Keepוְשָׁמַרְתָּhis statutesאֶת חֻקָּיוand his commandmentsוְאֶת מִצְוֺתָיוthatאֲשֶׁרIאָנֹכִיam commanding youמְצַוְּךָtoday,הַיּוֹםso thatאֲשֶׁרit may go wellיִיטַבwith youלְךָand with your childrenוּלְבָנֶיךָafter you,אַחֲרֶיךָand so thatוּלְמַעַןyou may prolongתַּאֲרִיךְyour daysיָמִיםonעַלthe landהַאֲדָמָהthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָis givingנֹתֵןyouלְךָallכָּלthe days.הַיָּמִים
Deuteronomy 4:40
Study it in the app“Keep his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you all the days.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 4:40, word by word
- Keepשָׁמַרְתָּshamarta
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shamarta” appears- his statutesחֻקָּיchukay
statute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chukay” appears- and 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- it may go wellיִיטַבyitav
go well
For it to go well for someone: "that it may go well with you".
Where else “yitav” appears- and with your childrenבָנֶיvane
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vane” appears- you may prolongתַּאֲרִיךְtaarich
be long, prolong
Be long, last long; prolong.
Where else “taarich” appears- the landאֲדָמָהadama
land
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “adama” appears- 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- your Elohimאֱלֹהֶיelohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears- is givingנֹתֵןnoten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “noten” appears
The context
39Know today, and bring it back to your heart, that YHWH, he is Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other.
40 · This verse (above)
41Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise,