20:1The Mighty One, Aleph Tav, spoke all these words, saying, ^20:2"I am Yahweh your Mighty One, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage. ^20:3You shall have no other mighty ones before me.

20:4"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ^20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your Mighty One, am a jealous Mighty One, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, ^20:6and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

20:7"You shall not take the name of Yahweh your Mighty One in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

20:8"Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it holy. ^20:9You shall labor six days, and do all your work, ^20:10but the seventh day is a Shabbat to Yahweh your Mighty One. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; ^20:11for in six days Yahweh made Heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Shabbat day, and made it holy.

20:12"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your Mighty One gives you.

20:13"You shall not murder.

20:14"You shall not commit adultery.

20:15"You shall not steal.

20:16"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

20:17"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

20:18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. ^20:19They said to Moshe, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let The Mighty One speak with us, lest we die."

20:20Moshe said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for The Mighty One has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin." ^20:21The people stayed at a distance, and Moshe drew near to the thick darkness where The Mighty One was.

20:22Yahweh said to Moshe, "This is what you shall tell the children of Yisra'el: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from Heaven. ^20:23You shall most certainly not make alongside of me mighty ones of silver, or mighty ones of gold for yourselves. ^20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. ^20:25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you will have polluted it. ^20:26Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

21:1"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. ^21:3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. ^21:4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. ^21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' ^21:6then his master shall bring him to The Mighty One, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

21:7"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. ^21:8If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. ^21:9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ^21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. ^21:11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

21:12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, ^21:13but not if it is unintentional, and The Mighty One allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. ^21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

21:15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

21:16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

21:17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

21:18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; ^21:19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

21:20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. ^21:21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

21:22"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. ^21:23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, ^21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ^21:25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

21:26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. ^21:27If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

21:28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. ^21:29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. ^21:30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. ^21:31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. ^21:32If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

21:33"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, ^21:34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

21:35"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. ^21:36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

22:1"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. ^22:2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. ^22:3If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. ^22:4If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

22:5"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

22:6"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

22:7"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double. ^22:8If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to The Mighty One, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods. ^22:9For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, whereof one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before The Mighty One. He whom The Mighty One condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

22:10"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; ^22:11the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. ^22:12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it. ^22:13If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

22:14"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. ^22:15If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

22:16"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ^22:17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

22:18"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

22:19"Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

22:20"He who sacrifices to any mighty one, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

22:21"You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Mitzrayim.

22:22"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. ^22:23If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; ^22:24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

22:25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest. ^22:26If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, ^22:27for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

22:28"You shall not blaspheme The Mighty One, nor curse a ruler of your people.

22:29"You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.

"You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. ^22:30You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

22:31"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

23:1"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. ^23:2You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; ^23:3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

23:4"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. ^23:5If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

23:6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

23:7"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

23:8You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

23:9"You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Mitzrayim.

23:10"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, ^23:11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

23:12"Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

23:13"Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other mighty ones, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

23:14"You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. ^23:15You shall observe the feast of matzah. Seven days you shall eat matzah, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv (for in it you came out from Mitzrayim), and no one shall appear before me empty. ^23:16And the feast of ingathering, the first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field. ^23:17Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Sovereign Yahweh.

23:18"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning. ^23:19The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your Mighty One.

"You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

23:20"Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ^23:21Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. ^23:22But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. ^23:23For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amori, the Chittite, the Perizzi, the Kana`ani, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi; and I will cut them off. <sup>23:24</sup>You shall not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. <sup>23:25</sup>You shall serve Yahweh your Mighty One, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. <sup>23:26</sup>No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. <sup>23:27</sup>I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. <sup>23:28</sup>I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Chivvi, the Kana`ani, and the Chittite, from before you. ^23:29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. ^23:30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. ^23:31I will set your border from the Sea of Suf even to the sea of the Pelishtim, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ^23:32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their mighty ones. ^23:33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their mighty ones, it will surely be a snare to you."

24:1He said to Moshe, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the Zakenim of Yisra'el; and worship from a distance. ^24:2Moshe alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

24:3Moshe came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."

24:4Moshe wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Yisra'el. ^24:5He sent young men of the children of Yisra'el, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to Yahweh. ^24:6Moshe took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ^24:7He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

24:8Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."

24:9Then Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and seventy of the Zakenim of Yisra'el went up. ^24:10They saw The Mighty One of Yisra'el. Under his feet was like a paved work of sappir stone, like the skies for clearness. ^24:11He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Yisra'el. They saw The Mighty One, and ate and drank.

34:27Yahweh said to Moshe, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Yisra'el."

