Keepשְׁמֹרand listen toוְשָׁמַעְתָּ אֵתallכָּלthese wordsהַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּהthatאֲשֶׁרIאָנֹכִיam commanding you,מְצַוֶּךָּso thatלְמַעַןit may go wellיִיטַבwith youלְךָand with your sonsוּלְבָנֶיךָafter youאַחֲרֶיךָforever,עַד עוֹלָםbecauseכִּיyou will doתַעֲשֶׂהwhat is goodהַטּוֹבand rightוְהַיָּשָׁרin the eyesבְּעֵינֵיof YHWHיְהוָהyour Elohim.אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Deuteronomy 12:28
Study it in the app“Keep and listen to all these words that I am commanding you, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you forever, because you will do what is good and right in the eyes of YHWH your Elohim.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 12:28, word by word
- Keepשְׁמֹרshemor
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shemor” appears- and listen toשָׁמַעְתָּshamata
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “shamata” appears- these wordsדְּבָרִיםdevarim
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devarim” appears- am commanding youמְצַוֶּmetsave
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “metsave” 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- foreverעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” 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 goodטּוֹבtov
good
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tov” appears- and 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- your Elohimאֱלֹהֶיelohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears
The context
27and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of YHWH your Elohim; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of YHWH your Elohim, but the meat you may eat.
28 · This verse (above)
29When YHWH your Elohim cuts off the nations that you are going in there to dispossess from before you, and you dispossess them and live in their land,