Devarim, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Now, Yisra'el, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances,
which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.
{4:2} You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall
you diminish from it, that you may keep the [1>]mitzvot[<1] of the
LORD your God which I command you. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what the
LORD did because of Ba`al-Pe`or; for all the men who followed
Ba`al-Pe`or, the LORD your God has destroyed them from the midst of
you. {4:4} But you who did cleave to the LORD your God are alive
everyone of you this day. {4:5} Behold, I have taught you statutes and
ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do
so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. {4:6} Keep
therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding
in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and
say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
{4:7} For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them,
as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him? {4:8} What great
nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all
this law, which I set before you this day? {4:9} Only take heed to
yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things
which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days
of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's
children; {4:10} the day that you stood before the LORD your God in
Horev, when the LORD said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will
make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days
that they live on the [2>]eretz[<2], and that they may teach their
children. {4:11} You came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness,
cloud, and thick darkness. {4:12} The LORD spoke to you out of the
midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form;
only [you heard] a voice. {4:13} He declared to you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, even the ten [3>]mitzvot[<3]; and
he wrote them on two tables of stone. {4:14} The LORD commanded me at
that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them
in the land where you go over to possess it. {4:15} Take therefore
good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that
the LORD spoke to you in Horev out of the midst of the fire. {4:16}
Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in
the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, {4:17} the
likeness of any animal that is on the [4>]eretz[<4], the likeness of
any winged bird that flies in the sky, {4:18} the likeness of anything
that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the
water under the [5>]eretz[<5]; {4:19} and lest you lift up your eyes
to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even
all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and
serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples
under the whole sky. {4:20} But the LORD has taken you, and brought
you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Mitzrayim, to be to him a
people of inheritance, as at this day. {4:21} Furthermore the LORD was
angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the
Yarden, and that I should not go in to that good land, which the LORD
your God gives you for an inheritance: {4:22} but I must die in this
land, I must not go over the Yarden; but you shall go over, and
possess that good land. {4:23} Take heed to yourselves, lest you
forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and
make you an engraved image in the form of anything which the LORD your
God has forbidden you. {4:24} For the LORD your God is a devouring
fire, a jealous God. {4:25} When you shall father children, and
children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and
shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of
anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD
your God, to provoke him to anger; {4:26} I call heaven and
[6>]eretz[<6] to witness against you this day, that you shall soon
utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden to
possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly
be destroyed. {4:27} The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and
you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD
shall lead you away. {4:28} There you shall serve gods, the work of
men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor
smell. {4:29} But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you
shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with
all your soul. {4:30} When you are in oppression, and all these things
are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your
God, and listen to his voice: {4:31} for the LORD your God is a
merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget
the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. {4:32} For ask
now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day
that God created man on the [7>]eretz[<7], and from the one end of the
sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this
great thing is, or has been heard like it? {4:33} Did ever a people
hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you
have heard, and live? {4:34} Or has God tried to go and take him a
nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by
wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for
you in Mitzrayim before your eyes? {4:35} To you it was shown, that
you might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else besides
him. {4:36} Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might
instruct you: and on [8>]eretz[<8] he made you to see his great fire;
and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. {4:37} Because
he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and
brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of
Mitzrayim; {4:38} to drive out nations from before you greater and
mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an
inheritance, as at this day. {4:39} Know therefore this day, and lay
it to your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and on the
[9>]eretz[<9] beneath; there is none else. {4:40} You shall keep his
statutes, and his [10>]mitzvot[<10], which I command you this day,
that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and
that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD your God
gives you, forever. {4:41} Then Moshe set apart three cities beyond
the Yarden toward the sunrise; {4:42} that the manslayer might flee
there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time
past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: {4:43}
[namely], Betzer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the
Re'uveni; and Ramot in Gil`ad, for the Gadi; and Galon in Bashan, for
the Manashshi. {4:44} This is the law which Moshe set before the
children of Yisra'el: {4:45} these are the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Moshe spoke to the children of
Yisra'el, when they came forth out of Mitzrayim, {4:46} beyond the
Yarden, in the valley over against Beit-Pe`or, in the land of Sichon
king of the Amori, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moshe and the children
of Yisra'el struck, when they came forth out of Mitzrayim. {4:47} They
took his land in possession, and the land of `Og king of Bashan, the
two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise;
{4:48} from `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
even to Mount Tzion (the same is Hermon), {4:49} and all the `Aravah
beyond the Yarden eastward, even to the sea of the `Aravah, under the
slopes of Pisgah.
