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Vaetchanan

Va'etchanan

וָאֶתְחַנַּן

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וָאֶתְחַנַּן

VAETCHANAN

Hebrew

וָאֶתְחַנַּן אֶל־יְהוָה בָּעֵת הַהִוא לֵאמֹר: אֲדֹנָי
יְהֹוִה אַתָּה הַחִלּוֹתָ לְהַרְאוֹת אֶת־
עַבְדְּךָ אֶת־גָּדְלְךָ וְאֶת־יָדְךָ הַחֲזָקָה אֲשֶׁר מִי־
אֵל בַּשָּׁמַיִם וּבָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲשֶׂה כְמַעֲשֶׂיךָ
וְכִגְבוּרֹתֶךָ: אֶעְבְּרָה־נָּא וְאֶרְאֶה אֶת־הָאָרֶץ
הַטּוֹבָה אֲשֶׁר בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן הָהָר הַטּוֹב
הַזֶּה וְהַלְּבָנוֹן:

Sephardi

Va'etchanan el-Adonai ba'et hahi leimor: Adonai
Elohim atah hachilota lehar'ot et-
avd'cha et-gadl'cha v'et-yadcha hachazakah asher mi-
El bashamayim uva'aretz asher-ya'aseh chema'asecha
v'chigvurotecha: E'evrah-na v'er'eh et-ha'aretz
hatovah asher b'ever hayarden hahar hatov
hazeh v'halevanon:

English

I besought the Lord at that time, saying: "O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do according to Your works and according to Your mighty acts? Let me go over, I pray You, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly hill country, and Lebanon."

Levi

Hebrew

וַיִּתְעַבֵּר יְהוָה בִּי לְמַעַנְכֶם וְלֹא שָׁמַע אֵלָי
וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֵלַי רַב־לָךְ אַל־תּוֹסֶף דַּבֵּר אֵלַי
עוֹד בַּדָּבָר הַזֶּה: עֲלֵה רֹאשׁ הַפִּסְגָּה וְשָׂא עֵינֶיךָ
יָמָּה וְצָפֹנָה וְתֵימָנָה וּמִזְרָחָה וּרְאֵה בְעֵינֶיךָ
כִּי־לֹא תַעֲבֹר אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּן הַזֶּה: וְצַו אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁעַ
וְחַזְּקֵהוּ וְאַמְּצֵהוּ כִּי־הוּא יַעֲבֹר לִפְנֵי הָעָם הַזֶּה
וְהוּא יַנְחִיל אוֹתָם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר תִּרְאֶה:
וַנֵּשֶׁב בַּגָּיְא מוּל בֵּית פְּעוֹר: וְעַתָּה יִשְׂרָאֵל
שְׁמַע אֶל־הַחֻקִּים וְאֶל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי
מְלַמֵּד אֶתְכֶם לַעֲשׂוֹת לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּ וּבָאתֶם
וִירִשְׁתֶּם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֵיכֶם
נֹתֵן לָכֶם: לֹא תֹסִפוּ עַל־הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי
מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם וְלֹא תִגְרְעוּ מִמֶּנּוּ לִשְׁמֹר אֶת־
מִצְוֺת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם:
עֵינֵיכֶם הָרֹאוֹת אֵת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה יְהוָה בְּבַעַל
פְּעוֹר כִּי כָל־הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי בַעַל־פְּעוֹר
הִשְׁמִידוֹ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מִקִּרְבֶּךָ: וְאַתֶּם הַדְּבֵקִים
בַּיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם חַיִּים כֻּלְּכֶם הַיּוֹם:

