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Parashah 44: D'varim (Words)
1:1-3:22
Rishon [1st]
1:1These are the words which Moshe spoke to all Yisra'el beyond the
Yarden in the wilderness, in the `Aravah over against Suf, between Paran,
and Tofel, and Lavan, and Chatzerot, and Di-Zahav.
1:2It
is eleven days' journey from Chorev by the way of Mount Se`ir to
Kadesh-Barnea.
1:3It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the
first day of the month, that Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el,
according to all that the LORD had given him in mitzvah to
them; 1:4after he had struck Sichon the king of the Amori, who lived in
Cheshbon, and `Og the king of Bashan, who lived in `Ashtarot, at Edre`i.
1:5Beyond the Yarden, in the land of Mo'av, began Moshe to declare
this law, saying,
1:6The LORD our G-d spoke to us in Chorev, saying, You have lived long
enough in this mountain: 1:7turn you, and take
your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amori, and to all the
places near thereunto, in the `Aravah, in the hill-country, and in the
lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Kana`anim,
and Levanon, as far as the great river, the river Perat.
1:8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land
which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to
Ya`akov, to give to them and to their seed after them.
1:9I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone:
1:10The LORD your G-d has multiplied you,
and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
1:11The LORD, the G-d of your fathers, make you a thousand times as
many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Sheni [2nd]:
1:12How
can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
1:13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your
tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
1:14You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good
for us to do.
1:15So I took the heads of your tribes,
wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands,
and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and
officers, according to your tribes. 1:16I charged your
judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers,
and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who
is living with him.
1:17You shall not show partiality in
judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be
afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is G-d’s: and the cause that is
too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
1:18I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
1:19We traveled from Chorev, and went through all that great and
terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill-country of the
Amori, as the LORD our G-d commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-Barnea.
1:20I said to you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amori, which
the LORD our G-d gives to us. 1:21Behold, the LORD
your G-d has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as the LORD,
the G-d of your fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be
dismayed.
Shlishi [3rd]:
1:22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men
before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of
the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
1:23The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man
for every tribe:
1:24and they turned and went up into
the hill-country, and came to the valley of Eshkol, and spied it out.
1:25They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it
down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the
LORD our G-d gives to us.
1:26Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the
mitzvah of the LORD your G-d: 1:27and you murmured in
your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out
of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amori, to destroy
us. 1:28Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt,
saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and
fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the `Anakim
there.
1:29Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
1:30The LORD your G-d who goes before you, he will fight for you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
1:31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your
G-d bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went,
until you came to this place. 1:32Yet in this thing
you didn't believe the LORD your G-d,
1:33who
went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in,
in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by
day.
1:34The LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore,
saying, 1:35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see
the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
1:36save Kalev the son of Yefunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I
give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has
wholly followed the LORD.
1:37Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also
shall not go in there: 1:38Yehoshua the son of
Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he
shall cause Yisra'el to inherit it. R'vi'i [4th]:
1:39Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your
children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in
there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
1:40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness
by the way to the Sea of Suf.
1:41Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD,
we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our G-d commanded
us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up
into the hill-country. 1:42The LORD said to
me, Tell them, Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you
be struck before your enemies. 1:43So I spoke to you,
and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the mitzvah
of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
1:44The Amori, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you,
and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se`ir, even to Chormah.
1:45You returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD didn't listen
to your voice, nor gave ear to you. 1:46So you abode in
Kadesh many days, according to the days that you abode there.
2:1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way
to the Sea of Suf, as the LORD spoke to me; and we compassed Mount Se`ir
many days. Chamishi [5th]:
2:2The LORD spoke to me, saying,
2:3You
have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
2:4Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border
of your brothers the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir; and they will be
afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
2:5don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no,
not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given
Mount Se`ir to Esav for a possession. 2:6You shall purchase
food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of
them for money, that you may drink. 2:7For the LORD your
G-d has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking
through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your G-d has been
with you; you have lacked nothing.
2:8So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esav, who dwell
in Se`ir, from the way of the `Aravah from Elat and from `Etzyon-Gever. We
turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Mo'av.
2:9The LORD said to me, Don't bother Mo'av, neither contend with them
in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I
have given `Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
2:10(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall,
as the `Anakim:
2:11these also are accounted Refa'im, as the
`Anakim; but the Mo`avim call them Emim.
2:12The
Chori also lived in Se`ir before, but the children of Esav succeeded them;
and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as
Yisra'el did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)
2:13Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.
We went over the brook Zered.
2:14The days in which we came from Kadesh-Barnea, until we were come
over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of
the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore
to them. 2:15Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them
from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
2:16So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from
among the people,
2:17that the LORD spoke to me, saying,
2:18You are this day to pass over `Ar, the border of Mo'av:
2:19and when you come near over against the children of `Ammon, don't
bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of
the children of `Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the
children of Lot for a possession.
2:20(That also is accounted a land of Refa'im: Refa'im lived therein
before; but the `Ammonim call them Zamzummim,
2:21a
people great, and many, and tall, as the `Anakim; but the LORD destroyed
them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
2:22as he did for the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, when he
destroyed the Chori from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in
their place even to this day: 2:23and the `Avvim, who
lived in villages as far as `Aza, the Kaftorim, who came forth out of Kaftor,
destroyed them, and lived in their place.)
2:24Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon:
behold, I have given into your hand Sichon the Amori, king of Cheshbon, and
his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
2:25This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you
on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of
you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.
2:26I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemot to Sichon king
of Cheshbon with words of shalom, saying,
2:27Let
me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn
neither to the right hand nor to the left.
2:28You
shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money,
that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
2:29as the children of Esav who dwell in Se`ir, and the Mo`avim who
dwell in `Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Yarden into the land
which the LORD our G-d gives us.
2:30But Sichon king of Cheshbon would not let us pass by him; for the
LORD your G-d hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he
might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
Shishi [6th]: 2:31The LORD said to
me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sichon and his land before you: begin
to possess, that you may inherit his land.
2:32Then
Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Yahatz.
2:33The LORD our G-d delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and
his sons, and all his people. 2:34We took all his
cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the
women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
2:35only
the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities
which we had taken.
2:36From `Aro`er, which is on the edge
of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley,
even to Gil`ad, there was not a city too high for us; the LORD our G-d
delivered up all before us: 2:37only to the land of
the children of `Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river
Yabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever the LORD our G-d
forbade us.
3:1Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and `Og the king of
Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edre`i.
3:2The LORD said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and
all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you
did to Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Cheshbon.
3:3So the LORD our G-d delivered into our hand `Og also, the king of
Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him
remaining. 3:4We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we
didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argov, the kingdom of
`Og in Bashan.
3:5All these were cities fortified with high
walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
3:6We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sichon king of Cheshbon,
utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
3:7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey
to ourselves.
3:8We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of
the Amori who were beyond the Yarden, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount
Chermon; 3:9(which Chermon the Tzidonim call Siryon, and the Amori call
it Senir;) 3:10all the cities of the plain, and all Gil`ad, and all Bashan, to
Salkhah and Edre`i, cities of the kingdom of `Og in Bashan.
3:11(For only `Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Refa'im;
behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the
children of `Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the
breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
3:12This land we took in possession at that time: from `Aro`er, which
is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gil`ad, and the
cities of it, gave I to the Re'uveni and to the Gadi:
3:13and the rest of Gil`ad, and all Bashan, the kingdom of `Og, gave I
to the half-tribe of Menashsheh.
All the region of Argov, even all Bashan.
(The same is called the land of Refa'im.
3:14Ya'ir
the son of Menashsheh took all the region of Argov, to the border of the
Geshuri and the Ma`akhati, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name,
Chavvot-Ya'ir, to this day.)
Shvi'i [7th]:
3:15I gave Gil`ad to Makhir. 3:16To the Re'uveni and
to the Gadi I gave from Gil`ad even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle
of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Yabbok, which
is the border of the children of `Ammon;
3:17the
`Aravah also, and the Yarden and the border of it, from Kinneret even
to the sea of the `Aravah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah
eastward.
3:18I commanded you at that time, saying, the LORD your G-d has given
you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers
the children of Yisra'el, all the men of valor.
3:19But
your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have
much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
Maftir [Concluding]:
3:20until the LORD give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also
possess the land which the LORD your G-d gives them beyond the Yarden: then
shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
3:21I commanded Yehoshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all
that the LORD your G-d has done to these two kings: so shall the LORD do to
all the kingdoms where you go over. 3:22You shall not fear
them; for the LORD your G-d, he it is who fights for you.
Haftarah D'varim:
Yesha`yahu (Isaiah) 1:1-27
B'rit Hadashah: Yochanan (John) 15:1-11; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 3:7-4:11
Parashah 45: Va'etchanan (I
Begged) 3:23-7-11
Rishon [1st]
3:23I begged the LORD at that time, saying,
3:24Lord
G-d, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong
hand: for what G-d is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to
your works, and according to your mighty acts?
