Deuteronomy 31:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּנְתָנָ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם לָהֶ֔ם כְּכָל־הַמִּצְוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוִּ֖יתִי אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And û-nətānām YHWH before-you, and wa-ʿăśîtem to-them according-to-all-the-miṣwāh which ṣiwwîtî you.

Grammar Details

• *û-nətānām*: waw consecutive + qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'and he will give them'
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *wa-ʿăśîtem*: waw consecutive + qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - 'and you will do'
• *miṣwāh*: noun feminine singular - 'commandment'
• *ṣiwwîtî*: piel perfect 1st singular - 'I commanded'

Word Meanings

• *û-nətānām*: will give/deliver/hand over them
• *wa-ʿăśîtem*: you will do/perform/execute
• *miṣwāh*: commandment/precept/ordinance

Referenced Verses

• Deut 7:2 : 2 and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
• Deut 7:18 : 18 you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,
• Deut 7:23-25 : 23 The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed. 24 He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them. 25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
• Deut 20:16-17 : 16 Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive. 17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,
• Exod 23:32-33 : 32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
• Exod 34:12-16 : 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you. 13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles. 14 For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice; 16 and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
• Num 33:52-56 : 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places. 53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it. 54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes. 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living. 56 And what I intended to do to them I will do to you.”