Introduction

Introduction to Sefer Devarim (The Book of Deuteronomy)

Within the Framework of the Ivri Heritage Bible

The text presented here is an authentic rendering of Sefer Devarim (the Book of Words), historically recognized as the Mishneh Torah—the repetition and crystallization of the divine law. Positioned as a critical anchor within The Ivri Heritage Bible, this book acts as a majestic covenantal renewal for the assembly (Kehillah) that faithfully observes the Shabbats and Appointed Times laid out by the Most High. Delivered by Moshe (Moses) to all Yisra'el on the plains of Mo'av along the banks of the Yarden (Jordan), these final discourses transform a historical itinerary into an enduring prophetic, legal, and priestly constitution.

Textual Methodology: Restoring the Ancient Path

As a foundational text within The Ivri Heritage Bible, this edition of Sefer Devarim utilizes a meticulous comparative textual methodology designed to strip away centuries of Western, Greco-Roman, and Eurocentric theological varnish.

Alignment with Pre-Masoretic Textual Families

To ensure the highest level of prophetic accuracy, this translation bypasses the late, medieval compromises of the Masoretic Text (MT). Instead, it systematically uncovers and aligns with the ancient textual families, witnesses, and codices that preceded the Masoretic system by centuries. This includes deep textual cross-examinations with the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)—the oldest surviving Hebrew fragments, which preserve pristine readings untampered by later historical adjustments—and the Samaritan Pentateuch (SP), an ancient proto-Hebrew textual line maintaining independent witnesses to the archaic law.

The Historical Authority of the Septuagint Tradition

During the 3rd through 5th centuries AD, the Septuagint reached its peak influence, transitioning from a Jewish translation into the official Old Testament of the Christian Church. This era was characterized by major textual revisions, the creation of the first bound Bibles, and the translation of the Septuagint into other regional languages. Understanding this era is vital, as these early developments preserve a text type far older than the medieval Masoretic recension:  Major Textual Revisions (3rd Century): By the 3rd century, numerous regional variations of the Greek text existed. Scholars attempted to standardize it: o Origen's Hexapla (c. 240 AD): The Christian scholar Origen created a massive, six-column parallel Bible. It compared the Hebrew text, Greek transliterations, three rival Jewish Greek translations (Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion), and the Septuagint. He used symbols to correct and align the Septuagint with the Hebrew text of his day. o Regional Recensions: Other scholars created standard regional editions of the Septuagint that dominated specific areas by the 4th century. Hesychius revised the text used in Egypt, while Lucian of Antioch revised the text used in Syria and Asia Minor.

 The Great Uncial Codices (4th & 5th Centuries): Before this era, the Septuagint existed only as scattered papyrus scrolls. With the legalization of Christianity and the invention of the codex (the modern book format), the first complete, bound collections of Christian Scripture were produced: o Codex Vaticanus (c. 325–350 AD): One of the oldest surviving near-complete Greek Bibles, housing the majority of the Septuagint. o Codex Sinaiticus (c. 330–360 AD): A magnificent 4th-century manuscript containing the Old Testament in Greek. o Codex Alexandrinus (c. 400–440 AD): A 5th-century manuscript that provides a primary foundation for reading the later ecclesiastical Greek text.

 Daughter Translations (Translations from the Septuagint): As Christianity expanded beyond Greek- speaking regions, missionaries used the Septuagint—rather than Hebrew manuscripts—as the source text to translate the Old Testament into local vernaculars: o The Vetus Latina (Old Latin): Translated gradually starting in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, these early Western European texts were translated directly from the Septuagint. o The Vulgate (c. 382–405 AD): When St. Jerome began his massive Latin revision, he initially used the Septuagint to translate books like the Psalms. Though he eventually shifted to translating directly from the Hebrew text, his final Vulgate still retained some Septuagint influence. o Coptic and Ethiopic (Ge'ez): Translated in the 3rd and 4th centuries to serve the flourishing churches of Egypt and East Africa, relying entirely on the Alexandrian Septuagint text tradition. o Gothic and Armenian: Translated in the 4th and 5th centuries respectively, utilizing the Byzantine/Lucianic Greek recensions.

Correcting the Omissions of the Masoretic Text

A critical reason The Ivri Heritage Bible prioritizes pre-Masoretic witnesses is that late rabbinic copyists systematically altered or deleted key passages to diminish the original, supernatural framework of the text. Two stark examples of these missing vital elements are restored in this edition: 1. Chapter 32:8 — This work rejects the late Masoretic alteration ("sons of Israel") and restores the ancient pre-Masoretic reading preserved in the DSS and the early layers of the LXX tradition: "When the Most High divided the nations... he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of Elohim". 2. Chapter 32:43 — The standard Masoretic version severely truncates the climactic conclusion of the Song of Moshe, stripping out multiple parallel lines of prophetic praise and adoration. This edition fully restores the missing vital elements preserved in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint: "Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of Elohim worship him; rejoice you Goyim (Gentiles), with his people [Yisrael], and let all the sons of Elohim strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons...". By repairing these omissions, the text restores the true cosmic, spiritual, and historical landscape understood by the ancient assemblies.

Hebraic Messianic Nazarene Wordings

While adhering to the superior textual layout of these ancient pre-Masoretic witnesses, this translation completely eliminates Westernized, church-centric nomenclature. By implementing a strictly Hebraic Messianic Nazarene vocabulary, the narrative restores the original Lashon Khodesh (the Holy Tongue) context directly to the reader. Artificial terms and Hellenized titles are completely discarded, replacing them with the true, restored names and terms:  Yahuah: The personal, eternal Covenant Name of the Almighty.  Elohim / Elohei: The True God / The God of.  Beriyt / Beriyt: The binding legal and spiritual covenant.  Torah: The foundational instruction and law.

Through this lens, the text emerges not as a piece of Westernized religious literature, but as the living, breathing code of the Ivri (Hebrew) heritage.

Core Theological Themes and Structural Blueprint

The thirty-four chapters of Sefer Devarim form a complete structural manual for a set-apart society. Within this edition, the text is organized around four major spiritual and administrative pillars:

1. Historical Accountability and Territorial Rights (Chapters 1–3)

The narrative opens with a rigorous review of Israel's journey, contrasting the generational failure and spiritual rebellion at Kadesh Barne‘a with the recent sovereign victories over Sichon king of Cheshbon and Og king of Basan. This serves to teach the rising generation that the nachalah (inheritance) is entirely dependent upon spiritual alignment. It also details the initial geopolitical boundaries settled for the tribes of Re’uven, Gad, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh on the east side of the Yarden.

2. The Mechanics of the Heart and the Shema (Chapters 4–11)

Moshe repeatedly brings the assembly back to the terrifying reality of Chorev (Horeb), reminding them that they heard a voice out of the midst of the fire but saw no physical similitude. This historical event establishes the absolute prohibition against idolatry. At the absolute center of this section stands the Shema (Chapter 6:4): Shema Yisra’el, Yahuah Eloheinu, Yahuah echad This is not merely a declaration of monotheism, but an operational command to love (ahav) and cleave (davaq) to Yahuah with the entirety of one's heart (lev), soul (nefesh), and strength (me'od). True holiness is defined here as an internal reality—the circumcision of the heart—transforming Israel into a strictly distinct, treasured people (Am Segulah).

3. The Judicial and Civil Constitution (Chapters 12–26)

This segment establishes the legal and social framework required to maintain a clean and harmonious camp. It details:  Centralization of Worship: The absolute mandate to destroy pagan altars and bring all tithes, vows, and offerings exclusively to the location chosen by Yahuah to place His Name.  Societal and Economic Justice: The execution of the Shemittah (the seven-year land sabbath and release of debts), the compassionate treatment of the ebyon (poor), and strict protections for the ger (stranger), the orphan, and the widow.  Governance and Messianic Prophecy: The strict boundaries placed upon future kings—including the requirement to handwrite a personal copy of this Mishneh Torah under priestly supervision—and the explicit promise of a future Navi (Prophet) raised from among the brethren, like unto Moshe, who would carry the absolute authority of Yahuah.

4. Prophetic Liturgy, the Song of Witness, and Transition (Chapters 27–34)

The text culminates in the dramatic covenantal liturgy to be executed at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, placing a binary choice of life (chayim) and death (mavet) directly before the nation. In Chapter 32, the text preserves the majestic Song of Moshe (Ha'azinu). This prophetic composition acts as an enduring legal witness, detailing Israel's future descent into idolatry, their subsequent scattering into exile across the earth in ships, and the ultimate vengeance and sovereign purging (kapparah) of the land by Yahuah in the latter days (acharit ha'yamim). The book beautifully concludes with the orderly transfer of authority to Yehoshua (Joshua), who is filled with the Ruach Chokhmah (Spirit of Wisdom), followed by the death of Moshe on Mount Nebo.

Glossary of Key Restored Terms

To grasp the authentic covenantal depth of Sefer Devarim within The Ivri Heritage Bible, the reader should understand the following key terms:  Yahuah: The personal, covenantal Name of the Most High Elohim.  Beriyt / Beriyt: The formal, binding covenant or contract between Yahuah and His people.  Torah: The foundational instruction, law, and directional guidance of the Covenant.  Mitzvot / Chukim / Mishpatim: Commandments / Statutory Ordinances / Judicial Decisions.  Am Kadosh: A set-apart, holy nation dedicated to divine purposes.  Am Segulah: A treasured, peculiar possession chosen above all peoples.  Shemittah: The seventh-year release, signaling complete economic and agricultural rest.  Kehal / Kehillah: The called-out assembly or congregation of Yisra'el.  Ivri / Ivrim: Hebrew; those who have crossed over from the old world into covenant alignment.

Through this restored, Hebraic, and pre-Masoretic lens, Sefer Devarim ceases to be a distant document filtered through Western assumptions. It stands revealed verbatim as the active, authoritative blueprint for the restoration of the House of Truth, the preservation of our genuine heritage, and the realization of righteousness under the unchanging law of Yahuah.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 1

The Command to Enter the Land and the Rebellion at Kadesh Barne'a

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1These are the words which Moshe (Moses) spoke to all Yisra'el (Israel) on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works. 2It is a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne. 3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moshe spoke to all the children of Yisra'el , according to all things which Yahuah (the Lord) commanded him for them: 4after he had struck Seon king of the Emorim (Amorites) who lived in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who lived in Astaroth and in Edrain; 5beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moshe began to declare this Torah (law), saying, 6Yahuah your Elohim (God) spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you * to have lived so long in this mountain. 7Turn you and depart and enter into the mountain of the Emorim , and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Kena'anim (Chananites) near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Perath (Euphrates). 8Behold, Elohim has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I swore to your fathers, Avraham (Abraam), and Yitzchak (Isaac), and Ya'akov (Jacob), to give it to them and to their zera (seed) after them. 9And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you. 10Yahuah your Elohim has multiplied you, and, behold, you are today as the stars of Shamayim (heaven) for multitude. 11Yahuah Elohei (the Lord God) of your fathers † add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you. 12How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings? 13‡ Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your shevatim (tribes), and I will set your leaders over you. 14And you answered me and said, The thing which you have told us is good to do. 15So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and shotrim (officers) to your shoftim (judges). 16And I charged your shoftim at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the ger (stranger) that is with him. 17You shall not have respect to persons in mishpat (judgement), you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the mishpat is Elohim's ; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it. 18And I charged upon you at that time all the mitzvot (commands) which you shall perform. 19And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as Yahuah our Elohim charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne. 20And I said to you, You have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which Yahuah our Elohim gives to you: 21behold, Yahuah your Elohim has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as Yahuah Elohei your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid. 22And you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter. 23And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a shevet (tribe). 24And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it. 25And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which Yahuah our Elohim gives us. 26Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the words of Yahuah our Elohim . 27And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahuah hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt) to deliver us into the hands of the Emorim , to destroy us. 28Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your lev (heart), saying, It is a great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to Shamayim : moreover we saw there the sons of the Nephilim (giants). 29And I said to you, Fear not, neither be you afraid of them; 30Yahuah your Elohim who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Mitzrayim ; 31and in this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; §§ how Yahuah your Elohim will bear you as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which you have gone until you came to this place. 32And in this matter you believed not Yahuah our Elohim , 33who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which you go, and a cloud by day. 34And Yahuah heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he swore, saying, 35Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I swore to their fathers, 36except Calev (Chaleb) the son of Yephunneh (Jephonne), he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of Yahuah . 37And Yahuah was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shall you by any means enter therein. 38Yahoshua (Joshua) the son of Nun (Naue), who stands by you, he shall enter in there; do you strengthen him, for he shall cause Yisra'el to inherit it. 39And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, —they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it. 40And you turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea. 41And you answered and said, We have sinned before Yahuah our Elohim ; we will go up and fight according to all that Yahuah our Elohim has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, you went up to the mountain. 42And Yahuah said to me, Tell them, You shall not go up, neither shall you fight, for I am not with you; thus shall you not be destroyed before your enemies. 43And I spoke to you, and you did not listen to me; and you transgressed the commandment of Yahuah ; and you forced your way and went up into the mountain. 44And the Amorite who lived in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma. 45And you sat down and wept before Yahuah our Elohim , and Yahuah listened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you. 46And you lived in Cades many days, as many days as you lived there.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 2

The Turning Toward the North, the Boundaries of Esav, Mo'av, and Ammon, and the Defeat of Sichon

