You shall notלֹאeat it,תֹּאכְלֶנּוּso thatלְמַעַןit may go wellיִיטַבwith youלְךָand with your sonsוּלְבָנֶיךָafter you,אַחֲרֶיךָbecauseכִּיyou will doתַעֲשֶׂהwhat is rightהַיָּשָׁרin the eyesבְּעֵינֵיof YHWH.יְהוָה
Deuteronomy 12:25
Study it in the app“You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, because you will do what is right in the eyes of YHWH.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 12:25, word by word
- eat itתֹּאכְלֶtochle
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “tochle” appears- it may go wellיִיטַבyitav
go well
For it to go well for someone: "that it may go well with you".
Where else “yitav” appears- and with your sonsבָנֶיvane
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vane” appears- you will doתַעֲשֶׂהtaase
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “taase” appears- what is rightיָּשָׁרyashar
upright
Acting well before YHWH, without bending.
Where else “yashar” appears- in the eyesעֵינֵיene
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ene” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
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” appears
The context
24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
25 · This verse (above)
26Only your holy things that you have and your vows you shall take up and go to the place that YHWH chooses,