Study it in the app“So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land said to us, ‘Take provision in your hand for the journey and go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; now make a covenant with us.”’”
So our eldersזְקֵינֵינוּand allוְכָלthe inhabitantsיֹשְׁבֵיof our landאַרְצֵנוּsaidוַיֹּאמְרוּto us,אֵלֵינוּ‘Takeקְחוּprovisionצֵידָהin your handבְיֶדְכֶםfor the journeyלַדֶּרֶךְand goוּלְכוּto meet them,לִקְרָאתָםand sayוַאֲמַרְתֶּםto them,אֲלֵיהֶם“We areאֲנַחְנוּyour servants;עַבְדֵיכֶםnowוְעַתָּהmakeכִּרְתוּa covenantבְרִיתwith us.”’לָנוּ
elder
The senior men who led a city or the people.
Where else “zekene” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshve” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “artse” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “kechu” appearsprovisions
Food for the journey.
Where else “tseda” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yed” appearsjourney
The stretch one covers going from place to place, and how long it takes.
Where else “derech” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechu” appearsmeet
To go out to greet someone who arrives, in order to receive him.
Where else “kerata” appearsservant
Someone who works for another, or a king's official.
Where else “avde” appearsmake a covenant
Literally "cut": to seal a solemn agreement, splitting animals.
Where else “kirtu” appearscovenant
The commitment God makes with his people, with promises and commands.
Where else “verit” appears10and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth.
11 · This verse (above)
12This bread of ours was hot when we took it as provision from our houses on the day we set out to come to you; and now, look, it is dry and has crumbled.
