Study it in the app“Know 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.”
Knowוְיָדַעְתָּthatכִּיit is notלֹאbecause of your righteousnessבְצִדְקָתְךָthat YHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָis givingנֹתֵןyouלְךָthisהַזֹּאתgoodהַטּוֹבָהlandאֶת הָאָרֶץto take possession of it,לְרִשְׁתָּהּforכִּיyouאָתָּהare a stubbornקְשֵׁה עֹרֶףpeople.עַם
know
To know something, realize.
Where else “yadata” appearsrighteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsidkat” 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” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “noten” appearsgood
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tova” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearspossess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “rishta” appearsstubborn
Unyielding: "stiff-necked people".
Where else “keshe” appearsstubbornness
Unbending: "hard-necked".
Where else “oref” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appears“Stubborn” is, word for word, “hard of neck”: like an ox that does not let the yoke be put on it.
5Not 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.
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7Remember, do not forget, how you made YHWH your Elohim angry in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against YHWH.
