Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 “Listen, Isra’el! You are to cross the Yarden today, to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, great cities fortified up to the sky; 2 a people great and tall, the ‘Anakim, whom you know about and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of […]

1 (iv)“At that timeAdonaisaid to me, ‘Cut yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, come up to me on the mountain, and make yourself an ark of wood. 2 I will inscribe on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to put them in the […]

1 “Therefore, you are to loveAdonaiyour God and always obey his commission, regulations, rulings andmitzvot. 2 Today it is you I am addressing — not your children, who haven’t known or experienced the discipline ofAdonaiyour God, his greatness, his strong hand, his outstretched arm, 3 his signs and his actions which he did in Egypt […]

1 Here are the laws and rulings you are to observe and obey in the landAdonai, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess as long as you live on earth. 2 You must destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, […]

1 “Everything I am commanding you, you are to take care to do. Do not add to it or subtract from it. 2 “If a prophet or someone who gets messages while dreaming arises among you and he gives you a sign or wonder, 3 and the sign or wonder comes about as he predicted […]

1 (iv)“You are the people ofAdonaiyour God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead, 2 because you are a people set apart as holy forAdonaiyour God.Adonaiyour God has chosen you to be his own unique treasure out of all the peoples on the face […]

1 (vi)“At the end of every seven years you are to have ash’mittah. 2 Here is how thesh’mittahis to be done: every creditor is to give up what he has loaned to his fellow member of the community — he is not to force his neighbor or relative to repay it, becauseAdonai’s time of remission […]

1 “Observe the month of Aviv, and keepPesachtoAdonaiyour God; for in the month of Aviv,Adonaiyour God brought you out of Egypt at night. 2 You are to sacrifice thePesachoffering from flock and herd toAdonaiyour God in the place whereAdonaiwill choose to have his name live. 3 You are not to eat anyhametzwith it; for seven […]

1 “You are not to sacrifice toAdonaiyour God a cow or sheep that has a defect or anything wrong with it; that would be an abomination toAdonaiyour God. 2 “If there is found among you, within any of your gates [in any city] thatAdonaiyour God gives you, a man or woman who does whatAdonaiyour God […]

1 (iii)Thecohanim, who areL’vi’im, and indeed the whole tribe of Levi, is not to have a share or an inheritance with Isra’el. Instead, their support will come from the food offered by fire toAdonaiand from whatever else becomes his. 2 They will have no inheritance with their brothers, becauseAdonaiis their inheritance — as he has […]