Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach

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Sixth Reading

Hebrew

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

Sh'mor-lecha et asher anochi
m'tzav'cha hayom hineni goresh mipanecha
et-ha'Emori vehaK'na'ani vehaChiti
vehaP'rizi vehaChivi vehaY'vusi: Hishamer
lecha pen-tichrot berit l'yoshev
ha'aretz asher atah ba alehah pen-
yihyeh l'mokesh b'kirbecha: Ki et-
mizb'chotam titotzun ve'et-matzeivotam
t'shaberun ve'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 vezavchu
leiloheihem ve-kara lecha v'achalta
mizivcho: V'lakachta mib'notav levanecha
v'zanu b'notav acharei eloheihen vehiznu
et-banecha acharei eloheihen: Elohei
maseichah lo ta'aseh-lach:

English

Fulfill the following commandments that I am commanding you today: behold, when you will enter the Land of Israel, I will drive out from before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivvites, and the Jebusites, while the seventh nation, the Girgashites, will leave the land of their own accord. When this happens, watch yourselves, lest you enter a covenant with the occupants of the land into which you are coming. Do not allow them to remain there, lest it be a dangerous trap in your midst, because the people of these nations will ensnare you to abandon the ways of God. Rather, you must demolish their altars, break their monuments, and cut down the trees that they worship. For you shall not bow down before any other god, because the Lord, Who has a name as "the zealous One," is a zealous God to exact payment from those who betray Him. I command you not to enter a covenant with the occupants of the land to allow them to remain, for they will continue to stray after their gods and to offer sacrifices to their gods, and they will call out invitations to you to befriend and join them. Eventually, you will come to eat of their idolatrous sacrifice, until you will eventually take their daughters as wives for your sons. These daughters will stray after their gods and they will also lead your sons astray after their gods. As a further prevention from idolatry, do not make any molded or shaped idols for yourself, even if you do not intend to worship them.

Seventh Reading

Hebrew

אֶת־חַג הַמַּצּוֹת תִּשְׁמֹר
שִׁבְעַת יָמִים תֹּאכַל מַצּוֹת
אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִךָ לְמוֹעֵד חֹדֶשׁ
הָאָבִיב כִּי בְּחֹדֶשׁ הָאָבִיב
יָצָאתָ מִמִּצְרָיִם: כָּל־פֶּטֶר
רֶחֶם לִי וְכָל־מִקְנְךָ תִּזָּכָר פֶּטֶר
שׁוֹר וָשֶׂה: וּפֶטֶר חֲמוֹר תִּפְדֶּה
בְשֶׂה וְאִם־לֹא תִפְדֶּה וַעֲרַפְתּוֹ
כֹּל בְּכוֹר בָּנֶיךָ תִּפְדֶּה וְלֹא־יֵרָאוּ
פָנַי רֵיקָם: שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים תַּעֲבֹד
וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי תִּשְׁבֹּת בֶּחָרִישׁ
וּבַקָּצִיר תִּשְׁבֹּת: וְחַג שָׁבֻעֹת
תַּעֲשֶׂה לְךָ בִּכּוּרֵי קְצִיר חִטִּים
וְחַג הָאָסִיף תְּקוּפַת הַשָּׁנָה:

Sephardi

Et-chag hamatzot tishmor
shiv'at yamim tochal matzot
asher tziviticha l'mo'ed chodesh
ha'aviv ki b'chodesh ha'aviv
yatzata miMitzrayim: Kol-peter
rechem li vechol-miknecha tizachar peter
shor vaseh: Ufeter chamor tifdeh
veseh ve'im-lo tifdeh va'araftto
kol bechor banekha tifdeh velo-yera'u
fanai reikam: Sheshet yamim ta'avod
uvayom hashevi'i tishbot becharish
uvakatzir tishbot: Vechag shavu'ot
ta'aseh lecha bikurei ketzir chitim
vechag ha'asif tekufat hashanah:

English

You shall keep the Festival of Matzot; seven days you shall eat only unleavened foods and matzot, as I commanded you to do at the set time of the month when the grain begins to ripen—the 15th of Nissan. This festival shall always be in the spring season, because it was in the month of Nissan, during the spring season that you went out of Egypt. When God killed all the firstborn sons and all the firstborn male animals of the Egyptians, He passed over the Jewish homes and saved the firstborn of the Jewish Nation. Therefore, God commands you: Every firstborn son who is the first to open the womb of his mother shall be Mine, and you must redeem him from a Kohen when he is thirty days old. Also whenever any of your livestock, whether of an ox or a sheep shall give birth to a male, if this offspring was the first to open its mother's womb, it shall also be Mine, and must be given to a Kohen. Among non-kosher animals, you shall redeem the male firstborn donkey by exchanging it for a lamb, which you will give to the Kohen; if you do not redeem it, you shall decapitate it, causing you financial loss—just as you wished to cause financial loss to the Kohen. Every son of yours who is a firstborn to

