-ʾēt kol-hammišpāṭîm wayyaʿan kol-hāʿām qôl ʾeḥād wayyōʾmərû kol-haddəbārîm ʾăšer-dibbēr YHWH naʿăśeh

Grammar Details

• *wayyābōʾ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he came
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *wayəsappēr*: conjunction + verb, piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he told/recounted
• *lāʿām*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - to the people
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *kol*: noun, construct - all of
• *dibrê*: noun, masculine plural construct - words of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *wə-ʾēt*: conjunction + direct object marker - and
• *hammišpāṭîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the judgments/ordinances
• *wayyaʿan*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he answered
• *hāʿām*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the people
• *qôl*: noun, masculine singular - voice
• *ʾeḥād*: numeral - one
• *wayyōʾmərû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural consecutive - and they said
• *haddəbārîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the words
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *dibbēr*: verb, piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - he spoke/said
• *naʿăśeh*: verb, qal imperfect 1st common plural - we will do

Word Meanings

• *wayəsappēr*: told/recounted/reported/declared
• *dibrê*: words/sayings/commands
• *hammišpāṭîm*: judgments/ordinances/rules/laws
• *qôl*: voice/sound
• *naʿăśeh*: we will do/we will make/we will perform

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:8 : 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
• Exod 24:7 : 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
• Deut 4:1 : 1 ¶ Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
• Deut 4:5 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
• Deut 4:45 : 45 These [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
• Deut 5:1 : 1 ¶ And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
• Deut 5:27-28 : 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it]. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
• Deut 5:31 : 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it.
• Deut 6:1 : 1 ¶ Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:
• Deut 11:1 : 1 ¶ Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
• Josh 24:22 : 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.
• Gal 3:19-20 : 19 ¶ Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one.
• Exod 21:1-9 : 1 ¶ Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. 12 ¶ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed. 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money. 22 ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine]. 23 And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,