Sephardi

Vayit'aber Adonai bi lema'anchem v'lo shama elai
Vayomer Adonai elai rav-lach al-tosef daber elai
od badavar hazeh: Aleh rosh hapisgah v'sa einecha
yamah v'tzafonah v'teimanah umizrachah ur'eh v'einecha
ki-lo ta'avor et-hayarden hazeh: V'tzav et-Yehoshua
v'chazkehu v'amtzehu ki-hu ya'avor lifnei ha'am hazeh
vehu yanchil otam et-ha'aretz asher tir'eh:
Vaneshev bagay mul beit Pe'or: V'atah Yisrael
sh'ma el-hachukim v'el-hamishpatim asher anochi
m'lamed etchem la'asot lema'an tichyu uvatem
virishtem et-ha'aretz asher Adonai Elohei avoteichem
noten lachem: Lo tosifu al-hadavar asher anochi
m'tzaveh etchem v'lo tigr'u mimenu lishmor et-
mitzvot Adonai Eloheichem asher anochi m'tzaveh etchem:
Eineichem haro'ot et asher-asah Adonai b'va'al
Pe'or ki chol-ha'ish asher halach acharei va'al-Pe'or
hishmido Adonai Elohecha mikirbecha: V'atem hadvekim
baAdonai Eloheichem chayim kul'chem hayom:

English

But the Lord was wrathful with me for your sakes, and would not hear me; and the Lord said to me: "Let it suffice you; speak no more to Me of this matter. Get you up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan. But charge Joshua, 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." So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you. You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did in Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. But you that did cleave to the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.

Yisrael

Hebrew

רְאֵה לִמַּדְתִּי אֶתְכֶם חֻקִּים וּמִשְׁפָּטִים
כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוַּנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהָי לַעֲשׂוֹת כֵּן בְּקֶרֶב
הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם בָּאִים שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ:
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם כִּי הִוא חָכְמַתְכֶם
וּבִינַתְכֶם לְעֵינֵי הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁמְעוּן אֵת
כָּל־הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה וְאָמְרוּ רַק עַם־חָכָם וְנָבוֹן
הַגּוֹי הַגָּדוֹל הַזֶּה: כִּי מִי־גוֹי גָּדוֹל אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ
אֱלֹהִים קְרֹבִים אֵלָיו כַּיהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ בְּכָל־
קָרְאֵנוּ אֵלָיו: וּמִי גּוֹי גָּדוֹל אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ חֻקִּים
וּמִשְׁפָּטִים צַדִּיקִם כְּכֹל הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת אֲשֶׁר
אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לִפְנֵיכֶם הַיּוֹם:

Sephardi

Re'eh limadti etchem chukim umishpatim
ka'asher tzivani Adonai Elohai la'asot ken b'kerev
ha'aretz asher atem ba'im shamah lerishtah:
Ushmartem va'asitem ki hi chochmatchem
uvinatchem l'einei ha'amim asher yishme'un et
kol-hachukim ha'eleh ve'amru rak am-chacham v'navon
hagoy hagadol hazeh: Ki mi-goy gadol asher-lo
Elohim k'rovim elav kaAdonai Eloheinu b'chol-
koreinu elav: Umi goy gadol asher-lo chukim
umishpatim tzadikim k'chol haTorah hazot asher
anochi noten lifneichem hayom:

English

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land whither you go in to possess it. Observe therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that, when they hear all these statutes, shall say: "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." For what great nation is there, that has God so nigh to them, as the Lord our God is whensoever we call upon Him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

