Devarim, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his [1>]mitzvot[<1] which I
command you this day, who the LORD your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the [2>]eretz[<2]: {28:2} and all these blessings
shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice
of the LORD your God. {28:3} Blessed shall you be in the city, and
blessed shall you be in the field. {28:4} Blessed shall be the fruit
of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your
animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
{28:5} Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. {28:6}
Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when
you go out. {28:7} The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up
against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you
one way, and shall flee before you seven ways. {28:8} The LORD will
command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put
your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your
God gives you. {28:9} The LORD will establish you for a holy people to
himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the [3>]mitzvot[<3]
of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. {28:10} All the peoples of
the [4>]eretz[<4] shall see that you are called by the name of the
LORD; and they shall be afraid of you. {28:11} The LORD will make you
plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of
your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the
LORD swore to your fathers to give you. {28:12} The LORD will open to
you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its
season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to
many nations, and you shall not borrow. {28:13} The LORD will make you
the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall
not be beneath; if you shall listen to the [5>]mitzvot[<5] of the LORD
your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],
{28:14} and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command
you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other
gods to serve them. {28:15} But it shall come to pass, if you will not
listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his
[6>]mitzvot[<6] and his statutes which I command you this day, that
all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. {28:16} Cursed
shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
{28:17} Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. {28:18}
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground,
the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. {28:19}
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you
go out. {28:20} The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and
rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed,
and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings,
whereby you have forsaken me. {28:21} The LORD will make the
pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the
land, where you go in to possess it. {28:22} The LORD will strike you
with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with
fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew;
and they shall pursue you until you perish. {28:23} Your sky that is
over your head shall be brass, and the [7>]eretz[<7] that is under you
shall be iron. {28:24} The LORD will make the rain of your land powder
and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are
destroyed. {28:25} The LORD will cause you to be struck before your
enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven
ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the [8>]eretz[<8]. {28:26} Your dead body shall be food to
all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the [9>]eretz[<9]; and
there shall be none to frighten them away. {28:27} The LORD will
strike you with the boil of Mitzrayim, and with the tumors, and with
the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof you can not be healed. {28:28}
The LORD will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with
astonishment of heart; {28:29} and you shall grope at noonday, as the
blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and
you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none
to save you. {28:30} You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall
lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell
therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of
it. {28:31} Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not
eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your
face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to
your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. {28:32} Your sons
and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes
shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there
shall be nothing in the power of your hand. {28:33} The fruit of your
ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat
up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; {28:34} so
that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
{28:35} The LORD will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore boil, whereof you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot
to the crown of your head. {28:36} The LORD will bring you, and your
king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known,
you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and
stone. {28:37} You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
byword, among all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away.
{28:38} You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the [10>]arbeh[<10] shall consume it. {28:39} You shall
plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the
wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them. {28:40}
You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall
not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its
fruit]. {28:41} You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall
not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. {28:42} All your trees
and the fruit of your ground shall the [11>]arbeh[<11] possess.
{28:43} The sojourner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above
you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
{28:44} He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall
be the head, and you shall be the tail. {28:45} All these curses shall
come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are
destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your
God, to keep his [12>]mitzvot[<12] and his statutes which he commanded
you: {28:46} and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and
on your seed forever. {28:47} Because you didn't serve the LORD your
God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the
abundance of all things; {28:48} therefore shall you serve your
enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in
thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put
a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you. {28:49} The
LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the
[13>]eretz[<13], as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall
not understand; {28:50} a nation of fierce facial expressions, that
shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
{28:51} and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your
ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain,
new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your
flock, until they have caused you to perish. {28:52} They shall
besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls
come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they
shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which
the LORD your God has given you. {28:53} You shall eat the fruit of
your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the
LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with
which your enemies shall distress you. {28:54} The man who is tender
among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his
brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of
his children whom he has remaining; {28:55} so that he will not give
to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because
he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which
your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. {28:56} The tender
and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole
of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye
shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter, {28:57} and toward her young one who comes out
from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear;
for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege
and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your
gates. {28:58} If you will not observe to do all the words of this law
that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and
fearful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD; {28:59} then the LORD will make your
plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues,
and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
{28:60} He will bring on you again all the diseases of Mitzrayim,
which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. {28:61} Also
every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of
this law, them will the LORD bring on you, until you are destroyed.