3:25Please
let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Yarden, that goodly
mountain, and Levanon. 3:26But the LORD was
angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and the LORD said to
me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.
3:27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you
shall not go over this Yarden. 3:28But charge Yehoshua,
and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this
people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
3:29So we abode in the valley over against Beit-Pe`or.
4:1Now, Yisra'el, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which
I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land
which the LORD, the G-d of your fathers, gives you.
4:2You
shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish
from it, that you may keep the mitzvot of the LORD your
G-d which I command you. 4:3Your eyes have seen
what the LORD did because of Ba`al-Pe`or; for all the men who followed
Ba`al-Pe`or, the LORD your G-d has destroyed them from the midst of you.
4:4But you who did cleave to the LORD your G-d are alive everyone of
you this day. Sheni [2nd]:
4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD
my G-d commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where
you go in to possess it. 4:6Keep therefore and
do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people.
4:7For
what great nation is there, that has a G-d so near to them, as the LORD our
G-d is whenever we call on him? 4:8What great nation is
there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which
I set before you this day? 4:9Only take heed to
yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which
your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your
life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
4:10the day that you stood before the LORD your G-d in Chorev, when the
LORD said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words,
that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and
that they may teach their children. 4:11You came near and
stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of
the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
4:12The
LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of
words, but you saw no form; only you heard a voice.
4:13He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even the ten mitzvot; and he wrote them on two tables of
stone. 4:14The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess
it.
4:15Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of
form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Chorev out of the midst of the
fire. 4:16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in
the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
4:17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of
any winged bird that flies in the sky,
4:18the
likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the water under the earth;
4:19and
lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon
and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship
them, and serve them, which the LORD your G-d has allotted to all the
peoples under the whole sky. 4:20But the LORD has
taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to
be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
4:21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore
that I should not go over the Yarden, and that I should not go in to that
good land, which the LORD your G-d gives you for an inheritance:
4:22but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Yarden; but you
shall go over, and possess that good land.
4:23Take
heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your G-d, which
he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything
which the LORD your G-d has forbidden you.
4:24For
the LORD your G-d is a devouring fire, a jealous G-d.
4:25When you shall father children, and children's children, and you
shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an
engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in
the sight of the LORD your G-d, to provoke him to anger;
4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden
to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be
destroyed. 4:27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left
few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.
4:28There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
4:29But from there you shall seek the LORD your G-d, and you shall find
him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you,
in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your G-d, and listen to his
voice: 4:31for the LORD your G-d is a merciful G-d; he will not fail you,
neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore
to them.
4:32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since
the day that G-d created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky
to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great
thing is, or has been heard like it? 4:33Did ever a people
hear the voice of G-d speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have
heard, and live?
4:34Or has G-d tried to go and take him
a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and
by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your G-d did for you in
Egypt before your eyes? 4:35To you it was
shown, that you might know that the LORD he is G-d; there is none else
besides him.
4:36Out of heaven he made you to hear his
voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great
fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
4:37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after
them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of
Egypt; 4:38to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you,
to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
4:39Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD he
is G-d in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.
4:40You shall keep his statutes, and his mitzvot,
which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which
the LORD your G-d gives you, forever.
Shlishi [3rd]:
4:41Then Moshe set apart three cities beyond the Yarden toward the
sunrise; 4:42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor
unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these
cities he might live: 4:43namely, Betzer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Re'uveni;
and Ramot in Gil`ad, for the Gadi; and Galon in Bashan, for the Manashshi.
4:44This is the law which Moshe set before the children of Yisra'el:
4:45these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el, when they came forth out of
Egypt, 4:46beyond the Yarden, in the valley over against Beit-Pe`or, in the
land of Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Cheshbon, whom Moshe and the
children of Yisra'el struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
4:47They took his land in possession, and the land of `Og king of
Bashan, the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden toward the
sunrise; 4:48from `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even
to Mount Tzion (the same is Chermon),
4:49and
all the `Aravah beyond the Yarden eastward, even to the sea of the `Aravah,
under the slopes of Pisgah.
R'vi'i [4th]:
5:1Moshe called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, Hear, Yisra'el, the
statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you
may learn them, and observe to do them.
5:2The
LORD our G-d made a covenant with us in Chorev.
5:3The
LORD didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who
are all of us here alive this day. 5:4The LORD spoke with
you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
5:5(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the
word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up
onto the mountain;) saying,
5:6"I am the LORD your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
5:7You shall have no other gods before me.
5:8"You
shall not make an engraved image for yourself, nor any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth: 5:9you shall not bow
down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD, your G-d, am a
jealous G-d, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on
the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
5:10and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and
keep my mitzvot.
5:11"You shall not take the name of the LORD your G-d in vain: for the
LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
5:12"Observe the day of Shabbat, to keep it holy, as the LORD your G-d
commanded you.
5:13Six days shall you labor, and do all
your work; 5:14but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your G-d: in it
you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your
man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of
your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your
man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.
5:15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt,
and the LORD your G-d brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an
outstretched arm: therefore the LORD your G-d commanded you to keep the day
of Shabbat.
5:16"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your G-d commanded
you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the
land which the LORD your G-d gives you.
5:17"You shall not murder.
5:18"Neither shall you commit adultery.
5:19"Neither shall you steal.
5:20"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
5:21"Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you
desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his
maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Chamishi [5th]:
5:22These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out
of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a
great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and
gave them to me.
5:23It happened, when you heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with
fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your
elders; 5:24and you said, Behold, the LORD our G-d has shown us his glory and
his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we
have seen this day that G-d does speak with man, and he lives.
5:25Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume
us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our G-d any more, then we shall die.
5:26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the
living G-d speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
5:27Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our G-d shall say: and
speak you to us all that the LORD our G-d shall speak to you; and we will
hear it, and do it.
5:28The LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and
the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people,
which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have
spoken. 5:29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me,
and keep all my mitzvot always, that it might be well with
them, and with their children forever!
5:30Go
tell them, Return you to your tents. 5:31But as for you,
stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the mitzvah,
and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they
may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
5:32You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your G-d has
commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
5:33You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your G-d has commanded
you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
6:1Now this is the mitzvah, the statutes, and the
ordinances, which the LORD your G-d commanded to teach you, that you might
do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
6:2that
you might fear the LORD your G-d, to keep all his statutes and his
mitzvot, which I command you, you, and your son, and your
son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
6:3Hear therefore, Yisra'el, and observe to do it; that it may be well
with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the G-d of your
fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Shishi [6th]:
6:4Hear, Yisra'el: the LORD is our G-d; the LORD is one:
6:5and you shall love the LORD your G-d with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your might.
6:6These
words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
6:7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall
talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and
when you lie down, and when you rise up.
6:8You
shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols
between your eyes.
6:9You shall write them on the
door-posts of your house, and on your gates.
6:10It shall be, when the LORD your G-d shall bring you into the land
which he swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, to
give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
6:11and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and
cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you
didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
6:12then
beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 6:13You shall fear the
LORD your G-d; and him shall you serve, and shall swear by his name.
6:14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who
are round about you;
6:15for the LORD your G-d in the midst
of you is a jealous G-d; lest the anger of the LORD your G-d be kindled
against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
6:16You shall not tempt the LORD your G-d, as you tempted him in Massah.
6:17You shall diligently keep the mitzvot of the
LORD your G-d, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded
you. 6:18You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD;
that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good
land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
6:19to
thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
6:20When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our G-d
has commanded you?
6:21then you shall tell your son, We
were Par`oh's bondservants in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand;
6:22and the LORD shown signs and
wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Par`oh, and on all his house, before
our eyes; 6:23and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
6:24The
LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our G-d, for
our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
6:25It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this
mitzvah before the LORD our G-d, as he has commanded us.
Shvi'i [7th]:
7:1When the LORD your G-d shall bring you into the land where you go
to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Chittite, and
the Girgashi, and the Amori, and the Kana`ani, and the Perizzi, and the
Chivvi, and the Yevusi, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
7:2and when the LORD your G-d shall deliver them up before you, and
you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make
no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
7:3neither
shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his
son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.
7:4For
he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other
gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he will
destroy you quickly.
