Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy
RE'EY
Chapter 11
Verse 26: Look, I place
before you today,
a blessing and a curse.
Verse 27: The blessing---
that you heed
the commandments of Ad-noy, your G-d,
that I am commanding you today.
Verse 28: And the curse---
if you do not heed
the commandments of Ad-noy, your G-d,
and you veer from the course
which I command you this day,
to follow other gods
which you did not know.
Verse 29: When Ad-noy,
your G-d, has brought you
to the land
that you are coming to inherit,
you shall place the blessers on Mount Gerizim
and the cursers on Mount Eival.
Verse 30: Are they not across the Yardein and far beyond,
along the route of the
sunset?
In the land of the Canaanites
who dwell on the Arava Plain,
opposite Gilgol,
next to the Moreh Plain.
Verse 31: For you shall pass across the Yardein
to come to inherit the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you;
you will inherit it
and will dwell in it.
Verse 32: You will guard to fulfill
all the statutes and the laws
that I am setting before you today.
Chapter 12
Verse 1: These are the statutes
and the laws
that you will guard to fulfill in the land
that Ad-noy, G-d of your forefathers, has given
to inherit,
all the years that you are alive
on the land.
Verse 2: You must obliterate
all the places where the nations worshipped,
whom you are inheriting,
their gods,
on the high mountains, and on the hills,
and under every evergreen tree.
Verse 3: You are to break apart their altars,
and you are to smash their pillars,
and their asherahs
are you to burn in fire,
and the statues of their gods
are you to cut down;
and you are to obliterate their name
from that place.
Verse 4: Do not act this
way
to Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 5: Rather at the place
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
from all your tribes
to set His Presence there,
will you seek His
Presence
and come there.
Verse 6: You are to bring there
your burnt-offerings
and your sacred-offerings,
and your tithes and the elevation of your hands,
and your pledges, and your donations,
and the firstborn of your cattle
and your flocks.
Verse 7: You are to eat there
before Ad-noy, your G-d,
and you will be happy
with the sum of
your handiwork,
you and your households,
as Ad-noy, your G-d,
has blessed you.
Verse 8: You may not do
everything
we do here today,
each what is upright in his eyes.
Verse 9: For you will
not have come as yet
to the peace and to the territory
that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you.
Verse 10: When you cross the Yardein
and settle in the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is apportioning to you,
and He has
granted you peace
from all your enemies around,
and you will live secure.
Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 11: Let it be that the place
where Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
to place His presence therein---
it is there you shall bring
all that I am
commanding you:
your burnt-offerings and your holy-offerings,
your tithes and your hand-offerings,
and your choice promissory offerings
that you pledge to Ad-noy.
Verse 12: You are to rejoice
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d,
you and your sons and your daughters,
your male slaves and your female slaves,
and the Levite who is in your cities,
for he has no portion
or territory with you.
Verse 13: Take heed,
lest you offer up your burnt-offerings
anywhere you envision as proper.
Verse 14: Solely in
the place that Ad-noy chooses
within one of your tribes,
there are you to offer up
your burnt-offerings,
and there are you to do everything
that I am commanding you.
Verse 15: Except with the fullness of your appetite
you may slaughter and
eat meat
in accord with the blessing
of Ad-noy, your G-d,
that He has given you
in all your cities;
the ritually unclean and the clean will eat it
like the deer
and the gazelle.
Verse 16: However,
you may not eat the blood;
on the earth are you to spill it like water.
Verse 17: You are not permitted to eat in your cities
the tithe of your
grain
and your wine and your olive oil,
and the first-born
of your cattle and your flocks,
and all your
pledges that you pledge,
and your donations and
the terumah-separation of your hand.
Verse 18: Rather, before
Ad-noy, your G-d, are you to eat it,
in the place
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses---
you and your son and your daughter,
and your male slave and your female slave,
and the Levite in your cities;
and you will be happy
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d,
with the sum of your handiwork.
Verse 19: Watch yourself,
lest you forsake the Levite,
all your years on your land.
Verse 20: When Ad-noy,
your G-d, expands
your border
as He promised you,
and you say, "I would like to eat meat"
because you have an appetite to eat meat;
to the full extent of your appetite
eat meat.
Verse 21: When the place is distant from you
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
to set His presence there,
you may slaughter some of your cattle or your flocks
that Ad-noy
gave you,
as I have commanded you;
and you will eat in your cities
with all your appetite.
Verse 22: Only,
as the dear and the gazelle may be eaten,
so may you eat it;
the ritually unclean and the clean
together may eat it.
Verse 23: Only,
exercise strength in not eating the blood,
for the blood is the life;
and do not eat the spirit with the meat.
Verse 24: Do not eat
it;
onto the earth
are you to spill it like water.
