Exodus 15:26
וַיֹּאמֶר אִם־שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמַע לְקוֹל׀ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְהַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינָיו תַּעֲשֶׂה וְהַֽאֲזַנְתָּ לְמִצְוֹתָיו וְשָׁמַרְתָּ כָּל־חֻקָּיו כָּֽל־הַמַּֽחֲלָה אֲשֶׁר־שַׂמְתִּי בְמִצְרַיִם לֹא־אָשִׂים עָלֶיךָ כִּי אֲנִי יְהוָה רֹפְאֶֽךָ׃ ס
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✦ The same verse in five languages
וַיֹּאמֶר֩ אִם־שָׁמ֨וֹעַ תִּשְׁמַ֜ע לְק֣וֹל׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ וְהַיָּשָׁ֤ר בְּעֵינָיו֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה וְהַֽאֲזַנְתָּ֙ לְמִצְוֹתָ֔יו וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֖ כָּל־חֻקָּ֑יו כָּֽל־הַמַּֽחֲלָ֞ה אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֤מְתִּי בְמִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לֹא־אָשִׂ֣ים עָלֶ֔יךָ כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה רֹפְאֶֽךָ׃ ס
καὶ εἶπεν ’ν ἀκοῇ ἀκούσῃς τῆς φωνῆς κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου, καὶ τὰ ἀρεστὰ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ποιήσῃς, καὶ ἐνωτίσῃ ταῖς ἐντολαῖς αὐτοῦ, καὶ φυλάξῃς πάντα τὰ δικαιώματα αὐτοῦ, πᾶσαν νόσον ἣν ἐπήγαγον τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις οὐκ ἐπάξω ἐπὶ σέ· ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι κύριος ὁ θεός σου ὁ ἰώμενός σε.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
dicens: Si audieris vocem Domini Dei tui, et quod rectum est coram eo feceris, et obedieris mandatis ejus, custodierisque omnia præcepta illius, cunctum languorem, quem posui in Ægypto, non inducam super te: ego enim Dominus sanator tuus.
Les dijo: “Si ustedes escuchan con atención mi voz, y hacen lo que a mí me agrada, y si obedecen mis mandamientos y cumplen todas mis leyes, no les mandaré ninguna de las enfermedades que les mandé a los egipcios; porque yo soy Yehová, el que los sana.”
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y dijo: Si oyeres atentamente la voz de Jehová tu Dios, é hicieres lo recto delante de sus ojos, y dieres oído á sus mandamientos, y guardares todos sus estatutos, ninguna enfermedad de las que envié á los Egipcios te enviaré á ti; porque yo soy Jehová tu Sanador.
saying, “ If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
✦ What the text says
Summary
This verse presents a conditional divine speech: if the people listen attentively to the voice of Yehovah ("Yehovah", H3068G) their God, do what is right, heed his commandments, and keep his statutes, then none of the diseases inflicted on Egypt will be brought upon them. The reason given closes the verse: Yehovah identifies himself as the one who heals.
Key words
- shamoa' ("to listen", H8085G) — infinitive absolute paired with the finite verb of the same root; this doubling intensifies the condition, something like "if you truly/attentively listen."
- tishma' ("you will listen", H8085G) — imperfect form functioning as the protasis (the "if" clause) of the conditional sentence.
- be'einav ("in his eyes", built on H5869I with suffix "his") — the dual noun "eyes" with a third-person suffix, referring to God in the third person even though the speech is attributed to Yehovah himself.
- ha'azanta ("you will give ear", H0238) — hiphil (causative) sequential perfect, continuing the chain of conditions begun by the imperfect verbs.
- rofe'kha ("who heals you", H7495) — qal participle in construct with a pronominal suffix, used substantively as an epithet: "your healer," rather than a simple finite verb.
What the text says
The sentence is built as an extended conditional period. The protasis stacks four verbal actions — listening (shamoa' tishma'), doing what is right, giving ear to commandments, keeping statutes — the first two in imperfect, the last two in sequential perfect (ha'azanta, shamarta), a common Hebrew pattern where perfect forms continue a sequence begun by an initial verb form. The apodosis uses a simple negated imperfect, lo'... asim ("I will not put"), referring back to the machalah ("sickness", H4245B) previously "put" (samti, perfect) on Egypt — the same verb sim is used for both the past infliction and the promised non-infliction, linking the two actions grammatically.
A notable grammatical feature is the shift in grammatical person: the phrase ha-yashar be-einav ("the right in his eyes") uses a third-person suffix ("his eyes") even though the speaker of the whole line is Yehovah, introduced by vayyomer ("and he said", H0559). The verse then shifts to first person at the close, ani Yehovah rofe'kha ("I am Yehovah, your healer"), where the identity of the speaker becomes grammatically explicit.
Differences between versions
The infinitive absolute construction shamoa' tishma' is rendered in the LXX as ἐν ἀκοῇ ἀκούσῃς ("with hearing you should hear"), preserving the Hebrew emphatic doubling through a dative-plus-verb Semitism. The Vulgate instead uses a single verb, si audieris ("if you will hear"), without reproducing that intensification.
Regarding the third-person suffix in be-einav ("in his eyes"), the LXX (ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, "before him") and the Vulgate (coram eo, "before him") both preserve the third-person reference matching the Hebrew. The Spanish SBLIBRE translation renders this instead in first person ("lo que a mí me agrada"), shifting the pronoun to match the speaking voice, unlike the Hebrew, LXX, Vulgate, and RV1909, which retain third person.
The final participle rofe'kha ("who heals you") is kept as a participle in the LXX (ὁ ἰώμενός σε), while the Vulgate renders it with a noun, sanator tuus ("your healer"), shifting from a verbal to a nominal form.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.