Study it in the app“But there shall be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you are to go, for you have not passed this way before.””
Butאַךְthere shall beיִהְיֶהa distanceרָחוֹקbetween youבֵּינֵיכֶםand itוּבֵינָיוof about two thousandכְּאַלְפַּיִםcubitsאַמָּהby measure.בַּמִּדָּהDo notאַלcome nearתִּקְרְבוּit,אֵלָיוso thatלְמַעַן אֲשֶׁרyou may knowתֵּדְעוּthe wayאֶת הַדֶּרֶךְby whichאֲשֶׁר בָהּyou are to go,תֵּלְכוּforכִּיyou have notלֹאpassedעֲבַרְתֶּםthis wayבַּדֶּרֶךְbefore.”מִתְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yihye” appearsfar
To be far, at a great distance from a place or someone.
Where else “rachok” appearsthousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alpayim” appearscubit
About 45 centimeters: from the bent arm to the fingertips.
Where else “ama” appearsmeasure
The size or measure of something.
Where else “mida” appearscome near
To come near to someone or something.
Where else “tikrvu” appearsknow a person
To know someone.
Where else “tedu” appearsroad
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telchu” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “avartem” appearsformerly
What was already so in times past, up to now.
Where else “temol” appearsday before yesterday
The day before yesterday; formerly. With "yesterday" it forms the idiom "as before".
Where else “shilshom” appearsTwo thousand cubits are about nine hundred meters.
3and commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of YHWH your Elohim and the priests, the Levites, carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.
4 · This verse (above)
5Then Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow YHWH will do wonders among you.”
