Study it in the app“These are the statutes and the rules that you shall be careful to carry out in the land that YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the ground.”
Theseאֵלֶּהare the statutesהַחֻקִּיםand the rulesוְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִיםthatאֲשֶׁרyou shall be carefulתִּשְׁמְרוּןto carry outלַעֲשׂוֹתin the landבָּאָרֶץthatאֲשֶׁרYHWH,יְהוָהthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof your fathers,אֲבֹתֶיךָhas givenנָתַןyouלְךָto possessלְרִשְׁתָּit,הּallכָּלthe daysהַיָּמִיםthatאֲשֶׁרyouאַתֶּםliveחַיִּיםonעַלthe ground.הָאֲדָמָה
statute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chukim” appearsrule
Each of the rules the law gives for concrete cases of life.
Where else “mishpatim” appearstake care
To watch out for oneself.
Where else “tishmru” appearscarry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asot” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” 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” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natan” appearspossess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “rishta” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearsalive
Having life, not dead.
Where else “chayim” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appears1 · This verse (above)
2You shall completely wipe out all the places where the nations that you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.
