Deuteronomy 9:5

“Not because of your righteousness or because of the uprightness of your heart are you going in to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH your Elohim is dispossessing them from before you, and in order to establish the word that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Deuteronomy 9:5 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Deuteronomy 9:5, word by word

because of your righteousnessצִדְקָתְtsidkat

righteous deeds

Doing what is just, upright deeds.

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the uprightnessיֹשֶׁרyosher

uprightness

Uprightness: what is straight and right.

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of your heartלְבָבְlevav

heart

The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.

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going inבָאva

enter

To go into a place.

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to take possession ofרֶשֶׁתreshet

possess

To occupy a land and make it one's own.

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their landאַרְצָartsa

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

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because of the wickednessרִשְׁעַתrishat

wickedness

Wickedness: unjust and evil conduct.

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nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim

Gentiles

The peoples other than Israel.

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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.

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your Elohimאֱלֹהֶיelohe

Elohim

The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.

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from before youפָּנֶיpane

before

Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.

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establishהָקִיםhakim

establish

To put something up, or confirm a covenant.

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the wordדָּבָרdavar

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

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sworeנִשְׁבַּעnishba

swear

To promise with God as witness.

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to your fathersאֲבֹתֶיavote

forefather

Ancestors, those who came before in the family.

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to Abrahamאַבְרָהָםavraham

Abraham

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.

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to Isaacיִצְחָקyitschak

Isaac

Isaac, the son promised to Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob. His name means "he laughs" (Genesis 17:17, 19; 21:6).

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and to Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov

Jacob

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.

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The context

4Do not say in your heart, when YHWH your Elohim pushes them out from before you, saying, “Because of my righteousness YHWH has brought me in to take possession of this land”; but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH is dispossessing them from before you.

5 · This verse (above)

6Know that it is not because of your righteousness that YHWH your Elohim is giving you this good land to take possession of it, for you are a stubborn people.

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