Deuteronomy 5:30
in Deuteronomy 5Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Go say to them, Return ye to your tents.
KJV
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 5
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Go and tell them
on Deuteronomy 5:30-31
The people return to their tents while Moses is told, "But you stand here with Me," and all that follows runs on that arrangement. Chapters 6 to 26 deliver "all the commandments and statutes and ordinances" that verse 31 promises.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Go say to them, get you into your tents again. Which they had left, being brought by Moses, at the direction of God, to the foot of Mount Sinai, to receive the law from his mouth; this being done, they are ordered to return to their tents again, to their families, wives, and children.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֵ֖ךְ | lekh | go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| אֱמֹ֣ר | ʾemor | say | H559 → | 5305 times |
| לָהֶ֑ם | lahem | to them | ||
| שׁ֥וּבוּ | shuvu | return | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| לָכֶ֖ם | lakhem | <for> yourselves | ||
| לְאָהֳלֵיכֶֽם׃ | leoholeikhem | to tents your | H168 → | 345 times |
לֵ֖ךְgo
lekhH1980 →1546 times
אֱמֹ֣רsay
ʾemorH559 →5305 times
לָהֶ֑םto them
lahem
שׁ֥וּבוּreturn
shuvuH7725 →1056 times
לָכֶ֖ם<for> yourselves
lakhem
לְאָהֳלֵיכֶֽם׃to tents your
leoholeikhemH168 →345 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.