Exodus 6:7

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens 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 hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• Deut 29:13 : 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• 2 Sam 7:23-24 : 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? 24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
• Deut 26:18 : 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shoulst keep all his commandments;
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their nerations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranr, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Exod 29:45-46 : 45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• Exod 5:4-5 : 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
• Exod 16:12 : 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
• Ps 81:6 : 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
• Isa 41:20 : 20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall 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 shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And I heard a gat voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.