Devarim, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked; {25:2} and it shall be, if the
wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to
lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his
wickedness, by number. {25:3} Forty stripes he may give him, he shall
not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. {25:4} You
shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. {25:5} If
brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the
wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her
husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and
perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. {25:6} It shall be,
that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his
brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Yisra'el.
{25:7} If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the Zakenim, and say, My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in
Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
{25:8} Then the Zakenim of his city shall call him, and speak to him:
and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her; {25:9} then his
brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the Zakenim, and
loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall
answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up
his brother's house. {25:10} His name shall be called in Yisra'el, The
house of him who has his shoe untied. {25:11} When men strive together
one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her
husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her
hand, and takes him by the secrets; {25:12} then you shall cut off her
hand, your eye shall have no pity. {25:13} You shall not have in your
bag diverse weights, a great and a small. {25:14} You shall not have
in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. {25:15} A perfect
and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you
have: that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God
gives you. {25:16} For all who do such things, [even] all who do
unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God. {25:17}
Remember what `Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of
Mitzrayim; {25:18} how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost
of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary;
and he didn't fear God. {25:19} Therefore it shall be, when the LORD
your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the
land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess
it, that you shall blot out the memory of `Amalek from under the sky;
you shall not forget.
{26:1} It shall be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD
your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell
therein, {26:2} that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of
the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your
God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there. {26:3} You shall come to the [1>]Kohen[<1] who shall be in
those days, and tell him, I profess this day to the LORD your God,
that I am come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give
us. {26:4} The [2>]Kohen[<2] shall take the basket out of your hand,
and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. {26:5} You
shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Arammian ready to
perish was my father; and he went down into Mitzrayim, and sojourned
there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and
populous. {26:6} The Mitzrim dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and
laid on us hard bondage: {26:7} and we cried to the LORD, the God of
our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and
our toil, and our oppression; {26:8} and the LORD brought us forth out
of Mitzrayim with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and
with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders; {26:9} and he has
brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing
with milk and honey. {26:10} Now, behold, I have brought the first of
the fruit of the ground, which you, the LORD, have given me. You shall
set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your
God: {26:11} and you shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your
God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the
foreigner who is in the midst of you. {26:12} When you have made an
end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which
is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the
foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat
within your gates, and be filled. {26:13} You shall say before the
LORD your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and
also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your [3>]mitzvah[<3]
which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your
[4>]mitzvot[<4], neither have I forgotten them: {26:14} I have not
eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being
unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of
the LORD my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded
me. {26:15} Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and
bless your people Yisra'el, and the ground which you have given us, as
you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. {26:16}
This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and
ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart,
and with all your soul. {26:17} You have declared the LORD this day to
be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his
statutes, and his [5>]mitzvot[<5], and his ordinances, and listen to
his voice: {26:18} and the LORD has declared you this day to be a
people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you
should keep all his [6>]mitzvot[<6]; {26:19} and to make you high
above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in
honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he
has spoken.
{27:1} Moshe and the Zakenim of Yisra'el commanded the people,
saying, Keep all the [1>]mitzvah[<1] which I command you this day.
{27:2} It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Yarden to
the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set
yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: {27:3} and
you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed
over; that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives
you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your
fathers, has promised you. {27:4} It shall be, when you are passed
over the Yarden, that you shall set up these stones, which I command
you this day, in Mount `Eval, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
{27:5} There shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar
of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them. {27:6} You shall
build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones; and you shall
offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God: {27:7} and you
shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall
rejoice before the LORD your God. {27:8} You shall write on the stones
all the words of this law very plainly. {27:9} Moshe and the
[2>]Kohanim[<2] the Levites spoke to all Yisra'el, saying, Keep
silence, and listen, Yisra'el: this day you are become the people of
the LORD your God. {27:10} You shall therefore obey the voice of the
LORD your God, and do his [3>]mitzvot[<3] and his statutes, which I
command you this day. {27:11} Moshe charged the people the same day,
saying, {27:12} These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the
people, when you are passed over the Yarden: Shim`on, and Levi, and
Yehudah, and Yissakhar, and Yosef, and Binyamin. {27:13} These shall
stand on Mount `Eval for the curse: Re'uven, Gad, and Asher, and
Zevulun, Dan, and Naftali. {27:14} The Levites shall answer, and tell
all the men of Yisra'el with a loud voice, {27:15} Cursed be the man
who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the
work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the
people shall answer and say, Amein. {27:16} Cursed be he who sets
light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.
{27:17} Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the
people shall say, Amein. {27:18} Cursed be he who makes the blind to
wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amein. {27:19} Cursed
be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and
widow. All the people shall say, Amein. {27:20} Cursed be he who lies
with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.
All the people shall say, Amein. {27:21} Cursed be he who lies with
any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amein. {27:22} Cursed
be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the
daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amein. {27:23}
Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall
say, Amein. {27:24} Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret.
All the people shall say, Amein. {27:25} Cursed be he who takes a
bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amein.
{27:26} Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do
them. All the people shall say, Amein.
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Footnotes:
[1] {26:3} priest
[2] {26:4} priest
[3] {26:13} commandment
[4] {26:13} commandments
[5] {26:17} commandments
[6] {26:18} commandments
[1] {27:1} commandment
[2] {27:9} priests
[3] {27:10} commandments
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