Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy
KI SAVO
Chapter 26
Verse 1: When it happens that you come
to the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you as territory,
and you inherit it and settle it;
Verse 2: You are to take of the first
of all the fruits of the
soil
that you bring from your land,
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you,
and place [it] in a basket;
and go to the place
that Ad-noy, your G-d, chooses
to house His presence there.
Verse 3: You are to come
to the kohein
who will be [of service] during those days
and you will say to him,
"I ascertain today to Ad-noy, your G-d,
that I have arrived in the land
that Ad-noy swore to our forefathers
to give us."
Verse 4: The kohein shall then take the basket
from your hand,
and he will place
it before the altar
of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 5: And you shall then proclaim and say
before Ad-noy, your G-d,
"The Aramite
destroyed my forefather,
then he descended to Egypt
and sojourned there with a tiny community;
and there he
became a great people,
powerful and numerous.
Verse 6: "The Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us,
and they imposed hard labor upon us.
Verse 7: "We prayed to Ad-noy,
G-d of our forefathers,
and Ad-noy accepted our prayer,
and perceived our oppression,
and our labor,
and the pressure upon us.
Verse 8: "And Ad-noy took us out of Egypt
with a powerful hand
and with an extended arm,
and with great display,
and with signs, and with wonders.
Verse 9: "And He brought us to this place,
and He gave us this land,
a land flowing milk and honey.
Verse 10: And now,
see! I have brought the first
of the fruits of the soil
that You have given me Ad-noy."
And you shall then place it
before Ad-noy,
your G-d,
and you will prostrate yourself
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 11: You shall rejoice with all the good
that Ad-noy, your G-d, gave you
and your household;
you, the levi,
and the proselyte in your midst.
Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 12: When you finish
tithing
all the tithes of your produce
in the third year,
the year of the tithe;
and you have
given to the Levi,
to the proselyte, to the orphan,
and to the widow,
so that they may eat within your portals
to their satisfaction;
Verse 13: You shall declare
before Ad-noy, your G-d,
"I have divested
my estate of sacred material,
and I have also
presented it to the Levi
and also to the proselyte, the orphan,
and the widow,
totally according to Your command
that You commanded me;
I did not
transgress
any of Your commandments
nor did I forget.
Verse 14: I did not eat of it when grieving,
nor did I devour it
when ritually defiled,
nor did I make
use of it
for the dead;
I have heeded the voice of Ad-noy, my G-d;
I have fulfilled everything that You commanded me.
Verse 15: View, from Your sacred residence,
from the
heavens,
and bless Your people, Yisroel
and the soil which You have given us,
as You swore to our forefathers,
a land flowing with milk and honey."
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 16: This very day,
Ad-noy, your G-d,
commands you to perform
these statutes and the laws;
you shall observe and perform them
wholeheartedly
and with your whole being.
Verse 17: Ad-noy, you have distinguised today
to be a G-d for you and to go in His ways
and to guard His statutes
and His commandments and His laws,
and to obey Him.
Verse 18: And Ad-noy has distinguished you today
to be for Him a treasured people
as He said to you,
and to guard all His commandments.
Verse 19:
And to place you superior
to all the nations whom He made,
for praise and for renown and for glory,
and so that you may be a people sanctified
to Ad-noy, your G-d, as He said.
Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)
Chapter 27
Verse 1: Moshe and the elders of Yisroel commanded
the people the following,
"Keep all of the commandment
that I am commanding you today.
Verse 2: When the day comes
that you cross the Yardein to the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you,
erect large stones
and coat them with
whitewash.
Verse 3: You are to write on them
all statements of this Torah
upon your crossing;
in order that you come to the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d, is giving you,
a land flowing milk and honey,
as promised by Ad-noy,
G-d of your forefathers, to you.
Verse 4: As soon as you have crossed the Yardein,
set up these stones
that I am commanding you today,
on Mount Eival,
and coat them with whitewash.
Verse 5: Build there an altar
to Ad-noy, your G-d;
an altar of stones;
do not lift iron upon them.
Verse 6: [Of] whole stones are you to build
the altar of Ad-noy, your G-d;
and you are to bring upon it burnt-offerings
to Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 7: You are to slaughter peace-offerings
and eat [them] there;
and you are to rejoice
in the presence of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 8: You are to
write on the stones
all the statements of this Torah,
explained properly
Verse 9: Moshe and the kohanim-Levi'im addressed
all of Yisroel, to say,
"Take heed and accept, Yisroel!
