Study it in the app“if you keep all this commandment by doing it, which I am commanding you today, to love YHWH your Elohim and to walk in his ways all the days, then you shall add for yourself three more cities to these three,”
ifכִּיyou keepתִשְׁמֹרallאֶת כָּלthisהַזֹּאתcommandmentהַמִּצְוָהby doing it,לַעֲשֹׂתָהּwhichאֲשֶׁרIאָנֹכִיam commanding youמְצַוְּךָtoday,הַיּוֹםto loveלְאַהֲבָהYHWHאֶת יְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָand to walkוְלָלֶכֶתin his waysבִּדְרָכָיוallכָּלthe days,הַיָּמִיםthen you shall addוְיָסַפְתָּfor yourselfלְךָthreeשָׁלֹשׁmoreעוֹדcitiesעָרִיםtoעַלtheseהָאֵלֶּהthree,הַשָּׁלֹשׁ
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “tishmor” appearscommandment
An order of God that must be kept.
Where else “mitsva” appearscarry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asota” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “metsav” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearslove
To care for someone from the heart and seek their good.
Where else “ahava” 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” appearswalk
To conduct oneself day by day in a certain way, as one walks along a road.
Where else “lechet” appearsways of YHWH
YHWH's ways: what he does and commands.
Where else “derachay” appearsadd
To put more on top of what is already there, to make it grow.
Where else “yasafta” appearsthree
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “shalosh” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “arim” appears8And if YHWH your Elohim enlarges your territory, as he swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers,
9 · This verse (above)
10so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and bloodguilt be on you.