Verse 25: Do not eat it,
so that
you may enjoy beneficience,
and your
children after you,
when you do the upright
in Ad-noy's eyes.
Verse 26: However, your sacred offerings
that you will have,
and your pledges,
you are to bring
when you come to the place
that Ad-noy chooses.
Verse 27: You are to execute
your burnt-offerings---the meat and the blood---
on the altar of
Ad-noy, your G-d;
and the blood of your peace-offerings
will be poured on the altar
of Ad-noy, your G-d,
then you will eat the meat.
Verse 28: Preserve and heed
all these words that I am commanding you,
in order that you have it good
and your children after you forever,
when you do that
which is good
and that which is upright
in the eyes of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 29: When Ad-noy, your G-d,
will have eliminated the nations
whom you are coming there to inherit,
from before you;
and you inherit them
and dwell in their land;
Verse 30: Look out for yourself,
lest you are torn apart along with them,
after they have been
annihilated before you,
and lest you inquire
about their gods, saying,
"How did these nations worship their gods,
let
me do so, too."
Verse 31: Do not do so
to Ad-noy, your G-d,
because whatever is abominated by G-d,
what He hates,
they have done for their gods;
for even their sons and their daughters
do they burn in fire to their gods.
Chapter 13
Verse 1: Everything
that I am commanding you---
be careful to fulfill it;
do not add to it
and do not subtract from it.
Verse 2: If a prophet arises among you
or a dreamer of a dream,
and he gives you
an omen or a miracle,
Verse 3: And the omen or
the miracle happens---
the one he told you about---saying,
"Let us go after other gods,
that you do not know,
and let us serve them."
Verse 4: Do not listen
to the words of that prophet
or to that dreamer of a dream,
because Ad-noy, your G-d, is testing you
to know
whether you love Ad-noy, your G-d,
wholeheartedly
and with your entire beings.
Verse 5: After Ad-noy, your G-d, are you to go,
fear Him,
keep His commandments,
heed His voice,
serve Him,
and cleave to Him.
Verse 6: And that prophet
or that dreamer of a dream
is to be executed,
for he has uttered a fabrication
about Ad-noy, your G-d---
Who took you out of the land of Egypt,
and Who redeemed you
from the house of bondage---
to mislead you from the way
that Ad-noy, your G-d, commanded you
to go upon,
and you will eliminate the evil
from within you.
Verse 7: If one shall incite you, your brother---
son of your mother---
or your son or your daughter,
or the wife of your bosom,
or your neighbor who is your soul mate,
clandestinely, saying,
"Let us go and serve other gods"
whom you never knew---
neither you nor your forefathers.
Verse 8: From the gods of
the nations
that surround you,
who are near you
or at a distance from you,
from the ends of the earth
to the ends of the earth,
Verse 9: Do not be favorbly inclined towards him,
and do not listen to him;
and do not view
him compassionately,
and do not take pity
and do not cover for him.
Verse 10: For you must surely execute him.
Let your hand strike him
first to execute him,
and the hand of
the entire people afterward.
Verse 11: And you are to stone him with stones
so that he dies,
for he sought
to mislead you from Ad-noy, your G-d,
Who took you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of slavery.
Verse 12: And all of Yisroel
will hear and will fear,
and they will not proceed to do
so evil a thing as this, within you.
Verse 13: If you hear in one of your cities
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you in which to settle, the following:
Verse 14: "Men have gone out---
unscrupulous---from among you,
and they have misled
the inhabitants of their city
by saying,
'Let us go and serve other gods'
that you do not know."
Verse 15: You must investigate, inquire,
and interrogate thoroughly;
and if in fact the report is true and accurate---
this abomination was committed among you.
Verse 16: You must surely strike down
the inhabitants
of that city
by the sword;
annihilate it and everything
that is in it,
and its livestock by the sword.
Verse 17: And all its booty
are you to collect within its plaza,
and you are to burn in fire
the city and all its booty---totally---
for Ad-noy, your G-d;
and it will be a ruin forever,
it is never to be rebuilt.
Verse 18: Let nothing of the cherem cling to your hand;
so that Ad-noy withdraws His raising fury
and grant you mercy,
and He will be merciful toward you
and multiply you
as He swore to your forefathers
Verse 19: When you heed
the voice of Ad-noy, your G-d,
to guard all His commandments
that I am commanding you today,
to
do the upright
in the eyes of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)
Chapter 14
Verse 1: You are sons to Ad-noy, your G-d;
do not lacerate yourselves
and do not make
yourselves bald between your eyes
for a dead person.
Verse 2: For you are a sacred people
to Ad-noy, your G-d,
and Ad-noy has chosen you
to be for Him a treasured people
from all the peoples
who are on the surface of the earth.
Verse 3: Do not eat any
abomination.
