Study it in the app“Only guard yourself and keep your soul carefully, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and to the children of your children.”
Onlyרַקguard yourselfהִשָּׁמֶר לְךָand keepוּשְׁמֹרyour soulנַפְשְׁךָcarefully,מְאֹדso that you do notפֶּןforgetתִּשְׁכַּח אֶתthe thingsהַדְּבָרִיםthatאֲשֶׁרyour eyesעֵינֶיךָhave seenרָאוּand so that they do notוּפֶןdepartיָסוּרוּfrom your heartמִלְּבָבְךָallכֹּלthe daysיְמֵיof your life.חַיֶּיךָMake them knownוְהוֹדַעְתָּםto your childrenלְבָנֶיךָand to the childrenוְלִבְנֵיof your children.בָנֶיךָ
take care
To watch out for oneself.
Where else “hishamer” appearssoul
A person's innermost self: what they feel and desire.
Where else “nafsh” appearsvery
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appearsforget
Forget.
Where else “tishkach” appearsthing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “devarim” appearseye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “rau” appearsturn aside
To leave the road, go away.
Where else “yasuru” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appearslife
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chaye” appearsknow a person
To know someone.
Where else “hodata” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vane” appears8And what great nation is there that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this instruction that I am setting before you today?
9 · This verse (above)
10The day that you stood before YHWH your Elohim at Horeb, when YHWH said to me, “Assemble the people for me, and I will make them hear my words, which they will learn in order to fear me all the days that they live on the ground, and they will teach their children.”
