Deuteronomy 12:25

World English Bible (2000)

You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֖א תֹּאכְלֶ֑נּוּ לְמַ֨עַן יִיטַ֤ב לְךָ֙ וּלְבָנֶ֣יךָ אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ כִּֽי־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ה הַיָּשָׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

Not tōʾkhəlennû for-maʿan yîṭab to-you û-ləbānêkhā after-you kî-taʿăśeh the-yāshār in-eyes-of YHWH

Grammar Details

• *tōʾkhəlennû*: verb, Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you shall eat it
• *maʿan*: conjunction - in order that/so that
• *yîṭab*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it will be good
• *û-ləbānêkhā*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and to your sons
• *kî*: conjunction - when/because
• *taʿăśeh*: verb, Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will do
• *yāshār*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the right/straight
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name

Word Meanings

• *maʿan*: in order that/so that/for the sake of
• *yîṭab*: be good/go well/be pleasing
• *bānêkhā*: your sons/children
• *taʿăśeh*: do/make/perform
• *yāshār*: right/straight/upright/proper

Referenced Verses

• Exod 15:26 : 26 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
• Deut 4:40 : 40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
• 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
• Isa 3:10 : 10 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Deut 13:18 : 18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
• Deut 6:18 : 18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
• Deut 12:28 : 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
• Deut 5:16 : 16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Isa 48:18-19 : 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea: 19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
• Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
• Ps 112:2 : 2 His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
• Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.