Chapter 29
Verse 9: "You stand, this day all of
you
before Ad-noy, your G-d;
your tribal chieftains,
your elders and your law officers,
every man of Yisroel.
Verse 10: Your young, your wives,
and your convert
who is within your camps;
from your wood cutters
to the water drawers.
Verse 11: For your passage
into the covenant
of Ad-noy, your G-d,
and His oath-curse,
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is making with you today,
Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 12: In order to
sustain you today
as His people,
and He will be for you a G-d
as He promished
you
and as He promised your forefathers
Avrohom, Yitzchok, and Yaakov.
Verse 13: And not with you alone
am I making this covenant
and this oath-curse.
Verse 14: But with
whoever is here with us
standing today
in the presence of Ad-noy, our G-d,
and with those who are not here with us today.
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 15: For you are aware
how we lived in the land of Egypt,
and how we passed through the nations
whom you passed through.
Verse 16: Where you observed their abominations
and their loathsomeness [idols],
wood and stone,
silver and gold, that they owned.
Verse 17: Perhaps there is among you a man
or a woman or a family
or a tribe whose thoughts stray today
from [being] with Ad-noy, our G-d,
to go serve
the gods of those nations;
lest there is within you
a root producing gall and bitter fruit.
Verse 18: When he hears the
statements
of this oath-curse,
he will imagine self-blessings, saying,
"Peace will be my lot
when I shall follow what my thoughts envision,"
so that the unintentional may be added
to the sinful.
Verse 19: Ad-noy will be unwilling to forgive him,
because then Ad-noy's nostrils will fume
and His vengeful fury enflame against that man,
and there will cling to him
the entire oath-curse
written in this book;
and Ad-noy will
eliminate his name
from beneath the sky.
Verse 20: And Ad-noy will seperate him for harm
from all the tribes of Yisroel,
in accord with all the oath-curses
of the covenant
inscribed in this Torah scroll.
Verse 21: The latter generation will say---
your children who will arise after you
and the stranger
who will come from a distant land;
and they will
see the plagues
of that land and its illnesses
that Ad-noy has harmed it with.
Verse 22: Sulfur and salt,
all its land, will be burnt,
it will not be seeded, and it will not sprout,
and no grass will grow there;
like the overturning of Sodom and Amoroh,
Admoh and Tzevoyim,
which Ad-noy overturned
in His anger and His wrath.
Verse 23: And all the nations will say,
"For what did Ad-noy do so to this land?
Why the vigor of this great anger?"
Verse 24: And they will reply,
"Because they forsook
the covenant of Ad-noy,
the G-d of their forefathers,
which He made with them
when He took them out
of the land of Egypt.
Verse 25: And they went
and served other gods
and prostrated themselves to them;
gods unknown to them
and [which] He had not apportioned to them.
Verse 26: And Ad-noy
became furious
with that land,
[causing Him] to bring on it
the entire curse
written in this book.
Verse 27: And Ad-noy forced them away from their land
with anger and wrath
and great fury;
and He cast them into another land like this day.
Verse 28: The hidden [matters]
are Ad-noy's, our G-d's,
and the revealed
[matters] are ours
and our children's forever,
to
perform all the statements
of this Torah.
Chapter 30
Verse 1: When it happens that there come upon you
all these statements,
the blessing and the curse
that I have set before you;
and you will restore to your perception
amid all the nations
where Ad-noy, your G-d, has exiled you.
Verse 2: You will return
to Ad-noy, your G-d,
and obey Him exactly
as I am commanding you today,
you and your sons,
wholeheartedly and with your whole being.
Verse 3: Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring back
your returnees
and will be merciful
toward you;
and He will return and gather you
from all the peoples
that Ad-noy, your G-d, has dispersed you there.
Verse 4: If your exiled one will be
at the edge of the heavens,
from there will Ad-noy, your G-d, gather you
and from there will He take you.
Verse 5: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring you
to the land
that your forefathers inherited
and you will inherit it;
and He will benefit
you and multiply you
more than your forefathers.
Verse 6: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will circumcise
your heart
and the heart of your descendants,
to love Ad-noy, your G-d,
wholeheartedly and with all your being
in order that you live.
Verse 7: Ad-noy, your G-d, will place
all these oath-curses
upon your enemies and upon your foes
who chased you.
Verse 8: And you will turn back
and obey Ad-noy;
and you will perform all His commandments
that I am commanding you today.
Verse 9: Ad-noy, your G-d, will give you surplus
in all your endeavors,
in the fruit of your belly,
and in the offspring of your animals,
and in the produce of your soil---
for benefit;
for Ad-noy will return
to rejoice over you for benefit
as He rejoiced
over your forefathers.
Verse 10: When you obey Ad-noy, your G-d,
to guard His commandments and His statutes,
written in this Torah scroll;
when you turn back to Ad-noy, your G-d,
wholeheartedly and with all your being.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 11: For this
mitzvah
that I am commanding you today;
it is not abstruse to you nor is it distant.
Verse 12: It is not in heaven,
[for you] to say,
"Who will go up to heaven for us,
and acquire it for us,
and inform us of it,
and we will fulfill it?"
Verse 13: Nor is it overseas,
[for you] to say,
"Who will travel overseas for us,
and acquire it for us,
and inform us of it,
and we will fulfill it?"
Verse 14: For the matter is extremely close to you;
in your mouth
and in your mind
to fulfill it.
Verse 15: See, I have placed before you today
life and good,
and death and bad.
Verse 16: For which I command you this day,
to love Ad-noy, your G-d, to go in His ways
and to guard His commandments
and His statutes and His laws;
and you will live and you will flourish,
and Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you
in the land
that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 17: But if your heart strays
and you do not
listen,
and you are misled,
and you prostrate yourself
to other gods and worship them.
Verse 18: I tell you today
that you shall certainly perish;
you will not remain long on the land
that you are crossing the Yardein
to come there to inherit.
Verse 19: I invoke, as witnesses against you this day,
heaven and earth:
Life and death
have I placed before
you,
blessing and curse;
you choose life
in order that you
live,
you and your descendants,
Verse 20: To love Ad-noy, your G-d,
to obey Him and to cling to Him;
for He is your life and your longevity,
to live on the soil
that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers---
to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov---
to give them.
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