7:5But thus shall you deal with them:
you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew
down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
7:6For you are a holy people to the LORD your G-d: the LORD your G-d
has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who
are on the face of the earth. 7:7The LORD didn't set
his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any
people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
7:8but
because the LORD loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he
swore to your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Par`oh king of
Egypt. Maftir [Concluding]:
7:9Know therefore that the LORD your G-d, he is G-d, the faithful G-d,
who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his
mitzvot to a thousand generations,
7:10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he
will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
7:11You shall therefore keep the mitzvah, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
Haftara Va'etchanan: Yesha`yahu (Isaiah) 40:1-26
B'rit Hadhasha: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1-11; 22:33-40; Mark 12:28-34;
Luke 4:1-13; 10:25-37; Acts 13:13-43; Romans 3:27-31;
1 Timothy 2:4-6; Ya`akov (James) 2:14-26
Parashah 46: `Ekev (Because)
7:12-11:25
Rishon [1st]
7:12It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep
and do them, that the LORD your G-d will keep with you the covenant and the
loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
7:13and
he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the
fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new
wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock,
in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
7:14You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
7:15The
LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which you know, will he put on you, but will lay them on all those
who hate you.
7:16You shall consume all the peoples who
the LORD your G-d shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them:
neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
7:17If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them? 7:18you shall not be
afraid of them: you shall well remember what the LORD your G-d did to Par`oh,
and to all Egypt;
7:19the great trials which your eyes
saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
outstretched arm, by which the LORD your G-d brought you out: so shall the
LORD your G-d do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
7:20Moreover the LORD your G-d will send the hornet among them, until
those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
7:21You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your G-d is in the
midst of you, a great and awesome G-d.
7:22The
LORD your G-d will cast out those nations before you by little and little:
you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on
you. 7:23But the LORD your G-d will deliver them up before you, and will
confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
7:24He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make
their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand
before you, until you have destroyed them.
7:25The
engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet
the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be
snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD your G-d.
7:26You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a
devoted thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly
abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
8:1All the mitzvah which I command you this day
shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.
8:2You shall remember all the way which the LORD your G-d has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you,
to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his
mitzvot, or not.
8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to
hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your
fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread
only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man
live. 8:4Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell,
these forty years.
8:5You shall consider in your heart
that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your G-d chastens you.
8:6You shall keep the mitzvot of the LORD your G-d,
to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 8:7For the LORD your
G-d brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and
springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
8:8a
land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land
of olive trees and honey; 8:9a land in which you
shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a
land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
8:10You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your G-d
for the good land which he has given you.
Sheni [2nd]:
8:11Beware lest you forget the LORD your G-d, in not keeping his
mitzvot, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I
command you this day: 8:12lest, when you have
eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
8:13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and
your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
8:14then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your G-d, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
8:15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which
were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no
water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't
know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good
at your latter end:
8:17and lest you say in your
heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
8:18But you shall remember the LORD your G-d, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore
to your fathers, as at this day. 8:19It shall be, if you
shall forget the LORD your G-d, and walk after other gods, and serve them,
and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely
perish. 8:20As the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall
you perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD your G-d.
9:1Hear, Yisra'el: you are to pass over the Yarden this day, to go in
to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and
fortified up to the sky, 9:2a people great and
tall, the sons of the `Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard
say, Who can stand before the sons of `Anak?
9:3Know
therefore this day, that the LORD your G-d is he who goes over before you as
a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before
you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the
LORD has spoken to you.
Shlishi [3rd]:
9:4Don't speak in your heart, after that the LORD your G-d has thrust
them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought
me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the
LORD does drive them out from before you.
9:5Not
for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in
to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your
G-d does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word
which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to
Ya`akov. 9:6Know therefore, that the LORD your G-d doesn't give you this good
land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked
people.
9:7Remember, don't forget, how you provoked the LORD your G-d to wrath
in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of
Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the
LORD. 9:8Also in Chorev you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was
angry with you to destroy you. 9:9When I was gone up
onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty
days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
9:10The LORD delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the
finger of G-d; and on them was written according to all the words,
which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire
in the day of the assembly. 9:11It came to pass at
the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables
of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
9:12The
LORD said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people
whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they
have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have
made them a molten image. 9:13Furthermore the
LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a
stiff-necked people:
9:14let me alone, that I may destroy
them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a
nation mightier and greater than they.
9:15So
I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with
fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
9:16I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your G-d;
you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way
which the LORD had commanded you. 9:17I took hold of the
two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your
eyes. 9:18I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty
nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin
which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger. 9:19For I was afraid of
the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to
destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.
9:20The LORD was very angry with Aharon to destroy him: and I prayed
for Aharon also at the same time. 9:21I took your sin,
the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it,
grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust of
it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
9:22At Tav`erah, and at Massah, and at Kivrot-Hatta'avah, you provoked
the LORD to wrath.
9:23When the LORD sent you from
Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you;
then you rebelled against the mitzvah of the LORD your
G-d, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
9:24You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew
you.
9:25So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that
I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
9:26I prayed to the LORD, and said, Lord G-d, don't destroy your people
and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that
you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
9:27Remember your servants, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov; don't look
to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
sin, 9:28lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because the LORD was
not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because
he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought
out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
R'vi'i [4th]:
10:1At that time the LORD said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like
the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make a
teivah of wood.
10:2I will write on the tables the
words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them
in the teivah. 10:3So I made a teivah
of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up
onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
10:4He
wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
mitzvot, which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.
10:5I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the
ark which I had made; and there they are as the LORD commanded me.
10:6(The children of Yisra'el traveled from Be'erot Bene-Ya`akan to
Moserah. There Aharon died, and there he was buried; and El`azar his son
ministered in the kohen's office in his place.
10:7From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Yotvatah,
a land of brooks of water. 10:8At that time the
LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name,
to this day.
10:9Therefore Levi has no portion nor
inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the
LORD your G-d spoke to him.)
10:10I stayed on the mountain, as at the
first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD listened to me that
time also; the LORD would not destroy you.
10:11The
LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall
go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
Chamishi [5th]:
10:12Now, Yisra'el, what does the LORD your G-d require of you, but to
fear the LORD your G-d, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to
serve the LORD your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul,
10:13to keep the mitzvot of the LORD, and his
statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
10:14Behold, to the LORD your G-d belongs heaven and the heaven of
heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
10:15Only
the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed
after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiff-necked.
10:17For the LORD your G-d, he is G-d of
gods, and Lord of lords, the great G-d, the mighty, and the awesome, who
doesn't regard persons, nor takes reward.
10:18He
does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner,
in giving him food and clothing. 10:19Therefore love the
foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
10:20You shall fear the LORD your G-d; him shall you serve; and to him
shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.
10:21He
is your praise, and he is your G-d, who has done for you these great and
awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
10:22Your
fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your G-d
has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11:1Therefore you shall love the LORD your G-d, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his mitzvot,
always. 11:2Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children who have
not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your G-d, his
greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
11:3and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to
Par`oh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
11:4and
what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots;
how he made the water of the Sea of Suf to overflow them as they pursued
after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;
11:5and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this
place; 11:6and what he did to Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av, the son of
Re'uven; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in
the midst of all Yisra'el: 11:7but your eyes have
seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.
11:8Therefore
shall you keep all the mitzvah which I command you this
day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go
over to possess it;
11:9and that you may prolong your days
in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to
their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Shishi [6th]:
11:10For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of
Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it
with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
11:11but
the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys,
and drinks water of the rain of the sky,
11:12a
land which the LORD your G-d cares for: the eyes of the LORD your G-d are
always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen
diligently to my mitzvot which I command you this day, to
love the LORD your G-d, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul,
11:14that I will give the rain of your land
in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in
your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
11:15I
will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be
full. 11:16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn
aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
11:17and
the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so
that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you
perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
11:18Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your
soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for
symbols between your eyes. 11:19You shall teach
them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when
you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
11:20You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your
gates; 11:21that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in
the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of
the heavens above the earth.
Shvi'i [7th]
and Maftir [Concluding]:
11:22For
if you shall diligently keep all this mitzvah which I
command you, to do it, to love the LORD your G-d, to walk in all his ways,
and to cleave to him; 11:23then will the LORD
drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess
nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
11:24Every
place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the
wilderness, and Levanon, from the river, the river Perat, even to the hinder
sea shall be your border. 11:25There shall no man
be able to stand before you: the LORD your G-d shall lay the fear of you and
the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken
to you.
Haftara `Ekev: Yesha`yahu (Isaiah) 49:14-51:3
B'rit Hadhasha: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13; Ya`akov
(James) 5:7-11
Parashah 47: Re'eh (See)
11:26-16:17
Rishon [1st]
11:26Behold, I set before you this day a
blessing and a curse: 11:27the blessing, if
you shall listen to the mitzvot of the LORD your G-d,
which I command you this day; 11:28and the curse, if
you shall not listen to the mitzvot of the LORD your G-d,
but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which you have not known.
11:29It shall happen, when the LORD your G-d
shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set
the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount `Eval.
