Favourite Biblical Verses: Torah

Genesis 1:13-1:15 [p. 18]

And G-d said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and they shall be signs for the fixed times and for days and years, and they shall be lights in the vault of the heavens to light up the earth." And so it was.
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Genesis 4:10-4:15 [p. 31]

"What have you done? Listen! your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil. And so, cursed shall you be by the soil that gaped with its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand. If you till the soil, it will no longer give you its strength. A restless wanderer shall you be on earth." And Cain said to the L-rd, "My punishment is too great to bear. Now that You have driven me this day from the soil and I must hide from Your presence, I shall be a restless wanderer on the earth and whoever finds me will kill me." And the L-rd said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance." And the L-rd set a mark upon Cain so that whoever found him would not slay him.
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Genesis 6:11-6:13 [p. 40]

[Antediluvian]

And the earth was corrupt before G-d and the earth was filled with outrage. And G-d saw the earth and, look, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth.
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Genesis 7:11, poetic insert [p. 44]

All the wellsprings of the great deep burst
    and the casements of the heavens were opened.
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Genesis 8:21-8:22 [p. 48]

And the L-rd smelled the fragrant odor and the L-rd said in His heart, "I will not again damn the soil on humankind's score. For the devisings of the human heart are evil from youth. And I will not again strike down all living things as I did. As long as all the days of the earth -

seedtime and harvest
and cold and heat
and summer and winter
and day and night
shall not cease."
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Genesis 9:6-9:7 [p. 50]

He who sheds human blood
by humans his blood shall be shed,
for in the image of G-d
He mad humankind.
As for you, be fruitful and multiply,
swarm through the earth, and hold sway over it.

Shofekh dam ha'adam, ba'adam damo yishafekh

spills - blood - of the human, by the human - his blood - will be spilled
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Genesis 12:1-12:4 [p. 62]

And the L-rd said to Abram, "Go forth from your land and your birthplace and your father's house to the land I will show you. And I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and those who damn you I will curse, and all the clans of the earth through you shall be blessed."
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Genesis 13:8-13:12 [p. 66]

And Abram said to Lot, "Pray, let there be no contention between you and me, between your herdsmen and mine, for we are kinsmen. Is not all the land before you? Pray, let us part company. If you take the left hand, then I shall go right, and if you take the right hand, I shall go left." And Lot raised his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, saw that all of it was well-watered, before the L-rd's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the L-rd, like the land of Egypt, till you came to Zoar. And Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward, and they parted from one another. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and he set up his tent near Sodom.
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Genesis 18:20-18:33 [p. 88]

And the L-rd said:

"The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, how great!
Their offense is very grave.

Let Me go down and see whether as the outcry that has come to Me they have dealt destruction, and if not, I shall know." And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom while the L-rd was still standing before Abraham. And Abraham stepped forward and said, "Will You really wipe out the innocent with the guilty? Perhaps there may be fifty innocent within the city. Will You really wipe out the place and not spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent within it? Far be it for You to do such a thing, to put to death the innocent with the guilty, making innocent and guilty the same. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?" And the L-rd said, "Should I find in Sodom fifty innocent within the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake." And Abraham spoke up and said, "Here, pray, I have presumed to speak to my L-rd when I am but dust and ashes. Perhaps the fifty innocent will lack five. Would You destroy the whole city for the five?" And He said, "I will not destroy if I find there forty-five." And he spoke to Him still again and he said, "Perhaps there will be found forty." And He said, "I will not do it on account of the forty." And he said, "Please, let not my L-rd be incensed and let me speak, perhaps there will be found thirty." And He said, "I will not do it if I find there thirty." And he said, "Here, pray, I have presumed to speak to my L-rd. Perhaps there will be found twenty." And He said, "I will not destroy for the sake of the twenty." And he said, "Please, let not my L-rd be incensed and let me speak just this time. Perhaps there will be found ten." And He said, "I will not destroy for the sake of the ten." And the L-rd went off when He finished speaking with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
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Genesis 19;24-19:28 [p. 95]

And the L-rd rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the L-rd from the heavens. And He overthrew all those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew in the soil. And his wife looked back and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham hastened early in the morning to the place where he had stood in the presence of the L-rd. And he looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah and over all the land of the plain, and he saw and, look, smoke was rising like the smoke from a kiln.
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Genesis 22:12-22:19 [p. 111]

And He said, "Do not reach out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him, for now I know that you fear G-d and you have not held back your son, your only one, from Me." And Abraham raised his eyes and saw and, look, a ram was caught in the thicket by its horns, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place YHWH-Yireh, as is said to this day, "On the mount of the L-rd there is sight." And the L-rd's messenger called out to Abraham once again from the heavens, and He said, "By My own Self I swear, declares the L-rd, that because you have done this thing and have not held back your son, your only one, I will greatly bless you and will greatly multiply your seed, as the stars in the heavens and as the sand on the shore of the sea, and your seed shall take hold of its enemies' gate. And all the nations of the earth will be blessed through your seed because you have listened to my voice.
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Genesis 25:23 [p. 129]

And the L-rd said to her:

Two nations - in your womb,
two peoples from your loins shall issue.
People over people shall prevail,
the elder, the younger's slave."

[does that mean - the elder shall serve the younger, or the elder will be served by the younger]
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Genesis 25:29-25:34 [p. 131]

And Jacob prepared a stew and Esau came from the field, and he was famished. And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me gulp down some of this red red stuff, for I am famished." Therefore is his named called Edom. And Jacob said, "Sell now your birthright to me." And Esau said, "Look, I am at the point of death, so why do I need a birthright?" And Jacob said, "Swear to me now," and he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and he drank and he rose and he went off, and Esau spurned the birthright.
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Genesis 28:10-28:22 [p. 149]

And Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. And he came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set, and he took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head and he lay down in that place, and he dreamed, and, look, a ramp was set against the ground with its top reaching the heavens, and, look, messengers of G-d were going up and coming down it. And, look, the L-rd was poised over him and He said, "I, the L-rd, am the G-d of Abraham your father and the G-d of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you I will give it and to your seed. And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth and you shall burst forth to the west and the east and the north and the south, and all the clans of the earth shall be blessed through you, and through your seed. And, look, I am with you and I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken to you." And Jacob woke from his sleep, and he said, "Indeed, the L-rd is in this place, and I did not know." And he was afraid and he said,

"How fearsome is this place!
This can be but the house of G-d,
and this is the gate of the heavens."

And Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone he had put at his head, and he set it as a pillar and poured oil over its top. And he called the name of that place Bethel, though the name of the town before had been Luz. And Jacob made a vow, saying, "If the L-rd G-d be with me and guard me on this way that I am going and give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, and I return safely to my father's house, then the L-rd will be my G-d. And this stone that I set as a pillar will be a house of G-d, and everything that You give me I will surely tithe it to You."
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Genesis 32:25-32:33 [p. 197]

And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. And he saw that he had not won out against him and he touched his hip-socket and Jacob's hip-socket was wrenched as he wrestled with him. And he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." And he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." And he said, "Not Jacob shall your name hence be said, but Israel, for you have striven with G-d and men, and won out." And Jacob asked and said, "Tell your name, pray." And he said, "Why should you ask my name?" and there he blessed him. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, meaning, " I have seen G-d face to face and I came out alive."
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Genesis 33:3-33:12 [p. 183]

And he passed before them and bowed to the ground seven times until he drew near his brother. And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept. And he raised his eyes and saw the women and the children and he said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children with whom G-d has favored your servant." And the slavegirls drew near, they and their children, and they bowed down. And Leah, too, and her children drew near, and they bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel drew near and bowed down. And he said, "What do you mean by all this camp I have met?" And he said, "To find favor in the eyes of my l-rd." And Esau said, " I have much, my brother. Keep what you have." And Jacob said, "O, no, pray, if I have found favor in your eyes, take this tribute from my hand, for have I not seen your face as one might see G-d's face, and you received me in kindness? Pray, take my blessing that has been brought you, for G-d has favored me and I have everything." And he pressed him, and he took it.

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Genesis 37:31-37:36 [p. 212]

And they took Joseph's tunic and slaughtered a kid and dipped the tunic in the blood, and they sent the ornamented tunic and had it brought to their father, and they said, "Recognized, pray, is it your son's tunic or nor?" And he recognized it, and he said, "It is my son's tunic.

A vicious beast has devoured him,
Joseph is torn to shreds!"

And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth round his waist and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose to console him and he refused to be consoled and he said, "Rather I will go down to my son in Sheol mourning," and his father keened for him.

But the Midianites had sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's courtier, the high chamberlain.
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Genesis 42:21-42:24 [p. 242]

And they said each to his brother, "Alas, we are guilty for our brother, whose mortal distress we saw when he pleaded with us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has overtaken us." The Reuben spoke out to them in these words: "Didn't I say to you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you would not listen? And now look, his blood is requited." And they did not know that Joseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them. And he turned away from them and wept and returned to them and spoke to them, and he took Simeon from them and placed him in fetters before their eyes.
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Genesis 43:26 [p. 250]

And Joseph came into the house, and they brought him the tribute that was in their hand, into the house, and they bowed down to him to the ground. [Joseph's dream!] And he asked how they were, and he said, "Is all well with your aged father of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?" And they said, "All is well with your servant, our father. He is still alive." And they did obeisance and bowed down. And he raised his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and he said, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you spoke to me?" And he said, "G-d be gracious to you, my son." And Joseph hurried out, for his feelings for his brother overwhelmed him and he wanted to weep, and he want into the chamber and wept there. And he bathed his face and came out and held himself in check and said, "Serve bread."
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Genesis 49:1-49:27 [p. 282]

Assemble and hearken, O Jacob's sons,
and hearken to Israel your father.
Reuben, my firstborn are you-
my strength and first yield of my manhood,
prevailing in rank and prevailing in might.
Unsteady as water, you'll no more prevail!
for you mounted the place where your father lay,
you profaned my couch, you mounted!
Simeon and Levi, the brothers-
weapons of outrage their trade.

In their council let me never step foot,
their assembly my presence shun.
For in their fury they slaughtered men,
at their pleasure they tore down ramparts.
Cursed be their fury so fierce,
and their wrath so remorseless!
I will divide them in Jacob,
disperse them in Israel.
Judah, you, shall your brothers acclaim -
your hand on your enemies' nape -
your fathers' sons shall bow to you.

A lion's whelp is Judah,
from the prey, O my son, you mount.
He crouched, he lay down like a lion,
like the king of the beasts, and who dare arouse him?
The scepter shall not pass from Judah,
nor the mace from between his legs,
that tribute to him may come
and to him the submission of peoples.

He binds to the vine his ass,
to the grape-bough his ass's foal.
He washes in wine his garment,
in the blood of the grape his cloak.
O eyes that are darker than wine
and teeth that are whiter than milk!
Zebulun near the shore of the sea shall dwell,
and he by the haven of ships,
his flank upon Sidon.
Issachar, a big-boned donkey,
crouched amidst hearths.
He saw that the homestead was goodly,
that the land was delightful,
and he put his shoulder to the load,
becoming a toiling serf.

Dan, his folk will judge
as one of Israel's tribes.
Let Dan be a snake on the road,
an asp on the path,
that bites the horse's heals
and its rider topples backward.
Your deliverance I await, O L-rd!
Gad shall be goaded by raiders
yet he shall goad their heel.
Asher's bread shall be rich
and he shall bring forth kingly dishes.

Naphtali, a hind let loose
who brings forth lovely fawns.
A fruitful son is Joseph,
a fruitful son by a spring,
daughters strode by a rampart.

They savaged him, shot arrows
and harassed him, the archers did.
But taut was his bow,
his arms ever-moving,
through the hands of the Champion of Jacob,
through the name of the Shepherd, and Israel's Rock.
From the G-d of your fathers, may he aid you,
Shaddai, may he bless you -
blessings of the heavens above,
blessings of breasts and womb.
Your father's blessings surpassed
the blessings of timeless heights,
the bounty of hills everlasting.
May they rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the one set apart from his brothers.