עֵקֶב

EIKEV

Hebrew

וְהָיָה | עֵקֶב תִּשְׁמְעוּן אֵת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים הָאֵלֶּה
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם אֹתָם וְשָׁמַר יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְךָ אֶת־הַבְּרִית וְאֶת־הַחֶסֶד אֲשֶׁר
נִשְׁבַּע לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ: וַאֲהֵבְךָ וּבֵרַכְךָ וְהִרְבֶּךָ וּבֵרַךְ
פְּרִי־בִטְנְךָ וּפְרִי־אַדְמָתְךָ דְּגָנְךָ וְתִירֹשְׁךָ
וְיִצְהָרֶךָ שְׁגַר־אֲלָפֶיךָ וְעַשְׁתְּרֹת צֹאנֶךָ עַל
הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּע לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ לָתֶת לָךְ: בָּרוּךְ
תִּהְיֶה מִכָּל־הָעַמִּים לֹא־יִהְיֶה בְךָ עָקָר וַעֲקָרָה
וּבִבְהֶמְתֶּךָ: וְהֵסִיר יְהוָה מִמְּךָ כָּל־חֹלִי וְכָל־
מַדְוֵי מִצְרַיִם הָרָעִים אֲשֶׁר יָדַעְתָּ לֹא יְשִׂימָם
בָּךְ וּנְתָנָם בְּכָל־שֹׂנְאֶיךָ: וְאָכַלְתָּ אֶת־כָּל־
הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ לֹא־תָחוֹס
עֵינְךָ עֲלֵיהֶם וְלֹא תַעֲבֹד אֶת־אֱלֹהֵיהֶם כִּי־
מוֹקֵשׁ הוּא לָךְ: כִּי תֹאמַר בִּלְבָבְךָ רַבִּים הַגּוֹיִם
הָאֵלֶּה מִמֶּנִּי אֵיכָה אוּכַל לְהוֹרִישָׁם: לֹא תִירָא
מֵהֶם זָכֹר תִּזְכֹּר אֵת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
לְפַרְעֹה וּלְכָל־מִצְרָיִם: הַמַּסֹּת הַגְּדֹלֹת אֲשֶׁר־
רָאוּ עֵינֶיךָ וְהָאֹתֹת וְהַמֹּפְתִים וְהַיָּד הַחֲזָקָה
וְהַזְּרֹעַ הַנְּטוּיָה אֲשֶׁר הוֹצִאֲךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
כֵּן־יַעֲשֶׂה יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְכָל־הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר־
אַתָּה יָרֵא מִפְּנֵיהֶם: וְגַם אֶת־הַצִּרְעָה יְשַׁלַּח
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בָּם עַד־אֲבֹד הַנִּשְׁאָרִים
וְהַנִּסְתָּרִים מִפָּנֶיךָ: לֹא תַעֲרֹץ מִפָּנֵיהֶם כִּי
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בְּקִרְבֶּךָ אֵל גָּדוֹל וְנוֹרָא:

Sephardi

Vehayah | eikev tishme'un et hamishpatim ha'eleh
ushmartem va'asitem otam v'shamar Adonai
Elohecha lecha et-habrit v'et-hachesed asher
nishba la'avotecha: Va'ahevcha uverachcha v'hirbecha uverach
p'ri-vitn'cha uf'ri-admat'cha d'gancha v'tiroshcha
v'yitzharecha sh'gar-alafecha v'asht'rot tzoncha al
ha'adamah asher-nishba la'avotecha latet lach: Baruch
tihyeh mikol-ha'amim lo-yihyeh vecha akar va'akarah
uvivhemtecha: V'hesir Adonai mimcha kol-choli vechol-
madvei Mitzrayim hara'im asher yadata lo yesimam
bach unetanam b'chol-son'echa: V'achalta et-kol-
ha'amim asher Adonai Elohecha noten lach lo-tachos
eincha aleihem v'lo ta'avod et-eloheihem ki-
mokesh hu lach: Ki tomar bilvavcha rabbim hagoyim
ha'eleh mimeni eichah uchal lehorisham: Lo tira
mehem zachor tizkor et asher-asah Adonai Elohecha
lefar'oh ulchol-Mitzrayim: Hamassot hag'dolot asher-
ra'u einecha v'ha'otot v'hamoftim v'hayad hachazakah
v'hazroa han'tuyah asher hotzi'acha Adonai Elohecha
ken-ya'aseh Adonai Elohecha l'chol-ha'amim asher-
atah yarei mipneihem: Vegam et-hatzir'ah yeshalach
Adonai Elohecha bam ad-avod hanish'arim
v'hanistarim mipanecha: Lo ta'arotz mipneihem ki
Adonai Elohecha b'kirbecha El gadol venora:

English

And it shall come to pass, because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the Lord your God shall keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers, and He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, your corn and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall be no male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you, but will lay them upon all them that hate you. And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you. If you shall say in your heart: "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt: the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the Lord your God brought you out; so shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before you. You shall not be affrighted at them; for the Lord your God is in the midst of you, a God great and awful.