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1“And we turned and departed into the midbar (wilderness), by the way of the Yam Suph (Red Sea), as Yahuah spoke to me, and we compassed Har Se‘ir (Mount Seir) many yamim (days). 2And Yahuah said to me, 3‘You have compassed this har (mountain) long enough; turn therefore toward the north. 4And charge the people, saying, “You are going through the borders of your brethren the children of Esav (Esau), who dwell in Se‘ir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly. 5Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their aretz (land) even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given Har Se‘ir to the children of Esav as a nachalah (inheritance). 6Buy food of them for money and eat, and you shall receive water of them by measure for money, and drink. 7For Yahuah our Elohim has blessed you in every work of your hands. Consider how you went through that great and terrible midbar: behold, Yahuah your Elohim has been with you arba‘im shanah (forty years); you did not lack any thing.” 8And we passed by our brethren, the children of Esav, who lived in Se‘ir, by the way of the Arabah (desert plain) from Eilat (Elath) and from Etzyon-Gever (Ezion-geber); and we turned and passed by the way of the midbar of Mo’av (Moab). 9And Yahuah said to me, ‘Do not quarrel with the Mo’avim (Moabites), and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their aretz (land) for a nachalah, for I have given Ar (the city of Ar) to the children of Lot to inherit.’ 10Formerly the Emim lived in it, a great and numerous nation, and powerful like the Anakim . 11These also shall be accounted Rephaim (giants), like the Anakim; and the Mo’avim call them Emim. 12And the Chorim (Horites) lived in Se‘ir before, and the children of Esav destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they lived in their place, as Yisra’el did to the aretz of his nachalah, which Yahuah gave to them. 13‘Now then, arise,’ said I, ‘and depart, and cross the valley of Zeret .’ 14And the days in which we travelled from Kadesh-Barne‘a (Kadesh-barnea) till we crossed the valley of Zeret were sheloshim u’shemoneh shanah (thirty and eight years), until the whole generation of the men of war failed, dying out of the machaneh (camp), as Yahuah Elohim swore to them. 15And the hand of Yahuah was upon them to destroy them out of the midst of the machaneh, until they were consumed. 16And it came to pass when all the men of war had fallen, dying out from the midst of the people, 17that Yahuah spoke to me, saying, 18‘You shall pass over this day the borders of Mo’av, toward Ar; 19and you shall draw near to the children of Ammon : do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give you of the aretz of the children of Ammon for a nachalah, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a nachalah.’ 20It also shall be accounted a land of Rephaim, for the Rephaim lived there before; and the Ammonim (Ammonites) call them Zamzummim . 21A great nation and populous, and mightier than you, as also the Anakim: yet Yahuah destroyed them from before them, and they inherited their aretz, and they lived there instead of them until this day; 22as He did for the children of Esav that dwell in Se‘ir, even as He destroyed the Chorim from before them, and they inherited their country, and lived therein instead of them until this day. 23And the Avvim (Avites) who dwelt in villages as far as ‘Azzah (Gaza),the Kappadokim (Caphtorim/Cappadocians) who came out of Kappadokia (Caphtor), destroyed them, and lived in their place. 24‘Now then arise and depart, and pass over the valley of Arnon : behold, I have delivered into your hands Sichon king of Cheshbon , the Emori (Amorite), and his aretz: begin to inherit it: engage in war with him this day. 25Begin to put your terror and your fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard your name, and shall be in anguish before you.’ 26And I sent ambassadors from the midbar of Kedemot to Sichon king of Cheshbon with words of shalom (peace), saying, 27‘I will pass through your aretz: I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 28You shall give me food for money, and I will eat; and you shall give me water for money, and I will drink; I will only go through on my feet: 29as the children of Esav did to me, who lived in Se‘ir, and the Mo’avim who lived in Ar, until I shall have passed over the Yarden (Jordan) into the aretz which Yahuah our Elohim gives us.’ 30And Sichon king of Cheshbon would not that we should pass by him, because Yahuah our Elohim hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into your hands, as on this day. 31And Yahuah said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to deliver before you Sichon the king of Cheshbon, the Emori, and his aretz: now begin to inherit his aretz.’ 32And Sichon the king of Cheshbon came forth to meet us, he and all his people to war at Yahatz . 33And Yahuah our Elohim delivered him before our face, and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people. 34And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey. 35Only the cattle we took captive, and took the spoil of the cities. 36From Aro‘er , which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as Har Gil‘ad (Mount Gilead); there was not a city which escaped us: Yahuah our Elohim delivered all of them into our hands. 37Only we did not draw near to the children of Ammon, even all the parts bordering on the brook Yabbok , and the cities in the mountain country, as Yahuah our Elohim charged us.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 3

The Defeat of Og King of Basan and the Allotment of the Trans-Jordan Nachalah

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1“And we turned and went by the way leading to Basan (Bashan); and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Edra‘im (Edrei). 2And Yahuah said to me, ‘Fear him not, for I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his aretz (land), into your hands; and you shall do to him as you did to Sichon king of the Emori (Amorites), who lived in Cheshbon (Heshbon).’ 3And Yahuah our Elohim delivered him into our hands, even Og the king of Basan, and all his people; and we struck him until we left none of his seed. 4And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them: shishim (sixty) cities, all the country round about Argov (Argob), belonging to king Og in Basan— 5all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars, besides the very many cities of the Perizi (Perizzites). 6We utterly destroyed them, as we dealt with Sichon king of Cheshbon, so we utterly destroyed every city in order, and the women and the children, 7and all the cattle; and we took for a prey to ourselves the spoil of the cities. 8And we took at that time the aretz out of the hands of the two kings of the Emori, who were beyond the Yarden (Jordan), extending from the brook of Arnon as far as Aermon (Hermon). 9The Phenikim (Sidonians) call Aermon Sanior (Sirion), but the Emori have called it Sanir (Senir). 10All the cities of the Misor (plain), and all Gil‘ad (Gilead), and all Basan, as far as Elchah (Salecah) and Edra‘im, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. 11For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Rephaim (giants). Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon ? The length of it is tish‘ah amot (nine cubits), and the breadth of it arba‘ amot (four cubits), according to the amah (cubit) of a man. 12And we inherited that aretz at that time from Aro‘er (Aroer), which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half Har Gil‘ad (Mount Gilead); and I gave its cities to Re’uven (Reuben) and to Gad . 13And the rest of Gil‘ad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half- shevet (tribe) of Menashsheh (Manasseh), and all the country round about Argov, all that Basan; it shall be accounted the aretz of the Rephaim. 14Ya’ir the son of Menashsheh took all the country round about Argov as far as the borders of Girgashi (Geshur) and Ma‘achati (Maachath); and he called them by his name Basan Chavvot Ya’ir (Bashan-havvoth-jair) until this day. 15And to Machir I gave Gil‘ad. 16And to Re’uven and to Gad I gave the land under Gil‘ad as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the brook and as far as Yabbok (Jabbok); the brook is the border to the children of Ammon. 17And the Arabah (desert plain) and the Yarden are the boundary from Kinneret (Chinnereth) even to the sea of the Arabah, the Yam HaMelach (Salt Sea), under Ashdoth Pisgah (the slopes of Pisgah) eastward. 18And I charged you at that time, saying, ‘Yahuah your Elohim has given you this aretz (land) by lot; arm yourselves, every one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Yisra’el . 19Only your wives and your children and your cattle—I know that you have much cattle—let them dwell in your cities which I have given you, 20until Yahuah gives your brethren rest, as also He has given to you, and they also shall inherit the aretz which Yahuah our Elohim gives them on the other side of the Yarden; then you shall return, each one to his nachalah (inheritance) which I have given you.’ 21And I commanded Yehoshua (Joshua) at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all things which Yahuah our Elohim did to these two kings: so shall Yahuah do to all the kingdoms against which you cross over there. 22You shall not be afraid of them, because Yahuah our Elohim Himself shall fight for you.’ 23And I implored Yahuah at that time, saying, 24‘Adonai Yahuah, You have begun to show to Your servant Your strength, and Your power, and Your mighty hand, and Your high arm: for what El is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as You have done, and according to Your might? 25I will therefore go over and see this good aretz that is beyond the Yarden , this good mountain and Antilibanus (the Lebanon range).’ 26But Yahuah was angry with me for your sake, and did not regard me, and listened not to me; and Yahuah said to me, ‘Let it suffice you; speak not of this matter to Me anymore. 27Go up to the top of the pisgah (summit of the quarried rock), and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Yarden. 28And charge Yehoshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go before the face of this people, and he shall give them the nachalah (inheritance) of all the aretz which you have seen.’ 29And we abode in the valley near Beit Pe‘or (the house of Peor).”

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 4

The Witness of Chorev and the Voice from the Fire, the Scattering and the Promise of Mercy in the Latter Days

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1And now, Yisra’el (Israel), hear the chukim (ordinances) and mishpatim (judgements), all that I teach you this day to do: that you may live, and be multiplied, and that you may go in and inherit the land, which Yahuah Elohei (the Lord God) of your fathers gives you. 2You shall not add to the word which I command you, and you shall not take from it: keep the mitzvot (commandments) of Yahuah our Elohim (God), all that I command you this day. 3Your eyes have seen all that Yahuah our Elohim did in the case of Ba‘al Peor (Beelphegor); for every man that went after Ba‘al Peor , Yahuah your Elohim has utterly destroyed him from amongst you. 4But you that kept close to Yahuah your Elohim are all alive today. 5Behold, I have shown you chukim and mishpatim as Yahuah commanded me, that you should do so in the land into which you go to inherit it. 6And you shall keep and do them: for this is your chochmah (wisdom) and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these chukim ; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7For what manner of nation is so great, which has Elohim so near to them as Yahuah our Elohim is in all things in whatever we may call upon him? 8And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous chukim and mishpatim according to all this Torah (law), which I set before you this day? 9Take heed to yourself, and keep your lev (heart) diligently: forget not any of the things, which your eyes have seen, and let them not depart from your lev all the days of your life; and you shall teach your sons and your sons’ sons, 10even the things that happened in the day in which you stood before Yahuah our Elohim in Chorev (Horeb) in the day of the kahal (assembly); for Yahuah said to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons. 11And you drew near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burnt with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest. 12And Yahuah spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which you heard: and you saw no likeness, only you heard a voice. 13And he announced to you his Brit (covenant), which he commanded you to keep, even the Aseret HaDevarim (ten commandments); and he wrote them on two tables of stone. 14And Yahuah commanded me at that time, to teach you chukim and mishpatim , that you should do them on the land, into which you go to inherit it. 15And take good heed to your hearts, for you saw no similitude in the day in which Yahuah spoke to you in Chorev in the mountain out of the midst of the fire: 16lest you transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven, 18the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth; 19and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which Yahuah your Elohim has distributed to all the nations under heaven. 20But Elohim took you, and led you forth out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), out of the iron furnace, out of Mitzrayim , to be to him a people of nachalah (inheritance), as at this day. 21And Yahuah Elohim was angry with me for the things said by you, and swore that I should not go over this Yarden (Jordan), and that I should not enter into the land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you for an inheritance. 22For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Yarden ; but you are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land. 23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the Brit of Yahuah our Elohim , which he made with you, and you transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which Yahuah your Elohim commanded you. 24For Yahuah your Elohim is a consuming fire, an El Kanna (jealous God). 25And when you shall have begotten sons, and shall have sons’ sons, and you shall have lived a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before Yahuah your Elohim to provoke him; 26I call Shamayim (heaven) and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely perish from off the land, into which you go across Yarden to inherit it there; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off. 27And Yahuah shall scatter you amongst all nations, and you shall be left few in number amongst all the nations, amongst which Yahuah shall bring you. 28And you shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which can’t see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29And there you shall seek Yahuah your Elohim , and you shall find him whenever you shall seek him with all your lev , and with all your nefesh (soul) in your affliction. 30And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to Yahuah your Elohim , and shall listen to his voice. 31Because Yahuah your Elohim is an El Rachum (God of pity): he will not forsake you, nor destroy you; he will not forget the Brit of your fathers, which Yahuah swore to them. 32Ask of the former days which were before you, from the day when Elohim created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard: 33if a nation have heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard and have lived; 34if Elohim has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which Yahuah our Elohim did in Mitzrayim in your sight. 35So that you should know that Yahuah your Elohim he is Elohim , and there is none beside him. 36His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct you, and he showed you upon the earth his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 37Because he loved your fathers, he also chose you their zera (seed) after them, and he brought you himself with his great strength out of Mitzrayim , 38to destroy nations great and stronger than you before your face, to bring you in, to give you their land to inherit, as you have it this day. 39And you shall know this day, and shall consider in your lev , that Yahuah your Elohim he is Elohim in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he. 40And keep you his mitzvot , and his chukim , all that I command you this day; that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, that you may be longlived upon the earth, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you for ever. 41Then Moshe (Moses) separated three cities beyond Yarden on the east, 42that the slayer might flee there, who should have slain his neighbour unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live: 43Betzer (Bosor) in the wilderness, in the plain country of Reuven (Ruben), and Ramoth in Gilad (Galaad) belonging to Gad , and Golan (Gaulon) in Bashan (Basan) belonging to Menasheh (Manasse). 44This is the Torah which Moshe set before the children of Yisra’el . 45These are the edut (testimonies), and the chukim , and the mishpatim , which Moshe spoke to the sons of Yisra’el , when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim : 46on the other side of Yarden , in the valley near the house of Peor (Phogor), in the land of Sichon (Seon) king of the Emorim (Amorites), who lived in Cheshbon (Esebon), whom Moshe and the sons of Yisra’el struck when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim . 47And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan , two kings of the Emorim , who were beyond Yarden eastward. 48From Aroer , which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Sion, which is Chermon (Aermon). 49All the Aravah (Araba) beyond Yarden eastward under the springs of Pisgah (Asedoth) hewn in the rock.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 5

