פרשת כִּי־תָבוֹא

Sheni [2nd]: ^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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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.

Shlishi [3rd]: ^26:16This day Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai your G-d, as he has spoken.

R'vi'i [4th]: ^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 Adonai 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 Adonai your G-d gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Adonai, 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 Adonai your G-d, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron tool on them. ^27:6You shall build the altar of Adonai your G-d of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Adonai your G-d: ^27:7and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Adonai 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 Adonai your G-d. ^27:10You shall therefore obey the voice of Adonai your G-d, and do his mitzvot and his statutes, which I command you this day.

Chamishi [5th]: ^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. <sup>27:13</sup>These 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 Adonai, 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 Adonai your G-d, to observe to do all his mitzvot which I command you this day, who Adonai 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 Adonai 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.

Shishi [6th]: ^28:7Adonai 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.

^28:8Adonai 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 Adonai your G-d gives you.

^28:9Adonai will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the mitzvot of Adonai 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 Adonai; and they shall be afraid of you.

^28:11Adonai 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 Adonai swore to your fathers to give you. ^28:12Adonai 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. ^28:13Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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.

^28:20Adonai 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.

^28:21Adonai will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. ^28:22Adonai 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. ^28:24Adonai will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

^28:25Adonai 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.

^28:27Adonai 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. ^28:28Adonai 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. ^28:35Adonai 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. ^28:36Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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. ^28:49Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai 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, Adonai YOUR G-d; ^28:59then Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai your G-d.

^28:63It shall happen that as Adonai rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Adonai 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. ^28:64Adonai 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 Adonai 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. ^28:68Adonai 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 Adonai 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.

Shvi'i [7th]: ^29:2Moshe called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, You have seen all that Adonai 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 Adonai 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 Adonai your G-d.

Maftir [concluding]: ^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.