[On] this day you have become a people
to Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 10: You are to obey
Ad-noy, your G-d,
and perform His commandments and His statutes
that I am commanding you today."
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 11: Moshe commanded the people
on that day, to say,
Verse 12: "The following will stand to bless the people
on Mount Gerizim,
upon your crossing the Yardein:
Shimon and Levi and Yehudah,
and Yisachar and Yoseif and Binyomin.
Verse 13: And the
following will stand for the curse
at Mount Eival:
Reuvein, Gad and Asher,
and Zevulun, Don and Naftoli.
Verse 14: The Levi'im are to respond
and say to every man of Yisroel aloud:
Verse 15: 'Cursed is the man who makes a statue
or a molten image, Ad-noy's abomination,
the handiwork of a craftsman,
and places [it] in a secret [place];'
the entire people will respond
and say, Amein.
Verse 16: 'Cursed is whoever
reviles his father or his mother,'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
17.'Cursed is whoever
casts aside the boundary of his fellow;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 18: 'Cursed is whoever
misleads the blind about the way;'
and the entire
people will say, Amein.
Verse 19: 'Cursed is whoever
distorts justice for a convert,
orphan, or widow;'
and entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 20: 'Cursed is whoever
has intercourse with his father's wife,
because he exposed the corner
of his father['s garment];'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 21: 'Cursed is whoever
has intercourse with any animal;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 22: 'Cursed is whoever
has intercourse with his sister,
daughter of his father
or daughter of his mother;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 23: 'Cursed is whoever
has intercourse with his father's-in-law wife;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 24: 'Cursed is whoever
strikes his fellow in secret;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 25: 'Cursed is whoever
accepts a bribe to kill
an innocent person;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Verse 26: 'Cursed is whoever
does not uphold the statements of this Torah
to perform them;'
and the entire people will say, Amein.
Chapter 28
Verse 1: When you hearken
and obey Ad-noy, your G-d,
to be sure to perform all of His commandments
that I am commanding you today;
Ad-noy, your G-d, will place you superior
to all the nations of the earth.
Verse 2: All these blessings will come upon you
and will reach you,
when you obey Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 3: Blessed are you
in the city,
and blessed are you in the field.
Verse 4: Blessed is the fruit of your belly,
and the produce of your soil,
and the offspring of your animals,
the issue of your cattle
and the flocks of your sheep and goats.
Verse 5: Blessed will be your [fruit] basket
and your solid foods.
Verse 6: You will be
blessed at your arrival,
and blessed at your departure.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 7: Ad-noy will set your enemies
who rise against you
smitten before you;
by one road will they approach you,
but by seven roads
they will flee from you.
Verse 8: Ad-noy will order upon you the blessing
in your storehouses and in all your commerce;
and He will bless you
in the land
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
is giving you.
Verse 9: Ad-noy will establish you for Himself
as a holy people
as He swore to you;
when you will guard
the commandments of Ad-noy, your G-d,
and will go in
His ways.
Verse 10: And all the peoples of the earth will see
that you are called by Ad-noy's Name
and they will fear you.
Verse 11: Ad-noy will give you surplus as benefit
in the fruit of your belly,
and the offspring of your animals,
and the produce of your soil;
upon the land
that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers
to give you.
Verse 12: Ad-noy will open for you
His good storehouse, the sky,
to give you your land's rain on time
and to bless all your endeavors;
and you will lend to many nations,
but you will not borrow.
Verse 13: Ad-noy will place you at the head,
not at the tail;
and you will be solely on top,
you will not be on the bottom;
when you heed the commandments
of Ad-noy, your G-d,
that I am commanding you today
to guard and to perform.
Verse 14: And you do not deviate
from all the statements
that I am commanding you today
to the right or to the left,
to follow other gods to serve them.
Verse 15: Should you not obey Ad-noy, your G-d,
to guard to perform all His commandments
and His statutes
that I am
commanding you today;
then all these curses will come upon you
and will reach you.
Verse 16: Cursed are you in the city
and cursed are you in the field.
Verse 17: Cursed is your [fruit] basket
and cursed are your solid foods.
Verse 18: Cursed is the fruit of your belly
and the produce of your soil,
the calves of your cattle
and the flocks of your sheep and goats.
