Study it in the app“So now, give acknowledgment to YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, and do his will, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.””
So now,וְעַתָּהgiveתְּנוּacknowledgmentתוֹדָהto YHWH,לַיהוָהthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof your fathers,אֲבֹתֵיכֶםand doוַעֲשׂוּhis will,רְצוֹנוֹand separate yourselvesוְהִבָּדְלוּfrom the peoplesמֵעַמֵּיof the landהָאָרֶץand fromוּמִןthe foreignהַנָּכְרִיּוֹתwomen.”הַנָּשִׁים
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tenu” appearsacknowledgment
Owning up to the truth or one's sin.
Where else “toda” 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 “yhva” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asu” appearswill
What one decides as one likes.
Where else “retson” appearsseparate
Separate, make a distinction between two things; also set something apart for a purpose.
Where else “hibadlu” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “ame” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsforeign, stranger
Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.
Where else “nachriyot” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “nashim” appears10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
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12And all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, “That is right: according to your word it is ours to do.
