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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
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