Exodus 12:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֞ה כִּֽי־תָבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִתֵּ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֵּ֑ר וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyāh kî-tābō'û to-the 'āreṣ which yittēn YHWH to you as which dibbēr; ū-šəmartem 'et-the 'ăbōdāh the zō't.

Grammar Details

• *wə-hāyāh*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - and it will be
• *kî*: conjunction - when
• *tābō'û*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will come/enter
• *'āreṣ*: feminine singular noun - land
• *yittēn*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will give
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *dibbēr*: piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - spoke/promised
• *ū-šəmartem*: conjunction + qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - and you shall observe/keep
• *'ăbōdāh*: feminine singular noun - service/ceremony/worship
• *zō't*: feminine singular demonstrative - this

Word Meanings

• *'āreṣ*: land/earth/ground/territory
• *'ăbōdāh*: service/worship/ceremony/ritual

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:8 : 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
• Exod 3:17 : 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
• 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 12:8-9 : 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
• Deut 16:5-9 : 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
• Josh 5:10-12 : 10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. 11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. 12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
• Ps 105:44-45 : 44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; 45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.