that you shall takeוְלָקַחְתָּsome of the firstמֵרֵאשִׁיתof allכָּלthe fruitפְּרִיof the groundהָאֲדָמָהthatאֲשֶׁרyou bringתָּבִיאfrom your landמֵאַרְצְךָthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָis givingנֹתֵןyou,לָךְand you shall put itוְשַׂמְתָּin the basketבַטֶּנֶאand goוְהָלַכְתָּtoאֶלthe placeהַמָּקוֹםthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָchoosesיִבְחַרto makeלְשַׁכֵּןhis nameשְׁמוֹdwellשַׁכֵּןthere.שָׁם
Deuteronomy 26:2
Study it in the app“that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground that you bring from your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, and you shall put it in the basket and go to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 26:2, word by word
- that you shall takeלָקַחְתָּlakachta
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “lakachta” appears- some of the firstרֵאשִׁיתreshit
firstfruits
The earliest part of the harvest, for YHWH.
Where else “reshit” appears- the fruitפְּרִיperi
fruit
What a tree or the land produces, which is eaten.
Where else “peri” appears- of the groundאֲדָמָהadama
soil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appears- you bringתָּבִיאtavi
bring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “tavi” appears- from your landאַרְצְarts
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arts” appears- 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- is givingנֹתֵןnoten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “noten” appears- and you shall put itשַׂמְתָּsamta
put
To put something somewhere.
Where else “samta” appears- in the basketטֶּנֶאtene
basket
A woven basket for carrying fruit.
Where else “tene” appears- and goהָלַכְתָּhalachta
go
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “halachta” appears- the placeמָּקוֹםmakom
place
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appears- choosesיִבְחַרyivchar
elect
God picks out his people, a place or a king.
Where else “yivchar” appears- to makeשַׁכֵּןshaken
make dwell
To make dwell: "to make his name dwell there".
Where else “shaken” appears- his nameשְׁמshem
name of YHWH
YHWH's name: himself, as he makes himself known.
Where else “shem” appears
The context
1And it shall be, when you come into the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,
2 · This verse (above)
3And you shall come to the priest who is in office in those days and say to him, “I declare today to YHWH your Elohim that I have come into the land that YHWH swore to our fathers to give us.”