24:1Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, ^24:2"Command the children of Yisra'el, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. ^24:3Outside of the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aharon keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. ^24:4He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure lampstand before Yahweh continually. ^24:5You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an efah shall be in one cake. ^24:6You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before Yahweh. ^24:7You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh. ^24:8Every Shabbat day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Yisra'el, an everlasting covenant. ^24:9It shall be for Aharon and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
 

26:1"You shall make you no idols, neither shall you rear you up an engraved image, or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your Mighty One. ^26:2You shall keep my Shabbatot, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh. ^26:3If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; ^26:4then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ^26:5Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. ^26:6I will give shalom in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil animals to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. ^26:7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ^26:8Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ^26:9I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. ^26:10You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall bring forth the old because of the new. ^26:11I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you. ^26:12I will walk among you, and will be your Mighty One, and you shall be my people. ^26:13I am Yahweh your Mighty One, who brought you forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, that you should not be their bondservants; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

26:14"But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; ^26:15and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; ^26:16I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ^26:17I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck before your enemies: those who hate you shall rule over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

26:18"If you will not yet for these things listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. ^26:19I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass; ^26:20and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

26:21"If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. ^26:22I will send the animal of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.

26:23"If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; ^26:24then will I also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. ^26:25I will bring a sword on you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ^26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

26:27"If you won't for all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me; ^26:28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins. ^26:29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. ^26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies on the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. ^26:31I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I won't smell the savor of your sweet odors. ^26:32I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ^26:33You will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. ^26:34Then shall the land enjoy its Shabbatot, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its Shabbatot. ^26:35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your Shabbatot, when you lived on it.

26:36"As for those who are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursues. ^26:37They shall stumble one on another, as it were before the sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ^26:38You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. ^26:39Those who are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

26:40"They shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me, ^26:41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; ^26:42then will I remember my covenant with Ya`akov; and also my covenant with Yitzchak, and also my covenant with Avraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. ^26:43The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Shabbatot, while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

18:18The flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. ^18:19All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Yisra'el offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
 

25:1Yisra'el abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Mo'av: ^25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their mighty ones; and the people ate, and bowed down to their mighty ones. ^25:3Yisra'el joined himself to Ba`al-Pe`or: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Yisra'el. ^25:4Yahweh said to Moshe, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Yisra'el." ^25:5Moshe said to the judges of Yisra'el, "Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Ba`al-Pe`or."

25:6Behold, one of the children of Yisra'el came and brought to his brothers a Midyanite woman in the sight of Moshe, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. ^25:7When Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the Kohen, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; ^25:8and he went after the man of Yisra'el into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra'el, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Yisra'el. ^25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

4:13He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
 

4:23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your Mighty One, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your Mighty One has forbidden you. ^4:24For Yahweh your Mighty One is a devouring fire, a jealous Mighty One. ^4:25When 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 the sight of Yahweh your Mighty One, to provoke him to anger; ^4:26I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed. ^4:27Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away. ^4:28There you shall serve mighty ones, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ^4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your Mighty One, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ^4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your Mighty One, and listen to his voice: ^4:31for Yahweh your Mighty One is a merciful Mighty One; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

5:1Moshe called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, 'Hear, Yisra'el, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. ^5:2Yahweh our Mighty One made a covenant with us in Chorev. ^5:3Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. ^5:4Yahweh spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, ^5:5(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up into the mount;) saying, ^5:6"I am Yahweh your Mighty One, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage. ^5:7You shall have no other mighty ones before me.

5:8"You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, nor any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ^5:9you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your Mighty One, am a jealous Mighty One, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; ^5:10and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

5:11"You shall not take the name of Yahweh your Mighty One in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

5:12"Observe the Shabbat day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your Mighty One commanded you. ^5:13Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; ^5:14but the seventh day is a Shabbat to Yahweh your Mighty One: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. ^5:15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Mitzrayim, and Yahweh your Mighty One brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your Mighty One commanded you to keep the Shabbat day.

5:16"Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your Mighty One commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your Mighty One gives you.

5:17"You shall not murder.

5:18"Neither shall you commit adultery.

5:19"Neither shall you steal.

5:20"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

5:21"Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

29:1These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moshe to make with the children of Yisra'el in the land of Mo'av, besides the covenant which he made with them in Chorev.

29:2Moshe called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, "You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Mitzrayim to Par`oh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; <sup>29:3</sup>the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: <sup>29:4</sup>but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. <sup>29:5</sup>I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot. <sup>29:6</sup>You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your Mighty One. <sup>29:7</sup>When you came to this place, Sichon the king of Cheshbon, and `Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: ^29:8and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Re'uveni, and to the Gadi, and to the half-tribe of the Manashshi. ^29:9Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

29:10You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your Mighty One; your heads, your tribes, your Zakenim, and your officers, even all the men of Yisra'el, ^29:11your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; ^29:12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your Mighty One, and into his oath, which Yahweh your Mighty One makes with you this day; ^29:13that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a Mighty One, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov.

29:14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, ^29:15but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our Mighty One, and also with him who is not here with us this day ^29:16(for you know how we lived in the land of Mitzrayim, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; ^29:17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); ^29:18lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our Mighty One, to go to serve the mighty ones of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; ^29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. ^29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. ^29:21Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Yisra'el, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

29:22The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Yahweh has made it sick; ^29:23and that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah, Admah and Tzevoyim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: ^29:24even all the nations shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?' ^29:25Then men shall say, 'Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the Mighty One of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, ^29:26and went and served other mighty ones, and worshipped them, mighty ones that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: ^29:27therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; ^29:28and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.'