The Renewal of the Brit at Chorev and the Aseret HaDevarim Repeated

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1And Moshe called all Yisra’el , and said to them, Hear, Yisra’el , the chukim [ordinances] and mishpatim [jugments] , all that I speak in your ears this day, and you shall learn them, and observe to do them. 2Yahuah your Elohim made a Beriyt [covenant] with you in Chorev. 3Yahuah did not make this Beriyt with your fathers, but with you: you are all here alive this day. 4Yahuah spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire. 5And I stood between Yahuah and you at that time to report to you the words of Yahuah , (because you were afraid before the fire, and you went not up to the mountain) saying, 6I am Yahuah your Elohim , who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim , out of the house of bondage. 7You shall have no other elohim (gods) before my face. 8You shall not make to yourself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth. 9You shall not bow down to them, nor shall you serve them; for I am Yahuah your Elohim , an El Kanna (jealous God), visiting the avon (iniquity) of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me, 10and doing chesed (mercy) to thousands of them that love me, and that keep my mitzvot . 11You shall not take the Shem (name) of Yahuah your Elohim in vain, for Yahuah your Elohim will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain. 12Keep the Shabbat (sabbath) day to sanctify it, as Yahuah your Elohim commanded you. 13Six days you shall work, and you shall do all your works; 14but on the seventh day is the Shabbat of Yahuah your Elohim : you shall do in it no work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your manservant, and your maidservant, your ox, and your ass, and all your cattle, and the ger (stranger) that sojourns in the midst of you; that your manservant may rest, and your maid, and your ox, as well as you. 15And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Mitzrayim , and Yahuah your Elohim brought you out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore Yahuah appointed you to keep the Shabbat day and to sanctify it. 16Honour your father and your mother, as Yahuah your Elohim commanded you; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long upon the land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 17You shall not commit murder. 18You shall not commit adultery. 19You shall not steal. 20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. 21You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife; you shall not covet your neighbour’s house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is your neighbour’s. 22These words Yahuah spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—there was darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me. 23And it came to pass when you heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burnt with fire, that you came to me, even all the heads of your shevatim [tribes] , and your elders: 24and you said, Behold, Yahuah our Elohim has shown us his kavod (glory), and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that Elohim shall speak to man, and he shall live. 25And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of Yahuah our Elohim any more, and we shall die. 26For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living Elohim, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live? 27Do you draw near, and hear all that Yahuah our Elohim shall say, and you shall speak to us all things whatever Yahuah our Elohim shall speak to you, and we will hear, and do. 28And Yahuah heard the voice of your words as you spoke to me; and Yahuah said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to you. They have well said all that they have spoken. 29O that there were such a lev in them, that they should fear me and keep my mitzvot always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever. 30Go, say to them, Return you to your houses; 31but stand you here with me, and I will tell you all the mitzvot , and the chukim , and the mishpatim , which you shall teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance. 32And you shall take heed to do as Yahuah your Elohim commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, 33according to all the way which Yahuah your Elohim commanded you to walk in it, that he may give you rest; and that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days on the land which you shall inherit.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 6

The Shema and the First Commandment of the Beriyt

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1And these are the mitzvot [commandment], and the chukim [ordinances] , and the mishpatim [judgements], as many as Yahuah our Elohim gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which you enter to inherit it. 2That you may fear Yahuah your Elohim, keep you all today—you, and your sons, and your sons’ sons, all the days of your life—that you may live many days. 3Hear, therefore, O Yisra’el, and observe to do them, that it may be well with you, and that you may be greatly multiplied, as Yahuah Elohei of your fathers said that He would give you a land flowing with milk and honey. 4Shema Yisra’el (Hear, O Israel), Yahuah our Elohim, Yahuah is echad (one). 5And you shall ahav (love) Yahuah your Elohim with all your lev, and with all your nefesh (soul), and with all your me’od (strength). 6And these devarim (words), all that I command you this day, shall be in your lev and in your nefesh . 7And you shall teach them diligently to your banim (children), and you shall speak of them sitting in your house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up. 8And you shall fasten them for an ot (sign) upon your hand, and they shall be as tota-fot (frontlets) before your eyes. 9And you shall write them on the mezuzot (doorposts) of your houses and of your gates. 10And it shall come to pass when Yahuah your Elohim shall have brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Avraham , and to Yitzchak , and to Ya‘akov , to give you great and beautiful cities which you did not build, 11houses full of all good things which you did not fill, wells dug in the rock which you did not dig, vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant—then having eaten and been filled, 12beware lest you forget Yahuah your Elohim that brought you forth out of the land of Mitzrayim , out of the house of bondage. 13You shall fear Yahuah your Elohim , and Him only shall you serve; and you shall davaq (cleave) to Him, and by His Shem you shall swear. 14Go you not after other elohim , of the gods of the nations round about you; 15for Yahuah your Elohim in the midst of you is an El Kanna , lest the anger of Yahuah your Elohim be kindled against you, and He destroy you from off the face of the earth. 16You shall not test Yahuah your Elohim , as you tested Him in Massah (the place of testing). 17You shall by all means keep the mitzvot of Yahuah your Elohim , the edut , and the chukim , which He commanded you. 18And you shall do that which is pleasing and good before Yahuah your Elohim , that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and inherit the good land, which Yahuah swore to your fathers, 19to chase all your enemies from before your face, as Yahuah has spoken. 20And it shall come to pass when your son shall ask you at a future time, saying, What are the edut , and the chukim , and the mishpatim , which Yahuah our Elohim has commanded us? 21Then shall you say to your son, We were slaves to Pharaoh in the land of Mitzrayim , and Yahuah brought us forth from Mitzrayim with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm. 22And Yahuah wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Mitzrayim , on Pharaoh and on his house before our eyes. 23And He brought us out from there to give us this land, which He swore to give to our fathers. 24And Yahuah commanded us to observe all these chukim ; to fear Yahuah our Elohim , that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even today. 25And there shall be righteousness to us, if we take heed to keep all these mitzvot before Yahuah our Elohim , as He has commanded us.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 7

The Command to Destroy the Seven Nations and the Election of the Am Segulah

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1And when Yahuah your Elohim shall bring you into the land, into which you go to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before you—the Chitti (Hittite), and the Girgashi (Girgashite), and the Emori (Amorite), and the Kena‘ani (Canaanite), and the Perizzi (Perizzite), and the Chivvi (Hivite), and the Yevusi (Jebusite)—seven nations more numerous and stronger than you, 2and Yahuah your Elohim shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall strike them. You shall utterly destroy them; you shall not cut a Brit with them, neither shall you pity them. 3Neither shall you contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son. 4For he will draw away your son from Me, and he will serve other elohim ; and the anger of Yahuah will be kindled against you, and He will soon utterly destroy you. 5But thus shall you do to them: you shall destroy their mizbechot (altars), and shall break down their matzevot (pillars), and shall cut down their asherim (groves), and shall burn with fire the graven images of their elohim . 6For you are an am kadosh (holy people) to Yahuah your Elohim ; and Yahuah your Elohim chose you to be to Him an am segulah (a peculiar people) beyond all nations that are upon the face of the earth. 7It was not because you are more numerous than all other nations that Yahuah set His love upon you and made choice of you, for you are the fewest of all nations. 8But because Yahuah loved you, and as He kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahuah brought you out with a strong hand, and Yahuah redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Mitzrayim . 9You shall know therefore that Yahuah your Elohim is HaElohim , the faithful El , who keeps the Brit and chesed with them that love Him and keep His mitzvot to a thousand generations, 10and who recompenses them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them utterly; He will not be slack with him that hates Him; He will recompense him to his face. 11You shall therefore keep the mitzvah , and the chukim , and the mishpatim , which I command you this day to do. 12And it shall come to pass, because you hear these mishpatim , and keep and do them, that Yahuah your Elohim shall keep for you the Brit and the chesed which He swore to your fathers. 13And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; He will bless the offspring of your womb and the fruit of your ground—your grain, and your new wine, and your fresh oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock—in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you a barren male or female, or among your cattle. 15And Yahuah your Elohim shall remove from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Mitzrayim , which you have seen, and all that you have known, will He lay upon you; but He will lay them upon all that hate you. 16And you shall consume all the spoil of the nations which Yahuah your Elohim gives you; your eye shall not spare them, and you shall not serve their elohim , for that would be a snare to you. 17But if you should say in your lev , These nations are greater than I; how shall I be able to dispossess them? 18you shall not fear them; you shall surely remember what Yahuah your Elohim did to Pharaoh and to all Mitzrayim : 19the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which Yahuah your Elohim brought you out. So shall Yahuah your Elohim do to all the nations of whom you are afraid. 20And Yahuah your Elohim shall send the tzir‘ah (hornet) against them, until those who are left and those who hide themselves from you are destroyed. 21You shall not be terrified before them, for Yahuah your Elohim in the midst of you is a great and awesome El . 22And Yahuah your Elohim shall clear away these nations before you little by little; you shall not be able to consume them quickly, lest the wild beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 23But Yahuah your Elohim shall deliver them over to you, and shall throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. 24And He shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven; no man shall stand before you, until you have destroyed them. 25You shall burn with fire the graven images of their elohim ; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to Yahuah your Elohim . 26And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it; you shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is a devoted thing.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 8

The Humble Pilgrimage in the Midbar and the Forbidden Pride of Wealth

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1You shall observe to do all the mitzvot which I charge you today, that you may live and be multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which Yahuah your Elohim swore to your fathers. 2And you shall remember all the way which Yahuah your Elohim led you in the midbar (wilderness) these forty years, that He might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your lev might be made manifest, whether you would keep His mitzvot or no. 3And He afflicted you and let you hunger, and fed you with manna (manna), which your fathers knew not; that He might teach you that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahuah shall man live. 4Your garments grew not old from off you, your shoes were not worn from off you, your feet were not painfully hardened—behold!—these forty years. 5And you shall know in your lev , that as a man chastens his son, so Yahuah your Elohim chastens you. 6And you shall keep the mitzvot of Yahuah your Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. 7For Yahuah your Elohim will bring you into a good and extensive land, a land of torrents of waters, fountains and deep springs issuing through the plains and through the mountains: 8a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land on which you shall not eat your bread with poverty, and you shall not lack anything upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains you shall dig brass. 10And you shall eat and be filled, and shall bless Yahuah your Elohim on the good land which He has given you. 11Take heed to yourself that you forget not Yahuah your Elohim , so as not to keep His mitzvot , and His mishpatim , and His chukim , which I command you this day: 12lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived in them; 13and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you, 14then your lev be lifted up, and you forget Yahuah your Elohim , who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim , out of the house of bondage: 15who led you through that great and terrible midbar , wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you water out of the flinty rock; 16who fed you with manna in the midbar , which your fathers knew not, that He might afflict you, and thoroughly try you, to do you good in your latter end: 17lest you should say in your lev , My strength, and the power of my hand have wrought for me this great wealth. 18But you shall remember Yahuah your Elohim, that it is He who gives you strength to get wealth; that He may establish His Beriyt, which He swore to your fathers, as at this day. 19And it shall come to pass, if you do at all forget Yahuah your Elohim, and walk after other elohim , and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall surely perish. 20As the nations which Yahuah destroys before your face, so shall you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 9

The Stubbornness of Yisra'el and Moshe's Intercession at Chorev

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1Hear, O Yisra’el : You go this day across the Yarden to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven; 2a people great and many and tall, the sons of Anak (Anakim), whom you know, and concerning whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak? 3And you shall know today that Yahuah your Elohim , He shall go before your face: He is a consuming fire; He shall destroy them, and He shall turn them back before you, and shall destroy them quickly, as Yahuah said to you. 4Speak not in your lev , when Yahuah your Elohim has destroyed these nations before your face, saying, For my righteousness Yahuah brought me in to inherit this good land. 5Not for your righteousness, nor for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahuah your Elohim will destroy them from before you, and that He may establish the Beriyt which Yahuah swore to our fathers, to Avraham , and to Yitzchak , and to Ya‘akov . 6And you shall know today that it is not for your righteousnesses that Yahuah your Elohim gives you this good land to inherit, for you are a stiffnecked people. 7Remember, forget not, how much you provoked Yahuah your Elohim in the midbar : from the day that you came forth out of Mitzrayim , even till you came into this place, you continued to be disobedient towards Yahuah . 8Also in Chorev you provoked Yahuah , and Yahuah was angry with you to destroy you; 9when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the Beriyt , which Yahuah made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water. 10And Yahuah gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of Elohim , and on them there had been written all the words which Yahuah spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the kahal . 11And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, Yahuah gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the Beriyt. 12And Yahuah said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for your people whom you brought out of Mitzrayim have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image. 13And Yahuah spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people. 14And now suffer Me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this. 15And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burnt with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the Beriyt were in my two hands. 16And when I saw that you had sinned against Yahuah your Elohim, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had gone astray out of the way which Yahuah commanded you to keep; 17then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18And I made my petition before Yahuah as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before Yahuah Elohim to provoke Him. 19And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because Yahuah was provoked with you utterly to destroy you; yet Yahuah listened to me at this time also. 20And He was angry with Aharon (Aaron) to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aharon also at that time. 21And your sin which you had made, even the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain. 22Also at Tave‘erah (burning), and at Massah (temptation), and at Kivrot Ha’Ta’avah (the graves of lust), you provoked Yahuah . 23And when Yahuah sent you forth from KadeshBarne‘a , saying, Go up and inherit the land which I give to you, then you disobeyed the word of Yahuah your Elohim , and believed Him not, and listened not to His voice. 24You were disobedient in the things relating to Yahuah from the day in which He became known to you. 25And I prayed before Yahuah forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for Yahuah said that He would utterly destroy you. 26And I prayed to Elohim, and said, O Adonai Yahuah, King of gods, destroy not Your people and Your nachalah , whom You did redeem, whom You brought out of the land of Mitzrayim with Your great power, and with Your strong hand, and with Your high arm. 27Remember Avraham, Yitzchak , and Ya‘akov Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sin. 28Lest the inhabitants of the land whence You brought us out speak, saying, Because Yahuah could not bring them into the land of which He spoke to them, and because He hated them, has He brought them forth to kill them in the midbar. 29And these are Your people and Your portion, whom You brought out of the land of Mitzrayim with Your great strength, and with Your mighty hand, and with Your high arm.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 10

The Second Tables of the Brit; The Ark and the Priesthood of Levi; The Call to Fear, Love, and Circumcise the Heart