Verse 4: These are the animals
that you are to eat:
the bovine, the sheep and the goat;
Verse 5: The gazelle, the deer and the fallow deer;
and the ibex and the adax;
and the wild ox and the wild sheep.
Verse 6: And
every animal
whose sole is cloven,
whose hoof is truly split in two,
regurgitating [its] cud within the animals,
it may you eat.
Verse 7: These, however,
do not eat from the regurgitators of cud
and from the cloven-soled:
the dromedary, the camel,
and the hare and
the hyrax;
for regurgitators of cud are they,
but have no cloven sole;
they are ritually unclean for you.
Verse 8: Also the pig,
because it is cloven-soled
but does not [regurgitate its] cud;
it is ritually unclean for you.
From their flesh do not eat,
and do not come in contact with their carcasses.
Verse 9: These are you
to eat from
whatever is in the water:
whatever has fins and scales
may you eat.
Verse 10: And whatever does not have fins and scales
do not eat;
they are ritually unclean for you.
Verse 11: You may eat any pure bird.
Verse 12: And this is what you may not eat:
the griffon vulture and the bearded vulture,
and the black vulture;
Verse 13: The ra'ah and the ayah,
and the kite according to its kind;
Verse 14: And every
raven according to its kind;
Verse 15: And the dark desert eagle owl
and the kestrel, and the gull,
and the sparrow hawk
according to its kind;
Verse 16: The dark little owl
and the long-eared owl,
and the tinshames;
Verse 17: And the light little owl
and the Egyptian vulture,
and the shalach;
Verse 18: And the stork,
and the heron according to its kind,
and the duchifas, and the bat.
Verse 19: And all flying creeping creatures
are ritually
unclean for you;
they may not be eaten.
Verse 20: Every ritually clean bird
you may eat.
Verse 21: Do not eat any carcass;
to the alien
in your cities
give it and he will eat it
or sell it to a non-Jew,
for you are a people sanctified
to Ad-noy, your G-d;
do not cook a
kid in its mother's milk.
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 22: You must surely tithe
all the produce of your planting,
that your field yields
on a yearly basis.
Verse 23: You shall
eat in the presence of
Ad-noy, your G-d,
in the place He chooses
to house His presence there---
the tithe of your grain,
your wine, and your olive oil,
and the firstborn
of your cattle and flocks;
in order that you learn
to fear Ad-noy, your G-d,
all the years.
Verse 24: If the journey will be beyond you;
if you will be unable to carry it
because the place is distant for you
where Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
to set His presence there,
for Ad-noy,
your G-d, has blessed you---
Verse 25: you will substitute coins.
You will bundle the coins in your hand,
and will go to the place
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses.
Verse 26: You will spend the money
for anything you desire---
for cattle, sheep, wine,
intoxicating liquor---
and for anything that you wish;
and you will eat there
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d,
and will rejoice,
you and your household.
Verse 27: And the
Levite who is in your city,
you must not abandon;
since he has no portion
or inheritance with you.
Verse 28: At the end of three years,
separate all the tithes of your produce
of that year and set them aside
in your city.
Verse 29: The Levite shall come,
for he has no portion
or inheritance with you,
and the
proselyte
and the orphan and the widow
who are in your city,
let them eat their fill;;
in order that Ad-noy, your G-d, bless you
in all the endeavors
that you make.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Chapter 15
Verse 1: At the end of seven years,
you are to make
shemitah.
Verse 2: And this is the statement of shemitah:
suspend every creditor's hand
from his loan to his neighbor;
he will not claim [it] from his neighbor
or his brother
because it was proclaimed shemitah
to Ad-noy.
Verse 3: You should demand payment from the stranger,
but what you have with your brother
your hand will relinquish.
Verse 4: End it [poverty], so that there will be no one,
destitute among you
when Ad-noy will
surely bless you
in the land that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you as territory to inherit.
Verse 5: Only if you will listen
to the voice of Ad-noy, your G-d,
to guard to fulfill this entire mitzvah
that I am commanding you today.
Verse 6: When Ad-noy, your G-d, blesses you
just as He told you,
you will grant loans to nations
but you will not
borrow;
and you will rule over many nations,
but over you
they will not rule.
Verse 7: If there should be
someone destitute in your midst
among one of your brothers
in one of your cities,
in your land that
Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you;
do not harden your heart
and do not close your hand
against your destitute brother.
Verse 8: Rather, you must surely open
your hand generously to him,
and you must surely extend a loan to him
to cover the wants
which he lacks.
Verse 9: Look out for
yourself
lest there be an evil thought in your mind,
saying,
"The seventh year is approaching,
the shemitah year,"
and you will look askance
at your destitute brother
and will not give him;
and if he cries out concerning you
to Ad-noy,
you will be regarded as sinful.