11:30Aren't they beyond the Yarden, behind the way of the going down of
the sun, in the land of the Kana`anim who dwell in the `Aravah, over against
Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 11:31For you are to
pass over the Yarden to go in to possess the land which the LORD your G-d
gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
11:32You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I
set before you this day.
12:1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe
to do in the land which the LORD, the G-d of your fathers, has given you to
possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
12:2You
shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall
dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and
under every green tree: 12:3and you shall break
down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim
with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you
shall destroy their name out of that place.
12:4You shall not do so to the LORD your G-d.
12:5But
to the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose out of all your tribes, to
put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you
shall come; 12:6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your
vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of
your flock: 12:7and there you shall eat before the LORD your G-d, and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which
the LORD your G-d has blessed you. 12:8You shall not do
after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right
in his own eyes;
12:9for you haven't yet come to the
rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your G-d gives you.
12:10But when you go over the Yarden, and dwell in the land which the
LORD your G-d causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your
enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;
Sheni [2nd]: 12:11then it shall
happen that to the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of
your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.
12:12You shall rejoice before the LORD your G-d, you, and your sons, and
your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the
Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance
with you.
12:13Take heed to yourself that you don't
offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
12:14but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes,
there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that
I command you.
12:15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat
flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to
the blessing of the LORD your G-d which he has given you: the unclean and
the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
12:16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the
earth as water.
12:17You may not eat within your gates the
tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn
of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your
freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand;
12:18but you shall eat them before the LORD your G-d in the place which
the LORD your G-d shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your G-d in all that you put
your hand to.
12:19Take heed to yourself that you don't
forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
12:20When the LORD your G-d shall enlarge
your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh,
because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the
desire of your soul. 12:21If the place which
the LORD your G-d shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you,
then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given
you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all
the desire of your soul. 12:22Even as the
gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and
the clean may eat of it alike. 12:23Only be sure that
you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat
the life with the flesh. 12:24You shall not eat
it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
12:25You
shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after
you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
12:26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall
take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:
12:27and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
on the altar of the LORD your G-d; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be
poured out on the altar of the LORD your G-d; and you shall eat the flesh.
12:28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may
go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that
which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your G-d.
Shlishi [3rd]:
12:29When the LORD your G-d shall cut off the nations from before you,
where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in
their land;
12:30take heed to yourself that you not be
ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and
that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve
their gods? even so will I do likewise.
12:31You
shall not do so to the LORD your G-d: for every abomination to the LORD,
which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their
daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
12:32Whatever thing I command you, that
shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
13:1If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
13:2and
the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let
us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your G-d proves you, to know whether you
love the LORD your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul.
13:4You shall walk after the LORD your G-d, and fear him, and keep his
mitzvot, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and
cleave to him.
13:5That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams,
shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your
G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which the LORD your G-d
commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of
you.
13:6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own
soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you
have not known, you, nor your fathers;
13:7of
the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off
from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
13:8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your
eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
13:9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
13:10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to
draw you away from the LORD your G-d, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13:11All Yisra'el shall
hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the
midst of you.
13:12If you shall hear tell concerning one
of your cities, which the LORD your G-d gives you to dwell there, saying,
13:13Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have
drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other
gods, which you have not known; 13:14then shall you
inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth,
and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
13:15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle
of it, with the edge of the sword. 13:16You shall gather
all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with
fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to the LORD your G-d: and
it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
13:17There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that
the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and
have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
13:18when you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your G-d, to keep
all his mitzvot which I command you this day, to do that
which is right in the eyes of the LORD your G-d.
R'vi'i [4th]:
14:1You are the children of the LORD your G-d: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
14:2For you are a holy people to the LORD your G-d, and the LORD has
chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are
on the face of the earth.
14:3You shall not eat any abominable thing.
14:4These
are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and
the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
14:6Every
animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews
the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
14:7Nevertheless
these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the
hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the
cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
14:8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is
unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you
shall not touch.
14:9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales may you eat; 14:10and whatever
doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
14:11Of all clean birds you may eat.
14:12But
these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the
peres, and the ozniah,
14:13and
the red kite, and the ayah, and the daah
after its kind,
14:14and every orev
after its kind,
14:15and the bas
haya`anah, and the takhmos, and the sea-mew, and the
netz after its kind,
14:16the
kos, and the yanshuf, and the
tanshemet, 14:17and the
ka`at, and the rakham, and the
shalakh, 14:18and the
khasidah, and the anafah after its
kind, and the dukifat, and the atalef.
14:19All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be
eaten. 14:20Of all clean birds you may eat.
14:21You shall not eat of anything that dies
of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within
your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you
are a holy people to the LORD your G-d.
You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Chamishi [5th]:
14:22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which
comes forth from the field year by year.
14:23You
shall eat before the LORD your G-d, in the place which he shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine,
and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you
may learn to fear the LORD your G-d always.
14:24If
the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because
the place is too far from you, which the LORD your G-d shall choose, to set
his name there, when the LORD your G-d shall bless you;
14:25then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your
hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose:
14:26and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for
oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your
soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before the LORD your G-d, and you
shall rejoice, you and your household.
14:27The Levite who is within your gates,
you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe
of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you,
and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who
are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the
LORD your G-d may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Shishi [6th]:
15:1At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
15:2This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.
15:3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your
brother your hand shall release. 15:4However there shall
be no poor with you; (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which
the LORD your G-d gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
15:5if only you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your G-d, to
observe to do all this mitzvah which I command you this
day. 15:6For the LORD your G-d will bless you, as he promised you: and you
shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule
over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
15:7If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any
of your gates in your land which the LORD your G-d gives you, you shall not
harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend
him sufficient for his need in that which he wants.
15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The
seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against
your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against
you, and it be sin to you. 15:10You shall surely
give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because
that for this thing the LORD your G-d will bless you in all your work, and
in all that you put your hand to. 15:11For the poor will
never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall
surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in
your land.
15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a
Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh
year you shall let him go free from you.
15:13When
you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
15:14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your
threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as the LORD your G-d has blessed
you, you shall give to him. 15:15You shall remember
that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your G-d
redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
15:16It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he
loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
15:17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the
door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you
shall do likewise.
15:18It shall not seem hard to you,
when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a
hireling has he served you six years: and the LORD your G-d will bless you
in all that you do.
Shvi'i [7th]:
15:19All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your
flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your G-d: you shall do no work with the
firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
15:20You shall eat it before the LORD your G-d year by year in the place
which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.
15:21If it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill
blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your G-d.
15:22You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean
shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
15:23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
ground as water.
16:1Observe the month of Aviv, and keep the Pesach to the LORD your
G-d; for in the month of Aviv the LORD your G-d brought you forth out of
Egypt by night.
16:2You shall sacrifice the Pesach to the
LORD your G-d, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall
choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
16:3You
shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat
matzah therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out
of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
16:4There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven
days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at
even, remain all night until the morning.
16:5You
may not sacrifice the Pesach within any of your gates, which the LORD your
G-d gives you;
16:6but at the place which the LORD your G-d
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the
Pesach at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came
forth out of Egypt.
16:7You shall roast and eat it in the
place which the LORD your G-d shall choose: and you shall turn in the
morning, and go to your tents. 16:8Six days you shall
eat matzah; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to the LORD your G-d; you shall do no work therein.
16:9Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put
the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
16:10You shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your G-d with a
tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according
as the LORD your G-d blesses you: 16:11and you shall
rejoice before the LORD your G-d, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the
midst of you, in the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there. 16:12You shall remember
that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these
statutes.
Maftir
[Concluding]: 16:13You shall keep the
feast of booths seven days, after that you have gathered in from your
threshing floor and from your winepress:
16:14and
you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
16:15Seven days shall you keep a feast to the LORD your G-d in the place
which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD your G-d will bless you in all
your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be
altogether joyful.
16:16Three times in a year shall all
your males appear before the LORD your G-d in the place which he shall
choose: in the feast of matzah, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they shall not appear before the LORD
empty: 16:17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of
the LORD your G-d which he has given you.
Haftara `Ekev: Yesha`yahu (Isaiah) 54:11-55:5
B'rit Hadhasha: 1 Corinthians 5:9-13; 1 Yochanan (John) 4:1-6
16:18Shofetim and officers shall you make
you in all your gates, which the LORD your G-d gives you, according to your
tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
16:19You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither
shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous. 16:20That which is
altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land
which the LORD your G-d gives you. 16:21You shall not
plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your
G-d, which you shall make you. 16:22Neither shall you
set yourself up a pillar; which the LORD your G-d hates.
17:1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your G-d an ox, or a sheep, in
which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to
the LORD your G-d.
