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title: Exodus 23:33 — They shall not dwell in thy land — lest they make thee sin against M… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: They shall not dwell in thy land — lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods — for they will be a snare unto thee. Who acts: inhabitants, thee, thou. Exodus 23:33 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 23:33 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, thee, thou · **What happens:** not dwell, make, sin, serve, be · **To what, where:** land, thee, gods, snare

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This is Exodus 23:33 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — inhabitants, thee, thou — and what happens in the verse to land, thee, gods, snare, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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לֹ֤א יֵשְׁבוּ֙ בְּאַרְצְךָ֔ פֶּן־יַחֲטִ֥יאוּ אֹתְךָ֖ לִ֑י כִּ֤י תַעֲבֹד֙ אֶת־אֱלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ם כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ׃פ

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[They shall not dwell in thy land — lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods — for they will be a snare unto thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.682/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:644
# text = לֹ֤א יֵשְׁבוּ֙ בְּאַרְצְךָ֔ פֶּן־יַחֲטִ֥יאוּ אֹתְךָ֖ לִ֑י כִּ֤י תַעֲבֹד֙ אֶת־אֱלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ם כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ׃פ
# verse = EXO.23.33
1	לֹ֤א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	2	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=EXO_23:33!1|MId=o020230330011|Strong=3808|Type=negative
2	יֵשְׁבוּ֙	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.will.dwell|Ref=EXO_23:33!2|MId=o020230330021|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:020230310161;|Type=yiqtol
3-5	בְּאַרְצְךָ֔	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=EXO_23:33!3|MId=o020230330031|Strong=0871a
4	אַרְצ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=land|Ref=EXO_23:33!3|MId=o020230330032|Strong=0776
5	ְךָ֔	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=EXO_23:33!3|MId=o020230330033|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
6	פֶּן־	פֶּן	SCONJ	_	_	7	mark	_	Gloss=lest|Ref=EXO_23:33!4|MId=o020230330041|Strong=6435|SpaceAfter=No
7	יַחֲטִ֥יאוּ	חָטָא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	advcl	_	Gloss=they.should.cause.to.sin|Ref=EXO_23:33!5|MId=o020230330051|Strong=2398|Frame=AA:020230310161;A0:020230330062;|Type=yiqtol
8-9	אֹתְךָ֖	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=EXO_23:33!6|MId=o020230330061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
9	ְךָ֖	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	Gloss=you|Ref=EXO_23:33!6|MId=o020230330062|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
10-11	לִ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=EXO_23:33!7|MId=o020230330071|Strong=3807a
11	ִ֑י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	Gloss=me|Ref=EXO_23:33!7|MId=o020230330072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
12	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	13	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=EXO_23:33!8|MId=o020230330081|Strong=3588
13	תַעֲבֹד֙	עָבַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	2	advcl	_	Gloss=you.will.serve|Ref=EXO_23:33!9|MId=o020230330091|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:020200220081;A1:020230330111;|Type=yiqtol
14	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=EXO_23:33!10|MId=o020230330101|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
15-16	אֱלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	אֱלֹ֣הֵי	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	13	obj	_	Gloss=gods|Ref=EXO_23:33!11|MId=o020230330111|Strong=0430
16	הֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=EXO_23:33!11|MId=o020230330112|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
17	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	22	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=EXO_23:33!12|MId=o020230330121|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
18	יִהְיֶ֥ה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	22	cop	_	Gloss=it.will.become|Ref=EXO_23:33!13|MId=o020230330131|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:020230330091;|Type=yiqtol
19-20	לְךָ֖	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=EXO_23:33!14|MId=o020230330141|Strong=3807a
20	ְךָ֖	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	Gloss=you|Ref=EXO_23:33!14|MId=o020230330142|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
21-22	לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
21	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	22	case	_	Gloss=(into).a|Ref=EXO_23:33!15|MId=o020230330151|Strong=3807a
22	מוֹקֵֽשׁ	מוֹקֵשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	Gloss=snare|Ref=EXO_23:33!15|MId=o020230330152|Strong=4170
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=EXO_23:33!15|SpaceAfter=No
24	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=EXO_23:33!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **not** יֵשְׁבוּ *they will dwell* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יַחֲטִיאוּ *they should cause to sin* | yiqtol · hiphil | ְךָ *you* |  |  |  |
| תַעֲבֹד *you will serve* | yiqtol · qal |  | אֱלֹהֵי *gods* |  |  |
| יִהְיֶה *it will become* | yiqtol · qal | תַעֲבֹד *you will serve* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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לָא יֵתְבוּן בְּאַרְעָךְ דִילְמָא יְחַיְבוּן יָתָךְ קֳדָמָי אֲרֵי תִפְלַח יָת טַעֲוָתְהוֹן אֲרֵי יְהוֹן לָךְ לְתַקְלָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [They shall not dwell in thy land — lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods — for they will be a snare unto thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.682/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:644`.

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