Study it in the app“for so I was commanded by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water, and you shall not return by the way that you went.’””
forכִּיsoכֵןI was commandedצִוָּה אֹתִיby the wordבִּדְבַרof YHWH,יְהוָהsaying,לֵאמֹר‘You shall notלֹאeatתֹאכַלbreadלֶחֶםand you shall notוְלֹאdrinkתִשְׁתֶּהwater,מָּיִםand you shall notוְלֹאreturnתָשׁוּבby the wayבַּדֶּרֶךְthatאֲשֶׁרyou went.’”הָלָכְתָּ
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearseat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “tochal” appearsfood
Everything eaten at the table, even if it is not bread.
Where else “lechem” appearsdrink
Drink.
Where else “tishte” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “tashuv” appearsroad
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appearsgo
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “halachta” appears8But the man of Elohim said to the king, “If you gave me half of your house, I would not go with you, and I would not eat bread or drink water in this place;
9 · This verse (above)
10So he went by another way and did not return by the way that he had come by it to Bethel.
