Study it in the app“And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear YHWH his Elohim, keeping all the words of this instruction and these statutes, doing them,”
And it shall beוְהָיְתָהwith him,עִמּוֹand he shall readוְקָרָאin itבוֹallכָּלthe daysיְמֵיof his life,חַיָּיוso thatלְמַעַןhe may learnיִלְמַדto fearלְיִרְאָהYHWHאֶת יְהוָהhis Elohim,אֱלֹהָיוkeepingלִשְׁמֹרallאֶת כָּלthe wordsדִּבְרֵיof thisהַזֹּאתinstructionהַתּוֹרָהand theseוְאֶת הָאֵלֶּהstatutes,הַחֻקִּיםdoing them,לַעֲשֹׂתָם
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayta” appearsread aloud
To say a written text aloud.
Where else “kara” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appearslife
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chayay” appearslearn
To receive teaching until one knows or masters it.
Where else “yilmad” appearsrevere
To revere God, or honor one's parents.
Where else “yira” 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 “elohay” appearskeep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shemor” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appearsteaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appearsstatute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chukim” appearscarry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asota” appears18And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this instruction in a book, from the one that is before the priests, the Levites.
19 · This verse (above)
20so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and so that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, in order that he may prolong his days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.