17:2If there be found in the midst of
you, within any of your gates which the LORD your G-d gives you, man or
woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your G-d, in
transgressing his covenant, 17:3and has gone and
served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of
the host of the sky, which I have not commanded;
17:4and
it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently;
and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
done in Yisra'el,
17:5then shall you bring forth that man
or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or
the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is
to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to
death. 17:7The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to
death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the
evil from the midst of you. 17:8If there arise a
matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea
and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within
your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your
G-d shall choose;
17:9and you shall come to the
kohanim the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in
those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of
judgment. 17:10You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they
shall show you from that place which the LORD shall choose; and you shall
observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
17:11according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and
according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall
not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right
hand, nor to the left. 17:12The man who does
presumptuously, in not listening to the kohen who stands
to minister there before the LORD your G-d, or to the judge, even that man
shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Yisra'el.
17:13All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17:14When you are come to the land which the LORD your G-d gives you,
and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a
king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;
17:15you shall surely set him king over you, whom the LORD your G-d
shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you
may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
17:16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD
has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn
away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
17:18It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he
shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is
before the kohanim the Levites:
17:19and
it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life;
that he may learn to fear the LORD his G-d, to keep all the words of this
law and these statutes, to do them; 17:20that his heart not
be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the
mitzvah, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end
that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the
midst of Yisra'el.
18:1The kohanim the Levites, even all the
tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Yisra'el: they
shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
18:2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is
their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
18:3This
shall be the kohanim' due from the people, from those who
offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the
kohen the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
18:4The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil,
and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
18:5For the LORD your G-d has chosen him out of all your tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
18:6If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Yisra'el, where
he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the
place which the LORD shall choose; 18:7then he shall
minister in the name of the LORD his G-d, as all his brothers the Levites
do, who stand there before the LORD. 18:8They shall have
like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.
18:9When you are come into the land which the LORD your G-d gives you,
you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
18:10There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who
practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
18:11or
a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a
necromancer.
18:12For whoever does these things is an
abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your G-d
does drive them out from before you.
18:13You
shall be perfect with the LORD your G-d.
18:14For
these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice
sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your G-d has not allowed
you so to do.
18:15The LORD your G-d will raise up to you
a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall
listen; 18:16according to all that you desired of the LORD your G-d in Chorev in
the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD
my G-d, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.
18:17The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have
spoken. 18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you;
and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I
shall command him.
18:19It shall happen, that whoever will
not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of
him. 18:20But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of
other gods, that same prophet shall die.
18:21If
you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not
spoken? 18:22when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing doesn't
follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken: the
prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
19:1When the LORD your G-d shall cut off the nations, whose land the
LORD your G-d gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities,
and in their houses;
19:2you shall set apart three cities
for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD your G-d gives you to
possess it. 19:3You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land,
which the LORD your G-d causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every
manslayer may flee there. 19:4This is the case of
the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor
unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;
19:5as
when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand
fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from
the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to
one of these cities and live: 19:6lest the avenger of
blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him,
because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy
of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
19:7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities
for you. 19:8If the LORD your G-d enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your
fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your
fathers; 19:9if you shall keep all this mitzvah to do it,
which I command you this day, to love the LORD your G-d, and to walk ever in
his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:
19:10that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which
the LORD your G-d gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
19:11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise
up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into
one of these cities; 19:12then the elders of
his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of
the avenger of blood, that he may die.
19:13Your
eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from
Yisra'el, that it may go well with you.
19:14You
shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set,
in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your
G-d gives you to possess it. 19:15One witness shall
not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that
he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall a matter be established. 19:16If an unrighteous
witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
19:17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before the LORD, before the kohanim and the judges who
shall be in those days; 19:18and the judges
shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false
witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
19:19then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
19:20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit
no more any such evil in the midst of you.
19:21Your
eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
20:1When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses,
and chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of
them; for the LORD your G-d is with you, who brought you up out of the land
of Egypt. 20:2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the
kohen shall approach and speak to the people,
20:3and shall tell them, Hear, Yisra'el, you draw near this day to
battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid,
nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
20:4for
the LORD your G-d is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you. 20:5The officers shall
speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house,
and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man dedicate it.
20:6What
man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it?
let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another
man use the fruit of it. 20:7What man is there
who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
20:8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say,
What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to
his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
20:9It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the
people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.
20:10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim
shalom to it.
20:11It shall be, if it make you answer of
shalom, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found
therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
20:12If it will make no shalom with you, but will make war against you,
then you shall besiege it: 20:13and when the LORD
your G-d delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with
the edge of the sword: 20:14but the women, and
the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the
spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the
spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your G-d has given you.
20:15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from
you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
20:16But
of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your G-d gives you for an
inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
20:17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Chittite, and the Amori,
the Kana`ani, and the Perizzi, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi; as the LORD your
G-d has commanded you; 20:18that they not
teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their
gods; so would you sin against the LORD your G-d.
20:19When
you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it,
you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for
you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the
field man, that it should be besieged of you?
20:20Only
the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall
destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city
that makes war with you, until it fall.
21:1If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your G-d gives you
to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;
21:2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
21:3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't
been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
21:4and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley
with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the
heifer's neck there in the valley. 21:5The
kohanim the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD your G-d has
chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and
according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
21:6All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
21:7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it. 21:8Forgive, the LORD,
your people Yisra'el, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood
to remain in the midst of your people Yisra'el. The blood shall be
forgiven them.
21:9So shall you put away the innocent blood
from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of
the LORD. 21:10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your
G-d delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
21:11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire
to her, and would take her to you as wife;
21:12then
you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and
pare her nails;
21:13and she shall put the clothing of
her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her,
and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
21:14It
shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she
will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with
her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
21:15If
a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have
borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son
be hers who was hated; 21:16then it shall be,
in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may
not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated,
who is the firstborn: 21:17but he shall
acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double
portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the
right of the firstborn is his. 21:18If a man have a
stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or
the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to
them; 21:19then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him
out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
21:20and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a
drunkard. 21:21All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so
shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Yisra'el shall
hear, and fear.
21:22If a man have committed a sin
worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
21:23his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of G-d; that
you don't defile your land which the LORD your G-d gives you for an
inheritance.
22:1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and
hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.
22:2If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then
you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your
brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
22:3So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his
garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which
he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
22:4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by
the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them
up again. 22:5A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on
women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the
LORD your G-d.
22:6If a bird's nest chance to be before you
in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the
hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with
the young: 22:7you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to
yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for
your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from
there. 22:9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the
whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of
the vineyard.
22:10You shall not plow with an ox and a
donkey together.
22:11You shall not wear a mixed stuff,
wool and linen together. 22:12You shall make you
tzitziyot on the four borders of your cloak, with which
you cover yourself.
22:13If any man take a wife, and go in
to her, and hate her, 22:14and lay shameful
things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this
woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of
virginity;
22:15then shall the father of the young
lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's
virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
22:16and
the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this
man to wife, and he hates her; 22:17and, behold, he
has laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I didn't find in your
daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the
city. 22:18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
22:19and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and
give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil
name on a virgin of Yisra'el: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her
away all his days.
22:20But if this thing be true, that
the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
22:21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her
father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with
stones, because she has done folly in Yisra'el, to play the prostitute in
her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
22:22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then
they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman:
so shall you put away the evil from Yisra'el.
22:23If
there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband,
and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
22:24then
you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone
them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the
city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall
put away the evil from the midst of you.
22:25But
if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the
man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall
die: 22:26but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin
worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills
him, even so is this matter; 22:27for he found her
in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to
save her. 22:28If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
22:29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty
shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled
her; he may not put her away all his days.
22:30A
man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's
skirt.
23:1He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off,
shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.
23:2A
bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth
generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.
23:3An `Ammonite or a Mo'avite shall not enter into the assembly of the
LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into
the assembly of the LORD forever: 23:4because they didn't
meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of
Egypt, and because they hired against you Bil`am the son of Be'or from Petor
of Aram-Naharayim, to curse you. 23:5Nevertheless the
LORD your G-d wouldn't listen to Bil`am; but the LORD your G-d turned the
curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your G-d loved you.
23:6You shall not seek their shalom nor their prosperity all your days
forever. 23:7You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall
not abhor a Mitzrian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
23:8The children of the third generation who are born to them shall
enter into the assembly of the LORD. 23:9When you go forth
in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing.
23:10If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that
which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he
shall not come within the camp: 23:11but it shall be,
when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is
down, he shall come within the camp.
23:12You
shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth
abroad: 23:13and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be,
when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and
cover that which comes from you: 23:14for the LORD your
G-d walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your
enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see
an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
23:15You
shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to
you: 23:16he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he
shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall
not oppress him.
23:17There shall be no prostitute of
the daughters of Yisra'el, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of
Yisra'el. 23:18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a
dog, into the house of the LORD your G-d for any vow: for even both these
are an abomination to the LORD your G-d.
