Ekev 7:12-11:25
Haftarah Yeshayahu 49:14-51:3
ראשון (Rishon)
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, if you listen to these mishpatim, and shomer, and do them, that YHWH your Elohim shall keep with you the brit and the rachamim which He swore to your ahvot:
13 And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your ahvot to give you.
14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not
be male, or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And YHWH will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Mitzrayim, which you have seen, and know about, upon you; but will lay them upon all them that hate you.
16 And you shall consume all the peoples that YHWH your Elohim shall deliver for you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their elohim; for that will be a snare to you.
17 If you shall say in your lev, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what YHWH your Elohim did to Pharaoh, and to all Mitzrayim;
19 The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched Arm, whereby YHWH your Elohim brought you out: so shall YHWH your Elohim do to all the peoples whom you fear.
20 Moreover YHWH your Elohim will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, who hide themselves from you, will be destroyed.
21 You shall not be afraid of them: for YHWH your Elohim is among you, a Mighty-El and awesome.
22 And YHWH your Elohim will put out those nations before you little by little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.
23 But YHWH your Elohim shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.
24 And He shall deliver their melechim into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the shamayim: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their elohim shall you burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver, or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared with it: for it is an abomination to YHWH your Elohim.
26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your bayit, lest you be a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
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All the mitzvoth, which I command you this day, shall you shomer to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land that YHWH swore to your ahvot.
2 And you shall remember all the ways that YHWH your Elohim led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your lev, whether you would shomer His mitzvoth, or not.
3 And He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your ahvot know; that He might make you know that man does not live by lechem only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of YHWH does man live.
4 Your garment did not wear out on you; neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
5 You shall also consider in your lev, that, as a man disciplines his son, so YHWH your Elohim disciplines you.
6 Therefore you shall shomer the mitzvoth of YHWH your Elohim, to have your halacha in His halachot, and to fear Him.
7 For YHWH your Elohim brings you into a tov and spacious land, a land of brooks of mayim, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig eytzim, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil, and honey;
9 A land where you shall eat lechem without scarceness, you shall not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.
10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless YHWH your Elohim for the tov land that He has given
you.
שני (Sheni)
11 Beware that you forget not YHWH your Elohim, in not keeping His mitzvoth, and His mishpatim, and His chukim, which I command you this day:
12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built nice houses, and dwelt in them;
13 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
14 That your lev be lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim, who brought you forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, from the bayit of bondage;
15 Who led you through that great and awesome wilderness, where there were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no mayim; who brought forth mayim out of the rock of flint;
16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ahvot knew not, that He might humble you, and that He might test you, to do you tov at your latter-end,
17 And you say in your lev, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
18 But you shall remember YHWH your Elohim: for it is He that gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His brit which He swore to your ahvot, to Avraham, to Yitzchak and to Yaakov, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if you do in any manner forget YHWH your Elohim, and have your halacha after other elohim, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 And like the nations that YHWH destroyed before your face, so shall you also perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of YHWH your Elohim.
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Shema Yisrael: You are to pass over Yarden this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the shamayim,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that YHWH your Elohim is He who goes over before you; as a consuming fire He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as YHWH has said to you.
שלישי (Shlishi)
4 Do not say in your lev, after YHWH your Elohim has cast them out from before you, saying, For my tzedakah YHWH has brought me in to possess this land: rather for the wickedness of those nations YHWH does drive them out from before you.
5 Not for your tzedakah, or for the uprightness of your lev, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations YHWH your Elohim does drive them out from before you, and that He may perform the word which YHWH swore to your ahvot, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov.
6 Understand therefore, that YHWH your Elohim does not give you this tov land to possess it for your tzedakah; for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked YHWH your Elohim to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Mitzrayim, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against YHWH.
8 Also in Horev you provoked YHWH to wrath, so that YHWH was angry with you and wanted to destroy you.
9 When I had gone up into the mount to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the brit that YHWH made with you, then I dwelt in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat lechem nor drink mayim:
10 And YHWH delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of Elohim; and on them was written according to all the words, which YHWH spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the congregation.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that YHWH gave me the two tablets of stone, even the tablets of the brit.
12 And YHWH said to me, Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Mitzrayim have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the halacha which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molded image.
13 And YHWH spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and see, it is a stiff-necked people:
14 Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the shamayim: and I will make from you a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tablets of the brit were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, saw that you had sinned against YHWH your Elohim, and had made a molded calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the halacha that YHWH had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tablets, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before YHWH, as at first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat lechem, nor drink mayim, because of all your sins which you committed, in doing wickedly in the sight of YHWH, to provoke Him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which YHWH was angry against you to destroy you. But YHWH heard me at that time also.
20 And YHWH was very angry with Aharon and would have destroyed him: and I made tefillah for Aharon also at the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stomped on it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taverah, and at Massah, and at Kivroth-Hattaavah, you provoked YHWH to wrath.
23 And when YHWH sent you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land that I have given you; then you rebelled against the command of YHWH your Elohim, and you believed Him not, nor listened to His voice.
24 You have been rebellious against YHWH from the day that I knew you.
25 So I fell down before YHWH forty days and forty nights, as I fell down the first time; because YHWH had said He would destroy you.
26 I made tefillah therefore to YHWH, and said, O Master YHWH, destroy not Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Mitzrayim with a mighty hand.
27 Remember Your avadim, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land from where you brought us out say, Because YHWH was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched Arm.
רביעי (Revi’i)
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At that time YHWH said to me, Cut two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mount, and make an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were in the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tablets in my hand.
4 And He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which YHWH spoke to you on the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the congregation: and YHWH gave them to me.
5 And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tablets in the Ark that I had made; and there they are, as YHWH commanded me.
6 And the children of Yisrael took their journey from Beeroth from the children of Yaakan to Mosera: there Aharon died, and there he was buried; and El-Azar his son served in the kohen's office in his place.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Yotvath, a land of rivers of mayim.
8 At that time YHWH separated the tribe of Lewi, to bear the Ark of the Testimony of YHWH, to stand before YHWH to attend to Him, and to bless in His Name, to this day.
9 Therefore Lewi has no part, or inheritance with his brothers; YHWH is his inheritance, as YHWH your Elohim promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and YHWH heard me at that time also, and YHWH chose not to destroy you.
11 And YHWH said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their ahvot to give them.
חמישי (Chamishi)
12 And now, Yisrael, what does YHWH your Elohim require of you, but to fear YHWH your Elohim, to have your halacha in all His halachot, and to love Him, and to serve YHWH your Elohim with all your lev and with all your being,
13 To shomer the mitzvoth of YHWH, and His chukim, which I command you this day for your tov.
14 See, the shamayim and the shamayim of shamayim belong to YHWH your Elohim, the earth also, with all that is in it.
15 Only YHWH had delight in your ahvot to love them, and He chose their zera after them, even above all peoples, as it is this day.
16 Perform brit-milah therefore on the foreskin of your lev, and be no more stiff-necked.
17 For YHWH your Elohim is the Elohim of all mighty ones, and Master of all masters, a great El, mighty, and awesome, who shows no partiality, nor takes bribes:
18 He does execute the mishpat of the fatherless and widow, and loves the ger, in giving him food and garments.
19 Love therefore the ger: for you were gerim in the land of Mitzrayim.
20 You shall fear YHWH your Elohim; Him shall you serve, and to Him shall you cleave, and swear by His Name.
21 He is your tehilla, and He is your Elohim, that has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
22 Your ahvot went down into Mitzrayim with seventy-five persons; and now YHWH your Elohim has made you as the cochavim of the shamayim for multitude.