Devarim
Book 5: Deuteronomy


NITZOVIM


Chapter 29

Verse 9: "You stand, this day all of you before Ad-noy, your G-d; your tribal chieftains, your elders and your law officers, every man of Yisroel.

Verse 10: Your young, your wives, and your convert who is within your camps; from your wood cutters to the water drawers.

Verse 11: For your passage into the covenant of Ad-noy, your G-d, and His oath-curse, that Ad-noy, your G-d, is making with you today,

Sheini (Second Aliyah)

Verse 12: In order to sustain you today as His people, and He will be for you a G-d as He promished you and as He promised your forefathers Avrohom, Yitzchok, and Yaakov.

Verse 13: And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath-curse.

Verse 14: But with whoever is here with us standing today in the presence of Ad-noy, our G-d, and with those who are not here with us today.

Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)

Verse 15: For you are aware how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations whom you passed through.

Verse 16: Where you observed their abominations and their loathsomeness [idols], wood and stone, silver and gold, that they owned.

Verse 17: Perhaps there is among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose thoughts stray today from [being] with Ad-noy, our G-d, to go serve the gods of those nations; lest there is within you a root producing gall and bitter fruit.

Verse 18: When he hears the statements of this oath-curse, he will imagine self-blessings, saying, "Peace will be my lot when I shall follow what my thoughts envision," so that the unintentional may be added to the sinful.

Verse 19: Ad-noy will be unwilling to forgive him, because then Ad-noy's nostrils will fume and His vengeful fury enflame against that man, and there will cling to him the entire oath-curse written in this book; and Ad-noy will eliminate his name from beneath the sky.

Verse 20: And Ad-noy will seperate him for harm from all the tribes of Yisroel, in accord with all the oath-curses of the covenant inscribed in this Torah scroll.

Verse 21: The latter generation will say--- your children who will arise after you and the stranger who will come from a distant land; and they will see the plagues of that land and its illnesses that Ad-noy has harmed it with.

Verse 22: Sulfur and salt, all its land, will be burnt, it will not be seeded, and it will not sprout, and no grass will grow there; like the overturning of Sodom and Amoroh, Admoh and Tzevoyim, which Ad-noy overturned in His anger and His wrath.

Verse 23: And all the nations will say, "For what did Ad-noy do so to this land? Why the vigor of this great anger?"

Verse 24: And they will reply, "Because they forsook the covenant of Ad-noy, the G-d of their forefathers, which He made with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt.

Verse 25: And they went and served other gods and prostrated themselves to them; gods unknown to them and [which] He had not apportioned to them.

Verse 26: And Ad-noy became furious with that land, [causing Him] to bring on it the entire curse written in this book.

Verse 27: And Ad-noy forced them away from their land with anger and wrath and great fury; and He cast them into another land like this day.

Verse 28: The hidden [matters] are Ad-noy's, our G-d's, and the revealed [matters] are ours and our children's forever, to perform all the statements of this Torah.


Chapter 30

Verse 1: When it happens that there come upon you all these statements, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you; and you will restore to your perception amid all the nations where Ad-noy, your G-d, has exiled you.

Verse 2: You will return to Ad-noy, your G-d, and obey Him exactly as I am commanding you today, you and your sons, wholeheartedly and with your whole being.

Verse 3: Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring back your returnees and will be merciful toward you; and He will return and gather you from all the peoples that Ad-noy, your G-d, has dispersed you there.

Verse 4: If your exiled one will be at the edge of the heavens, from there will Ad-noy, your G-d, gather you and from there will He take you.

Verse 5: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will bring you to the land that your forefathers inherited and you will inherit it; and He will benefit you and multiply you more than your forefathers.

Verse 6: And Ad-noy, your G-d, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love Ad-noy, your G-d, wholeheartedly and with all your being in order that you live.

Verse 7: Ad-noy, your G-d, will place all these oath-curses upon your enemies and upon your foes who chased you.

Verse 8: And you will turn back and obey Ad-noy; and you will perform all His commandments that I am commanding you today.

Verse 9: Ad-noy, your G-d, will give you surplus in all your endeavors, in the fruit of your belly, and in the offspring of your animals, and in the produce of your soil--- for benefit; for Ad-noy will return to rejoice over you for benefit as He rejoiced over your forefathers.

Verse 10: When you obey Ad-noy, your G-d, to guard His commandments and His statutes, written in this Torah scroll; when you turn back to Ad-noy, your G-d, wholeheartedly and with all your being.

Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)

Verse 11: For this mitzvah that I am commanding you today; it is not abstruse to you nor is it distant.

Verse 12: It is not in heaven, [for you] to say, "Who will go up to heaven for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?"

Verse 13: Nor is it overseas, [for you] to say, "Who will travel overseas for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?"

Verse 14: For the matter is extremely close to you; in your mouth and in your mind to fulfill it.

Verse 15: See, I have placed before you today life and good, and death and bad.

Verse 16: For which I command you this day, to love Ad-noy, your G-d, to go in His ways and to guard His commandments and His statutes and His laws; and you will live and you will flourish, and Ad-noy, your G-d, will bless you in the land that you are coming there to inherit.

Verse 17: But if your heart strays and you do not listen, and you are misled, and you prostrate yourself to other gods and worship them.

Verse 18: I tell you today that you shall certainly perish; you will not remain long on the land that you are crossing the Yardein to come there to inherit.

Verse 19: I invoke, as witnesses against you this day, heaven and earth: Life and death have I placed before you, blessing and curse; you choose life in order that you live, you and your descendants,

Verse 20: To love Ad-noy, your G-d, to obey Him and to cling to Him; for He is your life and your longevity, to live on the soil that Ad-noy swore to your forefathers--- to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov--- to give them.


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