29:29"The secret things belong to Yahweh our Mighty One; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

30:1"It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your Mighty One has driven you, ^30:2and shall return to Yahweh your Mighty One, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; ^30:3that then Yahweh your Mighty One will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your Mighty One has scattered you. ^30:4If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your Mighty One gather you, and from there will he bring you back: ^30:5and Yahweh your Mighty One will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.

30:6"Yahweh your Mighty One will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your Mighty One with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. ^30:7Yahweh your Mighty One will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. ^30:8You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. ^30:9Yahweh your Mighty One will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; ^30:10if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your Mighty One, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your Mighty One with all your heart, and with all your soul.

30:11"For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. ^30:12It is not in Heaven, that you should say, 'Who shall go up for us to Heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?' ^30:13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?' ^30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak;

Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain;

My speech shall condense as the dew,

As the small rain on the tender grass,

As the showers on the herb.

32:3For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh:

Ascribe you greatness to our Mighty One.

32:4The Rock, his work is perfect;

For all his ways are justice:

A Mighty One of faithfulness and without iniquity,

Just and right is he.

32:5They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;

They are a perverse and crooked generation.

32:6Do you thus requite Yahweh,

Foolish people and unwise?

Isn't he your father who has bought you?

He has made you, and established you.

32:7Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of many generations:

Ask your father, and he will show you;

Your Zakenim, and they will tell you.

32:8When HaElyon gave to the nations their inheritance,

When he separated the children of men,

He set the bounds of the peoples

According to the number of the children of Yisra'el.

32:9For Yahweh's portion is his people;

Ya`akov is the lot of his inheritance.

32:10He found him in a desert land,

In the waste howling wilderness;

He compassed him about, he cared for him,

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

32:11As an eagle that stirs up her nest,

That flutters over her young,

He spread abroad his wings, he took them,

He bore them on his pinions.

32:12Yahweh alone did lead him,

There was no foreign mighty one with him.

32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth,

He ate the increase of the field;

He made him to suck honey out of the rock,

Oil out of the flinty rock;

32:14Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs,

Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat;

Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

32:15But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked:

You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek;

Then he forsook the Mighty One who made him,

Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange mighty ones;

With abominations provoked they him to anger.

32:17They sacrificed to demons, which were no mighty one,

To mighty ones that they didn't know,

To new mighty ones that came up of late,

Which your fathers didn't dread.

32:18Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful,

Have forgotten the Mighty One who gave you birth.

32:19Yahweh saw it, and abhorred them,

Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

32:20He said, I will hide my face from them,

I will see what their end shall be:

For they are a very perverse generation,

Children in whom is no faithfulness.

32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not a mighty one;

They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:

I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger,

Burns to the lowest She'ol,

Devours the earth with its increase,

Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

32:23I will heap evils on them;

I will spend my arrows on them:

32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat

Bitter destruction;

The teeth of animals will I send on them,

With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

32:25Outside shall the sword bereave,

In the chambers terror;

It shall destroy both young man and virgin,

The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

32:26I said, I would scatter them afar,

I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

32:27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries should judge amiss,

Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,

Yahweh has not done all this.

32:28For they are a nation void of counsel,

There is no understanding in them.

32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider their latter end!

32:30How should one chase a thousand,

Two put ten thousand to flight,

Except their Rock had sold them,

Yahweh had delivered them up?

32:31For their rock is not as our Rock,

Even our enemies themselves being judges.

32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sedom,

Of the fields of `Amorah:

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter:

32:33Their wine is the poison of serpents,

The cruel venom of asps.

32:34Isn't this laid up in store with me,

Sealed up among my treasures?

32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense,

At the time when their foot shall slide:

For the day of their calamity is at hand,

The things that are to come on them shall make haste.

32:36For Yahweh will judge his people,

Repent himself for his servants;

When he sees that their power is gone,

There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

32:37He will say, Where are their mighty ones,

The rock in which they took refuge;

32:38Which ate the fat of their sacrifices,

And drank the wine of their drink-offering?

Let them rise up and help you,

Let them be your protection.

32:39See now that I, even I, am he,

There is no mighty one with me:

I kill, and I make alive;

I wound, and I heal;

There is none who can deliver out of my hand.

32:40For I lift up my hand to Heaven,

And say, As I live forever,

32:41If I whet my glittering sword,

My hand takes hold on judgment;

I will render vengeance to my adversaries,

Will recompense those who hate me.

32:42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

My sword shall devour flesh;

With the blood of the slain and the captives,

From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

32:43Rejoice, you nations, with his people:

For he will avenge the blood of his servants,

Will render vengeance to his adversaries,

Will make expiation for his land, for his people.