Levi

Hebrew

וְנָשַׁל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֶת־הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵל מִפָּנֶיךָ
מְעַט מְעַט לֹא תוּכַל כַּלֹּתָם מַהֵר פֶּן־תִּרְבֶּה
עָלֶיךָ חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה: וּנְתָנָם יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְפָנֶיךָ
וְהָמָם מְהוּמָה גְדֹלָה עַד הִשָּׁמְדָם: וְנָתַן מַלְכֵיהֶם
בְּיָדֶךָ וְהַאֲבַדְתָּ אֶת־שְׁמָם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם לֹא־
יִתְיַצֵּב אִישׁ בְּפָנֶיךָ עַד הִשְׁמִדְךָ אֹתָם: פְּסִילֵי
אֱלֹהֵיהֶם תִּשְׂרְפוּן בָּאֵשׁ לֹא־תַחְמֹד כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב
עֲלֵיהֶם וְלָקַחְתָּ לָךְ פֶּן תִּוָּקֵשׁ בּוֹ כִּי תוֹעֲבַת
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ הוּא: וְלֹא־תָבִיא תוֹעֵבָה אֶל־בֵּיתֶךָ
וְהָיִיתָ חֵרֶם כָּמֹהוּ שַׁקֵּץ תְּשַׁקְּצֶנּוּ וְתַעֵב תְּתַעֲבֶנּוּ
כִּי־חֵרֶם הוּא: כָּל־הַמִּצְוָה אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ
הַיּוֹם תִּשְׁמְרוּן לַעֲשׂוֹת לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּן וּרְבִיתֶם
וּבָאתֶם וִירִשְׁתֶּם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּע יְהוָה
לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶם: וְזָכַרְתָּ אֶת־כָּל־הַדֶּרֶךְ אֲשֶׁר הוֹלִיכְךָ
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ זֶה אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה בַּמִּדְבָּר לְמַעַן
עַנֹּתְךָ לְנַסֹּתְךָ לָדַעַת אֶת־אֲשֶׁר בִּלְבָבְךָ הֲתִשְׁמֹר
מִצְוֺתָו אִם־לֹא: וַיְעַנְּךָ וַיַּרְעִבֶךָ וַיַּאֲכִלְךָ אֶת־
הַמָּן אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יָדַעְתָּ וְלֹא יָדְעוּן אֲבֹתֶיךָ לְמַעַן
הוֹדִיעֲךָ כִּי לֹא עַל־הַלֶּחֶם לְבַדּוֹ יִחְיֶה הָאָדָם כִּי
עַל־כָּל־מוֹצָא פִי־יְהוָה יִחְיֶה הָאָדָם:

Sephardi

V'nashal Adonai Elohecha et-hagoyim ha-el mipanecha
me'at me'at lo tuchal kallotam maher pen-tirbeh
alecha chayat hasadeh: Unetanam Adonai Elohecha lefanecha
v'hamam m'humah g'dolah ad hishamdam: Venatan malcheihem
b'yadecha v'ha'avadta et-sh'mam mitachat hashamayim lo-
yityatzev ish b'fanecha ad hishmidcha otam: P'silei
eloheihem tisr'fun ba'esh lo-tachmod kesef v'zahav
aleihem v'lakachta lach pen tivakesh bo ki to'avat
Adonai Elohecha hu: V'lo-tavi to'evah el-beitecha
v'hayita cherem kamohu shaketz t'shak'tzenu v'ta'ev t'ta'avenu
ki-cherem hu: Kol-hamitzvah asher anochi m'tzav'cha
hayom tishm'run la'asot lema'an tichyun urvitem
uvatem virishtem et-ha'aretz asher-nishba Adonai
la'avoteichem: V'zacharta et-kol-haderech asher holich'cha
Adonai Elohecha zeh arba'im shanah bamidbar lema'an
anot'cha l'nasot'cha lada'at et-asher bilvavcha hatishmor
mitzvotav im-lo: Vay'an'cha vayar'ivecha vaya'achilcha et-
haman asher lo-yadata v'lo yad'un avotecha lema'an
hodi'acha ki lo al-halechem levado yichyeh ha'adam ki
al-kol-motza fi-Adonai yichyeh ha'adam:

English

And the Lord your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little; you may not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you. But the Lord your God will deliver them up before you, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them. The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and be accursed like it; you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing. All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that He might afflict you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments, or no. And He afflicted you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that He might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every thing that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord does man live.

