10. You will eat the old [store] long kept
and the old [store]
you will have to clear out because of the new.
Verse 11: I will
set My Sanctuary among you
and My spirit will not loathe (reject) you.
Verse 12: I will walk among you
and I will be a G-d for you,
and you will be My people.
Verse 13: I am
Ad-noy your G-d
who brought you out of the land of Egypt
from where you were slaves,
and I broke the bars of your yoke
and led you forth standing upright.
Verse 14: And if you will not listen to Me
and you will not fulfill all of these commandments.
Verse 15: If you despise
My statutes
and your souls loathe My laws
so as not to
fulfill all My commandments,
thereby breaking My convenant.
Verse 16: Then I will do the same with you.
I will impose terror upon you, [which causes]
swelling and fever
that consume
the eyes
and fill the soul with grief.
You will plant [your seeds] in vain
because your enemies will consume [your crops.]
Verse 17: I will set my face against you
and you will be
defeated before your enemies;
your foes will rule over you
and you will flee
[even] when no one is pursuing you.
Verse 18: If after
these [catastrophes]
you still do not listen to Me,
then I will increase your punishment
sevenfold, as your sins.
Verse 19: I will break the pride of your power.
I will make your heavens like iron
and your land like copper.
Verse 20: Your strength
will be exhausted in vain.
Your land will not yield its produce
and the tree[s] of the land
will not give
forth its produce.
Verse 21: If you walk contrary to Me
and have no desire to listen to Me,
I will increase the blows upon you
sevenfold, as
your sins.
Verse 22: I will send among you wild animals of the field
and they will make you bereft of children,
destroy your
cattle,
reduce your [population]
and make your roads into wasteland.
Verse 23: If after these [catastrophes]
you have not been disciplined [to listen] to Me,
and walk contrary to Me,
Verse 24: [Then] I, too, will walk contrary to you;
and I shall also smite you
seven fold, for your sins.
Verse 25: I will bring an avenging sword upon you
avenging the covenant
You will be huddled
[in your cities].
I will send pestilence among you
and you will be given
into the hand of the enemy.
Verse 26: When I break the
staff of your bread,
ten women will bake your bread
in one oven
and they will return your bread by weight.
You will eat but you will not be satiated.
Verse 27: If [in
spite] of this
you [still] will not listen to Me,
and you will walk contrary to Me,
Verse 28: I will walk contrary to you in fury,
and indeed I too shall punish you
sevenfold, for your sins.
Verse 29: You will eat the flesh of your sons
and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
Verse 30: I will destroy your high places
and I will smash your sun images.
I will set your corpses
upon the
carcasses (remains) of your idols,
and My soul will loathe you.
Verse 31: I will turn your cities into ruins
and bring your Sanctuaries into desolation.
I will no longer scent (accept favorably)
the fragrance of your offerings.
Verse 32: I will
make the land [so] desolate
that your enemies who live on it will be astonished.
Verse 33: I will scatter you among the nations
and unsheath
the sword after you.
Your land will be desolate
and your cities will be in ruins.
Verse 34: The land will then be appeased for its Shabbosos
[during] all the days of its desolation
while you are in the land of your enemies.
Then the land will rest
and be appeased for its Shabbosos.
Verse 35: All the days
that it lies desolate
it shall have its rest---
the rest it did not have on your Shabbosos
when you were
living upon it.
Verse 36: To those who survive among you,
I will send timidity
into their hearts
[as they live] in the lands of their enemies.
The sound of a blown leaf will put them to flight
and they will flee as though fleeing from a sword;
and they will
fall with no one chasing them.
Verse 37: They will stumble over one other
as though before a sword when there is no pursuer,
and you will
have no power to stand upright
before your enemies.
Verse 38: You will be lost among the nations
and the land of your enemies will consume you.
Verse 39: Those of you who survive
will rot away in their iniquity
in the land of your enemies,
and also due to the iniquities of their ancestors
which are [still] with them,
[they] will
they rot away.
Verse 40: They will [then] confess their iniquities
and the iniquities of their ancestors
in the unfaithfulness
with which they were unfaithful to Me,
and also for walking contrary to Me.
Verse 41: I, too, will go contrary to them
and bring them into the land of their enemies.
Or perhaps
then will be humbled
their uncircumcised (unyielding) heart
and then their iniquities will be appeased (forgiven).
Verse 42: I will [then] remember
My covenant with Yaakov
and also My
covenant with Yitzchok
and also My covenant with Avrohom,
I will remember
and I will remember the land.
Verse 43: The land, being bereft of them,
will be appeased for its Shabbosos,
during the time of its desolation from them
and their iniquities will then be appeased (forgiven)
since what certainly caused [this] is that
they despised My laws
and their soul loathed (rejected) My statutes.
Verse 44:
All this not withstanding,
even when they are in the land of their enemies
I will not despise them
and I will not loathe them to annihilate them,
to break My covenant with them,
for I am Ad-noy, their G-d.
Verse 45: I shall remember for them
the covenant of their ancestors
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt
in sight of the nations
to be a G-d for them, I am Ad-noy.
Verse 46: These are the statutes, the laws and the teachings
that
Ad-noy set between Himself
and between Bnei Yisroel,
on Mount Sinai, through the hand of Moshe.