Benjamin, ravening wolf,
in the morn he consumes the spoils,
at evening shares out plunder."
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Exodus 4:24-4:26 [p. 330]

And it happened on the way at the night camp that the L-rd encountered him and sought to put him to death.And Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched it to his feet, and she said, "Yes, a bridegroom of blood you are to me." And He let him go. Then did she say, "A bridegroom of blood by the circumcising."
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Exodus 5:6-6:1 [p. 335]

And Pharaoh on that day charged the people's taskmasters and its overseers, saying, "You shall no longer give the people straw to make the bricks as in time past. They themselves will go and scrabble for straw. And the quota of bricks that they were making in the past you shall impose upon them, you shall not deduct from it, for they are idlers. Therefore do they cry out, saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to our G-d.' Let the work be heavy on the men and let them do it and not look to lying words!" And the people's taskmasters and its overseers went out and said to the people, saying, "Thus said Pharaoh: 'I give you no straw. As for you, fetch yourselves straw wherever you find it, because not a thing is to be deducted from your work.' " And the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to scrabble for stubble for straw. And the taskmasters were urging them, saying, "Finish your tasks at the same daily rate as when there was straw." And the overseers of the Israelites, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying, "Why have you not completed your tally for making bricks as in time past, neither yesterday nor today?" And the Israelite overseers came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why should you do his to your servants? Straw is not given to your servants, and bricks they tell us, make, and, look, your servants are beaten and the fault is your people's." And he said, "idlers, you are idlers! Therefore you say, 'Let us go sacrifice to the L-rd." And now, go work, and no straw will be given to you, but the quota of bricks you will give." And the Israelite overseers saw themselves coming to harm, saying, "You shall not deduct from your bricks, from the same daily rate." And they encountered Moses and Aaron poised to meet them as they came out from Pharaoh. And they said to them, "Let the L-rd look upon you and judge, for you have made us repugnant in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, putting a sword in their hand to kill us." And Moses went back to the L-rd, and said, "My L-rd, why have you done harm to this people, why have you sent me? Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people and You surely have not rescued Your people." And the L-rd said to Moses, "Now you will see what I shall do to Pharaoh, for through a strong hand will he send them off and through a strong hand will he drive them from his land.
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Exodus 15:12-15:21 [p. 297]

Ten did Moses sing, and all the Israelites with him, this song to the L-rd, and they said, saying:

"Let me sing unto the L-rd for He surged, O surged -
horse and its rider He hurled into the sea.
My strength and my power is Yah,
and He became my deliverance.
This is my G-d - I extol Him.
The L-rd is a man of war,
the L-rd is his name.
Pharaoh's chariots and his force
He pitched into the sea
and the pick of his captains
were drowned in the Reed Sea.
The depths did cover them over,
down they went in the deep like a stone.
Your right hand, O L-rd, is mighty in power.
Your right hand, O L-rd, smashes the enemy.
In Your great surging You wreck those against You,
You send forth Your wrath, it consumes them like straw.
And with the breath of your nostrils waters heaped up,
streams stood up like a mound,
the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said:
'I'll pursue, overtake, divide up the loot,
my gullet will fill with them, I'll bare my sword, my hand
despoil them.'
You blew Your breath - the sea covered them over.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters:
Who is like You among the g-ds, O L-rd,
who is like You, mighty in holiness?
Awesome in praise, worker of wonders.
You stretched out Your hand -
earth swallowed them up.
You led forth in Your kindness
this people that You redeemed.
You guided them in Your strength to Your holy abode.
Peoples heard, they quaked,
trembling seized Philistia's dwellers.
Then were the chieftains of Edom dismayed,
the dukes of Moab, shuddering seized them,
all the dwellers of Canaan quailed.
Terror and fear did fall upon them,
as Your arm loomed big they were like a stone.
Till Your people crossed over, O L-rd,
till the people you made Yours crossed over.
You'll bring them, you'll plant them, on the mount of Your estate,
a firm place for Your dwelling You wrought, O L-rd,
the sanctum, O Sovereign, Your hands firmly founded.
The L-rd shall be king for all time!"
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Exodus 17:2-17:7 [p. 4111]

And the people disputed with Moses and they said, "Give us water, that we may drink." And Moses said to them,

"Why do you dispute with me
and why do you test the L-rd?"

And the people thirsted for water there, and the people murmured against Moses and said, "Why is it you brought us up from Egypt to bring death on me and my children and my livestock by thirst?" And Moses called out to the L-rd, saying,

"What shall I do with this people?
Yet a little more and they will stone me."

And the L-rd said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of Israel's elders, and the staff with which you struck the Nile take in your hand, and go. Look, I am about to stand before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out from it and the people will drink." And thus did Moses do before the eyes of Israel's elders. And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, Testing and Dispute, for the disputation of the Israelites, and for their testing the L-rd, saying, "Is the L-rd in our midst or not?"
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Exodus 19:1-19:6 [p.422]

On the third new moon of the Israelites' going out from Egypt, on this day did they come to the Wilderness of Sinai. And they journeyed onward from Rephidim and they came to the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there over against the mountain. And Moses had gone up to G-d, and the L-rd called out to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and shall you tell to the Israelites: 'You yourselves saw what I did to Egypt, and I bore you on the wings of eagles and I brought you to Me. And now, if you will truly heed My voice and keep My covenant, you will be for Me a treasure among all the peoples, for Mine is all the earth. And as for you, you will become for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites."
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Exodus 20:1-20:17 [p. 428]

