Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy

DEVARIM

Chapter 01

Verse 1: These are the words that Moshe addressed to all of Yisroel across the Yardein; [as he had] in the wilderness--- on the Arava plain facing Suf; [and as he had] between Poron and Tofel and Lovon and Chatzeiros and Di Zohov.

Verse 2: Eleven days [traveling time] from Choreiv by the Mount Seir road, to Kodeish Barneia.

Verse 3: [Beginning] in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moshe addressed Bnei Yisroel with every detail that Ad-noy had commanded him [to say] to them.

Verse 4: After he had smitten Sichon, King of the Emorites, who was living in Cheshbon; and Og, King of the Boshon, who was living in Ashtoros, in Edrei.

Verse 5: Across the Yardein in the land of Moav, Moshe began to elucidate this Torah as follows:

Verse 6: Ad-noy, our G-d, addressed us at Choreiv, saying, "Enough of your living at this mountain!

Verse 7: Turn and travel for yourselves and arrive at the Emorite hill [region] and at all its neighbors---on the plain, on the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the Negev, and on the seacoast; the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, up to the great river, the Euphrates River.

Verse 8: See, I have set the land before you; come and inherit the land that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers, to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov, to give them and their descendants after them."

Verse 9: I said to you at that time saying, "I cannot carry you by myself.

Verse 10: Ad-noy, your G-d, has multiplied you, and you are today as numerous the stars in the sky.

Verse 11: Ad-noy, G-d of your forefathers, will add to you one thousandfold, and will bless you as He spoke about you.

Sheini (Second Aliyah)

Verse 12: How can I carry alone your troublesomeness, your burdensomeness, and your contentiousness?

Verse 13: Provide yourselves men, wise and understanding and renowned to your tribes, and I will designate them your leaders."

Verse 14: You replied to me and said, "[It is a] good thing that you said to do."

Verse 15: I took the leaders of your tribes, men wise and renowned, and designated them leaders over you: masters of thousands and masters of hundreds, and masters of fifties and masters of tens, and court officers for your tribes.

Verse 16: I commanded your judges at that time, to say, "Listen between your brothers and you are to judge right between a man and his brother. and between his complainant

Verse 17: Do not show favor in judgement; small and great alike will you hear out; do not fear any man; for justice belongs to G-d. And the matter that will be too difficult for you, present to me and I will hear it."

Verse 18: I commanded you at that time all the things that you are to do.

Verse 19: We traveled from Choreiv and walked the entire great wilderness, that awesome one that you saw, in the direction of the Emorite hill [region] as Ad-noy, our G-d, commanded us; and we arrived at Kodeish Barneia.

Verse 20: I said to you, "You have arrived at the Emorite hill [region] that Ad-noy, our G-d, is giving us.

Verse 21: See! Ad-noy, our G-d, has set the land before you. Go up, inherit [it] as promised by Ad-noy, the G-d of your forefathers, about you; do not fear and do not tremble."

Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)

Verse 22: You approached me, all of you, and said, "Let us send men ahead of us to spy out the land for us, and let them bring back word to us: the route we are to go up on and the cities we will be coming to."

Verse 23: The idea pleased me, so I took from you twelve men, one man per tribe.

Verse 24: They turned and went uphill and arrived at Wadi Eshkol, and they spied it out.

Verse 25: They took in their hand some fruit of the land and brought [it] down to us. They brought back word to us and said, "Good is the land that Ad-noy, our G-d, is giving us."

Verse 26: But you were unwilling to go up, and you defied Ad-noy, your G-d.

Verse 27: You grumbled in your tents and said, "Because of Ad-noy's hatred of us, He took us out of the land of Egypt to put us in the hand of the Emorite to destroy us.

Verse 28: Where are we going up to? Our brothers have shattered our hopes by saying, 'A people greater and more powerful than we, cities great and fortified sky-high, and also descendants of the Anakim--- did we see there.'  "

Verse 29: I said to you, "Do not crumble and do not fear them.

Verse 30: Ad-noy, your G-d, who goes before you, He will wage war for you, as in everything that He did with you in Egypt before your eyes;

Verse 31: and in the wilderness, as you have seen, (where) Ad-noy, your G-d, carried you the way a man carries his son all along the road you went until you arrived at this place.

Verse 32: Yet in this matter, you do not trust Ad-noy, your G-d,

Verse 33: Who has been going ahead of you on the road to seek for you a place to encamp; with the fire at night to show you the way for you to go on, and with the cloud by day.

Verse 34: Ad-noy heard the intent of your words and angrily swore, to say:

Verse 35: "That [no] man will see---of these men, this wicked generation--- the good land that I swore to give to your forefathers.

Verse 36: Except for Koleiv ben Yefuneh, who will see it, and to whom I will give the land that he trod upon and to his sons, because he perfected himself in fear of Ad-noy."

