Devarim, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} At 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
[1>]teivah[<1] of wood. {10:2} I will write on the tables the words
that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them
in the [2>]teivah[<2]. {10:3} So 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. {10:4} He wrote on the
tables, according to the first writing, the ten [3>]mitzvot[<3], 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. {10:5} I 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 journeyed from Be'erot Bene-Ya`akan to Moserah.
There Aharon died, and there he was buried; and El`azar his son
ministered in the [4>]Kohen[<4]'s office in his place. {10:7} From
there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Yotvatah, a
land of brooks of water. {10:8} At 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. {10:9} Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his
brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God
spoke to him.) {10:10} I 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. {10:11} The 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.
{10:12} Now, Yisra'el, what does the LORD your God require of you, but
to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul, {10:13} to keep the [5>]mitzvot[<5] of the LORD, and his
statutes, which I command you this day for your good? {10:14} Behold,
to the LORD your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the
[6>]eretz[<6], with all that is therein. {10:15} Only 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. {10:16} Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
{10:17} For the LORD your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords,
the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard
persons, nor takes reward. {10:18} He does execute justice for the
fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and
clothing. {10:19} Love you therefore the sojourner; for you were
sojourners in the land of Mitzrayim. {10:20} You shall fear the LORD
your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his
name shall you swear. {10:21} He is your praise, and he is your God,
who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes
have seen. {10:22} Your fathers went down into Mitzrayim with seventy
persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the
sky for multitude.
{11:1} Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his [1>]mitzvot[<1],
always. {11:2} Know 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 God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
{11:3} and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of
Mitzrayim to Par`oh the king of Mitzrayim, and to all his land; {11:4}
and what he did to the army of Mitzrayim, 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; {11:5} and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you
came to this place; {11:6} and what he did to Datan and Aviram, the
sons of Eli'av, the son of Re'uven; how the [2>]eretz[<2] 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: {11:7} but your eyes have seen all the great work of the
LORD which he did. {11:8} Therefore shall you keep all the
[3>]mitzvah[<3] 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;
{11:9} and 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. {11:10} For the land, where you go in to
possess it, isn't as the land of Mitzrayim, from whence you came out,
where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden
of herbs; {11:11} but 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,
{11:12} a land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD
your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the
end of the year. {11:13} It shall happen, if you shall listen
diligently to my [4>]mitzvot[<4] which I command you this day, to love
the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul, {11:14} that 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. {11:15} I will give grass
in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full. {11:16}
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn
aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; {11:17} and 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.
{11:18} Therefore 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. {11:19} You 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.
{11:20} You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on
your gates; {11:21} that 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 [5>]eretz[<5]. {11:22}
For if you shall diligently keep all this [6>]mitzvah[<6] which I
command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave to him; {11:23} then will the LORD drive out all
these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations
greater and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} Every 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. {11:25} There shall no man be able to stand before
you: the LORD your God 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.
{11:26} Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
{11:27} the blessing, if you shall listen to the [7>]mitzvot[<7] of
the LORD your God, which I command you this day; {11:28} and the
curse, if you shall not listen to the [8>]mitzvot[<8] of the LORD your
God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go
after other gods, which you have not known. {11:29} It shall happen,
when the LORD your God 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. {11:30} Aren'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?
{11:31} For you are to pass over the Yarden to go in to possess the
land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and
dwell therein. {11:32} You shall observe to do all the statutes and
the ordinances which I set before you this day.
{12:1} These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the
[1>]eretz[<1]. {12:2} You 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: {12:3} and
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. {12:4} You shall not do so to the LORD your God. {12:5} But to
the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes,
to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and
there you shall come; {12:6} and 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:
{12:7} and there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in
which the LORD your God has blessed you. {12:8} You shall not do after
all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right
in his own eyes; {12:9} for you haven't yet come to the rest and to
the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you. {12:10} But when
you go over the Yarden, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God
causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies
round about, so that you dwell in safety; {12:11} then it shall happen
that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you:
your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the
heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to
the LORD. {12:12} You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and
your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your
maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has
no portion nor inheritance with you. {12:13} Take heed to yourself
that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
{12:14} but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you
shall do all that I command you. {12:15} Notwithstanding, you may kill
and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your
soul, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has
given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle,
and as of the hart. {12:16} Only you shall not eat the blood; you
shall pour it out on the [2>]eretz[<2] as water. {12:17} You may not
eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or
of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any
of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the
heave-offering of your hand; {12:18} but you shall eat them before the
LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you,
and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your
maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall
rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.
{12:19} Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as
long as you live in your land. {12:20} When the LORD your God shall
enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will
eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh,
after all the desire of your soul. {12:21} If the place which the LORD
your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you,
then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has
given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates,
after all the desire of your soul. {12:22} Even as the gazelle and as
the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean
may eat of it alike. {12:23} Only be sure that you don't eat the
blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with
the flesh. {12:24} You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the
[3>]eretz[<3] as water. {12:25} You shall not eat it; that it may go
well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do
that which is right in the eyes of the LORD. {12:26} Only your holy
things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the
place which the LORD shall choose: {12:27} and you shall offer your
burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD
your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the
altar of the LORD your God; and you shall eat the flesh. {12:28}
Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go
well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do
that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God. {12:29}
When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you,
where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell
in their land; {12:30} take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared
to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and
that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. {12:31} You shall not do
so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he
hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their
daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods. {12:32} Whatever
thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:1} ark
[2] {10:2} ark
[3] {10:4} commandments
[4] {10:6} priest
[5] {10:13} commandments
[6] {10:14} earth
[1] {11:1} commandments
[2] {11:6} earth
[3] {11:8} commandment
[4] {11:13} commandments
[5] {11:21} earth
[6] {11:22} commandment
[7] {11:27} commandments
[8] {11:28} commandments
[1] {12:1} earth
[2] {12:16} earth
[3] {12:24} earth
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