23:19You
shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of
food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
23:20to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you
shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your G-d may bless you in all that
you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
23:21When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your G-d, you shall not be
slack to pay it: for the LORD your G-d will surely require it of you; and it
would be sin in you. 23:22But if you shall
forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23:23That
which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you
have vowed to the LORD your G-d, a freewill-offering, which you have
promised with your mouth. 23:24When you come into
your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own
pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
23:25When
you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears
with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing
grain.
24:1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she
find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her,
that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send
her out of his house. 24:2When she is
departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
24:3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce,
and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter
husband die, who took her to be his wife;
24:4her
former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you
shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your G-d gives you for an
inheritance.
24:5When a man takes a new wife, he shall
not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he
shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he
takes a man's life to pledge. 24:7If a man be found
stealing any of his brothers of the children of Yisra'el, and he deal with
him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you. 24:8Take heed in the
plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that
the kohanim the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded
them, so you shall observe to do. 24:9Remember what the
LORD your G-d did to Miryam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
24:10When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go
into his house to get his pledge. 24:11You shall stand
outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge
outside to you.
24:12If he be a poor man, you shall not
sleep with his pledge; 24:13you shall surely
restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his
garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD
your G-d. 24:14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land
within your gates:
24:15in his day you shall give him his
hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his
heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither
shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put
to death for his own sin. 24:17You shall not
wrest the justice due to the foreigner, or to the fatherless,
nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
24:18but
you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and the LORD your
G-d redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
24:19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf
in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the
foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD your G-d may
bless you in all the work of your hands.
24:20When
you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall
be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
24:21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not
glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
for the widow.
24:22You shall remember that you were a
bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment,
and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and
condemn the wicked;
25:2and it shall be, if the wicked man
be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to
be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
25:3Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother
should seem vile to you. 25:4You shall not
muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
25:5If
brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of
the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother
shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a
husband's brother to her. 25:6It shall be, that
the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is
dead, that his name not be blotted out of Yisra'el.
25:7If
the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife
shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses
to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty
of a husband's brother to me. 25:8Then the elders of
his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't
want to take her;
25:9then his brother's wife shall come
to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot,
and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to
the man who does not build up his brother's house.
25:10His
name shall be called in Yisra'el, The house of him who has his shoe untied.
25:11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him,
and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
25:12then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
25:13You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a
small. 25:14You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a
small. 25:15A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just
measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which the
LORD your G-d gives you. 25:16For all who do
such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the
LORD your G-d.
25:17Remember what `Amalek did to you by the
way as you came forth out of Egypt; 25:18how he met you by
the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you,
when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear G-d.
25:19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your G-d has given you rest
from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your G-d gives
you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of
`Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
26:1It shall be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD your
G-d gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
26:2that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground,
which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your G-d gives you;
and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD
your G-d shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
26:3You shall come to the kohen who shall be in
those days, and tell him, I profess this day to the LORD your G-d, that I am
come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.
26:4The kohen shall take the basket out of your
hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your G-d.
26:5You shall answer and say before the LORD your G-d, A Arammian ready
to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there,
few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
26:6The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us
hard bondage:
26:7and we cried to the LORD, the G-d of our
fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil,
and our oppression;
26:8and the LORD brought us forth out
of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terror, and with signs, and with wonders;
26:9and
he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land
flowing with milk and honey. 26:10Now, behold, I
have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, the LORD, have
given me. You shall set it down before the LORD your G-d, and worship before
the LORD your G-d:
26:11and you shall rejoice in all the
good which the LORD your G-d has given to you, and to your house, you, and
the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
26:12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase
in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to
the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they
may eat within your gates, and be filled.
26:13You
shall say before the LORD your G-d, I have put away the holy things out of
my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to
the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your
mitzvah which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your
mitzvot, neither have I forgotten them:
26:14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of
it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the
voice of the LORD my G-d; I have done according to all that you have
commanded me.
26:15Look down from your holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless your people Yisra'el, and the ground which you have
given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
26:16This day the LORD your G-d commands you to do these statutes and
ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and
with all your soul.
26:17You have declared the LORD this
day to be your G-d, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his
statutes, and his mitzvot, and his ordinances, and listen
to his voice:
26:18and the LORD has declared you this day
to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you
should keep all his mitzvot;
26:19and
to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name,
and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your G-d, as he
has spoken.
27:1Moshe and the elders of Yisra'el commanded the people, saying, Keep
all the mitzvah which I command you this day.
27:2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Yarden to the
land which the LORD your G-d gives you, that you shall set yourself up great
stones, and plaster them with plaster:
27:3and
you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over;
that you may go in to the land which the LORD your G-d gives you, a land
flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the G-d of your fathers, has
promised you.
27:4It shall be, when you are passed over
the Yarden, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this
day, in Mount `Eval, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
27:5There shall you build an altar to the LORD your G-d, an altar of
stones: you shall lift up no iron tool on them.
27:6You shall build the altar of the LORD your G-d of uncut stones; and
you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your G-d:
27:7and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and
you shall rejoice before the LORD your G-d.
27:8You
shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
27:9Moshe and the kohanim the Levites spoke to all
Yisra'el, saying, Keep silence, and listen, Yisra'el: this day you are
become the people of the LORD your G-d.
27:10You
shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your G-d, and do his
mitzvot and his statutes, which I command you this day.
27:11Moshe charged the people the same day, saying,
27:12These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you
are passed over the Yarden: Shim`on, and Levi, and Yehudah, and Yissakhar,
and Yosef, and Binyamin. 27:13These shall stand
on Mount `Eval for the curse: Re'uven, Gad, and Asher, and Zevulun, Dan, and
Naftali. 27:14The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Yisra'el with a
loud voice,
27:15Cursed be the man who makes an engraved
or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the
craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say,
Amein. 27:16Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the
people shall say, Amein. 27:17Cursed be he who
removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amein.
27:18Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the
people shall say, Amein. 27:19Cursed be he who
wrests the justice due to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All
the people shall say, Amein. 27:20Cursed be he who
lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.
All the people shall say, Amein. 27:21Cursed be he who
lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amein.
27:22Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father,
or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.
27:23Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall
say, Amein.
27:24Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor
in secret. All the people shall say, Amein.
27:25Cursed
be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall
say, Amein.
27:26Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the
words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amein.
28:1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the
LORD your G-d, to observe to do all his mitzvot which I
command you this day, who the LORD your G-d will set you on high above all
the nations of the earth: 28:2and all these
blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the
voice of the LORD your G-d. 28:3Blessed shall you
be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your
ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the
young of your flock.
28:5Blessed shall be your basket and
your kneading-trough. 28:6Blessed shall you
be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
28:7The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be
struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee
before you seven ways. 28:8The LORD will
command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand
to; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your G-d gives you.
28:9The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has
sworn to you; if you shall keep the mitzvot of the LORD
your G-d, and walk in his ways. 28:10All the peoples of
the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they
shall be afraid of you. 28:11The LORD will make
you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your
cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to
your fathers to give you. 28:12The LORD will open
to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its
season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many
nations, and you shall not borrow. 28:13The LORD will make
you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall
not be beneath; if you shall listen to the mitzvot of the
LORD your G-d, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them,
28:14and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you
this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve
them. 28:15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of
the LORD your G-d, to observe to do all his mitzvot and
his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come
on you, and overtake you. 28:16Cursed shall you
be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
28:17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your
ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
28:19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when
you go out.
28:20The LORD will send on you cursing,
confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are
destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings,
by which you have forsaken me. 28:21The LORD will make
the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land,
where you go in to possess it. 28:22The LORD will
strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with
fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they
shall pursue you until you perish. 28:23Your sky that is
over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be
iron. 28:24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the
sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
28:25The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall
go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you
shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
28:26Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the
animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
28:27The LORD will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the
tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be
healed. 28:28The LORD will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with
astonishment of heart; 28:29and you shall
grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper
in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there
shall be none to save you. 28:30You shall betroth
a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you
shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the
fruit of it.
28:31Your ox shall be slain before your
eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away
from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be
given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
28:32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and
your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there
shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
28:33The
fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't
know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;
28:34so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall
see. 28:35The LORD will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the
crown of your head.
28:36The LORD will bring you, and your
king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you
nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.
28:37You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away.
28:38You
shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for
the arbeh shall consume it.
28:39You
shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the
wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
28:40You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you
shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its
fruit.