Hebrew

שָׁלֹשׁ פְּעָמִים בַּשָּׁנָה יֵרָאֶה כָּל־
זְכוּרְךָ אֶת־פְּנֵי | הָאָדֹן יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי
יִשְׂרָאֵל: כִּי־אוֹרִישׁ גּוֹיִם מִפָּנֶיךָ
וְהִרְחַבְתִּי אֶת־גְּבֻלֶךָ וְלֹא־יַחְמֹד אִישׁ
אֶת־אַרְצְךָ בַּעֲלֹתְךָ לֵרָאוֹת אֶת־פְּנֵי
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ שָׁלֹשׁ פְּעָמִים בַּשָּׁנָה:
לֹא־תִשְׁחַט עַל־חָמֵץ דַּם־זִבְחִי וְלֹא־
יָלִין לַבֹּקֶר זֶבַח חַג הַפָּסַח: רֵאשִׁית
בִּכּוּרֵי אַדְמָתְךָ תָּבִיא בֵּית יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ לֹא־תְבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֹ:

Sephardi

Shalosh pe'amim bashanah yera'eh kol-
zechurecha et-p'nei | ha'adon Adonai Elohei
Yisrael: Ki-orish goyim mipanecha
vehirchavti et-gevulecha velo-yachmod ish
et-artzecha ba'alotcha lera'ot et-p'nei
Adonai Elohecha shalosh pe'amim bashanah:
Lo-tishchat al-chametz dam-zivchi v'lo-
yalin laboker zevach chag hapesach: Reshit
bikurei admatecha tavi beit Adonai
Elohecha lo-tevashil gedi bachalev imo:

English

his mother, you shall redeem from any Kohen for five shekels (about 100 grams of pure silver). When the Jewish Nation will come up to the Holy Temple to celebrate the festivals, they shall not appear before Me empty handed; rather, they shall bring an animal as a burnt-offering. Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest by not doing any work. You shall rest from plowing and from harvesting. And you shall make for yourself a Festival of Weeks (Shavuot), during which you shall bring the two loaves of bread, which is the first offering that is brought from the new wheat harvest in the Holy Temple. You shall also observe the Festival of the Gathering of your crop (Sukkot), which takes place at the time when the new year begins (Tishrei). Three times a year during the aforementioned festivals of Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot, all your males shall appear before the Master of the universe, the Lord, Who is the God of Israel, by coming to the holy Temple in Jerusalem. For I will drive out all nations from before you and widen your borders in the Land of Israel, which will cause many of you to live far from the Holy Temple. No man of the other nations will desire your land and scheme to obtain it when you go up to appear before the Lord, your God, these three times of the year. Therefore, you can go to the Holy Temple without worry. You shall not slaughter or sprinkle the blood of My Pesach-offering while you still have chametz (leaven) in your possession. The Pesach-offering shall be brought on the fourteenth of Nissan, and its parts that are burned on the altar may not remain off of the altar overnight, until the morning of the fifteenth. Of the seven species of produce with which your Land of Israel was blessed—wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates—you shall bring some of the first that begin to ripen to the house of the Lord, your God, as a gift to the Kohanim. You may not cook a young goat in its mother's milk, nor any meat in any milk, nor may you eat from any such mixture.

The following is the commandment for the special offerings brought in the Holy Temple during the Festival of Pesach.

Final Reading

Hebrew

וְהִקְרַבְתֶּם אִשֶּׁה עֹלָה לַיהוָה
פָּרִים בְּנֵי־בָקָר שְׁנַיִם וְאַיִל אֶחָד
וְשִׁבְעָה כְּבָשִׂים בְּנֵי שָׁנָה תְּמִימִם יִהְיוּ
לָכֶם: וּמִנְחָתָם סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשָּׁמֶן
שְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים לַפָּר וּשְׁנֵי עֶשְׂרֹנִים
לָאַיִל תַּעֲשׂוּ: עִשָּׂרוֹן עִשָּׂרוֹן תַּעֲשֶׂה
לַכֶּבֶשׂ הָאֶחָד לְשִׁבְעַת הַכְּבָשִׂים:
וּשְׂעִיר חַטָּאת אֶחָד לְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיכֶם:
מִלְּבַד עֹלַת הַבֹּקֶר אֲשֶׁר לְעֹלַת
הַתָּמִיד תַּעֲשׂוּ אֶת־אֵלֶּה: כָּאֵלֶּה
תַּעֲשׂוּ לַיּוֹם שִׁבְעַת יָמִים לֶחֶם אִשֵּׁה

Sephardi

V'hikravtem isheh olah lAdonai
parim b'nei-vakar sh'nayim v'ayil echad
v'shiv'ah k'vasim b'nei shanah t'mimim yihyu
lachem: Uminchatam solet b'lulah bashamen
sh'loshah esronim lapar ush'nei esronim
la'ayil ta'asu: Isaron isaron ta'aseh
lakeves ha'echad l'shiv'at hak'vasim:
Us'ir chatat echad l'chaper aleichem:
Milvad olat haboker asher l'olat
hatamid ta'asu et-eileh: Ka'eileh
ta'asu layom shiv'at yamim lechem isheh

English

You shall bring the following animals to the Lord as a burnt-offering, to be completely consumed by fire: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs that are less than a year old. They shall be unblemished for you. As their flour-offering, bring three-tenths of an eifah (approximately 6 kg/13.5 lb) of fine flour mixed with olive oil for each bull, two-tenths of an eifah (approximately 4 kg/9 lb) for the ram, and one-tenth of an eifah (approximately 2 kg/4.5 lb) for each lamb of the seven lambs. You should also bring one young male goat as a sin-offering to atone for your sins. You shall bring these offerings besides for the morning burnt-offering, which is offered daily. You shall bring these offerings on each day, for seven days. They are like food and are brought