Study it in the app“So you shall keep my charge, not to do any of the abominable statutes that were done before you, and you shall not make yourselves unclean by them. I am YHWH your Elohim.””
So you shall keepוּשְׁמַרְתֶּםmy charge,אֶת מִשְׁמַרְתִּיnotלְבִלְתִּיto doעֲשׂוֹתany ofמֵthe abominableהַתּוֹעֵבֹתstatutesחֻקּוֹתthatאֲשֶׁרwere doneנַעֲשׂוּbefore you,לִפְנֵיכֶםand you shall notוְלֹאmake yourselves uncleanתִטַּמְּאוּby them.בָּהֶםIאֲנִיam YHWHיְהוָהyour Elohim.”אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shemartem” appearscharge
What one is entrusted to keep or carry out.
Where else “mishmarti” appearscarry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asot” appearsabomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toevot” appearsstatute
Statute: a fixed rule, laid down to be kept always.
Where else “chukot” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fene” appearsbe unclean
To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.
Where else “titamu” 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 “yehva” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears29For whoever does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
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