Verse 37: Also at me was Ad-noy angry because of you, to say, "You, too, will not arrive there.

Verse 38: Yehoshua son of Nun, who attends you, he will arrive there. Encourage him, for he will apportion it to Yisroel.

Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)

Verse 39: As to your infants, about whom you said, 'They will become spoils,' and your children who cannot distinguish today good from evil, they will arrive there; and to them will I give it and they will inherit it.

Verse 40: As for you, turn yourselves [around], and travel into the wilderness by the Yam Suf road."

Verse 41: You replied and said to me, "We have sinned to Ad-noy. We will go up and wage war in [fulfillment of] all that Ad-noy, our G-d commanded us." And each of you girded his weapons, and you got ready to go up the mountain.

Verse 42: Ad-noy said to me, "Say to them, 'Do not go up and do not wage war, for I am not in your midst; so that you will not be shattered by your enemies.'  "

Verse 43: I told you, but you did not obey. You defied Ad-noy, and deliberately went up the hill.

Verse 44: The Emorites came out--- those who live in those hills---toward you, and chased you as the bees do; and they crushed you in Se'ir till Chorma.

Verse 45: You returned and wept before Ad-noy, but Ad-noy did not accept your prayer; He paid no attention to you.

Verse 46: You lived in Kodeish many years, like the years you lived [elsewhere].

Chapter 02

Verse 1: We turned and traveled into the wilderness by way of the Reed Sea [route] as Ad-noy had told me, and we circled Mount Seir a long time.

Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)

Verse 2: Ad-noy said to me to say,

Verse 3: "Enough of you circling this mountain! Turn yourselves northward.

Verse 4: And command the people as follows, "You are crossing into the border of your brothers, the descendants of Eisov who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be extrememly cautious.

Verse 5: Do not incite them. For I will not give you of their land as much as a footstep, because for Eisov's inheritance have I designated Mount Seir.

Verse 6: Food are you to buy from them with money and eat [it]; also water are you to purchase from them with money and drink [it.]

Verse 7: For Ad-noy, your G-d, has blessed you in all your handiwork; He has been intimately concerned with your traversing this great wilderness. It is now forty years [that] Ad-noy, your G-d, is accompanying you; you have lacked nothing."

Verse 8: We passed over from our brothers, the descendants of Eisov, who live in Seir, from the Arava road, from Eilas and from Etzyon-Gover. We turned and passed over by way of the wilderness of Moav.

Verse 9: Ad-noy said to me, "Do not besiege Moav and do not intimidate them with war. For I will not give you [any] of his land as inheritance, for to Lot's descendants have I given Or as inheritance.

Verse 10: The Eimim originally lived there--- a people great and numerous and powerful like the Anokim.

Verse 11: They, too, were considered Refaim like the Anokim; the Moabites called them Eimim.

Verse 12: And in Seir lived the Chorim originally, but the descendants of Eisov inherited them and drove them out [to make room] for themselves and settled in their stead, as Yisroel will have done to the land of its inheritance that Ad-noy has given them.

Verse 13: Now, arise and cross for yourselves Wadi Zered." And we crossed Wadi Zered.

Verse 14: The time that [it took] us to go from Kodeish Barneia until we crossed Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until the end of the entire generation, the men of war, from within the camp, as Ad-noy had sworn about them.

Verse 15: Ad-noy's plague, too, attacked them to rout them from within the camp, until their end.

Verse 16: When they had finished--- all the men of war--- to die out from among the people;

Verse 17: Ad-noy addressed me, to say,

Verse 18: "You are today crossing the border of Moav---at 'Or.

Verse 19: When you approach [the area] facing the descendants of Ammon, do not besiege them and do not intimidate them, for I will not give you of the land of the descendants of Ammon an inheritance, because to the descendants of Lot have I given it as an inheritance.

Verse 20: It, too, is considered a land of giants; giants having lived in it originally--- the Ammonites called them Zamzumim.

Verse 21: A people great and numerous and powerful like the Anokim. Ad-noy destroyed them from before them, and they drove them out and settled in their stead.

Verse 22: As He had done to the descendants of Eisov living in Seir, from before whom He destroyed the Chori, and they drove them out and settled in their stead until today.

Verse 23: And the Avim who had been living in Chatzeirim till Azah--- Caftorim who had left Caftor destroyed them and settled in their stead.

Verse 24: Arise to travel, and cross Wadi Arnon. See, I have put into your hand Sichon, King of Cheshbon, the Emorite and his land---begin inheriting [it] by intimidating him with war.

Verse 25: Today I begin to place fear of you and awe of you upon the peoples under the whole heaven, so that they will hear your reputation and will shiver and tremble before you."