And G-d spoke all these words, saying: "I am the L-rd your G-d Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves. You shall have no other g-ds beside Me. You shall make you no carved likeness and no image of what is in the heavens above or what is on the earth below or what is in the waters beneath the earth. You shall not bow to them and you shall not worship them, for I am the L-rd your G-d, a jealous g-d, reckoning the crime of fathers with sons, with the third generation and with the fourth, for My foes, and doing kindness to the thousandth generation for My friends and for those who keep My commands.You shall not take the name of the L-rd your G-d in vain, for the L-rd will not acquit whosoever takes His name in vain. Remember the sabbath day to hallow it. Six days you shall work and you shall do your tasks, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the L-rd your G-d. You shall do no task, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your slavegirl and your beast and your sojourner who is within your gates. For six days did the L-rd make the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in it, and He rests on the seventh day. Therefore did the L-rd bless the sabbath day and hallow it. Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the soil that the L-rd your G-d has given you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultry. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your fellow man. You shall not covet your fellow man's wife, or his male slave, or his slavegirl, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that your fellow man has."
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Exodus 23:20-23:26 [p. 452]

Look, I am about to send a messenger before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I made ready. Watch yourself with him and heed his voice, do not defy him, for he will not pardon your trespass, for My name is within him. But if you truly heed his voice and do all that I speak, I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. For My messenger will go before you and will bring you to the Amorite and the Hittitie and the Perizzite and the Canaanite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, and I shall obliterate them. You shall not bow to their g-ds and you shall not worship them, and you shall not do as they do, but you shall utterly tear them down and you shall utterly smash their pillars. And you shall worship the L-rd your G-d, and He will bless your bread and your water, and I shall take away sickness from your midst.
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Exodus 24:4-24:11 [p. 455]

And Moses wrote down all the L-rd's words, and he rose early in the morning and built and alter at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent the lads of the Israelites and they offered up burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices and communion sacrifices, bulls to the L-rd. And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he threw upon the alter. And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that the L-rd has spoken we will do and we will heed." And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that the L-rd has sealed with you over all these words." And Moses went up, and with him Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel. And they saw the G-d of Israel, and beneath His fees was like a fashioning of sapphire pavement and like the very heavens for pureness.

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Exodus 25:1-25:10 [p. 460]

And the L-rd spoke to Moses, saying: "Speak to the Israelites, that they take Me a donation from every man, as his heart may urge him shall you take My donation. And this is the donation that you shall take from them: gold and silver and bronze, and indigo and purple and crimson, and linen and goat hair, and reddened ram skins and ocher-dyed skins and acacia wood. Oil for the lamp, spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense. Carnelian stones and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastplate. And they shall make Me a Tabernacle, that I may abide in their midst. As all that I show you, the form of the Tabernacle and the form of all its furnishings, thus shall you make it."
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Exodus 25:31-25:40 [p. 463]

And you shall make a lamp stand of pure gold, hammered work it shall be made, its base and its shaft, its cups, its calyxes and its blossoms, shall be from that work. And six shafts going out from its sides, three shafts of the lamp stand from its one side and three shafts of the lamp stand from its other side. Three cups shaped like almond blossoms in the one shaft, calyx and blossom, and three cups shapes lake almond blossoms in the other shaft, calyx and blossom, thus for the six shafts that go out from the lamp stand. And on the lamp stand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, their calyxes and their blossoms. And a calyx as part of it under every two shafts, a calyx as part of it under every two shafts, for the six shafts coming out from the lamp stand. Their calyxes and their shafts shall be part of it, all of it one hammered work, pure gold. And you shall make its seven lamps, and its lamps shall be mounted and give light in front of it, and its tongs and its fire-pans - pure gold. With a talent of pure gold shall it be made together with all these furnishings. And see, and make it by their pattern which you are shown on the mountain."
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Exodus 26:1-26:7 [p. 465]

"And the Tabernacle you shall make with ten panels of twisted linen, and indigo and purple and crimson, with cherubim, designer's work you shall make them. The length of the panel is twenty-eight cubits, and a width of four cubits to the one panel, a single measure for all the panels. Five of the panels shall be joined to each other and the other five joined to each other. And you shall make indigo loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the set, and thus shall you do on the edge of the outermost panel in the other set. Fifty loops you shall make in the one panel and fifty loops you shall make in the outermost panel which is in the other set, the loops opposite one another. And you shall make fifty golden clasps, and you shall join the panels to one another with the clasps, that the Tabernacle be one whole."
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Exodus 28:15-28:22 [p. 474]

And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, designer's work, like the work of the ephod you shall make it, gold, indigo and purple and crimson and twisted linen you shall make it. It shall be square and doubled, a hand span its length and a hand span its width. And you shall set in it a stone inset, four rows of stone, a row of ruby, topaz, and malachite, the first row. And the second row, turquoise, sapphire, and amethyst. And the third row jacinth, agate, and crystal. And the fourth row, beryl and carnelian and jasper, framed in gold in their settings. And the stones shall be according to the names of Israel's sons, twelve according to their names, seal engravings, each with its name for the twelve tribes."
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Exodus 28:33-28:35 [p. 476]

And you shall make on its hem pomegranates of indigo and purple and crimson, on its hem all around, and golden bells within them all around. A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.
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Exodus 31:12-31:18 [p. 491]

And the L-rd said to Moses, saying, "And you, speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Yet My sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you for your generation to know that I am the L-rd Who hallows you. And you shall keep the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Those you profane it are doomed to die, for whosoever does a task on it, that person shall be cut off from the midst of his people. Six days shall tasks be done, and on the seventh day, an absolute sabbath, holy to the L-rd. Whosoever does a task on the sabbath day is doomed to die. And the Israelites shall keep the sabbath to do the sabbath for the generations, a perpetual covenant. Between Me and the Israelites it is a sign for all time that six days did the L-rd make heaven and earth and on the seventh day He ceased and caught His breath.