Verse 10: You must surely give him,
and let your
heart not hurt
when you give him;
for, as a consequence of this thing,
Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you
in all your work
and in all your commerce.
Verse 11: For the destitute will not cease to exist
within the land;
therefore I am commanding you saying,
"Open your hand generously
to your brother, to your indigent,
and to your destitute in your land."
Verse 12: If your
brother-Jew or Jewess is sold to you
and he serves you six years;
then in the seventh year
you are to send him free from you.
Verse 13: When you send him free from you,
do not send him away empty-handed.
Verse 14: You must surely present him
with a severance bonus
from your
flocks,
and from your threshing area,
and your wine cellar,
whatever Ad-noy, your G-d,
has blessed you with
are you to give him.
Verse 15: Remember that you were a slave
in the land of Egypt
and Ad-noy,
your G-d, redeemed you;
that is why I am commanding you
this matter today.
Verse 16: Should he say to you,
"I am not leaving you;"
because he loves you and your household,
for he has it good with you.
Verse 17: Take the awl
and put it through his ear
and the door,
and he will become your
perpetual slave.
And do the same to your maid-servant as well.
Verse 18: Let it not
seem difficult to you
when you send him free from you,
for double the profit produced by the wage earner
has he worked for you six years;
and Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you
in everything you do.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Verse 19: Every firstborn
that is born in your cattle,
and in your flocks---a male---
you must consecrate to Ad-noy, your G-d;
you may not work
with your first-born ox,
or shear the first-born
of your flocks.
Verse 20: Before Ad-noy, your G-d,
you must eat it,
each year,
in the place
that Ad-noy chooses,
you and your household.
Verse 21: And if it has a blemish---
if it is crippled or blind---
or has any severe blemish,
do
not slaughter it
to Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 22: In your cities may you eat it;
the ritually unclean and the clean together,
like the deer and the gazelle.
Verse 23: Only, do not eat its blood;
spill it like water on the ground.
Chapter 16
Verse 1: Take heed of the month of spring,
when you will celebrate Pesach
for Ad-noy your G-d;
for in the month of spring
Ad-noy, your G-d, took you out
from Egypt at night.
Verse 2: You shall
slaughter the pesach-offering
to Ad-noy, your G-d,
flocks of ruminants and cattle
in the place that Ad-noy chooses
to house His Presence there.
Verse 3: Do not eat chometz on it;
seven days are you to eat on it matzos,
bread of anguish;
since in haste you
left
the land of Egypt,
so that you remember
the day of your exodus from the land of Egypt
all the days of your life.
Verse 4: And no sourdough of yours may be seen
in all of your boundary seven days;
and none of the flesh may remain overnight
which you slaughtered towards the evening
of the first day---until morning.
Verse 5: You are
forbidden
to slaughter the pesach
in any of your cities
that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you.
Verse 6: Solely in the place
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
to house His Presence,
there will you slaughter the pesach
towards the afternoon, at sunset,
at the time you left Egypt.
Verse 7: You shall cook [it] and eat [it]
in the place
that Ad-noy, your
G-d, chooses;
and you may depart in the morning
and go to your residence.
Verse 8: For six days you shall eat matzos,
and on the seventh
day,
is one of withdrawal
for the sake of Ad-noy, your G-d,
do not do work.
Verse 9: Seven weeks count for yourself;
from the time the sickle begins felling
the standing grain,
begin to count seven weeks.
Verse 10: You are to celebrate
the festival of Shovuos
for Ad-noy, your G-d,
to the fullness
of your open-handed gift
that you can
give,
as Ad-noy, your G-d, has blessed you.
Verse 11: You are to rejoice
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d---
you, and your son and your daughter,
and your male slave and your female slave,
and the Levite who is in your city,
and the proselyte,
and the orphan and the widow
who are among you---in the place
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
to house His presence there.
Verse 12: Remember
that you were a slave in Egypt;
you are to guard and celebrate
these statutes.
Maftir
Verse 13: The festival of Sukkos
celebrate for yourself seven days,
when you
harvest
your threshing-floor
and your wine-press.
Verse 14: You are to rejoice during your festival---
you and your son and your daughter,
and your male slave and your female slave,
and the Levite and the proselyte,
and the orphan and the widow
who are in your city.
Verse 15: Seven days
are you to be festive for Ad-noy, your G-d,
in the place Ad-noy chooses,
for Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you
in all your produce
and in all your endeavors;
and you shall experience pure joy.
Verse 16: Three times
a year
are all your males to be seen
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d,
in the place that He chooses---
in the festival of Matzos,
and on the festival of Shovuos,
and on the festival of Sukkos---
and he shall not appear
in Ad-noy's presence empty-handed.
Verse 17: Everyone
according to the gift appropriate to his means,
according to the blessing of Ad-noy, your G-d,
that He gave you.
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