Verse 19: Cursed are you upon your arrival
and cursed are you upon your departure.
Verse 20: Ad-noy will visit upon you ruin,
panic, and frustration
in all the endeavors you undertake,
until you are destroyed
and until you are swiftly removed
because of the wickedness of your deeds
[in] that you forsook Me.
Verse 21: Ad-noy will attach the plague to you
until He exterminates you
from upon the land
that you are coming there to inherit.
Verse 22: Ad-noy will smite
you
with blistering and with searing temperature,
and with raging fever,
and with charchur, and with the sword,
and with wind-blight,
and with yellowing;
and they will
chase you
until your annihilation.
Verse 23: And the heavens above your head
will be like copper
and the earth that is beneath you, iron.
Verse 24: Ad-noy will make
the rain of your land
into dust and soil;
from the sky
will it come down upon you
until you are destroyed.
Verse 25: Ad-noy will set you smitten
before your enemies.
By one road will you go out toward them
and by seven roads will you flee before them;
and you will be a cause of shuddering
for all the kingdoms of the earth.
Verse 26: Your corpse will be food
for every bird of the sky
and for the animals of the earth;
with no one to scare [them].
Verse 27: Ad-noy will plague you
with Egyptian boils
and with hemorroids
and with running and dry boils;
from which you
will be unable to be healed.
Verse 28: Ad-noy will plague you
with insanity and with blindness,
and with utter confusion.
Verse 29: You will grope at midday
the way a blind man gropes in the darkness,
and you will not succeed your ways;
you will be only the victim of wrangling and robbed
all the days with no savior.
Verse 30: A woman will you marry
and another man will lie with her;
a house will you
build
and will not live in it;
a vineyard will you plant
and will not redeem it[s fruit].
Verse 31: Your ox [will be] butchered before your eyes,
and you will not eat of it;
your ass [will be] robbed in your presence
and will not return to you;
your flocks [will be] given to your enemies,
and you have no savior.
Verse 32: Your sons and your daughters
[will be] given to another people
while your eyes watch
and pine for them all day,
and your are powerless.
Verse 33: The fruit of your soil and all your toil
will be eaten by a people that you do not know;
and you will be solely oppressed
and crushed all the time.
Verse 34: And you will become insane
from the sights that you see.
Verse 35: Ad-noy will plague you with bad boils
on the knees and on the legs
from which you
will be unable to be healed;
from the sole of your foot
till your skull.
Verse 36: Ad-noy will lead you
and your king, whom you will set upon yourself,
to a nation that neither you
nor your parents knew;
and there you will serve
other powers, [of] wood and stone.
Verse 37: You will become an [object of] stupefaction,
be cited as an example
and become the subject of gossip
among all the peoples
to whom Ad-noy will lead you.
Verse 38: Much seed
will you take out
to the fields,
and little will you gather
because the locust will demolish it.
Verse 39: Vineyards will you plant and labor in,
but wine will you not drink nor will you store
because worms will consume it.
Verse 40: Olives will you have
within your entire boundary,
but oil will you not annoint
because your olives will be discarded.
Verse 41: Sons and daughters will you bear,
but you will not have them
because they will go into captivity.
Verse 42: All your trees and the fruit of your soil
the cicada will impoverish.
Verse 43: The non-Jew
among you
will rise above you higher and higher,
while you descend lower and lower.
Verse 44: He will lend to you
but you will not lend to him;
he will be at the head,
and you will be at the tail.
Verse 45: All these curses will come upon you
and will chase you
and reach you until you are destroyed;
for you have not obeyed
Ad-noy, your G-d,
to guard His commandments and His statutes
that He commanded you.
Verse 46: They will happen to you
as a sign and a wonder,
and to your descendants forever.
Verse 47: Since you did not serve
Ad-noy, your G-d,
with joy and goodheartedness,
in total
affluence.
Verse 48: You will serve your enemies
whom Ad-noy sends against you,
in hunger and in thirst
and in nakedness and lacking everything;
and he will set an iron yoke upon your neck
until he destroys you.
Verse 49: Ad-noy will raise
upon you a nation from afar
from the end of the earth,
as the eagle soars,
a nation
whose language you will not hear.
Verse 50: A hard-faced nation
that will not show favor to the old,
and will not pity the young.