28:41You shall father sons and daughters,
but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
28:42All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the
arbeh possess. 28:43The foreigner who
is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you
shall come down lower and lower. 28:44He shall lend to
you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be
the tail. 28:45All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and
overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the
voice of the LORD your G-d, to keep his mitzvot and his
statutes which he commanded you: 28:46and they shall be
on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
28:47Because you didn't serve the LORD your G-d with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
28:48therefore shall you serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all
things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have
destroyed you.
28:49The LORD will bring a nation against
you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose
language you shall not understand; 28:50a nation of fierce
facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show
favor to the young,
28:51and shall eat the fruit of your
cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also
shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or
the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
28:52They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and
fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land;
and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which
the LORD your G-d has given you. 28:53You shall eat the
fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom
the LORD your G-d has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which
your enemies shall distress you. 28:54The man who is
tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his
brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his
children whom he has remaining; 28:55so that he will
not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat,
because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which
your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
28:56The
tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole
of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be
evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
daughter, 28:57and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and
toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of
all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy
shall distress you in your gates. 28:58If you will not
observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that
you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD YOUR G-d;
28:59then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of
your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses,
and of long continuance. 28:60He will bring on
you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they
shall cleave to you. 28:61Also every
sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law,
them will the LORD bring on you, until you are destroyed.
28:62You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of
the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD
your G-d. 28:63It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good,
and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to
perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where
you go in to possess it. 28:64The LORD will
scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the
other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have
not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
28:65Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no
rest for the sole of your foot: but the LORD will give you there a trembling
heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
28:66and
your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day,
and shall have no assurance of your life.
28:67In
the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say,
Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and
for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
28:68The
LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said
to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves
to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy
you.
29:1These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moshe
to make with the children of Yisra'el in the land of Mo'av, besides the
covenant which he made with them in Chorev.
29:2Moshe
called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD
did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Par`oh, and to all his
servants, and to all his land; 29:3the great trials
which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
29:4but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see,
and ears to hear, to this day. 29:5I have led you
forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and
your shoe has not grown old on your foot.
29:6You
have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you
may know that I am the LORD your G-d.
29:7When
you came to this place, Sichon the king of Cheshbon, and `Og the king of
Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:
29:8and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the
Re'uveni, and to the Gadi, and to the half-tribe of the Manashshi.
29:9Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you
may prosper in all that you do. 29:10You stand this day
all of you before the LORD your G-d; your heads, your tribes, your elders,
and your officers, even all the men of Yisra'el,
29:11your
little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your
camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
29:12that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your G-d, and into
his oath, which the LORD your G-d makes with you this day;
29:13that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and
that he may be to you a G-d, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your
fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov.
29:14Neither
with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
29:15but with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our
G-d, and also with him who is not here with us this day
29:16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came
through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
29:17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
29:18lest
there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart
turns away this day from the LORD our G-d, to go to serve the gods of those
nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the
stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
29:20The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written
in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from
under the sky.
29:21The LORD will set him apart to evil out
of all the tribes of Yisra'el, according to all the curses of the covenant
that is written in this book of the law.
29:22The
generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the
foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the
plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it
sick; 29:23and that the whole land of it is sulfur,
and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor
any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah, Admah and
Tzevoyim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
29:24even all the nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this
land? what means the heat of this great anger?
29:25Then
men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the G-d of
their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt,
29:26and went and served other gods, and
worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to
them: 29:27therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to
bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
29:28and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our G-d; but the things that
are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all
the words of this law.
30:1It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them
to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your G-d has driven you,
30:2and shall return to the LORD your G-d, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with
all your heart, and with all your soul;
30:3that
then the LORD your G-d will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you,
and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the LORD your G-d
has scattered you.
30:4If any of your outcasts are
in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will the LORD your G-d
gather you, and from there will he bring you back:
30:5and
the LORD your G-d will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed,
and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above
your fathers.
30:6The LORD your G-d will circumcise your
heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your G-d with all your
heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
30:7The
LORD your G-d will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who
hate you, who persecuted you. 30:8You shall return
and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his mitzvot
which I command you this day. 30:9The LORD your G-d
will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your
body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for
good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over
your fathers;
30:10if you shall obey the voice of the LORD
your G-d, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which are
written in this book of the law; if you turn to the LORD your G-d with all
your heart, and with all your soul. 30:11For this
mitzvah which I command you this day, it is not too hard
for you, neither is it far off. 30:12It is not in
heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it
to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
30:13Neither
is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us,
and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart,
that you may do it.
30:15Behold, I have set before you this
day life and good, and death and evil;
30:16in
that I command you this day to love the LORD your G-d, to walk in his ways,
and to keep his mitzvot and his statutes and his
ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your G-d may
bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
30:17But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be
drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
30:18I
denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not
prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Yarden to go in to
possess it.
30:19I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the
blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and
your seed;
30:20to love the LORD your G-d, to obey his
voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your
days; that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, to give them.
31:1Moshe went and spoke these words to all Yisra'el.
31:2He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can
no more go out and come in: and the LORD has said to me, You shall not go
over this Yarden.
31:3The LORD your G-d, he will go over
before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall
dispossess them: and Yehoshua, he shall go over before you, as the
LORD has spoken.
31:4The LORD will do to them as he did
to Sichon and to `Og, the kings of the Amori, and to their land; whom he
destroyed. 31:5The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them
according to all the mitzvah which I have commanded you.
31:6Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of
them: for the LORD your G-d, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail
you, nor forsake you. 31:7Moshe called to
Yehoshua, and said to him in the sight of all Yisra'el, Be strong and of
good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD
has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit
it. 31:8The LORD, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he
will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be
dismayed. 31:9Moshe wrote this law, and delivered it to the
kohanim the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
and to all the elders of Yisra'el. 31:10Moshe commanded
them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the
year of release, in the feast of booths,
31:11when
all Yisra'el is come to appear before the LORD your G-d in the place which
he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Yisra'el in their
hearing. 31:12Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and
your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they
may learn, and fear the LORD your G-d, and observe to do all the words of
this law; 31:13and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to
fear the LORD your G-d, as long as you live in the land where you go over
the Yarden to possess it. 31:14The LORD said to
Moshe, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Yehoshua, and
present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge.
Moshe and Yehoshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
31:15The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar
of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
31:16The
LORD said to Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this
people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the
land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my
covenant which I have made with them.
31:17Then
my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them,
and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many
evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day,
Haven't these evils come on us because our G-d is not among us?
31:18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they
shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
31:19Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the
children of Yisra'el: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a
witness for me against the children of Yisra'el.
31:20For
when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers,
flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve
them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
31:21It
shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song
shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of
the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this
day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
31:22So Moshe wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children
of Yisra'el.
31:23He gave Yehoshua the son of Nun a
charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the
children of Yisra'el into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with
you. 31:24It happened, when Moshe had made an end of writing the words of
this law in a book, until they were finished,
31:25that
Moshe commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
saying, 31:26Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your G-d, that it may be there for a witness against
you. 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am
yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and
how much more after my death? 31:28Assemble to me all
the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words
in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
31:29For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen
to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
31:30Moshe spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Yisra'el the words
of this song, until they were finished.
32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak;
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
My speech shall condense as the dew,
As the small rain on the tender grass,
As the showers on the herb.
32:3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD:
Ascribe greatness to our G-d.
32:4The Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A G-d of faithfulness and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.
32:5They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his
children, it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6Do you thus requite the LORD,
Foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you?
He has made you, and established you.
32:7Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations:
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you.
32:8When Ha`Elyon gave to the nations their
inheritance,
When he separated the children of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Yisra'el.
32:9For the LORD's portion is his people;
Ya`akov is the lot of his inheritance.
32:10He found him in a desert land,
In the waste howling wilderness;
He compassed him about, he cared for him,
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:11As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
That flutters over her young,
He spread abroad his wings, he took them,
He bore them on his feathers.
32:12The LORD alone did lead him,
There was no foreign G-d with him.
32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
He ate the increase of the field;
He made him to suck honey out of the rock,
Oil out of the flinty rock;
32:14Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat;
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
32:15But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked:
You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become
sleek;
Then he forsook G-d who made him,
Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods;
With abominations provoked they him to anger.
32:17They sacrificed to demons, which were no G-d,
To gods that they didn't know,
To new gods that came up of late,
Which your fathers didn't dread.
32:18Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful,
Have forgotten G-d who gave you birth.
32:19The LORD saw it, and abhorred them,
Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
32:20He said, I will hide my face from them,
I will see what their end shall be:
For they are a very perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not G-d;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a
people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger,
Burns to the lowest She'ol,
Devours the earth with its increase,
Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23I will heap evils on them;
I will spend my arrows on them:
32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and
devoured with burning heat
Bitter destruction;
The teeth of animals will I send on them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
32:25Outside shall the sword bereave,
In the chambers terror;
It shall destroy both young man and virgin,
The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
32:26I said, I would scatter them afar,
I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
32:27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,
The LORD has not done all this.
