Deuteronomy 16:10

World English Bible (2000)

You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעָשִׂ֜יתָ חַ֤ג שָׁבֻעוֹת֙ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ מִסַּ֛ת נִדְבַ֥ת יָדְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּתֵּ֑ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יְבָרֶכְךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

wəʿāśîtā ḥag šābūʿôt la-YHWH ʾělōheykā missat nidbat yādəkā ʾăšer tittēn kaʾăšer yəbārekəkā YHWH ʾělōheykā

Grammar Details

• *wəʿāśîtā*: conjunction + qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - and you shall make/do
• *ḥag*: masculine singular construct - feast of
• *šābūʿôt*: masculine plural noun - weeks
• *la-YHWH*: preposition + divine name - to/for YHWH
• *ʾělōheykā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
• *missat*: feminine singular construct - measure/sufficiency of
• *nidbat*: feminine singular construct - freewill offering of
• *yādəkā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your hand
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *tittēn*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will give
• *kaʾăšer*: preposition + relative pronoun - according to what/as
• *yəbārekəkā*: piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he will bless you
• *YHWH*: divine name

Word Meanings

• *ḥag*: feast/festival/celebration
• *šābūʿôt*: weeks/sevens/periods of seven
• *missat*: measure/sufficiency/proportion
• *nidbat*: freewill offering/voluntary gift
• *nidbat* *yādəkā*: freewill offering of your hand/voluntary contribution

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 16:2 : 2 On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
• 2 Cor 8:10 : 10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
• 2 Cor 9:5-9 : 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. 9 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever." 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; 11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
• Lev 5:7 : 7 "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
• Lev 12:8 : 8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
• Lev 25:26 : 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;
• Num 31:28 : 28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:
• Num 31:37 : 37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
• Deut 16:16-17 : 16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty: 17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
• Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
• Prov 10:22 : 22 Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
• Joel 2:14 : 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
• Hag 2:15-19 : 15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh. 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh. 18 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"
• Mal 3:10-11 : 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for. 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Armies.