Devarim, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, {13:2} and the sign or the
wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after
other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; {13:3}
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer
of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love
the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. {13:4}
You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
[1>]mitzvot[<1], and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and
cleave to him. {13:5} That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall
be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which
the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the
evil from the midst of you.
{13:6} If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your
own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; {13:7} of the gods of
the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you,
from the one end of the [2>]eretz[<2] even to the other end of the
[3>]eretz[<3]; {13:8} you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him;
neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither
shall you conceal him: {13:9} but you shall surely kill him; your hand
shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of
all the people. {13:10} You shall stone him to death with stones,
because he has sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage.
{13:11} All Yisra'el shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more
such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
{13:12} If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which
the LORD your God gives you to dwell there, saying, {13:13} Certain
base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away
the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which you have not known; {13:14} then shall you inquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, {13:15}
you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of
the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the
cattle of it, with the edge of the sword. {13:16} You shall gather all
the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn
with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to the LORD
your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
{13:17} There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand;
that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you
mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn
to your fathers; {13:18} when you shall listen to the voice of the
LORD your God, to keep all his [4>]mitzvot[<4] which I command you
this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
{14:1} You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
{14:2} For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD
has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all
peoples who are on the face of the [1>]eretz[<1]. {14:3} You shall not
eat any abominable thing. {14:4} These are the animals which you may
eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, {14:5} the hart, and the
gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the gazelle, and the
antelope, and the chamois. {14:6} Every animal that parts the hoof,
and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the
animals, that may you eat. {14:7} Nevertheless these you shall not eat
of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the
camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but
don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you. {14:8} The pig, because
he doesn't part the hoof but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to
you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall
not touch. {14:9} These you may eat of all that are in the waters:
whatever has fins and scales may you eat; {14:10} and whatever doesn't
have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. {14:11}
Of all clean birds you may eat. {14:12} But these are they of which
you shall not eat: the eagle, and the [2>]peres[<2], and the
[3>]ozniah[<3], {14:13} and the red kite, and the ayah, and the
[4>]daah[<4] after its kind, {14:14} and every [5>]orev[<5] after its
kind, {14:15} and the [6>]bas haya`anah[<6], and the [7>]takhmos[<7],
and the sea-mew, and the [8>]netz[<8] after its kind, {14:16} the
[9>]kos[<9], and the [10>]yanshuf[<10], and the [11>]tanshemet[<11],
{14:17} and the [12>]ka`at[<12], and the [13>]rakham[<13], and the
[14>]shalakh[<14], {14:18} and the [15>]khasidah[<15], and the
[16>]anafah[<16] after its kind, and the [17>]dukifat[<17], and the
atalef. {14:19} All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they
shall not be eaten. {14:20} Of all clean birds you may eat. {14:21}
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to
the sojourner who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may
sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your
God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. {14:22} You shall
surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth
from the field year by year. {14:23} You shall eat before the LORD
your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your
oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may
learn to fear the LORD your God always. {14:24} If the way be too long
for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is
too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose, to set his
name there, when the LORD your God shall bless you; {14:25} then shall
you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall
go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose: {14:26} and you
shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or
for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul
asks of you; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you
shall rejoice, you and your household. {14:27} The Levite who is
within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion
nor inheritance with you. {14:28} At the end of every three years you
shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and
shall lay it up within your gates: {14:29} and the Levite, because he
has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the
fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and
shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in
all the work of your hand which you do.
{15:1} At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
{15:2} This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because the LORD's release has been
proclaimed. {15:3} Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of
your is with your brother your hand shall release. {15:4} However
there shall be no poor with you; (for the LORD will surely bless you
in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to
possess it;) {15:5} if only you diligently listen to the voice of the
LORD your God, to observe to do all this [1>]mitzvah[<1] which I
command you this day. {15:6} For the LORD your God will bless you, as
he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not
borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule
over you. {15:7} If there be with you a poor man, one of your
brothers, within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your
God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand
from your poor brother; {15:8} but you shall surely open your hand to
him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which
he wants. {15:9} Beware that there not be a base thought in your
heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and
your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing;
and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you. {15:10} You
shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you
give to him; because that for this thing the LORD your God will bless
you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. {15:11}
For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command
you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your
needy, and to your poor, in your land. {15:12} If your brother, a
Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six
years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
{15:13} When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go
empty: {15:14} you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and
out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as the LORD
your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. {15:15} You shall
remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Mitzrayim, and the
LORD your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
{15:16} It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you;
because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
{15:17} then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to
the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your
maid-servant you shall do likewise. {15:18} It shall not seem hard to
you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire
of a hireling has he served you six years: and the LORD your God will
bless you in all that you do. {15:19} All the firstborn males that are
born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD
your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor
shear the firstborn of your flock. {15:20} You shall eat it before the
LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose,
you and your household. {15:21} If it have any blemish, [as if it be]
lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to
the LORD your God. {15:22} You shall eat it within your gates: the
unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the
hart. {15:23} Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out
on the ground as water.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:4} commandments
[2] {13:7} earth
[3] {13:7} earth
[4] {13:18} commandments
[1] {14:2} earth
[2] {14:12} gier-eagle
[3] {14:12} ospray
[4] {14:13} kite
[5] {14:14} raven
[6] {14:15} ostrich
[7] {14:15} night-hawk
[8] {14:15} hawk
[9] {14:16} little owl
[10] {14:16} great owl
[11] {14:16} horned owl
[12] {14:17} pelican
[13] {14:17} vulture
[14] {14:17} cormorant
[15] {14:18} stork
[16] {14:18} heron
[17] {14:18} hoopoe
[1] {15:5} commandment
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