{28:62} You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars
of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of
the LORD your God. {28:63} It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced
over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice
over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be
plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it. {28:64} The
LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the
[14>]eretz[<14] even to the other end of the [15>]eretz[<15]; and
there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor
your fathers, even wood and stone. {28:65} Among these nations shall
you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your
foot: but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing
of eyes, and pining of soul; {28:66} and your life shall hang in doubt
before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no
assurance of your life. {28:67} In the morning you shall say, Would it
were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the
fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your
eyes which you shall see. {28:68} The LORD will bring you into
Mitzrayim again with ships, by the way whereof I said to you, You
shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to
your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy
you.
{29:1} These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded
Moshe to make with the children of Yisra'el in the land of Mo'av,
besides the covenant which he made with them in Horev. {29:2} Moshe
called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, You have seen all that the
LORD did before your eyes in the land of Mitzrayim to Par`oh, and to
all his servants, and to all his land; {29:3} the great trials which
your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: {29:4} but the LORD
has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear,
to this day. {29:5} I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your
clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on
your foot. {29:6} You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk
wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
{29:7} When you came to this place, Sichon the king of Heshbon, and
`Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck
them: {29:8} and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to
the Re'uveni, and to the Gadi, and to the half-tribe of the Manashshi.
{29:9} Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that
you may prosper in all that you do. {29:10} You stand this day all of
you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your Zakenim,
and your officers, even all the men of Yisra'el, {29:11} your little
ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your
camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your
water; {29:12} that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your
God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this
day; {29:13} that he may establish you this day to himself for a
people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he
swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov.
{29:14} Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
{29:15} but with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD
our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day {29:16}
(for you know how we lived in the land of Mitzrayim, and how we came
through the midst of the nations through which you passed; {29:17} and
you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone,
silver and gold, which were among them); {29:18} lest there should be
among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away
this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those
nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and
wormwood; {29:19} and it happen, when he hears the words of this
curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have
shalom, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the
moist with the dry. {29:20} The LORD will not pardon him, but then the
anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and
all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the
LORD will blot out his name from under the sky. {29:21} The LORD will
set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Yisra'el, according to
all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the
law. {29:22} The generation to come, your children who shall rise up
after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall
say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with
which the LORD has made it sick; {29:23} [and that] the whole land of
it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor
bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and
`Amorah, Admah and Tzevoyim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger,
and in his wrath: {29:24} even all the nations shall say, Why has the
LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
{29:25} Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the
LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, {29:26} and went and
served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and
that he had not given to them: {29:27} therefore the anger of the LORD
was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is
written in this book; {29:28} and the LORD rooted them out of their
land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them
into another land, as at this day. {29:29} The secret things belong to
the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to
our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
{30:1} It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has
driven you, {30:2} and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall
obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and
your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; {30:3}
that then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the
peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you. {30:4} If [any of]
your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there
will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he bring you
back: {30:5} and the LORD your God will bring you into the land which
your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you
good, and multiply you above your fathers. {30:6} The LORD your God
will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the
LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you
may live. {30:7} The LORD your God will put all these curses on your
enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. {30:8} You
shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
[1>]mitzvot[<1] which I command you this day. {30:9} The LORD your God
will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of
your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your
ground, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good,
as he rejoiced over your fathers; {30:10} if you shall obey the voice
of the LORD your God, to keep his [2>]mitzvot[<2] and his statutes
which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to the LORD
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. {30:11} For this
[3>]mitzvah[<3] which I command you this day, it is not too hard for
you, neither is it far off. {30:12} It is not in heaven, that you
should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and
make us to hear it, that we may do it? {30:13} Neither is it beyond
the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and
bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? {30:14} But
the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that
you may do it. {30:15} Behold, I have set before you this day life and
good, and death and evil; {30:16} in that I command you this day to
love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his
[4>]mitzvot[<4] and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live
and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land
where you go in to possess it. {30:17} But if your heart turn away,
and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other
gods, and serve them; {30:18} I denounce to you this day, that you
shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land,
where you pass over the Yarden to go in to possess it. {30:19} I call
heaven and [5>]eretz[<5] to witness against you this day, that I have
set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore
choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; {30:20} to love the
LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your
life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land
which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to
Ya`akov, to give them.
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Footnotes:
[1] {28:1} commandments
[2] {28:1} earth
[3] {28:9} commandments
[4] {28:10} earth
[5] {28:13} commandments
[6] {28:15} commandments
[7] {28:23} earth
[8] {28:25} earth
[9] {28:26} earth
[10] {28:38} locust
[11] {28:42} locust
[12] {28:45} commandments
[13] {28:49} earth
[14] {28:64} earth
[15] {28:64} earth
[1] {30:8} commandments
[2] {30:10} commandments
[3] {30:11} commandment
[4] {30:16} commandments
[5] {30:19} earth
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