Deuteronomy 30:8

“And you will return and listen to the voice of YHWH and do all his commandments that I am commanding you today.”

Deuteronomy 30:8 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Deuteronomy 30:8, word by word

will returnתָשׁוּבtashuv

return

To go back to a place.

Where else “tashuv” appears
and listenשָׁמַעְתָּshamata

obey

To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.

Where else “shamata” appears
to the voiceקוֹלkol

voice

What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.

Where else “kol” appears
of 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
and doעָשִׂיתָasita

carry out

To do what is commanded.

Where else “asita” appears
his commandmentsמִצְוֺתָיmitsvotay

commandment

An order of God that must be kept.

Where else “mitsvotay” appears
am commanding youמְצַוְּmetsav

command

To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".

Where else “metsav” appears
todayיּוֹםyom

today

This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.

Where else “yom” appears

The context

7And YHWH your Elohim will put all these oaths of imprecation on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

8 · This verse (above)

9And YHWH your Elohim will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for YHWH will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

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