Study it in the app“loving YHWH your Elohim, listening to his voice, and clinging to him; for he is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Moses sets life and good, death and evil before them: choose lifeObedience
lovingלְאַהֲבָהYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohim,אֱלֹהֶיךָlisteningלִשְׁמֹעַto his voice,בְּקֹלוֹand clingingוּלְדָבְקָהto him;בוֹforכִּיheהוּאisyour lifeחַיֶּיךָand the lengthוְאֹרֶךְof your days,יָמֶיךָso that you may liveלָשֶׁבֶתonעַלthe landהָאֲדָמָהthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהsworeנִשְׁבַּעto your fathers,לַאֲבֹתֶיךָto Abraham,לְאַבְרָהָםto Isaac,לְיִצְחָקand to Jacob,וּלְיַעֲקֹבto giveלָתֵתthem.לָהֶם
love
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” appearsobey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “shemoa” appearsvoice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “kol” appearscling
To stay close to someone, like YHWH.
Where else “davka” appearslife
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chaye” appearspatience
A long time: long life; endurance.
Where else “orech” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yame” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “shevet” appearsland
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “adama” appearsswear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishba” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsAbraham
Abraham, the name God gave to Abram; it sounds like "father of a multitude" (Genesis 17:5). The father of the people of Israel, to whom God promised the land and blessing for all the families of the earth.
Where else “avraham” appearsIsaac
Isaac, the son promised to Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob. His name means "he laughs" (Genesis 17:17, 19; 21:6).
Where else “yitschak” appearsJacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tet” appears19I 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,
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