Deuteronomy 10:7
מִשָּׁם נָסְעוּ הַגֻּדְגֹּדָה וּמִן־הַגֻּדְגֹּדָה יָטְבָתָה אֶרֶץ נַחֲלֵי מָֽיִם׃
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מִשָּׁ֥ם נָסְע֖וּ הַגֻּדְגֹּ֑דָה וּמִן־הַגֻּדְגֹּ֣דָה יָטְבָ֔תָה אֶ֖רֶץ נַ֥חֲלֵי מָֽיִם׃
ἐκεῖθεν θεν ἀπῆραν εἰς Γαδγάδ, καὶ ἀπὸ Γαδγὰδ εἰς Ταιβάθα· γῆ χείμαρροι ὑδάτων.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Inde venerunt in Gadgad: de quo loco profecti, castrametati sunt in Jetebatha, in terra aquarum atque torrentium.
De allí viajaron a Gudgodá, y de Gudgodá a Jotbata, tierra de arroyos de agua.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
De allí partieron á Gudgod, y de Gudgod á Jotbath, tierra de arroyos de aguas.
From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse traces a stage of the Israelites' itinerary, stating that they journeyed from a previous location to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place described as having water streams.
Key words
- na.se.'U ("they set out", H5265) — qal perfect, third person plural, marking a completed collective movement of the people.
- gud.Go.da ("Gudgodah", H1412) — proper place name, appearing twice, each time followed by the directional he (H9011), indicating motion "toward" that location.
- ya.te.Va.tah ("Jotbathah", H3193) — proper place name marking the second destination in the sequence.
- 'E.retz ("land of", H0776G) — feminine singular noun in construct state, linking it to the following noun to form a descriptive phrase, "a land of...".
- Na.cha.lei ("torrents of", H5158A) — masculine plural noun in construct state, paired with Ma.yim ("water", H4325G) to complete the phrase "torrents of water".
What the text says
The sentence is built around a single verb, na.se.'U ("they set out", H5265), a qal perfect that reports a completed action performed collectively by an unstated plural subject (understood from context as the people). This verb governs two successive place-to-place movements, both marked with the directional he suffix (H9011) attached to gud.Go.da ("Gudgodah", H1412): first "from there" (mi-sham, H9006 + H8033G) to Gudgodah, then, introduced by the conjunction u- ("and", H9002) with the preposition min- ("from", H4480A), from Gudgodah to ya.te.Va.tah ("Jotbathah", H3193). The directional he in Hebrew functions similarly to "toward" in English, marking the endpoint of motion without needing a separate preposition each time.
The final clause, 'E.retz Na.cha.lei Ma.yim ("a land of torrents of water"), is a chain of two construct nouns: 'E.retz ("land of", H0776G) governs Na.cha.lei ("torrents of", H5158A), which in turn governs Ma.yim ("water", H4325G). This construct chain produces a compact genitive description of Jotbathah as a place characterized by flowing water, without any verb or adjective — the noun chain itself carries the descriptive function.
Differences between versions
The LXX reads Γαδγάδ for gud.Go.da ("Gudgodah", H1412), a transliteration variant, and renders the final phrase as γῆ χείμαρροι ὑδάτων ("land, torrents of waters"), preserving the construct-like structure without an explicit "of" for "land". The Vulgate expands the narrative slightly, adding "profecti, castrametati sunt" ("having set out, they camped"), phrasing not present as separate verbs in the Hebrew, which uses only the single verb na.se.'U ("they set out", H5265) for both movements.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.