And He gave Moses when He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai the two tablets of the Covenant, tablets of stone written by the finger of G-d.
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Exodus 32:1-32:20[p. 493]

And the people saw that Moses lagged in coming down from the mountain, and the people assembled against Aaron and said to him, "Rise up, make us g-ds that will go before us, for this man Moses who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do now know what has happened to him." And Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." And all the people took off the golden rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he took them from their hand and he fashioned it in a mold and made it into a molten calf. And they said, "These are your g-ds, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt." And Aaron saw, and he built an alter before it, and Aaron called out and said, "Tomorrow is a festival to the L-rd." And they rose early on the next day, and they offered up burnt offerings and brought forward communion sacrifices, and the people came back from eating and drinking and they rose up to play. And the L-rd said to Moses, "Quick, go down, for your people that I brought up from Egypt has acted ruinously. They have swerved quickly from the way that I charged them, They have made them a molten calf and bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your g-ds, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.' " And the L-rd said to Moses, "I see this people and, look, it is a stiff-necked people. And now leave Me be, that My wrath may flare against them,and I will put an end to them and I will make you a great nation." And Moses implored the presence of the L-rd his G-d and said, "Why, O L-rd, should your wrath flare against Your people that You brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? Why should the Egyptians say, 'For evil He brought them out, to kill them in the mountains, to put an end to them on the face of the earth? Turn back from Your flaring wrath and relent from the evil against Your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself and spoke to them, 'I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I said, I will give to your seed, and they will hold it in estate forever.' " And the L-rd relented from the evil that He has spoken to do it His people. And Moses turned and came down the mountain, with the two tablets of the Covenant in his hand written on both their sides, on the one side and on the othr they were written. And the tablets, G-d's doing they were, and the writing, G-d's writing it was, inscribed on the tablets. And Joshua heard the sound of the people as it shouted, and he said to Moses, "A sound of war in the camp!" And he said,

"Not the sound of crying out in triumph,
and not the sound of crying out in defeat.
A sound of crying out I hear."

And it happened when he drew near the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing, and Moses' wrath flared, and he flung the tablets from his hand and smashed them at the bottom of the mountain. And he took the calf that they had made and burned it in fire and ground it fine and scattered it over the water and made the Israelites drink it.
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Exodus 35:1-35:29 [p. 514]

And Moses assembled all the community of Israelites and said to them, "These are the things that the L-rd has charged to do: Six days shall tasks be done and on the seventh day there shall be holiness for you, an absolute sabbath for the L-rd. Whosoever does a task on it shall be put to death. You shall not kindle a fire in all your dwelling places on the sabbath day. And Moses said to all the community of Israelites, saying, "This is the thing that the L-rd has charged, saying, "Take from what you have with you a donation to the L-rd. Whose heart urges him, let him bring it, a donation of the L-rd, gold and solver and bronze, and indigo and purple and crimson linen and goat hair, and reddened ram skins and ocher-dyed skins and acacia wood, and oil for the lamp and spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense, and carnelian stones and stones for setting the ephod and in the breastplate. And every wise-hearted man among you shall come and do all that the L-rd has charged: the tabernacle and its tents and its cover and its clasps and its boards, its bolts, its posts, and its sockets; the Ark and its poles and all its furnishings, and the bread of the Presence; and the lamp stand for the light and its furnishings, and its lamps and the oil for the light; and the incense altar and its poles and the anointing oil and the aromatic incense and the screen of the entrance to the Tabernacle; the altar of burnt offering and the bronze grating that belongs to it, its poles and all its vessels and the laver and its stand; the court hangings and its poles and its sockets, and the screen of the court-gate; the pegs of the Tabernacle and the pegs of the court and their cords; the service garments of his sons to be priests."

And all the community of Israelites went out from before Moses. And every man whose heart moved him and everyone whose spirit urged him came, they brought a donation of the L-rd for the task of the Tent of Meeting and for all its work and for the sacred garments. And the men came, besides the women, all whose heart urged them, they brought brooches and earrings and rings and pendants, every ornament of gold, and every man who raised an elevation offering of gold to the L-rd. Every man with whom was found indigo and purple and crimson and linen and goat hair and reddened ram skins and ocher-dyed skins brought it. Whoever donated a donation of silver and bronze brought a donation of the L-rd, and with whomever was found acacia wood for all the tasks of the work, they brought it. And every woman wise-hearted with her hands spun and brought the threadwork of indigo and purple and crimson and linen. And all the women whose hearts moved them with wisdom spun the goat hair. And the chieftains brought carnelian stones and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastplate, and the spice and the oil for the lamp and the the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense. Every man and woman whose heart urged them to bring for all the task that the L-rd had charged to do by the hand of Moses, the Israelites brought a freewill gift to the L-rd.
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Exodus 36:5-36:7 [p. 519]

And they said to Moses, saying, "The people are bringing too much for the work of the task that the L-rd charged to do." And Moses charged, and they sent word through the camp, saying, "Let each man and woman do no further task for the holy donation," and the people were held back from bringing. And the task was enough to do all the task, and more.
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Exodus 39:32-39:43 [p. 530]

And all the work of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting wa completed, and the Israelites did as all that the L-rd had charged Moses, thus they did. And they brought the Tabernacle to Moses, the Tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its crossbars, its posts and its sockets, and the covering of reddened ram skins and the covering of ocher-dyed skins and the curtain of the screen; the Ark of the Covenant and its poles and the cover; the table and all its furnishings and the bread of the Presence; the pure lamp stand, its lamps, lamps of the array, and all its furnishings and oil for the light, and the golden altar and the anointing oil and the aromatic incense and the screen of the entrance of the tent; the bronze altar and the bronze grating that belongs to it, its poles and all its furnishings, the laver and its stand; the hanging of the court and its posts and its sockets and the screen for the gate of the court and its pegs and all the furnishings of the service of the Tabernacle for the Tent of Meeting; the service garments to serve in the sanctuary and the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to be priests. As all that the L-rd had charged Moses, this the Israelites did all the work. And Moses saw all the tasks, and, look, they had done it as th L-rd had charged, thus they had done it, and Moses blessed them.
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Exodus 40:34-40:38 [p. 534]

And the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting and the glory of the L-rd filled the Tabernacle. And Moses could not come into the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud abode upon it and the glory of the L-rd filled the Tabernacle. And when the cloud went up from over the Tabernacle, the Israelites would journey onward in all their journeyings. And if the cloud did not go up, they would not journey onward until the day it went up. For the L-rd's cloud was over the Tabernacle by day, and fire by night was in it, before the eyes of all the house of Israel in all their journeyings.
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Leviticus 2:1-2:4 [p. 550]

Should a person bring forward a grain offering to the L-rd, fine semolina his offering shall be, and he shall pour oil over it and place frankincense upon it. And he shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and a handful from there shall be scooped up, from its fine semolina and from its oil, together with all its frankincense, and the priest shall turn its token portion to smoke on the altar, a fire offering, a fragrant odor to the L-rd. And what is left of the grain offering is for Aaron and for his sons, holy of holies from the fire offerings of the L-rd.