Yisrael

Hebrew

שִׂמְלָתְךָ לֹא בָלְתָה מֵעָלֶיךָ וְרַגְלְךָ לֹא
בָצֵקָה זֶה אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה: וְיָדַעְתָּ עִם־לְבָבֶךָ
כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר יְיַסֵּר אִישׁ אֶת־בְּנוֹ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
מְיַסְּרֶךָּ: וְשָׁמַרְתָּ אֶת־מִצְוֺת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
לָלֶכֶת בִּדְרָכָיו וּלְיִרְאָה אֹתוֹ: כִּי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
מְבִיאֲךָ אֶל־אֶרֶץ טוֹבָה אֶרֶץ נַחֲלֵי מָיִם עֲיָנֹת
וּתְהֹמוֹת יֹצְאִים בַּבִּקְעָה וּבָהָר: אֶרֶץ חִטָּה
וּשְׂעֹרָה וְגֶפֶן וּתְאֵנָה וְרִמּוֹן אֶרֶץ־זֵית שֶׁמֶן
וּדְבָשׁ: אֶרֶץ אֲשֶׁר לֹא בְמִסְכֵּנֻת תֹּאכַל־בָּהּ
לֶחֶם לֹא־תֶחְסַר כֹּל בָּהּ אֶרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אֲבָנֶיהָ
בַרְזֶל וּמֵהֲרָרֶיהָ תַּחְצֹב נְחֹשֶׁת: וְאָכַלְתָּ
וְשָׂבָעְתָּ וּבֵרַכְתָּ אֶת־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ עַל־הָאָרֶץ
הַטּוֹבָה אֲשֶׁר נָתַן־לָךְ:

Sephardi

Simlat'cha lo valtah mei'alecha v'ragl'cha lo
vatzeikah zeh arba'im shanah: V'yadata im-l'vavcha
ki ka'asher y'yaser ish et-b'no Adonai Elohecha
m'yas'reka: V'shamarta et-mitzvot Adonai Elohecha
lalechet bidrachav ul'yir'ah oto: Ki Adonai Elohecha
mevi'acha el-eretz tovah eretz nachalei mayim ayanot
ut'homot yotz'im babik'ah uvahar: Eretz chitah
us'orah v'gefen ut'einah v'rimon eretz-zeit shemen
ud'vash: Eretz asher lo v'miskenut tochal-bah
lechem lo-techsar kol bah eretz asher avanehah
varzel umeiha'rarehah tachtzov n'choshet: V'achalta
v'savata uverachta et-Adonai Elohecha al-ha'aretz
hatovah asher natan-lach:

English

Your raiment waxed not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. And you shall consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. And you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the Lord your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; a land wherein you shall eat bread 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. And you shall eat and be satisfied, and bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

רְאֵה

RE'EH

Hebrew

רְאֵה אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לִפְנֵיכֶם הַיּוֹם בְּרָכָה וּקְלָלָה:
אֶת־הַבְּרָכָה אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְעוּ אֶל־מִצְוֺת
יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם הַיּוֹם:
וְהַקְּלָלָה אִם־לֹא תִשְׁמְעוּ אֶל־מִצְוֺת יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֵיכֶם וְסַרְתֶּם מִן־הַדֶּרֶךְ אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה
אֶתְכֶם הַיּוֹם לָלֶכֶת אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים
אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יְדַעְתֶּם: וְהָיָה כִּי יְבִיאֲךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ
אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּה בָא־שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ
וְנָתַתָּה אֶת־הַבְּרָכָה עַל־הַר גְּרִזִים וְאֶת־
הַקְּלָלָה עַל־הַר עֵיבָל: הֲלֹא־הֵמָּה בְּעֵבֶר
הַיַּרְדֵּן אַחֲרֵי דֶּרֶךְ מְבוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ בְּאֶרֶץ
הַכְּנַעֲנִי הַיֹּשֵׁב בָּעֲרָבָה מוּל הַגִּלְגָּל אֵצֶל אֵלוֹנֵי
מֹרֶה: כִּי אַתֶּם עֹבְרִים אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּן לָבֹא לָרֶשֶׁת
אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם נֹתֵן לָכֶם
וִירִשְׁתֶּם אֹתָהּ וִישַׁבְתֶּם־בָּהּ:

