23 I begged Adonai at that time, saying, 24 “Lord Adonai , you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what deity is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours? 25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan [Descender], that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
26 But Adonai was angry with me for your sakes, and didn’t \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· me. Adonai said to me, “Let this satisfy you. Speak no more to me of this matter. 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan [Descender]. 28 But enjoin Joshua [Salvation Yah], and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.” 29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
4 1 Now, Israel [God prevails], \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Adonai , the God of your fathers, gives you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I enjoin you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· of Adonai your God which I enjoin you. 3 Your eyes have seen what Adonai did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Adonai your God has destroyed them from among you. 4 But you who were faithful to Adonai your God are all alive today. (2) 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Adonai my God enjoined me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” 7 For what great nation is there, that has a deity so near to them, as \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God] is whenever we call on him? 8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and judgement so upright as all this \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching·, which I set before you today?
9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children; 10 the day that you stood before Adonai your God in Horeb [Desert], when Adonai said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.” 11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 12 Adonai spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice. 13 He declared to you his covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties·, which he enjoined you to perform, even the Ten Words. He wrote them on two stone tablets. 14 Adonai enjoined me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. 15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Adonai spoke to you in Horeb [Desert] out of the middle of the fire, 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and \tl abad\tl* ·serve· them, which Adonai your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. 20 But Adonai has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today. 21 Furthermore Adonai was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan [Descender], and that I should not go in to that good land, which Adonai your God gives you for an inheritance; 22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan [Descender]; but you shall go over, and possess that good land. 23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· of Adonai your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Adonai your God has enjoined forbidden for you. 24 For Adonai your \qt God is \+tl 'Akal 'Esh\+tl* [Consuming Fire], \qt* [fn] a jealous God. 25 When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Adonai your God’s sight, to provoke him to anger; 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan [Descender] to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed. 27 Adonai will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Adonai will lead you away. 28 There you shall \tl abad\tl* ·serve· deities, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey·, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But from there you shall seek Adonai your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall \tl teshuvah\tl* ·completely return· to Adonai your God, and \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· to his voice. 31 For Adonai your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· of your fathers which he swore to them. 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· like it? 33 Did a people ever \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed·, and live? 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Adonai your God did for you in Egypt [Abode of slavery] before your eyes? 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Adonai is God. \qt There is no one else besides him, \qt*[fn] 36 Out of heaven he made you to \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· his words out of the middle of the fire. 37 Because he \tl 'ahav\tl* ·affectionately loved· your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt [Abode of slavery]; 38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. 39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Adonai^ himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. \qt There is no one else.\qt*[fn] 40 You shall keep his statutes, and his \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, which I enjoin you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Adonai your God gives you, forever. (A:3) 41 Then Moses [Drawn out] set apart three cities beyond the Jordan [Descender] toward the sunrise; 42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. 44 This is the \tl Torah\tl* ·Teaching· which Moses [Drawn out] set before the children of Israel [God prevails]. 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses [Drawn out] spoke to the children of Israel [God prevails], when they came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery], 46 beyond the Jordan [Descender], in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers], who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses [Drawn out] and the children of Israel [God prevails] struck, when they came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. 47 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers], who were beyond the Jordan [Descender] toward the sunrise; 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon [Devoted to destruction]), 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan [Descender] eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
(A:4, S:3) 5 1 Moses [Drawn out] called to all Israel [God prevails], and said to them, “\tl Sh'ma\tl* ·Hear obey·, Israel [God prevails], the statutes and the judgments which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.” 2 \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God] made a covenant with us in Horeb [Desert]. 3 Adonai didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today. 4 Adonai spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, 5 (I stood between Adonai and you at that time, to show you Adonai ’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,
6 [fn] “I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], out of the house of bondage.
7 [fn] “You shall have no other deities before me.
8 [fn] “You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 [fn] You shall not \tl hawa\tl* ·bow low, prostrate· yourself down to them, [fn] nor \tl abad\tl* ·serve· them; for I, Adonai , your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; 10 and showing \tl cheshed\tl* ·loving-kindness· to thousands of those who \tl 'ahav\tl* ·affectionately love· me and keep my \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·.
11 [fn] “You shall not take the name of Adonai your God in vain: for Adonai will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
12 [fn] “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Adonai your God enjoined you. 13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work; 14 but the seventh day is a \tl Sabbath\tl* ·To cease· to Adonai your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], and Adonai your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Adonai your God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 [fn] \qt “Honor your father and your mother, \qt* [fn] as Adonai your God enjoined you; that your days may be long, and that \qt it may go well with you, in the land \qt* [fn] which Adonai your God gives you.
