Hebrew
מֹשֶׁה וַיִּקֹּד אַרְצָה וַיִּשְׁתָּחוּ:
וַיֹּאמֶר אִם־נָא מָצָאתִי חֵן בְּעֵינֶיךָ
אֲדֹנָי יֵלֶךְ־נָא אֲדֹנָי בְּקִרְבֵּנוּ כִּי
עַם־קְשֵׁה־עֹרֶף הוּא וְסָלַחְתָּ
לַעֲוֺנֵנוּ וּלְחַטָּאתֵנוּ וּנְחַלְתָּנוּ:
וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי כֹּרֵת בְּרִית נֶגֶד
כָּל־עַמְּךָ אֶעֱשֶׂה נִפְלָאֹת אֲשֶׁר
לֹא־נִבְרְאוּ בְכָל־הָאָרֶץ וּבְכָל־
הַגּוֹיִם וְרָאָה כָל־הָעָם אֲשֶׁר־
אַתָּה בְקִרְבּוֹ אֶת־מַעֲשֵׂה יְהוָה
כִּי־נוֹרָא הוּא אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי עֹשֶׂה
עִמָּךְ: שְׁמָר־לְךָ אֵת אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי
מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם הִנְנִי גֹרֵשׁ מִפָּנֶיךָ
אֶת־הָאֱמֹרִי וְהַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַחִתִּי
וְהַפְּרִזִּי וְהַחִוִּי וְהַיְבוּסִי: הִשָּׁמֶר
לְךָ פֶּן־תִּכְרֹת בְּרִית לְיוֹשֵׁב
הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה בָּא עָלֶיהָ פֶּן־
יִהְיֶה לְמוֹקֵשׁ בְּקִרְבֶּךָ: כִּי אֶת־
מִזְבְּחֹתָם תִּתֹּצוּן וְאֶת־מַצֵּבֹתָם
תְּשַׁבֵּרוּן וְאֶת־אֲשֵׁרָיו תִּכְרֹתוּן:
כִּי לֹא תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לְאֵל אַחֵר כִּי
יְהוָה קַנָּא שְׁמוֹ אֵל קַנָּא הוּא:
פֶּן־תִּכְרֹת בְּרִית לְיוֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ
וְזָנוּ | אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם וְזָבְחוּ
לֵאלֹהֵיהֶם וְקָרָא לְךָ וְאָכַלְתָּ
מִזִּבְחוֹ: וְלָקַחְתָּ מִבְּנֹתָיו לְבָנֶיךָ
וְזָנוּ בְנֹתָיו אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶן וְהִזְנוּ
אֶת־בָּנֶיךָ אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶן: אֱלֹהֵי
מַסֵּכָה לֹא תַעֲשֶׂה־לָּךְ:
Sephardi
Moshe vayikod artzah vayishtachu:
Vayomer im-na matzati chen b'einecha
Adonai yeilech-na Adonai b'kirbenu ki
am-kesheh-oref hu v'salachta
la'avoneinu ul'chatateinu un'chaltanu:
Vayomer hineh anochi koret berit neged
kol-amecha e'eseh nifla'ot asher
lo-nivre'u b'chol-ha'aretz uvechol-
hagoyim v'ra'ah chol-ha'am asher-
atah b'kirbo et-ma'aseh Adonai
ki-nora hu asher ani oseh
imach: Sh'mor-lecha et asher anochi
m'tzavecha hayom hineni goresh mipanecha
et-ha'emori vehakena'ani vehachiti
vehap'rizi vehachivi vehayvusi: Hishamer
lecha pen-tichrot berit l'yoshev
ha'aretz asher atah ba alehah pen-
yihyeh l'mokesh b'kirbecha: Ki et-
mizbechotam titotzun v'et-matzevotam
teshaberun v'et-asheirav tichrotun:
Ki lo tishtachaveh l'el acher ki
Adonai kana shemo El kana hu:
Pen-tichrot berit l'yoshev ha'aretz
v'zanu | acharei eloheihem v'zavchu
leiloheihem ve-kara lecha v'achalta
mizivcho: V'lakachta mib'notav levanecha
v'zanu b'notav acharei eloheihen v'hiznu
et-banecha acharei eloheihen: Elohei
masechah lo ta'aseh-lach:
English
ways, <b>punishes their children and children's children to the third and fourth generations for their sins as well.</b> As <b>Moses</b> saw the Divine Presence was about to leave, <b>he hurried, bowed his head toward the ground, prostrated himself, and said: If I have now found favor in</b> Your eyes, my <b>Lord, then please may</b> the Divine Presence of <b>my Lord go in our midst</b> as we journey, since You have forgiven us. And if because <b>they are a stiff necked people</b> they will sin before You again, <b>may You forgive our intentional and unintentional sins, and secure us as Your everlasting nation and portion.</b> God agreed <b>and said: Behold I will enter a covenant</b> to this: <b>In the presence of all your people, I will make distinctions such as have never been created upon all the earth and among all the nations—</b>the Divine Presence will dwell only among the Jewish Nation. <b>All the people in whose midst you dwell shall see the work of the Lord—for it is awesome—that which I will now be doing for you.</b> Fulfill the following <b>commandments that I am commanding you today: behold,</b> when you will enter the Land of Israel, <b>I will drive out from before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivvites, and the Jebusites,</b> while the seventh nation, the Girgashites, will leave the land of their own accord. When this happens, <b>watch yourselves, lest you enter a covenant with the occupants of the land into which you are coming.</b> Do not allow them to remain there, <b>lest it be a</b> dangerous trap in <b>your midst,</b> because the people of these nations will ensnare you to abandon the ways of God. Rather, you must demolish <b>their altars, break their monuments, and cut down</b> the trees that they worship. <b>For you shall not bow down before any other god, because the Lord,</b> Who has a name as "the zealous One," <b>is a zealous God</b> to exact payment from those who betray Him. I command you <b>not to enter a covenant with the</b> occupants of the <b>land</b> to allow them to remain, <b>for they will</b> continue to stray after <b>their gods and to offer sacrifices to their gods, and they will call out</b> invitations <b>to you</b> to befriend and join them. Eventually, <b>you will</b> come to <b>eat of their</b> idolatrous sacrifice, until you will eventually <b>take their daughters</b> as wives for <b>your sons.</b> These <b>daughters will stray after their gods and</b> they will also lead <b>your sons astray after their gods.</b> As a further prevention from idolatry, <b>do not make any molded</b> or shaped idols for yourself, even if you do not intend to worship them.