{5:1} Moshe called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, Hear,
Yisra'el, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears
this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. {5:2} The
LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horev. {5:3} The LORD didn't
make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all
of us here alive this day. {5:4} The LORD spoke with you face to face
on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood between
the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for
you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the
mountain;) saying, {5:6} "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out
of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage. {5:7} You shall
have no other gods before me.
{5:8} "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any
likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the
[1>]eretz[<1] beneath, or that is in the water under the
[2>]eretz[<2]: {5:9} you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor
serve them; for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the
fourth generation of those who hate me; {5:10} and showing loving
kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my [3>]mitzvot[<3].
{5:11} "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain:
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
{5:12} "Observe the day of Shabbat, to keep it holy, as the LORD
your God commanded you. {5:13} Six days shall you labor, and do all
your work; {5:14} but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your
God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox,
nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is
within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may
rest as well as you. {5:15} You shall remember that you were a servant
in the land of Mitzrayim, and the LORD your God brought you out of
there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore the LORD
your God commanded you to keep the day of Shabbat.
{5:16} "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God
commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well
with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
{5:17} "You shall not murder.
{5:18} "Neither shall you commit adultery.
{5:19} "Neither shall you steal.
{5:20} "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
{5:21} "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall
you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or
his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
neighbor's."
{5:22} These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on
two tables of stone, and gave them to me. {5:23} It happened, when you
heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain
was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of
your tribes, and your Zakenim; {5:24} and you said, Behold, the LORD
our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard
his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God
does speak with man, and he lives. {5:25} Now therefore why should we
die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the
LORD our God any more, then we shall die. {5:26} For who is there of
all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? {5:27} Go you near, and
hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak you to us all that
the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
{5:28} The LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me;
and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this
people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that
they have spoken. {5:29} Oh that there were such a heart in them, that
they would fear me, and keep all my [4>]mitzvot[<4] always, that it
might be well with them, and with their children forever! {5:30} Go
tell them, Return you to your tents. {5:31} But as for you, stand you
here by me, and I will speak to you all the [5>]mitzvah[<5], and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they
may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. {5:32} You
shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you:
you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. {5:33} You
shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you,
that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
{6:1} Now this is the [1>]mitzvah[<1], the statutes, and the
ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you
might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; {6:2} that
you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his
[2>]mitzvot[<2], which I command you, you, and your son, and your
son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be
prolonged. {6:3} Hear therefore, Yisra'el, and observe to do it; that
it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the
LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing
with milk and honey. {6:4} Hear, Yisra'el: the LORD is our God; the
LORD is one: {6:5} and you shall love the LORD your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. {6:6} These
words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; {6:7} and
you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk 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. {6:8} You shall bind them for
a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
{6:9} You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on
your gates. {6:10} It shall be, when the LORD your God shall bring you
into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak,
and to Ya`akov, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't
build, {6:11} and houses full of all good things, which you didn't
fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive
trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full; {6:12}
then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you forth out of the
land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage. {6:13} You shall fear
the LORD your God; and him shall you serve, and shall swear by his
name. {6:14} You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the
peoples who are round about you; {6:15} for the LORD your God in the
midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be
kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the
[3>]eretz[<3]. {6:16} You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you
tempted him in Massah. {6:17} You shall diligently keep the
[4>]mitzvot[<4] of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his
statutes, which he has commanded you. {6:18} You shall do that which
is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with
you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD
swore to your fathers, {6:19} to thrust out all your enemies from
before you, as the LORD has spoken. {6:20} When your son asks you in
time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you? {6:21} then
you shall tell your son, We were Par`oh's bondservants in Mitzrayim:
and the LORD brought us out of Mitzrayim with a mighty hand; {6:22}
and the LORD shown signs and wonders, great and sore, on Mitzrayim, on
Par`oh, and on all his house, before our eyes; {6:23} and he brought
us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land
which he swore to our fathers. {6:24} The LORD commanded us to do all
these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he
might preserve us alive, as at this day. {6:25} It shall be
righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this [5>]mitzvah[<5]
before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:2} commandments
[2] {4:10} earth
[3] {4:13} commandments
[4] {4:17} earth
[5] {4:18} earth
[6] {4:26} earth
[7] {4:32} earth
[8] {4:36} earth
[9] {4:39} earth
[10] {4:40} commandments
[1] {5:8} earth
[2] {5:8} earth
[3] {5:10} commandments
[4] {5:29} commandments
[5] {5:31} commandment
[1] {6:1} commandment
[2] {6:2} commandments
[3] {6:15} earth
[4] {6:17} commandments
[5] {6:25} commandment
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