| 23. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the direct object marker et {אֵת | ʾēṯ} ‘direct object marker’, marking the noun phrase kol asher tzivvāh Yahweh aleikhem be-yad Mōšē as the object of an implied command. The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘which’ introduces a modifying clause on kol {כָּל | kol} ‘all’. The verb tzivvāh {צִוָּה | ṣîw-wāh} ‘commanded’, in the Piel perfect 3rd masculine singular, appears initially within the object phrase and then anchors the temporal clause min ha-yōm asher tzivvāh Yahweh {מִן־הַיּוֹם אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה | min-ha-yōm ʾă-šer ṣîw-wāh Yə-hō-wāh} ‘from the day that the LORD commanded’. The agency is denoted by be-yad Mōšē {בְּיַד־מֹשֶׁה | bᵉ-yāḏ Mō-šê} ‘through Moses’. The adverbial conjunction vā-hā-lāh {וָהָלְאָה | wā-hā-lāh} ‘and onward’ extends the temporal frame, which is completed by lᵉ-dô-rô-ṯê-ḵem {לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם | lᵉ-dô-rô-ṯê-ḵem} ‘for your generations’, indicating perpetual applicability. The English rendering consolidates these elements into a main clause with a subordinate temporal clause to preserve both the original sequence and continuous scope of the command. |