Deuteronomy 30:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־יִפְנֶ֥ה לְבָבְךָ֖ וְלֹ֣א תִשְׁמָ֑ע וְנִדַּחְתָּ֗ וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֛יתָ לֵאלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים וַעֲבַדְתָּֽם

Transliteration

But if wəʾim-yipneh your ləbābəkā and not lōʾ tišmāʿ and wəniddaḥtā and wəhištaḥăwîtā to ʾĕlōhîm other and waʿăbadtām

Grammar Details

• *wəʾim-yipneh*: conjunction + conditional particle + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - but if it turns away
• *ləbābəkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your heart
• *lōʾ tišmāʿ*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will not hear/obey
• *wəniddaḥtā*: waw-consecutive + niphal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you are drawn away
• *wəhištaḥăwîtā*: waw-consecutive + hishtaphel perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you bow down/worship
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun - gods
• *waʿăbadtām*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and you serve them

Word Meanings

• *yipneh*: turn away/turn aside/depart
• *ləbābəkā*: your heart/mind/inner self
• *tišmāʿ*: hear/listen to/obey
• *wəniddaḥtā*: be drawn away/be led astray/be seduced
• *wəhištaḥăwîtā*: bow down/prostrate yourself/worship
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: gods/deities
• *waʿăbadtām*: serve them/worship them/be enslaved to them

Referenced Verses

• Heb 3:12 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
• Deut 17:17 : 17 Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.
• Deut 29:18-28 : 18 Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the LORD our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit. 19 When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says,“I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched. 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory. 21 The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. 22 The generation to come– your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places– will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it. 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?” 25 Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. 27 That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. 28 So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
• 1 Sam 12:25 : 25 But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
• 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 They came from nations about which the LORD had warned the Israelites,“You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.
• Prov 1:32 : 32 For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
• John 3:19-21 : 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. 21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
• 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.