Sephardi

Re'eh anochi noten lifneichem hayom b'rachah uk'lalah:
Et-habrachah asher tishme'u el-mitzvot
Adonai Eloheichem asher anochi m'tzaveh etchem hayom:
V'hak'lalah im-lo tishme'u el-mitzvot Adonai
Eloheichem v'sartem min-haderech asher anochi m'tzaveh
etchem hayom lalechet acharei elohim acherim
asher lo-y'datem: Vehayah ki yevi'acha Adonai Elohecha
el-ha'aretz asher-atah ba-shamah lerishtah
v'natatah et-habrachah al-har G'rizim ve'et-
hak'lalah al-har Eival: Halo-hemah b'ever
hayarden acharei derech m'vo hashemesh b'eretz
hak'na'ani hayoshev ba'aravah mul hagilgal etzel elonei
Moreh: Ki atem ov'rim et-hayarden lavo lareshet
et-ha'aretz asher-Adonai Eloheichem noten lachem
virishtem otah vishavtem-bah:

English

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you shall hearken to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day; and the curse, if you shall not hearken to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known. And it shall come to pass, when the Lord your God shall bring you into the land whither you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the terebinths of Moreh? For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.

Levi

Hebrew

וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם לַעֲשׂוֹת אֵת כָּל־הַחֻקִּים וְאֶת־
הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לִפְנֵיכֶם הַיּוֹם:
אֵלֶּה הַחֻקִּים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְרוּן
לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר נָתַן יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֶיךָ
לְךָ לְרִשְׁתָּהּ כָּל־הַיָּמִים אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּם חַיִּים עַל־
הָאֲדָמָה: אַבֵּד תְּאַבְּדוּן אֶת־כָּל־הַמְּקֹמוֹת אֲשֶׁר
עָבְדוּ־שָׁם הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹרְשִׁים אֹתָם אֶת־
אֱלֹהֵיהֶם עַל־הֶהָרִים הָרָמִים וְעַל־הַגְּבָעוֹת
וְתַחַת כָּל־עֵץ רַעֲנָן: וְנִתַּצְתֶּם אֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָם
וְשִׁבַּרְתֶּם אֶת־מַצֵּבֹתָם וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶם תִּשְׂרְפוּן
בָּאֵשׁ וּפְסִילֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם תְּגַדֵּעוּן וְאִבַּדְתֶּם
אֶת־שְׁמָם מִן־הַמָּקוֹם הַהוּא: לֹא־תַעֲשׂוּן כֵּן
לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם: כִּי אִם־אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־
יִבְחַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם מִכָּל־שִׁבְטֵיכֶם לָשׂוּם
אֶת־שְׁמוֹ שָׁם לְשִׁכְנוֹ תִדְרְשׁוּ וּבָאתָ שָׁמָּה:

Sephardi

Ushmartem la'asot et kol-hachukim ve'et-
hamishpatim asher anochi noten lifneichem hayom:
Eleh hachukim v'hamishpatim asher tishm'run
la'asot ba'aretz asher natan Adonai Elohei avotecha
lecha lerishtah kol-hayamim asher-atem chayim al-
ha'adamah: Abed t'ab'dun et-kol-ham'komot asher
avdu-sham hagoyim asher atem yorshim otam et-
eloheihem al-heharim haramim v'al-hag'va'ot
v'tachat kol-etz ra'anan: V'nitatztem et-mizb'chotam
v'shibartem et-matzevotam va'asheihem tisr'fun
ba'esh uf'silei eloheihem t'gade'un v'ibadtem
et-sh'mam min-hamakom hahu: Lo-ta'asun ken
laAdonai Eloheichem: Ki im-el-hamakom asher-
yivchar Adonai Eloheichem mikol-shivteichem lasum
et-sh'mo sham l'shichno tidr'shu uvata shamah:

English

And you shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day. These are the statutes and the ordinances, which you shall observe to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. You shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that you are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree. And you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. You shall not do so to the Lord your God. But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even to His habitation shall you seek, and thither you shall come.