Deuteronomy 12:28

“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.”

Deuteronomy 12:28 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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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.

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am commanding youמְצַוֶּmetsave

command

To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".

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it may go wellיִיטַבyitav

go well

For it to go well for someone: "that it may go well with you".

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and with your sonsבָנֶיvane

son

The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.

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foreverעוֹלָםolam

forever

Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.

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you will doתַעֲשֶׂהtaase

do

To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.

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what is goodטּוֹבtov

good

What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.

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and rightיָּשָׁרyashar

upright

Acting well before YHWH, without bending.

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in the eyesעֵינֵיene

sight

"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.

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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.

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your Elohimאֱלֹהֶיelohe

Elohim

The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.

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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,

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