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1At that time Yahuah (the Lord) said to me, Hew two tables of stone, as the first, and come up to me into the mountain, and you shall make an ark of wood. 2And I will write upon the tables the words which were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them into the ark. 3So I made an ark of incorruptible wood, and I hewed two tables of stone like the first, and I went up to the mountain, and the two tables were in my hands. 4And he wrote upon the tables according to the first writing the Aseret HaDevarim (ten commandments), which Yahuah spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the kahal (assembly); and Yahuah gave them to me. 5And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as Yahuah commanded me. 6And the children of Yisra’el (Israel) departed from Beroth of the sons of Jakim to Misadai ; there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son acted as kohen (priest) in his stead. 7Thence they departed to Gadgad, and from Gadgad to Jotbath, a land of torrents of water. 8At that time Yahuah separated the shevet (tribe) of Levi to bear the aron (ark) of the covenant of Yahuah , to stand before Yahuah to minister unto him, and to bless in his shem (name) unto this day. 9Therefore Levi has no part nor nachalah (inheritance) among his brethren; Yahuah is his inheritance, as Yahuah your Elohim (God) said to him. 10And I remained in the mountain forty days and forty nights, as the first time, and Yahuah hearkened to me also at this time, for Yahuah would not destroy you. 11And Yahuah said to me, Arise, go before this people, and let them enter in and inherit the land, which I sware to their fathers to give to them. 12And now, Yisra’el , what does Yahuah your Elohim require of you, but to fear Yahuah your Elohim , and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahuah your Elohim with all your lev (heart), and with all your nefesh (soul); 13to keep the mitzvot (commandments) of Yahuah your Elohim , and his chukim (statutes), all that I command you this day, that it may be well with you? 14Behold, the heaven and the shamayim (heavens) of heavens belong to Yahuah your Elohim , the earth also and all things that are in it. 15Only Yahuah delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their zera (seed) after them—even you—beyond all nations, as at this day. 16And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your lev , and you shall no more harden your neck. 17For Yahuah your Elohim , he is Elohim of gods, and Adonai of lords, the great El , and strong, and terrible, who has no respect of persons, nor will he take a bribe; 18who executes mishpat (judgement) for the ger (stranger), and the orphan, and the widow; and who loves the stranger, to give him food and raiment. 19And you shall love the stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt). 20Yahuah your Elohim shall you fear, and him shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave, and by his shem shall you swear. 21He is your boasting, and he is your Elohim , who has done in the midst of you these great and glorious things, which your eyes have seen. 22With seventy nefashot (souls) your fathers went down into Mitzrayim ; and now Yahuah your Elohim has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 11

The Reward of Obedience: The Land Flowing with Milk and Honey, the Blessing and the Curse on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal

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1Therefore you shall ahav (love) Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God), and you shall keep his mishmeret (charge / ordinances), and his chukim (statutes), and his mishpatim (judgements), and his mitzvot (commandments), always. 2And you shall know this day; for I speak not to your children, who know not and have not seen the musar (discipline / instruction) of Yahuah your Elohim , and his greatness, and his mighty yad (hand), and his high arm; 3and his otot (signs), and his wonders, which he wrought in the midst of Mitzrayim (Egypt) to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and all his land; 4and what he did to the host of the Egyptians, and to their chariots, and to their cavalry, how Yahuah made the water of the Yam Suph (Red Sea) to overflow their face as they pursued after you, and Yahuah destroyed them until this day; 5and all that he did to you in the midbar (wilderness) until you came into this place; 6and all that he did to Dathan and Abiron, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all their substance that was with them, in the midst of all Yisra’el (Israel): 7for your eyes have seen all the mighty works of Yahuah , which he wrought today. 8And you shall keep all his mitzvot , as many as I command you today, that you may live, and be multiplied, and that you may go in and inherit the land, into which you go across the Yarden (Jordan) to inherit it: 9that you may live many days upon the land, which Yahuah sware to your fathers to give to them, and to their zera (seed) after them, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10For the land into which you go to inherit it is not as the land of Mitzrayim , from which you came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their foot, as a garden of herbs: 11but the land into which you go to inherit it is a land of harim (mountains) and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven. 12A land which Yahuah your Elohim surveys continually, the eyes of Yahuah your Elohim are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 13Now if you will indeed hearken to all his mitzvot which I command you this day, to love Yahuah your Elohim , and to serve him with all your lev (heart), and with all your nefesh (soul), 14then he shall give the rain to your land in its season, the early and the latter; and you shall bring in your corn, and your wine, and your oil. 15And he shall give grass in your fields for your cattle; and when you have eaten and are full, 16take heed to yourselves that your lev be not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other elohim (gods), and bow down to them; 17and the anger of Yahuah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land, which Yahuah gives you. 18And you shall lay up these devarim (words) in your lev and in your nefesh , and you shall bind them for an ot (sign) upon your hand, and it shall be fixed tota-fot (frontlets) before your eyes. 19And you shall teach them to your children, so as to speak about them when you sit in the house, and when you walk by the way, and when you sleep, and when you rise up. 20And you shall write them on the mezuzot (doorposts) of your houses, and on your gates; 21that your days may be many, and the days of your children, upon the land which Yahuah sware to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22And it shall come to pass that if you will indeed hearken to all these mitzvot which I command you today, to love Yahuah your Elohim , to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; 23then Yahuah shall cast out all these nations before you, and you shall inherit great nations and stronger than yourselves. 24Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the midbar and Levanon (Antilibanus), and from the great river, the river Perath (Euphrates), even to the hinder sea shall be your coasts. 25No man shall stand before you: Yahuah your Elohim will put the fear of you and the dread of you on the face of all the land, on which you shall tread, as he has spoken to you. 26Behold, I set before you this day the berakah (blessing) and the kelalah (curse): 27the blessing, if you hearken to the mitzvot of Yahuah your Elohim , all that I command you this day; 28and the curse, if you do not hearken to the mitzvot of Yahuah our Elohim , as many as I command you this day, and you turn aside out of the way which I commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, whom you know not. 29And it shall come to pass when Yahuah your Elohim shall have brought you into the land into which you go over to possess it, then you shall put the blessing on mount Gerizim , and the curse on mount Ebal . 30Behold, are not these beyond Yarden , behind the way of the setting sun, in the land of the Kena‘anim (Chananites) who dwell in the Aravah (plain) over against Galgal, by the high oak? 31For you are to pass over Yarden , to go in and inherit the land, which Yahuah our Elohim gives you for an inheritance; and you shall dwell in it. 32And you shall take heed to do all his chukim, and these mishpatim , as many as I set before you today.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 12

The Place Where Yahuah Shall Put His Name; Prohibition of Idolatrous Altars; The Sanctity of the Blood; Laws of Offerings and Tithes

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1And these are the chukim and the mishpatim (judgements), which you shall observe to do in the land, which Yahuah Elohei (the Lord God) of your fathers gives you for an inheritance, all the days which you live upon the land. 2You shall utterly destroy all the places in which the nations whom you shall inherit served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. 3And you shall pull down their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and you shall destroy their name out of that place. 4You shall not do so to Yahuah your Elohim. 5But in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose out of all your shevatim (tribes) to put his Shem (name) there, even for his habitation shall you seek, and thither shall you come; 6and thither shall you bring your wholeburntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the terumah (heaveofferings) of your hands, and your vows, and your freewillofferings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks. 7And there shall you eat before Yahuah your Elohim , and you shall rejoice in all things on which you shall lay your hand, you and your houses, as Yahuah your Elohim has blessed you. 8You shall not do altogether as we do here today, every man that which is right in his own eyes; 9for you are not as yet come to the menuchah (rest) and to the nachalah which Yahuah our Elohim gives you. 10And you shall go over the Yarden (Jordan), and shall dwell in the land which Yahuah our Elohim causes you to inherit, and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell safely. 11And there shall be a place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose for his name to be called there; thither shall you bring all things that I command you this day: your wholeburntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the terumah of your hands, and every choice gift of your vows whatsoever you shall vow to Yahuah your Elohim . 12And you shall rejoice before Yahuah your Elohim , you and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maids, and the Lewi (Levite) that is at your gates, because he has no part nor inheritance with you. 13Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your wholeburntofferings in any place which you may see; 14save in the place which Yahuah shall choose in one of your shevatim , there shall you offer your wholeburntofferings, and there shall you do all things whatsoever I charge you this day. 15But you may kill and eat flesh according to all the desire of your soul, according to the berakah (blessing) of Yahuah your Elohim , which he has given you in every city; the unclean that is within you, and the tahor (clean), shall eat it on equal terms, as the gazelle or the deer. 16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water. 17You shall not be able to eat in your cities the tithe of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock, and all your vows as many as you shall have vowed, and your freewillofferings, and the terumah of your hands. 18But before Yahuah your Elohim shall you eat it, in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, your manservant, and your maid, and the ger (stranger) that is in your cities; and you shall rejoice before Yahuah your Elohim on whatsoever you may lay your hand. 19Take heed to yourself that you do not desert the Lewi all the time that you live upon the earth. 20And if Yahuah your Elohim shall enlarge your borders, as he has spoken to you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh; if your soul should desire to eat flesh, you may eat flesh according to all the desire of your soul. 21And if the place be far from you which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose for his name to be called there, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which Yahuah shall give you, as I commanded you, and you shall eat in your cities according to all the desire of your soul. 22Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so shall you eat it; the unclean in you and the tahor shall eat alike. 23Hold fast that you eat not the blood; for the blood is the nefesh (soul), and the nefesh shall not be eaten with the flesh. 24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground as water. 25You shall not eat it, that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, when you shall do that which is good and pleasing before Yahuah your Elohim . 26But your kadoshim (holy things) which you shall have, and your vows, you shall take and come to the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose; 27and you shall offer your wholeburntofferings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Yahuah your Elohim : the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out at the foot of the altar of Yahuah your Elohim , but the flesh you may eat. 28Hearken and hear all these devarim (words), which I command you, that it may be well with you and with your sons for ever, when you shall do the good and the pleasing thing before Yahuah your Elohim . 29And when Yahuah your Elohim shall have utterly destroyed the nations, whom you go into the land to inherit, from before you, and you shall inherit it, and dwell in their land; 30take heed to yourself that you seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before you, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise. 31You shall not do so to Yahuah your Elohim; for they have done to their gods every abomination that Yahuah hates; for they have even burnt their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods. 32Every devar (word) that I command you this day, it shall you observe to do; you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 13

Warning Against False Prophets and Enticers to Idolatry; the Judgement of an Apostate City

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1And if there arise among you a navi (prophet), or one who dreams a chalom (dream), and he give you an ot (sign) or a mofet (wonder), 2and the sign or the wonder come to pass which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go and serve other elohim (gods), which you know not; 3you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, because Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) is trying you, to know whether you love Yahuah your Elohim with all your lev (heart) and with all your nefesh (soul). 4You shall follow after Yahuah your Elohim , and fear him, and keep his mitzvot (commandments), and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him. 5And that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream, shall be put to death; for he has spoken to make you turn aside from Yahuah your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), who redeemed you from the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way in which Yahuah your Elohim commanded you to walk: so shall you remove the ra (evil) from the midst of you. 6And if your brother by your father or mother, or your son, or daughter, or your wife that is in your bosom, or your friend who is equal to your own nefesh (soul), should entreat you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, nor your fathers, 7of the gods of the nations that are round about you, who are near you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other; 8you shall not consent to him, neither shall you hearken to him; and your eye shall not spare him, you shall feel no regret for him, nor shall you at all protect him: 9you shall surely report concerning him; your hand shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people at the last. 10And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw you away from Yahuah your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim , out of the house of bondage. 11And all Yisra’el (Israel) shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thing in the midst of you. 12And if in one of your cities which Yahuah your Elohim gives you to dwell there, you shall hear men saying, 13Men, sons of Beliyya‘al (lawless/worthless men), have gone out from among you, and have caused all the inhabitants of their city to turn away, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, whom you have not known; 14then you shall enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if the thing be truly established, that this abomination has been done among you, 15you shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword; you shall utterly destroy it with the edge of the sword, and all things that are in it, and its cattle. 16And you shall gather all its spoils into its streets, and burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before Yahuah your Elohim ; and it shall be a tel olam (heap for ever); it shall not be built again. 17And none of the cherem (devoted thing) shall cleave to your hand, that Yahuah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and grant you rachamim (mercy), and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he sware to your fathers; 18if you will hearken to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim , to keep all his mitzvot , which I command you this day, to do that which is good and right before Yahuah your Elohim .

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 14

The Ban on Pagan Mourning, Clean and Unclean Animals, and the Ma'aser Sheni for the Place Yahuah Chooses

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1You are banim (sons) to Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God): you shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2For you are a am kadosh (holy people) to Yahuah your Elohim , and Yahuah has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth. 3You shall not eat any to‘evah (abominable thing). 4These are the beasts which you shall eat: the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats; 5the ayyal (deer), and the tzevi (gazelle), and the yachmur (roebuck), and the akko (wild goat), and the dishon (pygarg), and the te’o (oryx), and the zamer (giraffe / mountaingoat). 6Every beast that divides the hoof and splits the cleft into two claws and chews the cud among beasts, these you may eat. 7And these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the split hoof: the gamal (camel), and the arnevet (hare), and the shafan (coney), because they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are tame (unclean) to you. 8And the chazir (swine) is unclean to you, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud; you shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their dead bodies. 9And these you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales you shall eat. 10And all that have not fins and scales you shall not eat; they are tame to you. 11You shall eat every tahor (clean) bird. 12And these of them you shall not eat: the nesher (eagle), and the peres (ossifrage), and the ozniyyah (seaeagle); 13and the ra’ah (vulture), and the ayyah (kite), and the dayyah (kite) after its kind; 14and every orev (raven) after his kind; 15and the bat ya‘anah (female ostrich), and the tachmas (nighthawk), and the shachaf (seamew), and the netz (hawk) after his kind; 16and the kos (little owl), and the yanshuf (great owl), and the tinshemet (horned owl); 17and the ka‘at (pelican), and the rachamah (carrionvulture), and the shalach (cormorant); 18and the chasidah (stork), and the anafah (heron) after its kind, and the duchifat (hoopoe), and the atallef (bat). 19All creeping things that fly are tame to you; they shall not be eaten. 20You may eat every clean winged creature. 21You shall not eat any nevelah (carcass that dies of itself): you shall give it to the ger (stranger) that is in your cities, and he shall eat it; or you shall sell it to a foreigner: for you are a am kadosh to Yahuah your Elohim . You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. 22You shall surely tithe a ma‘aser (tithe) of all the produce of your zera (seed) which the field brings forth year by year. 23And you shall eat it in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose for his Shem (name) to be called there: the tithe of your corn, and your wine, and your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahuah your Elohim always. 24And if the journey be too far for you, so that you are not able to bring it, because the place is far from you which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose to have his name called there, because Yahuah your Elohim will bless you; 25then you shall sell it for money, and take the money in your hand, and go to the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose; 26and you shall give the money for whatsoever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul may ask you; and you shall eat there before Yahuah your Elohim , and you shall rejoice, you and your house, 27and the Lewi (Levite) that is in your cities, because he has no part nor nachalah (inheritance) with you. 28At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the ma‘aser of your produce; in that year you shall lay it up in your cities. 29And the Lewi shall come, because he has no part nor inheritance with you, and the ger , and the orphan, and the widow that are in your cities; and they shall eat and be satisfied, that Yahuah your Elohim may bless you in all the works of your hand which you shall do.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 15