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Leviticus 20:1-20:9 [p. 631]

And the L-rd spoke to Moses, saying, "And to the Israelites you shall say: 'Every man of the Israelites and of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel who gives of his seed to Molech is doomed to die. The people of the land shall stone him. And as for me, I shall set My face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, for he has given of his seed to Molech so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My sacred name. And if the people of the land actually avert putting him to death, I Myself shall turn My face against that man and his clan, and I shall cut him off and all who go whoring after him to whore after Molech, from the midst of their people. And the person who turns to ghosts and to familiar spirits to go whoring after them, I shall set My face against that person and cut him off the  midst of his people. And you shall sanctify yourselves and become holy, for I am the L-rd your G-d. And you shall keep my statutes and do them. I am the L-rd Who makes you holy.
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Leviticus 20:22-20:25 [p. 634]

And you shall keep all My statues and all My laws and do them, lest the land to which I bring you to dwell there spew you out. And you shall not go by the statutes of the nation which I am about to send away before you, for all these things they have done, and I loathed them. And I said to you, it is you who will take hold of their soil, and as for Me, I shall give it to you to take hold of it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the L-rd your G-d Who set you apart from all the peoples. And you shall set apart the clean from the unclean beast, and the unclean bird from the clean, and you shall not make yourselves despicable through beast and bird and all that crawls on the ground, which I set apart for you as unclean. And you shall be holy to Me, for I the L-rd am holy.
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Leviticus 26:14-26:20

"But if you do not heed Me and do not do all these commands, and if you reject My statutes and if you loath My laws, not doing all My commands, voiding My covenant, I on My part will do this to you: I will direct panic against you, consumption and fever wasting the eyes and making the throat ache, and you shall sow your seed in vain, and your enemies shall eat it. And I will set My face against you and you shall be routed before your enemies, and your foes shall hold sway over you, and you shall flee with none pursuing you. And if even with these you do not heed Me, I will go on to chastise you sevenfold more for your offenses. And I will break the pride of your strength and make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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BaMidbar 6:22-6:27 [p. 713]

And the L-rd spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus shall you bless the Israelites. Say to them:

May the L-rd bless you and guard you.
May the L-rd light up his face to you and grant grace to you;
May the L-rd lift up His face to you and give you peace.'

And they shall set My name over the Israelites, and I Myself shall bless them."

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BaMidbar 9:15-9:23 [p. 727]

And on the day the Tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Covenant, and in the evening it would be over the Tabernacle like a semblance of fire until morning. Thus it would be perpetually: the cloud would cover it, and a semblance of fire at night. And as the cloud lifted from the tent, then the Israelites would journey onward, and in the place where the cloud would abide, there would the Israelites camp. By the L-rd's word they would camp, all the days that the cloud would abide over the Tabernacle they would camp. And when the cloud lingered over the Tabernacle many days, the Israelites would keep the L'rd's watch and would not journey onward. And sometimes the cloud would be but a few days over the Tabernacle. By the L-rd's word they would camp and by the L'rd's word they would journey onward. And sometimes the cloud would be from evening till morning and the cloud would lift in the morning and they would journey onward, or a day and a night and the cloud would lift and they would journey onward. Or two days or a month or a year, when the cloud lingered over the Tabernacle to abide over it, the Israelites would camp and would not journey onward, and when it lifted, they would journey onward. By the L'rd's word they would camp and by the L-rd's word they would journey onward. The L-rd's watch did they keep by the L-rd's word in the hand of Moses.
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BaMidbar 10:33-10:36 [p. 732]

And they journeyed on from the mountain of the L-rd a three days' march, with the Ark of the L-rd's Covenant journeying before them a three days' march to scout for a resting place for them. And the L-rd's cloud was over them by day as they journeyed on from the camp. And it happened, as the Ark journeyed on, that Moses would say,

"Rise O L-rd, and Your enemies scatter,
and Your foes flee before You!

and when it came to rest, he would say,

"Come back O L-rd to Israel's teeming myriads."
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BaMidbar 11:1-11:35 [p. 734]

And the people became complainers of evil in the ears of the L-rd, and the L-rd heard and His wrath flared and the L-rd's fire burned against them and consumed along the edge of the camp. And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses interceded with the L-rd, and the fire sunk down. And he called the name of that place Taberah, for the L-rd's fire had burned against them. And the riffraff that was in their midst felt a craving, and the Israelites, too, again wept and said, "Who will feed us meat? We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for free, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic. And now are throats are dry. There is nothing save manna before our eyes." And the manna was like coriander seed and its colour like the colour of bdellium. The people would go about and gather it and grind it between millstones or pound it into a pestle and cook it in a cauldron and make it into cakes. And its taste was like the creaminess of oil. And when the dew would come down on the camp at night, the manna would come down upon it. And Moses heard the people weeping by its clans, every man at the entrance of his tent, and the L-rd's wrath flared fiercely, and in Moses' eyes it was evil. And Moses said to the L-rd, "Why have You done evil to Your servant, and why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of all this people upon me? Did I conceive all this people, did I give birth to them, that You should say to me, 'Bear them in your lap as the guardian bears the infant,' to the land that You swore to their fathers? From where shall I get meat to give all this people when they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat that we may eat? I alone cannot bear this people, for they are too heavy for me. And if thus You would do with me, kill me, pray, altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil fate."
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BaMidbar 12:5-12:11 [p. 742]