Verse 51: They will
consume
the offspring of your animals,
and the produce of your soil
until you are destroyed;
that will not leave you
grain, wine, or oil,
the calves of your cattle,
or the flocks of your sheep and goats
until they have you removed.
Verse 52: They will make you suffer in all your cities
until mastering your ramparts and fortified walls
upon which you rely
throughout your land;
they will make you suffer
in all your cities
throughout your land
that Ad-noy, your G-d, has given you.
Verse 53: You will eat the flesh of your womb,
the flesh of your sons and your daughters
that Ad-noy, your G-d,
gave you;
in the siege
and in the distress
that your enemy will distress you.
Verse 54: The delicate among you
and the fastidious,
[even] he will look askance at his brother
and at the wife of his bosom
and at the rest of his sons
whom he will leave over.
Verse 55: From giving
to any of them
of the flesh of his sons that he is eating
for [fear of] not leaving everything for himself;
in siege and in distress
that your enemy will distress you
in all your cities.
Verse 56: The soft female among you
and the indulged one
the sole of whose foot never experienced
standing on the ground
out of indulgence and out of softness;
her eye will begrudge
the husband of her bosom,
and her son and daughter.
Verse 57: And her infant
who emerges from between her legs,
and her children whom she bears,
when she eats them
for lack of everything, secretly;
in siege and in distress
that your enemy
will distress you
in your cities.
Verse 58: If you will not guard to perform
all the statements of this Torah
that are written in this book
to fear the respected and awesome Name,
of Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 59: Ad-noy will strike you with prodigous blows
and blows on your offspring,
blows, great and dependable
and illnesses harmful and dependable.
Verse 60: He will bring back for you
all the Egyptian diseases
which you dreaded
and they will
cling to you.
Verse 61: Also every illness and every plague
that is not written
in the book of this Torah,
will Ad-noy raise up against you
until you are destroyed.
Verse 62: You will remain numerically few
instead of your having been
like the stars in the sky, multitudinous;
for you have not obeyed
Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 63: It will happen that as Ad-noy rejoiced over you
to benefit you
and to multiply you,
so will Ad-noy bring joy to others over you
to remove you
and to destroy you;
and you will be uprooted from upon the land
that you are
coming there to inherit.
Verse 64: Ad-noy will disperse you among all the peoples
from the end of the earth
to the end of the earth;
and you shall serve there other gods
which neither you nor your ancestors knew,
wood and stone.
Verse 65: And among
those nations
you will not be tranquil
and there will be no rest
for the sole of your foot;
and Ad-noy will give you there
a fearful heart and pining eyes
and disillusioned spirit.
Verse 66: Your life
will dangle before you,
and you will be in fear night and day,
and will have no faith
in your living.
Verse 67: In the morning you will say,
"Would that it were evening,"
and in the evening you will say,
"Would that it were morning,"
from the fear in your heart
that you will fear
and from the sights of your eyes
that you will see.
Verse 68: Ad-noy will send you back to Egypt on ships,
along the route that I told you,
"You are not to see it again,"
and there you will attempt to sell yourselves
to your enemies as slaves
and as maidservants but no one will buy.
Verse 69: These are the statements of the covenant
that Ad-noy commanded Moshe
to ratify with Bnei Yisroel
in the land of Moav,
beside the covenant
that he had made with them at Choreiv.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Chapter 29
Verse 1: Moshe called to all of Yisroel
and said to them,
"You have seen everything
that Ad-noy did as you watched,
in the land of Egypt,
to Pharoah and to all his attendants
and to his entire land.
Verse 2: The great miracles
that you witnessed,
those great signs and wonders.
Verse 3: Yet Ad-noy did not grant you
a knowledgeable mind
and eyes to see,
and ears to hear
until this day.
Verse 4: I have led you
forty years
in the wilderness,
your garments have not worn out on you
and your shoes have not worn out
on your feet.
Verse 5: Bread have you not eaten,
neither fresh nor aged wine
have you drunk,
in order that you know
that I, Ad-noy, am your G-d.
Maftir
Verse 6: Then when you came to this place,
Sichon, king of
Cheshbon, came out---
and Og, king of Boshon---
toward us to wage war
and we smote them.
Verse 7: And we took the their land
and gave it as territory
to the Reuvenites and to the Gaddites,
and to half the tribe of the Menashians.
Verse 8: You are to guard
the tenets of this covenant
and fulfill them,
in order that you succeed
in everything that you do."
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