Chapter 27
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;
Verse 2: Speak to Bnei Yisroel
and say to them;
when a person [orally] expresses a vow
pledging valuation of souls, to Ad-noy.
Verse 3: The valuation for a male shall be,
from twenty years of age
to sixty years of
age
your valuation shall be
fifty holy silver shekalim.
Verse 4: If it be a female,
the valuation shall be thirty shekalim.
Verse 5: If from five years of age
to twenty years of age
the valuation for a male shall be twenty shekalim,
and for a female, ten shekalim.
Verse 6: If from one month of age
to five years of age
the valuation of a male shall be
five silver shekalim
and the valuation for a female
is three silver shekalim.
Verse 7: If from sixty and above,
if he is a male
the valuation shall be fifteen shekalim
and for a female, ten shekalim.
Verse 8: If he is [too] poor to pay the valuation
he shall set him[self]
[=he shall be presented] before the kohein,
and the kohein will determine his valuation.
According to the
means of the one who vowed
the kohein will determine his valuation.
Verse 9: If [it is] an animal
which can be brought as an offering to Ad-noy,
any of it that he will give to Ad-noy
shall become sacred.
Verse 10: He shall not exchange it [with another's animal]
and he shall not change it [with his own animal]
whether it be a good one for a worse one
[or] a bad one
for a better one.
If he did exchange one animal for another animal,
then both it and its replacement shall be sacred.
Verse 11: If it is any unclean (blemished) animal
which cannot be offered to Ad-noy,
he shall present the animal to the kohein.
Verse 12: The kohein shall determine its value
whether it is good or bad
as the kohein determines its value for you,
so shall it be.
Verse 13: If he
will indeed redeem it
he shall add on one fifth to its valuation.
Verse 14: If a man will consecrate his house
as being sacred to Ad-noy,
the kohein shall determine its value,
whether it is good or bad;
as the kohein determines its value,
so shall it be established.
Verse 15: If he who consecrated [his house]
wishes to redeem his house,
he shall add one fifth to its valuation money
in addition to [the valuation],
and [then] it belongs to him.
16. If from his ancestral field
a man will consecrate to Ad-noy
its valuation shall
be
according to the measure of its seed;
[at the rate
of] one chomer of barley seed
per fifty silver shekalim.
Verse 17: If immediately after the jubilee year
he consecrates his field
it shall be established according to its vaulation.
Verse 18: If after the jubilee
he consecrates his field,
then the kohein shall calculate the money [due]
according to the remaining years
until the
jubilee year,
and its valuation should be reduced accordingly.
Verse 19: If he will [indeed] redeem the field,
he who consecrated it,
shall add one fifth
to its monetary valuation,
and it is then established as his.
Verse 20: If he does not redeem the field
and if he sells the field
to another
person,
it shall not longer be redeemable.
Verse 21: When the field is then released by the jubilee
it becomes sacred to Ad-noy,
just as a field that was consecrated,
it shall belong to the kohein, [as] his possession.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 22: If it is
a field that he purchased,
that is not his ancestral field,
[that] he consecrates to Ad-noy.
Verse 23: The kohein will calculate for him
the amount of its valuation
until the jubilee year,
and on that day he shall give its valuation
as something sacred to Ad-noy.
Verse 24: In the jubilee year
the field shall revert
to him from whom it was purchased;
to him whose
ancestral land it is.
Verse 25: All of your valuations
shall be in holy shekalim;
the shekel shall be twenty geirah.
Verse 26: However,
a firstling [animal] that is born first
shall belong to Ad-noy [as a sacrifice]
from among the domestic animals;
a man shall not consecrate it [for any other purpose]
whether it is an ox or a lamb,
it belongs to Ad-noy.
Verse 27: If it is of an unclean animal,
he shall redeem it based on the valuation,
and add a
fifth to [that amount].
If it is not redeemed,
it shall be sold according to the valuation.
Verse 28: However, any dedication
that a man will dedicate to Ad-noy
from any of his belongings
be it people (slave), or animal,
or of the field of his ancestral land,
[none of these] can
be sold or redeemed.
Everything that is dedicated
is most holy, unto Ad-noy.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Verse 29: Any dedication
that a man will dedcate,
regarding a man [due to be put to death]
cannot be redeemed,
he shall
surely be put to death.
Verse 30: All tithings of the land;
whether of the seeds [crops] of the land
or of the fruit of the tree,
belongs to Ad-noy,
it is sacred
to Ad-noy.
Verse 31: If a man wishes to redeem of his tithe,
he shall add a fifth to [the amount].
Maftir
Verse 32: All tithes of cattle and sheep,
anything that passes under the rod,
the tenth one
shall be sacred to Ad-noy.
Verse 33: He shall not make a distinction
between better or worse [animals]
and he shall not exchange it.
If he exchanges one for another,
then [both] it and its replacement
shall be sacred
and it cannot be redeemed.
Verse 34: These are the commandments
which Ad-noy commanded Moshe
for Bnei Yisroel on Mount Sinai.
Chazak
Seventy-eight verses.
Haftarah: Yirmeyahu 16:17---17:14.
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