And the L-rd came down in the pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called, "Aaron and Miriam!" And the two of them went out. And He said,

"Listen, pray, to My words.
If your prophet be the L-rd's
in a vision to him would I be known,
in a dream would I speak through him.
Not so My servant Moses,
in all my house is he trusted.
Mouth to mouth do I speak with him,
and vision, and not in riddles,
and the likeness of the L-rd he beholds.
And why did you not fear
to speak against My servant Moses?"
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BaMidbar 21:10-21:30 [p. 790]

And the Israelites journeyed on and camped at Oboth. And they journeyed on from Oboth and camped at Iye-Abarim in the wilderness that faced Moab, toward the rising sun. From there they journeyed onward and camped at the Wadi of Zered. From there they journeyed onward and camped across the Arnon, which is in the wilderness coming out from the territory of the Amorite, for the Arnon is the border of Moab between Moab and the Amorite. Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of YHWH:

"Against Waheb in a whirlwind and the wadis of Arnon,
and the cascade of the wadis that turns down toward Ar's
dwelling, and clings to Moab's border."

And from there to Be'er, which is the well of which the L-rd said to Moses "Gather the people, that I may give them water." Then did Israel sing this song:

"Rise up, O well!
Sing out to it.
Well, that captains dug,
the people's nobles delved it,
with a scepter, with their walking stick."

And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off in field or vineyard. We will not drink well water. On the king's road we will go until we pass through your territory." And Sihon did not let Israel pass through his territory, and Sihon gathered all his troops and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and did battle with Israel. And Israel struck him down by the edge of the sword and seized his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong. And Israel took all these cities and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its surrounding villages. For Heshbon is the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and he had done battle with the first king of Moab and he took all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. Therefore do the rhapsodes say:

"Come to Heshbon, let it stand built,
may the city of Sihon be unshaken.
For fire has come out from Heshbon,
flame from the town of Sihon.
It consumed Ar of Moab,
the notables of Arnon's high places.

Woe to you, Moab,
You are lost, O people of Chemosh.
His sons he has turned into fugitives,
and his daughters to captive state
to the Amorite king Sihon.
And their mastery is lost,
from Heshbon to Dibon.
We wrought havoc up to Nophah,
which is all the way to Medeba."

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BaMidbar 22:22-22:35 [p. 798]

And G-d's wrath flared because he was going with them, and the L-rd's messenger stationed himself in the road as an adversary to him, and he was riding his ass, and his two lads were with him. And the ass saw the L-rd's messenger stationed in the road, his sword unsheathed in his hand, and the ass swerved from the road and went into the field, and Balaam struck the ass to steer her back to the road. And the L-rd's messenger stood in the footpath through the vineyards, a fence on one side and a fence on the other. And the ass saw the L-rd's messenger and was pressed against the wall and pressed Balaam's leg against the wall, and once more he struck her. And the L-rd's messenger crossed over and stood in a narrow place in which there was no way to swerve right or left. And the ass saw the L-rd's messenger and crouched down under Balam and Balaam's wrath flared and he struck the ass with the stick. And the L-rd opened the ass' mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you should have struck me these three times?" And Balaam said to the ass, "because you have toyed with me. Had I a sword in my hand, by now I would have killed you. And the ass said to Balaam, "Am I not your ass upon whom you have ridden your whole life till this day? Have I ever been wont to do thus to you?" And he said, "No." And the L-rd unveiled Balaam's eyes, and he saw the L-rd's messenger stationed in the road, his sword unsheathed in his hand, and he prostrated himself and bowed down on his face.
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BaMidbar 23:5-23:30 through 24:1-24:5 [p. 805]

And the L-rd put a word in Balaam's mouth, and He said, "Go back to Balak and thus shall you speak." And he went back to him, and, look, he was stationed by his burnt offering, he and all the chieftains of Moab. And he took up his theme and he said:

"From Aram did Balak lead me,
the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:
'Go, curse me Jacob,
and go, doom Israel.'
What can I hex that El has not hexed,
and what can I doom that the L-rd has not doomed?
For from the top of the crags do I see them
and from the hills do I gaze on them.
Look, a people that dwells apart,
amongst nations it is not reckoned.
Who has numbered the dust of Jacob,
who counted the issue of Israel?
Let me but die the death of the upright,
and may my aftertime be like his."

And Balak said, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, look, you have done nothing but bless." And he answered and said, "Why, that which the L-rd puts in my mouth, only that do I keep to speak." And Balak said to him, "Go with me, pray, to another place, from which you will see him - only his edge will you see, but the whole of him you will not see, and hex him for me from there." And he took him to the Lookouts' Field, on top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars and he offered up bull and ram on each altar. And he said to Balak, "Station yourself here by your burnt offering, and I myself shall seek some chance. And the L-rd chanced upon Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, "Go back to Balak, and thus shall you speak." And he came back to him, and there he was stationed by his burnt offering, and the chieftains of Moab with him, And Balak said to him, "What has the L-rd spoken? And he took up hit theme and he said:

"Rise, Balak, and listen,
give ear to me, O Zippor's son!
El is no man who would fail,
no human who would show change of heart.
Would he say and not perform
would he speak and not fulfill it?
Look, to bless I was taken,
and He blessed, so I will not reverse it.
He has beheld no harm in Jacob,
and has seen no trouble in Israel.
The L-rd his g-d is with him,
the king's trumpet blast in his midst,
El who brings them out from Egypt,
like the wild ox's antlers for him.
For there is no divining in Jacob
and no magic in Israel.
Now be it said to Jacob
and to Israel what El has wrought.
Look, a people like a lion arises,
like the king of beasts, rears up.
he will not lie down till he devours the prey,
and blood of the slain he drinks."

And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither to curse shall you curse him nor to bless shall you bless him." And Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'All that the L-rd speaks, only that may I do'?" And Balak said to Balaam, "Go, pray, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will be right in the eyes of the g-d and you will curse him for me from there." And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks out over the wasteland. And Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars and ready me here seven bulls and seven rams." And Balak did as Balaam had said, and he offered up bull and ram on each altar.