Verse 26: I sent emissaries from the wilderness of Kedeimos to Sichon, King of Cheshbon, with the following peaceful statement:

Verse 27: "Let me pass through your land. I will travel only on the highway, I will not deviate right or left.

Verse 28: Food for money sell me so I can eat, and water for money sell me so I can drink--- just let me cross on foot.

Verse 29: As the descendants of Eisov did for me who live in Seir and the Moavites who live in Or; until I will have crossed the Yardein into the land that Ad-noy, our G-d, is giving us."

Verse 30: But Sichon, King of Cheshbon, was not willing to let us traverse it, because Ad-noy, your G-d, had hardened his spirit and emboldened his mind in order to put him in your hand this day.

Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)

Verse 31: Ad-noy said to me, "See, I have begun defeating before you Sichon and his land. Begin inheriting--- to inherit his land."

Verse 32: And Sichon went out toward us, he and his entire people, to wage war in Yahatz.

Verse 33: Ad-noy, our G-d, defeated him before us, and we smote him and his sons and his entire people.

Verse 34: We conquered all his cities at that time and annihilated every city's men, woman, and children; we left no survivor.

Verse 35: Only the animals we plundered for ourselves, and the booty of the cities that we conquered.

Verse 36: From Aroer, which is on the bank of Wadi Arnon--- and the city that is in the wadi---up to Gilad, there was no city that was stronger than we. All of it did Ad-noy, our G-d, defeat before us.

Verse 37: Only the land of the descendants of Ammon did you not attack--- all along Wadi Yabok and the hill cities--- everything Ad-noy, our G-d, commanded.

Chapter 03

Verse 1: We turned and went up the Boshon road. Og, King of the Boshon, went out toward us, he and his entire people, to [wage] war in Edrei.

Verse 2: Ad-noy said to me, "Do not fear him, for I have put him in your hand, with all his people and his land, and you will do to him as you did to Sichon, King of the Emorites who was living in Cheshbon."

Verse 3: Ad-noy, our G-d, put into our hand also Og, King of the Boshon, and his entire people; and we smote him without leaving him a survivor.

Verse 4: We conquered all his cities at that time; there was no city that we did not take from them--- sixty cities, the entire province of Argov, the kingdom of Og in the Boshon.

Verse 5: All of these were fortified cities with high walls, gates and bolts; besides very many unwalled cities.

Verse 6: We annihilated them as we had done to Sichon, King of Cheshbon, annihilating every city's men, women, and children.

Verse 7: And all the animals and the booty of the cities we plundered for ourselves.

Verse 8: At that time we took the land from the possession of the two Emorite kings who were on the other side of the Yardein, from Wadi Arnon to Mount Chermon.

Verse 9: The Tzidonites call Chermon Siryon, and the Emorites call it Sneer.

Verse 10: All the cities of the plain and entire Gilod and the entire Boshon to Salcho and Edre'i; cities of Og's kingdom in the Boshon.

Verse 11: For only Og, King of the Boshon, survived from the remainder of the giants. Look, his bed---an iron bed--- isn't it in Rabbas of the descendants of Ammon: nine amohs its length and four amohs its width, in a man's amoh.

Verse 12: And this land we inherited at that time. From Aro'er which is on Wadi Arnon and half of the Gilod hills and its cities--- I gave to the Reuvenites and the Gaddites.

Verse 13: And the rest of the Gilod and all of the Boshon, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Menashe. The entire Argov province throughout the Boshon, that is called the land of the giants.

Verse 14: Yair son of Menashe took all of the Argov province until the border of the Geshurites and the Ma'achasites; and he named them for himself--- the Boshon---the cities of Chavos Yair until this day.

Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)

Verse 15: And to Mochir I gave the Gilod.

Verse 16: And to the Reuvenites and to the Gaddites I gave from the Gilod to Wadi Arnon, within the wadi and the border, until Yabok, the wadi at the border of the descendants of Ammon;

Verse 17: and the Arava and the Yardein and the border; from Kinneres until Arava Lake, the salt lake, beneath the slopes of the crest to the east.

Verse 18: I commanded you at the time, saying, "Ad-noy, your G-d, has given you this land to inherit it. Cross over in the forefront, ahead of your brothers the Bnei Yisroel, all valorous soldiers.

Verse 19: But your wives and your children and your cattle--- I know you own much cattle--- will live in your cities, which I have given you.

Maftir

Verse 20: Until Ad-noy grants your brothers [peace] like you, and they too inherit the land that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving them across the Yardein. Then will you return each of you to his inheritance that I have given you.

Verse 21: And Yehoshua I commanded at that time, to say, "Your eyes will be seeing that everything Ad-noy, your G-d, did to these two kings, so will Ad-noy do to all the kingdoms that your are crossing into.

Verse 22: Do not fear them, for Ad-noy, your G-d, is the One Who is waging war for you."

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