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And you will liveוִישַׁבְתֶּםin the landבָּאָרֶץthatאֲשֶׁרI gaveנָתַתִּיto your fathers,לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶםand you will beוִהְיִיתֶםmyלִיpeople,לְעָםand Iוְאָנֹכִיwill beאֶהְיֶהyourלָכֶםElohim.לֵאלֹהִים
Ezekiel 36:28
Study it in the app“And you will live in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you will be my people, and I will be your Elohim.”
God promises to replace the heart of stone with a heart of fleshHope
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 36:28, word by word
- And you will liveישַׁבְתֶּםyshavtem
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yshavtem” appears- in the landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- I gaveנָתַתִּיnatati
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natati” appears- to your fathersאֲבֹתֵיavote
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appears- and you will beהְיִיתֶםheyitem
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “heyitem” appears- peopleעָםam
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appears- Elohimאלֹהִיםlohim
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “lohim” appears
The context
27And my spirit I will put within you, and I will bring it about that you walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them.
28 · This verse (above)
29And I will save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not lay famine on you.