32:28For they are a nation void of counsel,
There is no understanding in them.
32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end!
32:30How should one chase a thousand,
Two put ten thousand to flight,
Except their Rock had sold them,
The LORD had delivered them up?
32:31For their rock is not as our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves being judges.
32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sedom,
Of the fields of `Amorah:
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter:
32:33Their wine is the poison of serpents,
The cruel venom of asps.
32:34Isn't this laid up in store with me,
Sealed up among my treasures?
32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
At the time when their foot shall slide:
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
32:36For the LORD will judge his people,
Repent himself for his servants;
When he sees that their power is gone,
There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
32:37He will say, Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge;
32:38Which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink-offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection.
32:39See now that I, even I, am he,
There is no G-d with me:
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
32:40For I lift up my hand to heaven,
And say, As I live forever,
32:41If I whet my glittering sword,
My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
Will recompense those who hate me.
32:42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
My sword shall devour flesh;
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
32:43Rejoice, you nations, with his people:
For he will avenge the blood of his servants,
Will render vengeance to his adversaries,
Will make expiation for his land, for his people.
32:44Moshe came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the
people, he and Yehoshua the son of Nun.
32:45Moshe
made an end of speaking all these words to all Yisra'el;
32:46He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to
you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do,
even all the words of this law. 32:47For it is no vain
thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall
prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Yarden to possess it.
32:48The LORD spoke to Moshe that same day, saying,
32:49Go up into this mountain of `Avarimen, to Mount Nevo, which is in
the land of Mo'av, that is over against Yericho; and see the land of Kana`an,
which I give to the children of Yisra'el for a possession;
32:50and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your
people, as Aharon your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his
people: 32:51because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of
Yisra'el at the waters of Merivah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Tzin;
because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Yisra'el.
32:52For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there
into the land which I give the children of Yisra'el.
33:1This is the blessing, with which Moshe the man of G-d blessed the
children of Yisra'el before his death.
33:2He
said,
The LORD came from Sinai,
Rose from Se`ir to them;
He shined forth from Mount Paran,
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones:
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
33:3Yes, he loves the people;
All his holy ones are in your hand:
They sat down at your feet;
Everyone shall receive of your words.
33:4Moshe commanded us a law,
An inheritance for the assembly of Ya`akov.
33:5He was king in Yeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Yisra'el together.
33:6Let Re'uven live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.
33:7This is the blessing of Yehudah: and he said,
Hear, LORD, the voice of Yehudah,
Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself;
You shall be a help against his adversaries.
33:8Of Levi he said,
Your Tummim and your Urim are with your G-dly one,
Whom you did prove at Massah,
With whom you did strive at the waters of Merivah;
33:9Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him;
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor knew he his own children:
For they have observed your word,
Keep your covenant.
33:10They shall teach Ya`akov your ordinances,
Yisra'el your law:
They shall put incense before you,
Whole burnt offering on your altar.
33:11Bless, LORD, his substance,
Accept the work of his hands:
Smite through the loins of those who rise up against him,
Of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
33:12Of Binyamin he said,
The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him;
He covers him all the day long,
He dwells between his shoulders.
33:13Of Yosef he said,
Blessed of the LORD be his land,
For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
For the deep that couches beneath,
33:14For the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
For the precious things of the growth of the moons,
33:15For the chief things of the ancient mountains,
For the precious things of the everlasting hills,
33:16For the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it,
The good will of him who lived in the bush.
Let the blessing come on the head of Yosef,
On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his
brothers.
33:17The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his;
His horns are the horns of the wild-ox:
With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even
the ends of the earth:
They are the ten thousands of Efrayim,
They are the thousands of Menashsheh.
33:18Of Zevulun he said,
Rejoice, Zevulun, in your going out;
Yissakhar, in your tents.
33:19They shall call the peoples to the mountain;
There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness:
For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,
The hidden treasures of the sand.
33:20Of Gad he said,
Blessed be he who enlarges Gad:
He dwells as a lioness,
Tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
33:21He provided the first part for himself,
For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved;
He came with the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of the LORD,
His ordinances with Yisra'el.
33:22Of Dan he said,
Dan is a lion's cub,
That leaps forth from Bashan.
33:23Of Naftali he said,
Naftali, satisfied with favor,
Full with the blessing of the LORD,
Possess you the west and the south.
33:24Of Asher he said,
Blessed be Asher with children;
Let him be acceptable to his brothers,
Let him dip his foot in oil.
33:25Your bars shall be iron and brass;
As your days, so shall your strength be.
33:26There is none like G-d, Yeshurun,
Who rides on the heavens for your help,
In his excellency on the skies.
33:27The eternal G-d is your dwelling-place,
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
Said, Destroy.
33:28Yisra'el dwells in safety,
The fountain of Ya`akov alone,
In a land of grain and new wine;
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
33:29Happy are you, Yisra'el:
Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD,
The shield of your help,
The sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you;
You shall tread on their high places.
34:1Moshe went up from the plains of Mo'av to Mount Nevo, to the top of
Pisgah, that is over against Yericho. The LORD shown him all the land of
Gil`ad, to Dan,
34:2and all Naftali, and the land of Efrayim
and Menashsheh, and all the land of Yehudah, to the hinder sea,
34:3and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Yericho the city of
palm trees, to Tzo`ar. 34:4The LORD said to
him, This is the land which I swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov,
saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your
eyes, but you shall not go over there.
34:5So
Moshe the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Mo'av, according to
the word of the LORD. 34:6He buried him in
the valley in the land of Mo'av over against Beit-Pe`or: but no man knows of
his tomb to this day. 34:7Moshe was one
hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural
force abated.
34:8The children of Yisra'el wept for Moshe
in the plains of Mo'av thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning
for Moshe were ended. 34:9Yehoshua the son of
Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moshe had laid his hands on him:
and the children of Yisra'el listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded
Moshe. 34:10There has not arisen a prophet since in Yisra'el like Moshe, whom
the LORD knew face to face, 34:11in all the signs
and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to
Par`oh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
34:12and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which
Moshe worked in the sight of all Yisra'el.
Notes:
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back to 1:3 commandment
[2]
back to 1:26 commandment
[3]
back to 1:43 commandment
[4]
back to 4:2 commandments
[5]
back to 4:13 commandments
[6]
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[7]
back to 5:10 commandments
[8]
back to 5:29 commandments
[9]
back to 5:31 commandment
[10]
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[11]
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[12]
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[13]
back to 6:25 commandment
[14]
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[15]
back to 7:11 commandment
[16]
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[17]
back to 8:2 commandments
[18]
back to 8:6 commandments
[19]
back to 8:11 commandments
[20]
back to 9:23 commandment
[21]
back to 10:1 ark
[22]
back to 10:2 ark
[23]
back to 10:4 commandments
[24]
back to 10:6 priest
[25]
back to 10:13 commandments
[26]
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[27]
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[28]
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[29]
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[30]
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[31]
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[32]
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[33]
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[34]
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[35]
back to 14:12 osprey
[36]
back to 14:13 falcon
[37]
back to 14:13 kite
[38]
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[39]
back to 14:15 ostrich
[40]
back to 14:15 night-hawk
[41]
back to 14:15 hawk
[42]
back to 14:16 little owl
[43]
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[44]
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[45]
back to 14:17 pelican
[46]
back to 14:17 vulture
[47]
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[48]
back to 14:18 stork
[49]
back to 14:18 heron
[50]
back to 14:18 hoopoe
[51]
back to 14:18 bat
[52]
back to 15:5 commandment
[53]
back to 16:3 unleavened bread
[54]
back to 16:8 unleavened bread
[55]
back to 16:16 unleavened bread
[56]
back to 17:9 priests
[57]
back to 17:12 priest
[58]
back to 17:18 priests
[59]
back to 17:20 commandment
[60]
back to 18:1 priests
[61]
back to 18:3 priests
[62]
back to 18:3 priest
[63]
back to 19:9 commandment
[64]
back to 19:17 priests
[65]
back to 20:2 priest
[66]
back to 21:5 priests
[67]
back to 22:12 fringes
[68]
back to 24:8 priests
[69]
back to 26:3 priest
[70]
back to 26:4 priest
[71]
back to 26:13 commandment
[72]
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[73]
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[74]
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[75]
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[76]
back to 27:9 priests
[77]
back to 27:10 commandments
[78]
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[79]
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[80]
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[81]
back to 28:15 commandments
[82]
back to 28:38 locust
[83]
back to 28:42 locust
[84]
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[85]
back to 30:8 commandments
[86]
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[87]
back to 30:11 commandment
[88]
back to 30:16 commandments
[89]
back to 31:5 commandment
[90]
back to 31:9 priests
[91]
back to 32:8 the Most High
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