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But ifוְאִםyour heartלְבָבְךָturns awayיִפְנֶהand you do notוְלֹאlisten,תִשְׁמָעand are drawn awayוְנִדַּחְתָּand bow downוְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתָto otherאֲחֵרִיםgodsלֵאלֹהִיםand serve them,וַעֲבַדְתָּם
Deuteronomy 30:17
Study it in the app“But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, and are drawn away and bow down to other gods and serve them,”
Moses sets life and good, death and evil before them: choose lifeObedience
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 30:17, word by word
- your heartלְבָבְlevav
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appears- turns awayיִפְנֶהyifne
turn
To turn toward something, someone or God.
Where else “yifne” appears- listenתִשְׁמָעtishma
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “tishma” appears- and are drawn awayנִדַּחְתָּnidachta
lead astray
To lead someone astray.
Where else “nidachta” appears- and bow downהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתָhishtachavita
worship
To bow before God in adoration.
Where else “hishtachavita” appears- to otherאֲחֵרִיםacherim
other
Other, another; next.
Where else “acherim” appears- godsאלֹהִיםlohim
gods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “lohim” appears- and serve themעֲבַדְתָּavadta
worship
To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.
Where else “avadta” appears
The context
16in that I am commanding you today to love YHWH your Elohim, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his rules, so that you will live and multiply, and YHWH your Elohim will bless you in the land that you are entering there to possess it.
17 · This verse (above)
18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you will not prolong your days on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter there to possess it.