Torah
Devarim2
Deuteronomy · Chapter 2
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto me, saying,
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
And command thou the people, saying, Ye
are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau
for
a possession.
Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim
hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land
for
a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot
for a possession.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Yisra'el did unto the land of his possession, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) gave unto them.
Now rise up,
said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered,
was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) sware unto them.
For indeed the hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
That 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto me, saying,
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
And
when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon
any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot
for a possession.
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim,
even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess
it, and contend with him in battle.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations
that are under the whole shamayim, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Yarden into the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim giveth us.
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as
appeareth this day.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
From Aroer, which
is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and
from the city that
is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim delivered all unto us:
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok,
nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim forbad us.
Torah
Devarim3
Deuteronomy · Chapter 3
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All these cities
were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that
was on this side Yarden, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead
was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
And this land,
which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which
is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan,
being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day.
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok,
which is the border of the children of Ammon;
The plain also, and Yarden, and the coast
thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain,
even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
And I commanded you at that time, saying, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Yisra'el, all
that are meet for the war.
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for
I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
Until 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and
until they also possess the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim hath given them beyond Yarden: and
then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
And I commanded Yehoshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim hath done unto these two kings: so shall 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
Ye shall not fear them: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim he shall fight for you.
And I besought 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) at that time, saying,
O master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what Elohim
is there in shamayim or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that
is
beyond Yarden, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold
it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Yarden.
But charge Yehoshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
Torah
Devarim4
Deuteronomy · Chapter 4
Now therefore hearken, O Yisra'el, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do
them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of your fathers giveth you.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish
ought from it, that ye may keep the mitsvot of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim
are alive every one of you this day.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) my Elohim commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Keep therefore and do
them; for this
is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation
is a wise and understanding people.
For what nation
is there so great, who
hath Elohim
so nigh unto them, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) our Elohim
is in all
things that we call upon him
for?
And what nation
is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments
so righteous as all this torah, which I set before you this day?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy nephesh diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Specially the day that thou stoodest before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim in Horeb, when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and
that they may teach their children.
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of shamayim, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only
ye heard a voice.
And he declared unto you his b'rit, which he commanded you to perform,
even ten mitsvot; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day
that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Lest ye corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
The likeness of any beast that
is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that
is in the waters beneath the earth:
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto shamayim, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars,
even all the host of shamayim, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath divided unto all nations under the whole shamayim.
But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace,
even out of Mitsrayim, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as
ye are this day.
Furthermore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Yarden, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee
for an inheritance:
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Yarden: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the b'rit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim, which he made with you, and make you a graven image,
or the likeness of any
thing, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath forbidden thee.
For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim
is a consuming fire,
even
a jealous Elohim.
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt
yourselves, and make a graven image,
or the likeness of any
thing, and shall do evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim, to provoke him to anger:
I call shamayim and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Yarden to possess it; ye shall not prolong
your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall lead you.
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But if from thence thou shalt seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim, thou shalt find
him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy nephesh.
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days, if thou turn to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
(For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim
is a merciful Elohim;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the b'rit of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that Elohim created man upon the earth, and
ask from the one side of shamayim unto the other, whether there hath been
any such thing
as this great thing
is, or hath been heard like it?
Did
ever people hear the voice of Elohim speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Or hath Elohim assayed to go
and take him a nation from the midst of another
nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes?
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) he
is Elohim;
there is none else beside him.
Out of shamayim he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Mitsrayim;
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou
art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land
for an inheritance, as
it is this day.
Know therefore this day, and consider
it in thine heart, that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) he
is Elohim in shamayim above, and upon the earth beneath:
there is none else.
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his mitsvot, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong
thy days upon the earth, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee, for ever.
Then Mosheh severed three cities on this side Yarden toward the sunrising;
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
And this is the torah which Mosheh set before the children of Yisra'el:
These
are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Mosheh spake unto the children of Yisra'el, after they came forth out of Mitsrayim,
On this side Yarden, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Mosheh and the children of Yisra'el smote, after they were come forth out of Mitsrayim:
And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which
were on this side Yarden toward the sunrising;
From Aroer, which
is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which
is Hermon,
And all the plain on this side Yarden eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.