Study it in the app“But this word I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your Elohim, and you will be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, so that it may go well with you.’”
God's first request was, “Listen to my voice,” and they did notObedience
Butכִּי אִםthis wordאֶת הַדָּבָר הַזֶּהI commanded them,צִוִּיתִי אוֹתָםsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Listenשִׁמְעוּto my voice,בְקוֹלִיand I will beוְהָיִיתִיyourלָכֶםElohim,לֵאלֹהִיםand youוְאַתֶּםwill beתִּהְיוּmyלִיpeople;לְעָםand walkוַהֲלַכְתֶּםin allבְּכָלthe wayהַדֶּרֶךְthatאֲשֶׁרI command you,אֲצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶםso thatלְמַעַןit may go well with you.’יִיטַב לָכֶם
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiviti” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsobey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “shimu” appearsvoice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “koli” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayiti” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “lohim” appearsAmmi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appearswalk
Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
Where else “halachtem” appearsroad
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appearsgo well
For it to go well for someone: "that it may go well with you".
Where else “yitav” appears22For I did not speak to your fathers or command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning matters of burnt offering and sacrifice.
23 · This verse (above)
24But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they went backward and not forward.
