Deuteronomy 1:37

Summary

Moses reports that Yehovah's anger extended also to him because of the people, and that as a result he too would not enter "there" (the land). The verse uses the adverb gam ("also", H1571) twice to link Moses' fate to that of the generation just condemned in the preceding context.

Key words

• gam ("also", H1571) — appears twice (positions 1 and 11), marking Moses as an additional target of the anger and himself as an additional excluded person; the repetition creates a parallel structure.
• hit.'a.Naf ("he was angry", H0599) — hithpael perfect of the root for anger; the hithpael (reflexive/intensive stem) frames the anger as something Yehovah directed intensely at himself (against Moses), and the perfect aspect marks it as a completed event.
• bi.g.lal.Khem ("on account of you", from H1558 + H9036) — a construct noun with pronominal suffix, literally "in the rolling/cause of you," expressing causation: the people are the stated cause of the anger falling on Moses.
• ta.Vo' ("you will go/enter", H0935G) — qal imperfect, second person masculine singular, negated by lo' ("not", H3808); the imperfect conveys an action not yet completed, here a future prohibition/denial.
• Sham ("there", H8033G) — adverb of place closing the sentence, pointing back to the land under discussion without naming it directly.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence opens with gam-bi ("also with/against me"), placing the emphasis immediately on Moses as the unexpected additional object of Yehovah's anger, before the verb hit.'a.Naf appears. This word order (object-marker + pronoun before the verb and subject Yehovah, H3068G) foregrounds Moses' inclusion in the judgment rather than the action itself. The causal phrase bi.g.lal.khem ("because of you," H1558/H9036) is placed right after the subject, tying the anger directly to the addressees (the people) as its stated cause.

The second half of the verse, introduced by le.Mor ("saying", H0559, infinitive), reports what was declared: another gam ("also/likewise") applied now to 'a.Tah ("you", H0859A, second person singular masculine, referring to Moses), followed by the negated imperfect lo'-ta.Vo' sham ("you will not enter there," H0935G + H8033G). The imperfect form leaves the action framed as a future certainty rather than a past fact, matching the announcement style of the reported speech.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders hit.'a.Naf ("he was angry") with ἐθυμώθη, a comparable passive/middle verb, but shifts syntax so that κύριος ("the Lord") is grammatical subject with ἐμοὶ ("to me") as the recipient, similar to the Hebrew structure. The Vulgate uses "mihi quoque iratus Dominus," employing a participle ("iratus," "having become angry") rather than a finite verb, and adds "Nec miranda indignatio" ("nor is the indignation to be wondered at") as an introductory clause not present in the Hebrew or LXX. The Vulgate's addition frames the statement as a rhetorical justification, a nuance absent from the Hebrew's direct declarative report.