The Year of Shemittah, the Cancellation of Debts, Provision for the Poor, the Liberation of Hebrew Bondsmen

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1Every seven years you shall make a shemittah (release). 2And this is the mishpat (ordinance) of the shemittah: you shall remit every private debt which your neighbour owes you, and you shall not ask payment of it from your brother; for it has been called a release to Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God). 3Of a stranger you shall ask again whatever he has of yours, but to your brother you shall remit his debt to you. 4For thus there shall not be an ebyon (poor person) in the midst of you, for Yahuah your Elohim will surely bless you in the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you by nachalah (inheritance), that you should inherit it. 5And if you shall indeed listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim , to keep and do all these mitzvot (commandments), as many as I charge you this day, 6(for Yahuah your Elohim has blessed you in the way of which he spoke to you,) then 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. 7And if there shall be in the midst of you an ebyon of your brethren in one of your cities in the land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you, you shall not harden your lev (heart), neither shall you by any means close up your yad (hand) from your brother who is in lack. 8You shall surely open your yad to him, and shall lavah (lend) to him as much as he wants according to his need. 9Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret davar (thing) in your lev , an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the shemittah year, draws near; and your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in lack, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to Yahuah , and there shall be great chet (sin) in you. 10You shall surely give to him, and you shall lavah to him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and you shall not grudge in your lev as you give to him, because on this account Yahuah your Elohim will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your yad . 11For the ebyon shall not fail off your land, therefore I charge you to do this davar , saying, You shall surely open your yad to your poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon your land. 12And if your brother or sister, an Ivri (Hebrew) man or an Ivri woman, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out chofshi (free) from you. 13And when you shall send him out chofshi from you, you shall not send him out empty. 14You shall give him provision for the way from your flock, and from your corn, and from your wine; as Yahuah your Elohim has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and Yahuah your Elohim redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this davar today. 16And if he should say to you, I will not go out from you, because he continues to love you and your house, because he is well with you; 17then you shall take an awl, and bore his ozen (ear) through to the door, and he shall be your servant for ever; and in like manner shall you do to your maidservant. 18It shall not seem hard to you when they are sent out chofshi from you, because your servant has served you six years according to the annual hire of a hireling; so Yahuah your Elohim shall bless you in all things whatever you may do. 19Every bechor (firstborn) that shall be born amongst your kine and your sheep, you shall sanctify the males to Yahuah your Elohim ; you shall not work with your firstborn calf, and you shall not shear the bechor of your sheep. 20You shall eat it before Yahuah year by year in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose, you and your house. 21And if there be in it a mum (blemish), if it be lame or blind, an evil mum , you shall not sacrifice it to Yahuah your Elohim . 22You shall eat it in your cities; the tame (unclean) in you and the tahor (clean) shall eat it in like manner, as the doe or the stag. 23Only you shall not eat the dam (blood); you shall shafak (pour it out) on the earth as water.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 16

The Three Pilgrimage Festivals: Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot; the Appointment of Judges and Officers

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1Observe the month of Aviv (new corn), and you shall sacrifice the Pesach (passover) to Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God); because in the month of Aviv you came out of Mitzrayim (Egypt) by night. 2And you shall sacrifice the Pesach to Yahuah your Elohim , sheep and oxen in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose to have his Shem (name) called upon it. 3You shall not eat chametz (leaven) with it; seven days shall you eat matzot (unleavened bread) with it, bread of affliction, because you came forth out of Mitzrayim in haste; that you may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Mitzrayim all the days of your life. 4Chametz shall not be seen with you in all your borders for seven days, and there shall not be left of the flesh which you shall sacrifice at even on the first day until the morning. 5You shall not have power to sacrifice the Pesach in any of the cities, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 6But in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose, to have his Shem called there, you shall sacrifice the Pesach at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when you came out of Mitzrayim . 7And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose; and you shall return in the morning, and go to your house. 8Six days shall you eat matzot , and on the seventh day is a mikra kodesh (holy convocation), a feast to Yahuah your Elohim : you shall not do in it any work, save what must be done by any one. 9Seven Shavuot (weeks) shall you number to yourself; when you have begun to put the sickle to the corn, you shall begin to number seven Shavuot . 10And you shall keep the Chag Shavuot (feast of weeks) to Yahuah your Elohim , accordingly as your hand has power in as many things as Yahuah your Elohim shall give you. 11And you shall rejoice before Yahuah your Elohim , you and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant and your maidservant, and the Lewi (Levite), and the ger (stranger), and the orphan, and the widow which dwells amongst you, in whatever place Yahuah your Elohim shall choose, that his Shem should be called there. 12And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Mitzrayim , and you shall observe and do these mitzvot (commands). 13You shall keep for yourself the Chag Sukkot (feast of tabernacles) seven days, when you gather in your produce from your corn-floor and your wine-press. 14And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, and the Lewi , and the ger , and the orphan, and the widow that is in your cities. 15Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahuah your Elohim in the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose for himself; and if Yahuah your Elohim shall bless you in all your fruits, and in every work of your hands, then you shall rejoice. 16Three times in the year shall all your males appear before Yahuah your Elohim in the place which Yahuah shall choose in the Chag HaMatzot (feast of unleavened bread), and in the Chag Shavuot , and in the Chag Sukkot : you shall not appear before Yahuah your Elohim empty. 17Each one according to his ability, according to the berakah (blessing) of Yahuah your Elohim which he has given you. 18You shall make for yourself shoftim (judges) and shotrim (officers) in your cities, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you in your shevatim (tribes), and they shall judge the people with righteous mishpat (judgement): 19they shall not wrest mishpat , nor favour persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the tzaddikim (righteous). 20You shall justly pursue tzedek (justice), that you may live, and go in and inherit the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 21You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah (grove); you shall not plant for yourself any tree near the altar of Yahuah your Elohim. 22You shall not set up for yourself a matzevah (pillar), which Yahuah your Elohim hates.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 17

Blemished Sacrifices Forbidden; the Judgement of Idolaters; the Court of Priests and Judges; the Law of the King

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1You shall not sacrifice to Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) a calf or a sheep, in which there is a mum (blemish), or any evil thing; for it is a to'evah (abomination) to Yahuah your Elohim . 2And if there should be found in any one of your cities, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before Yahuah your Elohim , so as to transgress his Brit (covenant), 3and they should go and serve other elohim (gods), and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of Shamayim (heaven), which he commanded you not to do, 4and it be told you, and you shall have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this to'evah has been done in Yisra'el (Israel); 5then shall you bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, and they shall die. 6He shall die on the testimony of two or three edim (witnesses); a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness. 7And the yad (hand) of the witnesses shall be upon him amongst the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shall you remove the ra (evil one) from amongst yourselves. 8And if a matter shall be too hard for you in mishpat (judgement), between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgement in your cities; 9then you shall arise and go up to the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose, and you shall come to the kohanim (priests) the Lewiyim (Levites), and to the shofet (judge) who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the mishpat to you. 10And you shall act according to the word which they shall report to you out of the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose, and you shall observe to do all whatever shall have been by Torah (law) appointed to you. 11You shall do according to the Torah and to the mishpat which they shall declare to you: you shall not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to you. 12And the man whoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to listen to the kohen (priest) who stands to minister in the Shem (name) of Yahuah your Elohim , or the shofet who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and you shall remove the ra out of Yisra'el . 13And all the people shall hear and fear, and shall no more commit impiety. 14And when you shall enter into the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you, and shall inherit it and dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a melekh (ruler / king) over me, as also the other nations round about me; 15you shall surely set over you the melekh whom Yahuah your Elohim shall choose: of your brethren you shall set over you a melekh ; you shall not have power to set over you a stranger, because he is not your brother. 16For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Mitzrayim (Egypt), lest he should multiply to himself horses; for Yahuah said, You shall not any more turn back by that way. 17And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his lev (heart) turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this Mishneh HaTorah (repetition of the law) into a book by the hands of the kohanim the Lewiyim ; 19and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahuah his Elohim , and to keep all these mitzvot (commandments), and to observe these chukim (ordinances): 20that his lev be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the mitzvot on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion amongst the children of Yisra'el .

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 18

The Portion of the Kohanim and Lewiyim; Prohibition of Pagan Abominations; the Promise of a Navi Like Moshe

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1The kohanim (priests), the Lewiyim (Levites), even the whole shevet (tribe) of Lewi, shall have no part nor nachalah (inheritance) with Yisra’el (Israel); the ishsheh (burnt offerings) of Yahuah (the Lord) are their nachalah , they shall eat them. 2And they shall have no nachalah amongst their brethren; Yahuah himself is his portion, as he said to him. 3And this is the mishpat (due) of the kohanim in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and you shall give the shoulder to the kohen , and the cheeks, and the great intestine: 4and the bikkurim (first fruits) of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil; and you shall give to him the bikkurim of the fleeces of your sheep: 5because Yahuah has chosen him out of all your shevatim (tribes), to stand before Yahuah your Elohim (God), to minister and bless in his Shem (name), himself and his sons amongst the children of Yisra’el . 6And if a Lewi come from one of the cities of all the children of Yisra’el , where he himself dwells, accordingly as his nefesh (soul) desires, to the place which Yahuah shall have chosen, 7he shall minister to the Shem of Yahuah his Elohim , as all his brethren the Lewiyim , who stand there present before Yahuah your Elohim . 8He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property. 9And when you shall have entered into the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the to’evot (abominations) of those nations. 10There shall not be found in you one who ma’avir b’esh (purges his son or his daughter with fire), one who qosem q'samim (uses divination), one who me’onen (deals with omens), and menachesh (augury), 11a mekhashef (sorcerer employing incantation), one who sho'el ov (has in him a divining spirit), a yid'oni (observer of signs), doresh el ha-metim (questioning the dead). 12For every one that does these things is a to’evah to Yahuah your Elohim ; for because of these to’evot Yahuah will destroy them from before your face. 13You shall be tamim (perfect) before Yahuah your Elohim . 14For all these nations whose land you shall inherit, they will listen to me’onenim (omens) and qosem (divinations); but Yahuah your Elohim has not permitted you so to do. 15A navi (prophet) of your brethren, like me, shall Yahuah your Elohim raise up to you; him shall you hear: 16according to all things which you did desire of Yahuah your Elohim in Chorev (Horeb) in the day of the kahal (assembly), saying, We will not again hear the voice of Yahuah our Elohim , and we will not any more see this great fire, and so we shall not die. 17And Yahuah said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to you. 18I will raise up to them a navi of their brethren, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him. 19And whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that navi shall speak in my Shem, I will take vengeance on him. 20But the navi whoever shall impiously speak in my Shem a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the Shem of other elohim (gods), that navi shall die. 21But if you shall say in your lev (heart), How shall we know the word which Yahuah has not spoken? 22Whatsoever words that navi shall speak in the Shem of Yahuah , and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this is the thing which Yahuah has not spoken; that navi has spoken wickedly: you shall not spare him.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 19

The Arei Miklat; the Law of the Manslayer; Witnesses and False Testimony; the Law of Retaliation

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1And when Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) shall have destroyed the nations, which Elohim gives you, even the land, and you shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses, 2you shall separate for yourself three arim (cities) in the midst of your land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 3Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which Yahuah your Elohim apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer. 4And this shall be the mishpat (ordinance) of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past. 5And whoever shall enter with his neighbour into the thicket, to gather wood, if the yad (hand) of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live. 6Lest the go'el ha-dam (avenger of blood) pursue after the slayer, because his lev (heart) is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and nakah (strike/kill) him, though there is to this man no mishpat mavet (sentence of death), because he hated him not in time past. 7Therefore I charge you, saying, You shall separate for yourself three arim [cities]. 8And if Yahuah shall enlarge your borders, as he swore to your fathers, and Yahuah shall give to you all the land which he said he would give to your fathers; 9if you shall listen to do all these mitzvot (commands), which I charge you this day, to love Yahuah your Elohim , to walk in all his ways continually; you shall add for yourself yet three arim to these three. 10So innocent blood shall not be spilled in the land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood. 11But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and nakah him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities, 12then shall the zakenim (elders) of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the go'el ha-dam , and he shall die. 13Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Yisra'el (Israel), and it shall be well with you. 14You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbour, which your fathers set in the nachalah (inheritance), in which you have obtained a share in the land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you to inherit. 15One ed (witness) shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every davar (word) be established. 16And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him; 17then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before Yahuah , and before the kohanim (priests), and before the shoftim (judges), who may be in those days. 18And the shoftim shall make diligent enquiry, and, behold, if an unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; and has stood up against his brother; 19then shall you do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the ra (evil) from yourselves. 20And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you. 21Your eye shall not spare him: you shall exact nefesh (life) for nefesh , eye for eye, tooth for tooth, yad for yad , foot for foot.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 20

Laws of Warfare: Exemptions, Offers of Peace, and the Treatment of Trees in a Siege

