Study it in the app“I 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.”
Moses sets life and good, death and evil before them: choose lifeObedience
I declareהִגַּדְתִּיto youלָכֶםtodayהַיּוֹםthatכִּיyou will surely perish;אָבֹד תֹּאבֵדוּןyou will notלֹאprolongתַאֲרִיכֻןyour daysיָמִיםonעַלthe landהָאֲדָמָהthatאֲשֶׁרyouאַתָּהare crossingעֹבֵרthe Jordanהַיַּרְדֵּןto enterלָבֹאthereשָׁמָּהto possess it.לְרִשְׁתָּהּ
tell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “higadti” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsperish
To die, be ruined.
Where else “avod” appearsbe long, prolong
Be long, last long; prolong.
Where else “taarichu” appearsland
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “adama” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “over” appearsJordan
See it on the mapWhere else “yarden” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “vo” appearspossess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “rishta” appearsJordan
Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea
Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.
Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).
17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, and are drawn away and bow down to other gods and serve them,
18 · This verse (above)
19I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today: life and death I have set before you, the blessing and the curse. And you shall choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,
