Deuteronomy 29:9

“So keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may act wisely in all that you do.”

Deuteronomy 29:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Deuteronomy 29:9, word by word

So keepשְׁמַרְתֶּםshemartem

keep

To obey the covenant or the commands.

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the wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

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covenantבְּרִיתberit

covenant

The commitment God makes with his people, with promises and commands.

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and doעֲשִׂיתֶםasitem

do

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

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you may act wiselyתַּשְׂכִּילוּtaskilu

succeed

For what one undertakes to turn out well.

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The context

8And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

9 · This verse (above)

10You are standing today, all of you, before YHWH your Elohim: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your supervisors, every man of Israel,

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