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1And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and should see horse, and rider, and a people more numerous than yourself; you shall not be afraid of them, for Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt). 2And it shall come to pass whenever you shall draw near to battle, that the kohen (priest) shall draw near and speak to the people, and shall say to them, 3Hear, Yisra'el (Israel); you are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your lev (heart) faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face. 4For it is Yahuah your Elohim who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you. 5And the shotrim (scribes / officers) shall speak to the people, saying, What man is he that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it. 6And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it. 7And what man is he that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. 8And the shotrim shall speak further to the people, and say, What man is he that fears and is cowardly in his lev ? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the lev of his brother fail, as his own. 9And it shall come to pass when the shotrim shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people. 10And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out shalom (peaceably). 11If then they should answer shalom to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you. 12But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it; 13until Yahuah your Elohim shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: 14except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 15Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not being of the cities of these nations which Yahuah your Elohim gives you to inherit their land. 16Of these you shall not take any thing alive; 17but you shall surely charam (curse / devote to destruction) them, the Chitti (Chettite), and the Emori (Amorite), and the Kena'ani (Chananite), and the Perizi (Pherezite), and the Chivi (Evite), and the Yevusi (Jebusite), and the Girgashi (Gergesite); as Yahuah your Elohim commanded you: 18that they may not teach you to do all their to'evot (abominations), which they did to their elohim (gods), and so you should sin before Yahuah your Elohim . 19And if you should besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, you shall not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but you shall eat of it, and shall not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before you into the work of the siege? 20But the tree which you know to be not fruit-bearing, this you shall destroy and cut down; and you shall construct a mound against the city, which makes war against you, until it be delivered up.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 21

Atonement for Unsolved Murder; the Treatment of Female Captives; the Rights of the Firstborn; Judgement of a Rebellious Son

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1And if one be found slain with the sword in the land, which Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) gives you to inherit, having fallen in the field, and they do not know who has struck him; 2your zakenim (elders) and your shoftim (judges) shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man: 3and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the zakenim of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke. 4And the zakenim of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall strike the heifer in the valley. 5And the kohanim (priests) the Lewiyim (Levites) shall come, because Yahuah your Elohim has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his Shem (name), and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be decided. 6And all the zakenim of that city who draw near to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley; 7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it. 8Be merciful to your people Yisra'el (Israel), whom you have redeemed, O Yahuah , that innocent blood may not be charged on your people Yisra'el : and the blood shall be kapparah (atoned for) to them. 9And you shall take away innocent blood from amongst you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before Yahuah your Elohim . 10And if when you go out to war against your enemies, Yahuah your Elohim should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil, 11and should see amongst the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife, 12and should bring her within your house: then shall you shave her head, and pare her nails; 13and shall take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in your house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards you shall go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be your wife. 14And it shall be if you do not delight in her, you shall send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, you shall not treat her contemptuously, because you have humbled her. 15And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him children, and the son of the hated should be bechor (firstborn); 16then it shall be that whenever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the mishpat habechorah (right of the firstborn) to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the bechor . 17But he shall acknowledge the bechor of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the mishpat habechorah (birthright). 18And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not listen to them; 19then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the zakenim of his city, and to the gate of the place: 20and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard. 21And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the ra (evil one) from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear. 22And if there be chet (sin) in any one, and the mishpat mavet (judgement of death) be upon him, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree: 23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall by all means bury it in that day; for every one that is hanged on a tree is kilelat Elohim (cursed of God); and you shall by no means defile the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you for an inheritance.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 22

Laws of Brotherhood: Returning Lost Property; Prohibition of Mixtures; Tzitzit; Slander of a Virgin; Penalties for Adultery and Fornication

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1When you see the calf of your brother or his sheep wandering in the way, you shall not overlook them; you shall by all means turn them back to your brother, and you shall restore them to him. 2And if your brother do not come near you, and you do not know him, you shall bring it into your house within; and it shall be with you until your brother shall seek them, and you shall restore them to him. 3Thus shall you do to his ass, and thus shall you do to his garment, and thus shall you do to every thing that your brother has lost; whatever shall have been lost by him, and you shall have found, you shall not have power to overlook. 4You shall not see the ass of your brother, or his calf, fallen in the way: you shall not overlook them, you shall surely help him to raise them up. 5The apparel of a man shall not be on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's dress; for every one that does these things is a to'evah (abomination) to Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God). 6And if you should come upon a brood of birds before your face in the way or upon any tree, or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be brooding on the young or the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young ones. 7You shall by all means let the mother go, but you shall take the young to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long. 8If you should build a new house, then shall you make a parapet to your house; so you shall not bring blood-guiltiness upon your house, if one should in any wise fall from it. 9You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatever seed you may sow, with the fruit of your vineyard. 10You shall not plough with an ox and an ass together. 11You shall not wear a mingled garment, sha'atnez (woollen and linen together). 12You shall make tzitzit (fringes) on the four kanfot (borders / corners) of your garments, with which soever you may be clothed. 13And if any one should take a wife, and dwell with her, and hate her, 14and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity: 15then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel's tokens of virginity to the zakenim (elders) of the city to the gate. 16And the father of the damsel shall say to the zakenim , I gave this my daughter to this man for a wife; 17and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not found tokens of virginity with your daughter; and these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the zakenim of the city. 18And the zakenim of that city shall take that man, and shall chastise him, 19and shall fine him one hundred shekels, and shall give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Yisra'el (Israel); and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away. 20But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel; 21then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly amongst the children of Yisra'el , to defile the house of her father by whoring: so you shall remove the ra (evil one) from amongst you. 22And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Yisra'el . 23And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her; 24you shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbour's spouse: so shall you remove the ra from yourselves. 25But if a man find in the field a damsel that is betrothed, and he should force her and lie with her, you shall kill the man that lay with her only. 26And the damsel has not committed a chet (sin) worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbour, and kill him, so is this thing; 27because he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to help her. 28And if anyone should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force her and lie with her, and be found, 29the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver didrachmas, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away. 30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 23

Those Excluded from the Assembly; Purity of the Camp; Prohibition of Harlotry and Usury; the Sacredness of Vows

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1He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the kehal (assembly) of Yahuah (the Lord). 2One born of a harlot shall not enter into the kehal of Yahuah . 3The Amoni (Ammanite) and Moavi (Moabite) shall not enter into the kehal of Yahuah , even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the kehal of Yahuah , even for ever: 4because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when you went out of Mitzrayim (Egypt); and because they hired against you Bil'am (Balaam) the son of Be'or (Beor) of Aram Naharayim (Mesopotamia) to curse you. 5But Yahuah your Elohim (God) would not listen to Bil'am ; and Yahuah your Elohim changed the kelalah (curse) into berakah (blessing), because Yahuah your Elohim loved you. 6You shall not speak peaceably or profitably to them all your days for ever. 7You shall not abhor an Adomi (Edomite), because he is your brother; you shall not abhor a Mitzri (Egyptian), because you were a ger (stranger) in his land. 8If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the kehal of Yahuah . 9And if you should go forth to engage with your enemies, then you shall keep you from every wicked thing. 10If there should be in you a man who is not tahor (clean) by reason of his issue by night, then he shall go forth out of the camp, and he shall not enter into the camp. 11And it shall come to pass towards evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp. 12And you shall have a place outside of the camp, and you shall go out there, 13and you shall have a trowel on your girdle; and it shall come to pass when you would relieve yourself abroad, that you shall dig with it, and shall bring back the earth and cover your nuisance. 14Because Yahuah your Elohim walks in your camp to deliver you, and to give up your enemy before your face; and your camp shall be kadosh (holy), and there shall not appear in you a disgraceful thing, and so he shall turn away from you. 15You shall not deliver a servant to his master, who coming from his master attaches himself to you. 16He shall dwell with you, he shall dwell amongst you where he shall please; you shall not afflict him. 17There shall not be a kedeshah (harlot) of the daughters of Yisra'el (Israel), and there shall not be a kadesh (fornicator) of the sons of Yisra'el ; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Yisra'el , and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Yisra'el . 18You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of Yahuah your Elohim , for any neder (vow); because even both are a to'evah (abomination) to Yahuah your Elohim . 19You shall not lend to your brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which you may lend out. 20You may lend on usury to a stranger, but to your brother you shall not lend on usury; that Yahuah your Elohim may bless you in all your works upon the land, into which you are entering to inherit it. 21And if you will vow a neder to Yahuah your Elohim , you shall not delay to pay it; for Yahuah your Elohim will surely require it of you, and otherwise it shall be chet (sin) in you. 22But if you should be unwilling to vow, it is not chet in you. 23You shall observe the words that proceed from between your lips; and as you have vowed a gift to Yahuah your Elohim, so shall you do that which you have spoken with your mouth.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 24

Divorce and Remarriage; Exemption of a New Husband; Pledges and Wages; Kidnapping; Tzara'at and Miryam; Justice for the Ger, Orphan, and Widow; Gleanings for the Poor

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1And if you should go into the standing corn of your neighbour, then you may pluck the ears with your yad (hand); but you shall not move a sickle upon your neighbour's standing corn. 2And if you should go into the vineyard of your neighbour, you shall eat grapes sufficient to satisfy your nefesh (soul/desire); but you may not put any into a vessel. 3And if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found chen (favour) before him, because he has found some ervat davar (unseemly thing) in her, that he shall write for her a sefer keritut (bill of divorcement), and give it into her yad (hand), and he shall send her away out of his house. 4And if she should go away and be married to another man; 5and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a sefer keritut , and should give it into her yad , and send her away out of his house, or if the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife; 6the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is a to'evah (abomination) before Yahuah your Elohim (God), and you shall not defile the land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you to inherit. 7And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. 8You shall not take for a pledge the lower millstone, nor the upper millstone; for he who does so takes nefesh (life) for a pledge. 9And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Yisra'el (Israel), and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shall you remove that ra (evil one) from yourselves. 10Take heed to yourself in regard of the plague of tzara'at (leprosy): you shall take great heed to do according to all the Torah (law), which the kohanim the Lewiyim (priests the Levites) shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you. 11Remember all that Yahuah your Elohim did to Miryam (Mariam) in the way, when you were going out of Mitzrayim (Egypt). 12If your neighbour owe you a debt, any debt whatever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge: 13you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you. 14And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge. 15You shall surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless you; and it shall be tzedakah (righteousness/mercy) to you before Yahuah your Elohim . 16You shall not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brethren, or of the gerim (strangers) who are in your cities. 17You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he lifts up his nefesh (soul) to it; and he shall cry against you to Yahuah , and it shall be chet (sin) in you. 18The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own chet . 19You shall not wrest the mishpat (judgement) of the ger (stranger), and the fatherless, and the widow; you shall not take the widow's garment for a pledge. 20And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Mitzrayim , and Yahuah your Elohim redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this davar (thing). 21And when you shall have reaped corn in your field, and shall have forgotten a sheaf in your field, you shall not return to take it; it shall be for the ger , and the orphan, and the widow, that Yahuah your Elohim may bless you in all the works of your hands. 22And if you should gather your olives, you shall not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the ger , and the fatherless, and the widow, and you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Mitzrayim ; therefore I command you to do this davar . 23And when soever you shall gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean what you have left; it shall be for the ger , and the orphan, and the widow: 24and you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Mitzrayim ; therefore I command you to do this davar .

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 25

The Law of Stripes; the Muzzle of the Ox; the Levirate Marriage and Chalitzah; the Seizing of Private Parts; Just Weights and Measures; the Command to Blot Out Amalek

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1And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to mishpat (judgement), and the shoftim (judges) judge, and justify the tzaddik (righteous), and condemn the rasha (wicked): 2then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of makkot (stripes), you shall lay him down before the shoftim , and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity. 3And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if you should scourge him with more stripes beyond these stripes, your brother will be disgraced before you. 4You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn. 5And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out of the family to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her. 6And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be called by the shem (name) of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Yisra'el (Israel). 7And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the zakenim (elders), and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Yisra'el , my husband's brother has refused. 8And the zakenim of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her: 9then his brother's wife shall come forward before the zakenim , and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Yisra'el . 10And his name shall be called in Yisra'el , Beit Chalutz haNa'al (The house of him that has had his shoe loosed). 11And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her yad (hand), and take hold of his private parts; 12you shall cut off her yad ; your eye shall not spare her. 13You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small. 14You shall not have in your house various measures, a great and a small. 15You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) gives you for an inheritance. 16For every one that does this is a to'evah (abomination) to Yahuah your Elohim , even every one that does injustice. 17Remember what things Amalek did to you by the way, when you went forth out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt): 18how he withstood you in the way, and harassed your rear, even those that were weary behind you, and you did hunger and was weary; and he did not fear Elohim . 19And it shall come to pass whenever Yahuah your Elohim shall have given you rest from all your enemies round about you, in the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you to inherit, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven, and shall not forget to do it.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 26

The Offering of Firstfruits (Bikkurim) and the Declaration; the Tithe of the Third Year and the Confession; the Mutual Choosing of Yahuah and Yisra'el

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1And it shall be when you shall have entered into the land, which Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) gives you to inherit it, and you shall have inherited it, and you shall have lived upon it, 2that you shall take of the first of the fruits of your land, which Yahuah your Elohim gives you, and you shall put them into a basket, and you shall go to the place which Yahuah your Elohim shall choose to have his Shem (name) called there. 3And you shall come to the kohen (priest) who shall be in those days, and you shall say to him, I testify this day to Yahuah my Elohim , that I am come into the land which Yahuah swore to our fathers to give to us. 4And the kohen shall take the basket out of your yad (hands), and shall set it before the altar of Yahuah your Elohim : 5and he shall answer and say before Yahuah your Elohim , My father abandoned Aram (Syria), and went down into Mitzrayim (Egypt), and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude. 6And the Mitzrim (Egyptians) afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed hard tasks on us: 7and we cried to Yahuah our Elohim , and Yahuah heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labour, and our affliction. 8And Yahuah brought us out of Mitzrayim himself with his great strength, and his mighty yad (hand), and his high arm, and with great visions, and with signs, and with wonders. 9And he brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land, which you gave me, O Yahuah , a land flowing with milk and honey: and you shall leave it before Yahuah your Elohim , and you shall worship before Yahuah your Elohim ; 11and you shall rejoice in all the good things, which Yahuah your Elohim has given you, you and your family, and the Lewi (Levite), and the ger (stranger) that is within you. 12And when you shall have completed all the ma’aserot (tithings) of your fruits in the third year, you shall give the second tenth to the Lewi , and ger , and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in your cities, and be merry. 13And you shall say before Yahuah your Elohim , I have fully collected the holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Lewi , and the ger , and the orphan, and the widow, according to all mitzvot (commands) which you did command me: I did not transgress your mitzvah (command), and I did not forget it. 14And in my distress I did not eat of them, I have not gathered of them for an unclean purpose, I have not given of them to the dead; I have listened to the voice of Yahuah our Elohim , I have done as you have commanded me. 15Look down from your holy house, from Shamayim (heaven), and bless your people Yisra’el (Israel), and the land which you have given them, as you did swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey. 16On this day Yahuah your Elohim charged you to keep all the chukim (ordinances) and mishpatim (judgements); and you shall observe and do them, with all your lev (heart), and with all your nefesh (soul). 17You have chosen Yahuah this day to be your Elohim , and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his chukim and mishpatim , and to listen to his voice. 18And Yahuah has chosen you this day that you should be to him an am segulah (peculiar / treasured people), as he said, to keep all his mitzvot ; 19and that you should be above all nations, as he has made you renowned, and a boast, and glorious, that you should be a kadosh (holy) people to Yahuah your Elohim , as he has spoken.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 27

