Deuteronomy 11:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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הַבְּרָכָ֑ה

Bᵉrâkâh

H1293

“the · blessing”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 69× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 12:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1288

TWOT: None

blessing - (source of) blessing - blessing, prosperity - blessing, praise of God - a gift, present - treaty of peace

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

13: words
11: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
4 particles

Verb forms

תִּשְׁמְע֗וּ Qal · Imperfect
מְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel · Participle Active

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אֲשֶׁ֣ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 11:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
Deuteronomy 28:1–14 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Luke 11:28 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."
Leviticus 26:3–13 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
John 13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
John 14:21–23 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
Psalms 19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.

Romans 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;
James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Matthew 5:3–12 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 25:31–46 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 11:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֶֽת הַבְּרָכָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּשְׁמְע֗וּ אֶל מִצְוֺת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י מְצַוֶּ֥ה אֶתְכֶ֖ם הַיּֽוֹם

the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 11:27 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ εὐλογία ἐάν ἀκούω ὁ ἐντολή κύριος ὁ θεός σύ ὅς ἐγώ ἐντέλλομαι σύ σήμερον

the blessing, if you⌃ listen to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

יָת בִּרְכָן דִי תְקַבְּלוּן לְפִקוּדַיָא דַיְיָ אֳלָהֲכוֹן דִי אֲנָא מְפַקֵד יָתְכוֹן יוֹמָא דֵין

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

יַת בִּרְכָתָא אִין תְּקַבְּלוּן לְפִיקוּדַיָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן דַּאֲנָא מְפַקֵּיד לְכוֹן יוֹמָא דֵין

the Blessing, if you will be obedient to the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day;

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 11:27 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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John Gill's Exposition

For ye shall pass over Jordan, to go in to possess the land Which the Lord your God giveth you,.... They were now near it, and by this they are assured they should pass over it, in order to take possession of the land God had given them, and which gift of his was a sufficient title to it:

and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein: should not only take possession of it, but make their abode in it; they are assured hereby of continuance in it, on condition they obeyed the laws of God, as follows.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

את הברכה [I SET BEFORE YOU] THE BLESSING — with the condition that you should obey (אשר תשמעו‎).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bᵉrâkâh (“blessing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Bᵉrâkâh carries the sense “blessing.” How does it shape the verse?
Isaiah 1:19 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“which” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «תִּשְׁמְע֗וּ» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Rashi read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“which” occurs 2× in this single verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.