17 [fn] \qt “You shall not murder. \qt*[fn]
18 [fn] \qt “You shall not commit adultery. \qt*[fn]
19 [fn] “You shall \qt not steal. \qt*[fn][fn]
20 [fn] “You shall \qt not give false witness \qt* [fn] against your neighbor.
21 [fn] [fn] “You shall \qt not covet \qt* [fn] [fn] your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your wrote neighbor’s.”[fn]
(A:5, S:4) 22 Adonai spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me. 23 When you \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 and you said, “Behold, \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God] has shown us his \tl kavod\tl* ·weighty glory· and his greatness, and we have \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives. 25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God]’s voice any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· the voice of the \tl Elohim Chayim\tl* [Living God] speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go near, and \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· all that \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God] shall say, and tell us all that \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God] tells you; and we will \tl sh'ma\tl* ·hear obey· it, and do it.”
28 Adonai \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Adonai said to me, “I have \tl sh'ma\tl* ·heard obeyed· the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken. 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
30 “Go tell them, ‘\tl Teshuvah\tl* ·Completely return· to your tents.’ 31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.”
32 You shall observe to do therefore as Adonai your God has enjoined you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 You shall walk in all the way which Adonai your God has enjoined you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
6 1 Now this is the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, the statutes, and the judgments, which Adonai your God enjoined to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; 2 that you might fear Adonai your God, to keep all his statutes and his \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, which I enjoin you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 3 \tl Sh'ma\tl* ·Hear understand obey· therefore, Israel [God prevails], and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Adonai , the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. (A:6, S:5) 4 [fn] \qt \+tl Sh'ma\+tl* ·Hear obey·, Israel [God prevails]: Adonai is our God. Adonai is \+tl echad\+tl* ·one, one unity·. \qt*[fn][fn] 5 [fn] \qt You shall \+tl 'ahav\+tl* ·affectionately love· Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. \qt*[fn][fn][fn] 6 These words, which I enjoin you today, shall be on your heart; 7 [fn] and you shall teach them diligently to your children, [fn] and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 [fn] You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, [fn] and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 9 [fn] You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates. (S:6) 10 It shall be, when Adonai your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham [Father of a multitude], to Isaac [Laughter], and to Jacob [Supplanter], to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build, 11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full; 12 then beware lest you forget Adonai , who brought you out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], out of the house of bondage. 13 \qt You shall fear Adonai your God; and you shall \+tl abad\+tl* ·serve· him, \qt* [fn] and shall swear by his name. 14 You shall not go after other deities, of the deities of the peoples who are around you; 15 for Adonai your God among you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Adonai your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 16 [fn] \qt You shall not tempt Adonai your God, \qt* [fn] as you tempted him in Massah [Testing]. 17 You shall diligently keep the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· of Adonai your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has enjoined you. 18 You shall do that which is right and good in Adonai ’s sight; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Adonai swore to your fathers, 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Adonai has spoken.
20 Some day when your child asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments, which \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God] has enjoined you mean?” 21 then you shall tell your child, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt [Abode of slavery]. Adonai brought us out of Egypt [Abode of slavery] with a mighty hand; 22 and Adonai showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt [Abode of slavery], on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24 Adonai enjoined us to do all these statutes, to fear \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God], for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· before \tl Yahweh Eloheikhem\tl* [Yahweh our God], as he has enjoined us.”
(7) 7 1 When Adonai your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite [Descendant of Trembling fear], the Girgashite, the Amorite [Descendants of Talkers], the Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled], the Perizzite [Descendant of Belonging to village], the Hivite [Wicked], and the Jebusite [Descendants of Thresher], \qt seven nations \qt* [fn] greater and mightier than you; 2 and when Adonai your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. [fn] [fn] You shall make no covenant with them, [fn] nor show mercy to them; 3 [fn] neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. 4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may \tl abad\tl* ·serve· other deities. So Adonai ’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 5 But you shall deal with them like this. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire. 6 For you are a holy people to Adonai your God. Adonai your God has \qt chosen \qt* you to be a \qt \+tl le'am segulah\+tl* ·people of special treasure· \qt* [fn] for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 Adonai didn’t set his \tl chasak\tl* ·to set one’s affection, to make bands· on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: 8 but because Adonai loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Adonai has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. (Maftir ·Conclusion·) 9 Know therefore that Adonai your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and \tl cheshed\tl* ·loving-kindness· with them who \tl 'ahav\tl* ·affectionately love· him and keep his \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions· to a thousand generations, 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore keep the \tl mitzvot\tl* ·instructions·, the statutes, and the judgments, which I enjoin you today, to do them.