The Stones on Mount Ebal; the Altar of Whole Stones; the Tribes on Gerizim and Ebal; the Twelve Curses and the People's Amen

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1And Moshe (Moses) and the zakenim (elders) of Yisra'el (Israel) commanded, saying, Keep all these mitzvot (commands), all that I command you this day. 2And it shall come to pass in the day when you shall cross over Yarden (Jordan) into the land which Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God) gives you, that you shall set up for yourself great stones, and shall plaster them with plaster. 3And you shall write on these stones all the words of this Torah (law), as soon as you have crossed Yarden , when you are entered into the land, which Yahuah Elohei your fathers gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, according as Yahuah Elohei your fathers said to you. 4And it shall be as soon as you are gone over Yarden , you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, on Har Eval (Mount Gaebal), and you shall plaster them with plaster. 5And you shall build there an altar to Yahuah your Elohim , an altar of stones; you shall not lift up iron upon it. 6Of whole stones shall you build the altar of Yahuah your Elohim , and you shall offer upon it olot (whole burnt offerings) to Yahuah your Elohim . 7And you shall there offer a shelamim (peaceoffering); and you shall eat and be filled, and rejoice before Yahuah your Elohim . 8And you shall write upon the stones all this Torah very plainly. 9And Moshe and the kohanim the Lewiyim (priests the Levites) spoke to all Yisra'el , saying, Be silent and hear, O Yisra'el ; this day you are become a people to Yahuah your Elohim . 10And you shall listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim , and shall do all his mitzvot , and his chukim (ordinances), as many as I command you this day. 11And Moshe charged the people on that day, saying, 12These shall stand to bless the people on Har Gerizim (Mount Garizin) having gone over Yarden : Shimon (Symeon), Lewi (Levi), Yehudah ( Judas), Yissachar (Issachar), Yosef (Joseph), and Binyamin (Benjamin). 13And these shall stand for the kelalah (cursing) on Har Eval : Re'uven (Ruben), Gad , Asher (Aser), Zevulun (Za bulon), Dan , and Naphtali (Nephthali). 14And the Lewiyim shall answer and say to all Yisra'el with a loud voice, 15Cursed is the man whoever shall make a graven or molten image, a to'evah (abomination) to Yahuah , the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, Amen (So be it). 16Cursed is the man that dishonours his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen . 17Cursed is he that removes his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say, Amen . 18Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way: and all the people shall say, Amen . 19Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgement of the ger (stranger), and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, Amen . 20Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen . 21Cursed is he that lies with any beast: and all the people shall say, Amen . 22Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen . 23Cursed is he that lies with his daughterinlaw: and all the people shall say, Amen . Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister: and all the people shall say, Amen . 24Cursed is he that smites his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen . 25Cursed is he whoever shall have taken a bribe to kill an innocent nefesh (soul / life): and all the people shall say, Amen . 26Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this Torah to do them: and all the people shall say, Amen.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 28

The Blessings for Obedience and the Curses for Disobedience; the Loan and the Yoke of Iron; Extreme Siege and Scattering

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1And it shall come to pass, if you will indeed hear the voice of Yahuah (the Lord) your Elohim (God), to observe and do all these mitzvot (commands), which I charge you this day, that Yahuah your Elohim shall set you on high above all the nations of the earth; 2and all these berakhot (blessings) shall come upon you, and shall find you. If you will indeed hear the voice of Yahuah your Elohim, 3blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4Blessed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. 5Blessed shall be your barns, and your stores. 6Blessed shall you be in your coming in, and blessed shall you be in your going out. 7Yahuah deliver your enemies that withstand you utterly broken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you. 8Yahuah send upon you his blessing in your barns, and on all on which you shall put your yad (hand), in the land which Yahuah your Elohim gives you. 9Yahuah raise you up for himself a kadosh (holy) people, as he swore to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of Yahuah your Elohim, and walk in all his ways. 10And all the nations of the earth shall see you, that the Shem (name) of Yahuah is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you. 11And Yahuah your Elohim shall multiply you for good in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, on your land which Yahuah swore to your fathers to give to you. 12May Yahuah open to you his good treasure, the Shamayim (heaven), to give rain to your land in season: may he bless all the works of your hands: so shall you lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. 13Yahuah your Elohim make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim, in all things that I charge you this day to observe. 14You shall not turn aside from any of the mitzvot , which I charge you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other elohim (gods) to serve them. 15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim , to observe all his mitzvot , as many as I charge you this day, then all these kelalot (curses) shall come on you, and overtake you. 16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17Cursed shall be your barns and your stores. 18Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. 19Cursed shall you be in your coming in, and cursed shall you be in your going out. 20Yahuah send upon you lack, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your yad , until he shall have utterly destroyed you, and until he shall have consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken me. 21Yahuah cause the pestilence to cleave to you, until he shall have consumed you off the land into which you go to inherit it. 22Yahuah strike you with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue you until they have destroyed you. 23And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24Yahuah your Elohim make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed you, and until it shall have quickly consumed you. 25Yahuah give you up for slaughter before your enemies: you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away. 27Yahuah strike you with the shechin Mitzrayim (botch of Egypt) in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that you can not be healed. 28Yahuah strike you with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind. 29And you shall grope at midday, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper. 30You shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it. 31Your calf shall be slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper. 32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes wasting away shall look for them: your yad shall have no strength. 33A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labours; and you shall be injured and crushed always. 34And you shall be distracted, because of the sights of your eyes which you shall see. 35Yahuah strike you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 36Yahuah carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and you shall there serve other elohim , wood and stone. 37And you shall be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, amongst all the nations, to which Yahuah your Elohim shall carry you away. 38You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it. 39You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour it. 40You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly cast its fruit. 41You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be yours, for they shall depart into captivity. 42All your trees and the fruits of your land shall the blight consume. 43The ger (stranger) that is within you shall get up very high, and you shall come down very low. 44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45And all these kelalot shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and shall overtake you, until he shall have consumed you, and until he shall have destroyed you; because you did not listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim, to keep his mitzvot, and his chukim (ordinances) which he has commanded you. 46And these things shall be signs in you, and wonders amongst your seed forever; 47because you did not serve Yahuah your Elohim with gladness and a good lev (heart), because of the abundance of all things. 48And you shall serve your enemies, which Yahuah will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed you. 49Yahuah shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not understand; 50a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young. 51And it shall eat up the young of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you corn, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it shall have destroyed you; 52and have utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed, in which you trust, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which he has given to you. 53And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that he has given you, in your straitness and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you. 54He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him; 55so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities. 56And she that is tender and delicate amongst you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter, 57and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the lack of all things, secretly in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities. 58If you will not listen to do all the words of this Torah (law), which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful Shem, Yahuah your Elohim ; 59then Yahuah shall magnify your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and dwelling diseases. 60And he shall bring upon you all the evil pain of Mitzrayim, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you. 61And Yahuah shall bring upon you every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this Torah , until he shall have destroyed you. 62And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim. 63And it shall come to pass that as Yahuah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahuah will rejoice over you to destroy you; and you shall be quickly removed from the land, into which you go to inherit it. 64And Yahuah your Elohim shall scatter you amongst all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and you shall there serve other elohim, wood and stone, which you have not known, nor your fathers. 65Moreover amongst those nations he will not give you quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of your foot have rest; and Yahuah shall give you there another and a misgiving lev , and failing eyes, and a wasting nefesh (soul). 66And your life shall be in suspense before your eyes; and you shall be afraid by day and by night, and you shall have no assurance of your life. 67In the morning you shall say, Would it were evening! and in the evening you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your lev with which you shall fear, and for the sights of your eyes which you shall see. 68And Yahuah shall bring you back to Mitzrayim in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you shall be sold there to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 29

The Covenant in the Land of Moav; the Call to Faithfulness; the Warning Against the Root of Bitterness; the Secret and the Revealed Things

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1These are the words of the berit (covenant), which Yahuah (the Lord) commanded Moshe (Moses) to make with the children of Yisra'el (Israel) in the land of Moav (Moab), besides the berit which he made with them in Chorev (Horeb). 2And Moshe called all the sons of Yisra'el and said to them, You have seen all things that Yahuah did in the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt) before you to Par'oh (Pharao) and his servants, and all his land; 3the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 4Yet Yahuah your Elohim (God) has not given you a lev (heart) to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day. 5And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet. 6You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know that I am Yahuah your Elohim . 7And you came as far as this place; and there came forth Sichon (Seon) king of Cheshbon (Esebon), and Og king of Bashan (Basan), to meet us in war. 8And we struck them and took their land, and I gave it for a nachalah (inheritance) to Re'uven (Ruben) and Gad , and to the halftribe of Menasheh (Manasse). 9And you shall take heed to do all the words of this berit , that you may understand all things that you shall do. 10You all stand today before Yahuah your Elohim , the heads of your shevatim (tribes), and your zakenim (elders), and your shoftim (judges), and your shotrim (officers), every man of Yisra'el , 11your wives, and your children, and the ger (stranger) who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water, 12that you should enter into the berit of Yahuah your Elohim and into his oaths, as many as Yahuah your Elohim appoints you this day; 13that he may appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your Elohim , as he said to you, and as he swore to your fathers, Avraham (Abraam), and Yitzchak (Isaac), and Ya'akov (Jacob). 14And I do not appoint to you alone this berit and this oath; 15but to those also who are here with you today before Yahuah your Elohim , and to those who are not here with you today. 16For you know how we lived in the land of Mitzrayim , how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you came. 17And you saw their to'evot (abominations), and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are amongst them. 18Lest there be amongst you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose lev has turned aside from Yahuah your Elohim, having gone to serve the elohim (gods) of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness. 19And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this kelalah (curse), and shall flatter himself in his lev , saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my lev , lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him: 20Elohim shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of Yahuah and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this berit shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and Yahuah shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21And Yahuah shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Yisra'el , according to all the kelalot (curses) of the berit that are written in the book of this Torah (law). 22And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the ger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which Yahuah has sent upon it, 23brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as S'dom (Sodom) and Amorah (Gomorrha) were overthrown, Adamah (Adama) and Tzevoyim (Seboim), which Yahuah overthrew in his wrath and anger:)— 24and all the nations shall say, Why has Yahuah done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger? 25And men shall say, Because they forsook the berit of Yahuah Elohei their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim: 26and they went and served other elohim, which they knew not, neither did he assign them to them. 27And Yahuah was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the kelalot which are written in the book of this Torah. 28And Yahuah removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present. 29The nistarot (secret things) belong to Yahuah our Elohim, but the things that are niglot (revealed) belong to us and to our children forever, to do all the words of this Torah.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 30

The Return from Exile and the Circumcision of the Heart; the Nearness of the Word; the Choice of Life and Death

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1And it shall come to pass when all these things shall have come upon you, the berakah (blessing) and the kelalah (curse), which I have set before your face, and you shall call them to your lev (heart / mind) amongst all the nations, wherein Yahuah (the Lord) shall have scattered you, 2and shall return to Yahuah your Elohim (God), and shall listen to his voice, according to all things which I charge you this day, with all your lev , and with all your nefesh (soul); 3then Yahuah shall heal your iniquities, and shall pity you, and shall again gather you out from all the nations, amongst which Yahuah has scattered you. 4If your dispersion be from one end of the heavens to the other, thence will Yahuah your Elohim gather you, and thence will Yahuah your Elohim take you. 5And Yahuah your Elohim shall bring you in from thence into the land which your fathers have inherited, and you shall inherit it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 6And Yahuah shall purge your lev , and the lev of your seed, to love Yahuah your Elohim with all your lev , and with all your nefesh , that you may live. 7And Yahuah your Elohim will put these kelalot upon your enemies, and upon those that hate you, who have persecuted you. 8And you shall return and listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim , and shall keep his mitzvot (commands), all that I charge you this day. 9And Yahuah your Elohim shall bless you in every work of your yadayim (hands), in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, because Yahuah your Elohim will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: 10if you will listen to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim , to keep his mitzvot , and his chukim (ordinances), and his mishpatim (judgements) written in the book of this Torah (law), if you turn to Yahuah your Elohim with all your lev , and with all your nefesh . 11For this mitzvah (command) which I give you this day is not grievous, neither is it far from you. 12It is not in the heavens above, as if there were one saying, Who shall go up for us into the heavens, and shall take it for us, and we will hear and do it? 13Neither is it beyond the sea, saying, Who will go over for us to the other side of the sea, and take it for us, and make it audible to us, and we will do it? 14The davar (word) is very near you, in your mouth, and in your lev , and in your yad (hand) to do it. 15Behold, I have set before you this day chayim (life) and mavet (death), tov (good) and ra (evil). 16If you will listen to the mitzvot of Yahuah your Elohim , which I command you this day, to love Yahuah your Elohim , to walk in all his ways, and to keep his chukim and his mishpatim ; then you shall live, and shall be many in number, and Yahuah your Elohim shall bless you in all the land into which you go to inherit it. 17But if your lev change, and you will not listen, and you shall go astray and worship elohim acherim (other gods), and serve them, 18I declare to you this day, that you shall utterly perish, and you shall by no means live long upon the land, into which you go over the Yarden (Jordan) to inherit it. 19I call both shamayim (heaven) and eretz (earth) to witness this day against you, I have set before you chayim and mavet , the berakah and the kelalah : choose chayim , that you and your seed may live; 20to love Yahuah your Elohim , to listen to his voice, and cleave to him; for this is your chayim , and the length of your yamim (days), that you should dwell upon the land, which Yahuah swore to your fathers, Avraham (Abraam), and Yitzchak (Isaac), and Ya'akov (Jacob), to give to them.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 31

Moshe's Final Words; Yehoshua Commissioned; the Reading of the Torah in the Year of Release; the Song of Witness

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1And Moshe (Moses) finished speaking all these words to all the children of Yisra'el (Israel); 2and said to them, I am this day one hundred and twenty years old; I shall not be able any longer to come in or go out; and Yahuah (the Lord) said to me, You shall not go over this Yarden (Jordan). 3Yahuah your Elohim (God) who goes before you, he shall destroy these nations before you, and you shall inherit them: and it shall be Yehoshua (Joshua) that goes before your face, as Yahuah has spoken. 4And Yahuah your Elohim shall do to them as he did to Sichon (Seon) and Og the two kings of the Emori (Amorites), who were beyond Yarden , and to their land, as he destroyed them. 5And Yahuah has delivered them to you; and you shall do to them, as I charged you. 6Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them; for it is Yahuah your Elohim that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will he by any means forsake you, nor desert you. 7And Moshe called Yehoshua , and said to him before all Yisra'el , Be courageous and strong; for you shall go in before this people into the land which Yahuah swore to your fathers to give to them, and you shall give it to them for an inheritance. 8And Yahuah that goes with you shall not forsake you nor abandon you; fear not, neither be afraid. 9And Moshe wrote the words of this Torah (law) in a book, and gave it to the kohanim (priests) the sons of Lewi (Levi) who bear the ark of the covenant of Yahuah , and to the zakenim (elders) of the sons of Yisra'el . 10And Moshe charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the Chag haSukkot (feast of tabernacles), 11when all Yisra'el come together to appear before Yahuah your Elohim , in the place which Yahuah shall choose, you shall read this Torah before all Yisra'el in their ears, 12having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the ger (stranger) that is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear Yahuah your Elohim ; and they shall listen to do all the words of this Torah . 13And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear Yahuah your Elohim all the days that they live upon the land, into which you go over Yarden to inherit it. 14And Yahuah said to Moshe , Behold, the days of your death are at hand; call Yehoshua , and stand you by the doors of the Ohel Mo'ed (tabernacle of testimony), and I will give him a charge. And Moshe and Yehoshua went to the Ohel Mo'ed , and stood by the doors of the Ohel Mo'ed . 15And Yahuah descended in a cloud, and stood by the doors of the Ohel Mo'ed ; and the pillar of the cloud stood by the doors of the Ohel Mo'ed . 16And Yahuah said to Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people will arise and go a whoring after the strange elohim (gods) of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my berit (covenant), which I made with them. 17And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because Yahuah my Elohim is not with me, these evils have come upon me. 18And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange elohim . 19And now write the words of this shirah (song), and teach it to the children of Yisra'el , and you shall put it into their mouth, that this shirah may witness for me amongst the children of Yisra'el to their face. 20For I will bring them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after elohim acherim (other gods), and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my beriyt . 21And this shirah shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers. 22And Moshe wrote this shirah in that day, and taught it to the children of Yisra'el . 23And he charged Yehoshua , and said, Be courageous and strong, for you shall bring the sons of Yisra'el into the land, which Yahuah swore to them, and he shall be with you. 24And when Moshe finished writing all the words of this Torah in a book, even to the end, 25then he charged the Lewiyim (Levites) who bear the ark of the berit of Yahuah , saying, 26Take the book of this Torah , and you shall put it in the side of the ark of the beriyt of Yahuah your Elohim ; and it shall be there amongst you for a testimony. 27For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct towards Elohim : how shall you not also be so after my death? 28Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your zakenim , and your shoftim (judges), and your shotrim (officers), that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both shamayim (heaven) and eretz (earth) to witness against them. 29For I know that after my death you will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you in the latter days, because you will do evil before Yahuah , to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands. 30And Moshe spoke all the words of this shirah [song] even to the end, in the ears of the whole assembly.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 32

The Song of Moshe (Ha'azinu); Yisra'el's Rebellion and Yahuah's Vengeance; the Command to View the Land from Nebo

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1Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth. 2Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass. 3For I have called on the Shem (name) of Yahuah (the Lord): assign you greatness to our Elohim (God). 4As for Elohim , his works are true, and all his ways are mishpat (judgement): Elohim is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in him; just and holy is Yahuah . 5They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation. 6Do you thus recompense Yahuah? is the people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you? 7Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you, your zakenim (elders), and they shall tell you. 8When the Most High (Elyon) divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of Elohim. 9And his people Ya'akov (Jacob) became the portion of Yahuah, Yisra'el (Israel) was the line of his inheritance. 10He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye. 11As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back: 12Yahuah alone led them, there was no strange el (god) with them. 13He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock. 14Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape. 15So Yeshurun (Jacob) ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook Eloah (God) that made him, and departed from Elohim his Moshia (Saviour). 16They provoked me to anger with strange elohim (gods); with their to'evot (abominations) they bitterly angered me. 17They sacrificed to shedim (devils), and not to Elohim ; to elohim whom they knew not: new and fresh elohim came in, whom their fathers knew not. 18You have forsaken Elohim that begot you, and forgotten El who feeds you. 19And Yahuah saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters, 20and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the acharit ha'yamim (last days); for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith. 21They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not El , they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding. 22For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to She'ol (hell) below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them. 24They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of serpents creeping on the ground. 25Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old. 26I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from amongst men. 27Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not Yahuah, has done all these things. 28It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them. 29They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come. 30How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout ten thousands, if Elohim had not sold them, and Yahuah delivered them up? 31For their elohim are not as our Elohim , but our enemies are void of understanding. 32For their vine is of the vine of S'dom (Sodom), and their vinebranch of Amorah (Gomorrha): their grape is a grape of gall, their cluster is one of bitterness. 33Their wine is the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps. 34Behold! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed amongst my treasures? 35In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction is near to them, and the judgements at hand are close upon you. 36For Yahuah shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble: 37and Yisra'el said, Where are their elohim on whom they trusted? 38the fat of whose sacrifices you ate, and you drank the wine of their drinkofferings? let them arise and help you, and be your protectors. 39Behold, behold that I am he, and there is no elohim beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands. 40For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live for ever. 41For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgement; and I will render judgement to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me. 42I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, it shall glut itself with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of their enemies that rule over them. 43Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of Elohim worship him; rejoice you Goyim (Gentiles), with his people [Yisrael], and let all the sons of Elohim strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and Yahuah shall purge the land of his people. 44And Moshe (Moses) wrote this shirah (song) in that day, and taught it to the children of Yisra'el ; and Moshe went in and spoke all the words of this Torah (law) in the ears of the people, he and Yehoshua (Joshua) the son of Naue . 45And Moshe finished speaking to all Yisra'el . 46And he said to them, Take heed with your lev (heart) to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this Torah . 47For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word you shall live long upon the land, into which you go over the Yarden (Jordan) to inherit it. 48And Yahuah spoke to Moshe in this day, saying, 49Go up to the mount Abarim , this mountain Nebo (Nabau) which is in the land of Moav (Moab) over against Yericho (Jericho), and behold the land of Canaan (Chanaan), which I give to the sons of Yisra'el : 50and die in the mount whither you go up, and be added to your people; as Aharon (Aaron) your brother died in mount Hor (Or), and was added to his people. 51Because you disobeyed my word amongst the children of Yisra'el , at the waters of strife of Kadesh (Cades) in the wilderness of Sin ; because you sanctified me not amongst the sons of Yisra'el . 52You shall see the land before you, but you shall not enter into it.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 33

Moshe's Blessing Over the Tribes; Yahuah's Coming from Sinai; Blessings for Re'uven, Yehudah, Lewi, Binyamin, Yosef, Zevulun, Yissachar, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, Asher

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1And this is the berakah (blessing) with which Moshe (Moses) the Ish ha'Elohim (man of God) blessed the children of Yisra'el (Israel) before his death. 2And he said, Yahuah (the Lord) is come from Sinai (Sina), and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hasted out of the mount of Pharan , with the ten thousands of Kadesh (Cades); on his right hand were his malakim (angels) with him. 3And he spared his people, and all his kedoshim (sanctified ones) are under your yadayim (hands); and they are under you; and he received of his words 4the Torah (law) which Moshe charged us, an inheritance to the assemblies of Ya'akov (Jacob). 5And he shall be Melech (prince/king) with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Yisra'el . 6Let Re'uven (Ruben) live, and not die; and let him be many in number. 7And this is the blessing of Yehudah (Juda); Hear, Yahuah , the voice of Yehudah , and do you visit his people: his hands shall contend for him, and you shall be a help from his enemies. 8And to Lewi (Levi) he said, Give to Lewi his Urim (manifestations) and his Tummim (truth) to the holy man, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled him at the water of strife. 9Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen you; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons: he kept your oracles , and observed your berit (covenant). 10They shall declare your mishpatim (ordinances) to Ya'akov , and your Torah to Yisra'el : they shall place incense in the time of your wrath continually upon your altar. 11Bless, Yahuah , his strength, and accept the works of his hands; break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, and let not them that hate him rise up. 12And to Binyamin (Benjamin) he said, The beloved of Yahuah shall dwell in confidence, and Elohim overshadows him always, and he rested between his shoulders. 13And to Yosef (Joseph) he said, His land is of the blessing of Yahuah , of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below, 14and of the fruits of the changes of the sun in season, and of the produce of the months, 15from the top of the ancient mountains, and from the top of the everlasting hills, 16and of the fulness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that lived in the bush come on the head of Yosef , and on the crown of him who was glorified above his brethren. 17His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a re'em (unicorn); with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Efrayim (Ephraim), and these are the thousands of Menasheh (Manasse). 18And to Zevulun (Zabulon) he said, Rejoice, Zevulun , in your going out, and Yissachar (Issachar) in his tents. 19They shall utterly destroy the nations, and you shall call men there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle you, and so shall the marts of them that dwell by the seacoast. 20And to Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad : as a lion he rested, having broken the arm and the ruler. 21And he saw his first fruits, that there the land of the princes gathered with the chiefs of the people was divided; Yahuah wrought righteousness, and his judgement with Yisra'el . 22And to Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, and shall leap out of Bashan (Basan). 23And to Naphtali (Nephthali) he said, Naphtali has the fulness of good things; and let him be filled with blessing from Yahuah : he shall inherit the west and the south. 24And to Asher (Aser) he said, Asher is blessed with children; and he shall be acceptable to his brethren: he shall dip his foot in oil. 25His sandal shall be iron and brass; as your days, so shall be your strength. 26There is not any such as the El (God) of the beloved; he who rides upon the shamayim (heaven) is your helper, and the magnificent One of the firmament. 27And the rule of Elohim shall protect you, and that under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before your face, saying, Perish. 28And Yisra'el shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Ya'akov , with corn and wine; and the sky shall be misty with dew upon you. 29Blessed are you, O Yisra'el ; who is like to you, O people saved by Yahuah ? your helper shall hold his shield over you, and his sword is your boast; and your enemies shall speak falsely to you, and you shall tread upon their neck.

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 34

Moshe Views the Land from Mount Nebo; His Death and Burial by the Word of Yahuah; Yehoshua Filled with the Spirit of Wisdom; The Uniqueness of Moshe

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1And Moshe (Moses) went up from Aravot Moav (Araboth Moab) to the mount of Nebo (Nabau), to the top of Pisgah (Phasga), which is before Yericho (Jericho); and Yahuah (the Lord) showed him all the land: Gil'ad (Galaad) to Dan , and all the land of Naphtali (Nephthali), 2and all the land of Efrayim (Ephraim) and Menasheh (Manasse), and all the land of Yehudah (Juda) to the farthest sea; 3and the wilderness, and the country round about Yericho , the city of palmtrees, to Tzo'ar (Segor). 4And Yahuah said to Moshe , This is the land of which I swore to Avraham (Abraam), and Yitzchak (Isaac), and Ya'akov (Jacob), saying, To your seed will I give it: and I have showed it to your eyes, but you shall not go in there. 5So Moshe the eved Yahuah (servant of the Lord) died in the land of Moav by the mouth of Yahuah . 6And He buried him in the valley ( Gai ) in the land of Moav opposite Beit Pe'or (the house of Phogor); and no one has seen his sepulchre to this day. 7And Moshe was one hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed. 8And the children of Yisra'el (Israel) wept for Moshe in Aravot Moav by the Yarden (Jordan) near Yericho thirty days; and the days of the sad mourning for Moshe were completed. 9And Yehoshua (Joshua) the son of Nun (Naue) was filled with the Ruach Chokhmah (spirit of knowledge/wisdom), for Moshe had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Yisra'el listened to him; and they did as Yahuah commanded Moshe . 10And there rose up no more a prophet in Yisra'el like Moshe , whom Yahuah knew face to face, 11in all the signs and wonders, which Yahuah sent him to work in Mitzrayim (Egypt) on Par'oh (Pharaoh), and his servants, and all his land; 12the great wonders, and the mighty yad (hand) which Moshe displayed before all Yisra'el .

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Devarim

Introduction

Introduction to Sefer Devarim (The Book of Deuteronomy)

Within the Framework of the Ivri Heritage Bible

Textual Methodology: Restoring the Ancient Path

Alignment with Pre-Masoretic Textual Families

The Historical Authority of the Septuagint Tradition

Correcting the Omissions of the Masoretic Text

Hebraic Messianic Nazarene Wordings

Core Theological Themes and Structural Blueprint

1. Historical Accountability and Territorial Rights (Chapters 1–3)

2. The Mechanics of the Heart and the Shema (Chapters 4–11)

3. The Judicial and Civil Constitution (Chapters 12–26)

4. Prophetic Liturgy, the Song of Witness, and Transition (Chapters 27–34)

Glossary of Key Restored Terms

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 1

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 2

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 3

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 4

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 5

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 6

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 7

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 8

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 9

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 10

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 11

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 12

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 13

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 14

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 15

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 16

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 17

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 18

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 19

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 20

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 21

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 22

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 23

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 24

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 25

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 26

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 27

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 28

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 29

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 30

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 31

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 32

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 33

Devarim (Deuteronomy)—Chapter 34