24:1

And Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of the L-rd to bless Israel, and he did not go as on the times before to encounter omens but turned his face to the wilderness. And Balaam raised his eyes and saw Israel dwelling by its tribes, and the spirit of G-d was upon him. And he took up his theme and he said:

"Utterance of Balaam, Beor's son,
utterance of the man open-eyed,
utterance of him who hears El's sayings,
who the vision of Shaddai beholds,
prostrate with eyes unveiled.
How goodly your tents, O Jacob,
your dwellings, O Israel!
Like palm groves they stretch out,
like gardens by a river,
Like aloes the L-rd has planted,
like cedars by the water.
Water drips from his branch,
and his root in abundant waters.
His king looms over Agag
and his kingship is lifted high.
El who brings him out from Egypt,
like the wild ox's antlers for him.
He consumes nations, his foes,
and their bones he does crush
and smashes his loins.
He crouches, lies down like a lion,
like the king of beasts, who can rouse him?
Those who bless you are blessed,
and your cursers are cursed.

And Balak's wrath flared against Balaam and he clapped his palms, and Balak said to Balaam, "To hex my enemies did I call you, and, look, you have done nothing but bless now three times. And so, go flee to your place. I said I would surely honour you, and, look, the L-rd has held you back from honour." And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers, too, whom you sent to me, saying, 'Should Balak give me his houseful of silver and gold, I could not cross the word of the L-rd to do either a good thing or a bad one from my own heart. That which the L-rd speaks to me, it alone can I speak.' And so, I am about to go to my people. Let me counsel you what this people will do to your people in days to come." And he took up his theme and he said,

"Utterance of Balaam, Beor's son,
utterance of the man open-eyed.
Utterance of him who hears El's sayings
and knows what Elyon knows.
Shaddai's vision he beholds,
prostrate with eyes unveiled.
I see him, but not yet now.
I gaze on him, but not in time close.
A star steps forth from Jacob,
a meteor arises from Israel,
and smashes the brow of Moab,
and the pate of all the Sethites.
And Edom will be dispossessed,
Seir dispossessed by its enemies.
But Israel perform prowess,
and Jacob holds sway over them,
and destroys the city's survivor."

And he saw Amalek, and he took up his theme and said,

"First of nations was Amalek,
and at his last until destruction."

And he saw the Kenite, and he took up his theme and said,

"Staunch is your settlement,
and set in the rock your nest.
But Cain will be for burning,
how long will Asshur hold you captive?"

And he took up his theme and he said,

"Woe, who can live more than El has set him,
and ships from the hands of the Kittites,
and they lay low Asshur and lay low Eber,
and he, as well, unto destruction."

And Balaam rose and went and returned to his place, and Balak, too, went on his way.
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Devarim 4:3-4:40 [p. 898]

Your own eyes have seen that which the L-rd did at Baal Peor, for every man that went after Baal Peor did the L-rd your G-d destroy from your midst. But you, the ones clinging to the L-rd your G-d, are all of you alive today. See, I have taught you the statutes and the laws as the L-rd my G-d has charged me, to do thus within the land into which you are about to come to take hold of it. And you shall keep and do, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and will say, 'Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation.' For what great nation is there that has g-ds close to it like the L-rd our G-d whenever we call to Him? And what great nation is there that has just statutes and laws like all this teaching that I am about to set before you today? Only be you on the watch and watch yourself closely lest you forget the things that your own eyes have seen and lest they swerve from your heart - all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your sons and to your sons' sons: the day that you stood before the L-rd your G-d at Horeb when the L-rd said to me, 'Assemble the people to Me that I may have them hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days they they live on the soil, and so that they teach their sons.' And you came forward and stood at the bottom of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens - darkness, cloud, and dense fog. And the L-rd spoke to you from the midst of the fire. The sound of words you did hear but no image did you see except the sound. And He told you His covenant that He charged you to do, the Ten Words, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. And me did the L-rd charge at that time to teach you statutes and laws for you to do in the land into which you are crossing over to take hold of it. And you shall be very watchful of yourselves, for you saw no image on the day the L-rd spoke to you from the midst of the fire, lest you act ruinously and make you a sculpted image of any likeness, the form of male or of female, the form of any beast that is on the earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, the form of anything that crawls on the ground, the form of any fish that is in the waters under the earth, lest you raise your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the array of the heavens, and you be led astray and bow down to them and worship them, for the L-rd your G-d allotted them to all the peoples under the heavens. But you did the L-rd take and He brought you out from the iron's forge, from Egypt, to become for Him a people in estate as this day. And the L-rd was incensed with me because of your words and He swore not to let me cross the Jordan and not to let me come into the goodly land that the L-rd your G-d is about to give you in estate. For I am about to die in this land, I am not to cross the Jordan, but you are to cross over and you will take hold of this goodly land. Be you on the watch, lest you forget the covenant of the L-rd your G-d which He has sealed with you, and you make for yourselves a sculpted image of any sort, against which the L-rd your G-d has charged you. For the L-rd your G-d is a consuming fire, a jealous g-d. When you beget sons and sons of sons and are long in the land, and you act ruinously and make a sculpted image of any sort and do evil in the eyes of the L-rd your G-d to anger Him, I have called to witness against you the heavens and the earth that you shall surely perish quickly from upon the land into which you are about to cross the Jordan to take hold of it. You shall not long endure upon it, for you will surely be destroyed. And the L-rd will scatter you among the peoples and you shall be left men few in number among the nations where the L-rd will drive you. And you shall worship there their g-ds that are human handiwork, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. And you shall search for the L-rd your G-d from there, and you shall find him when you seek Him with all your heart and will all your being. When you are in straits and all these things find you in time to come, you shall turn back to the L-rd your G-d and heed His voice. For the L-rd your G-d is a merciful g-d. He will not let you go and will not destroy you and will not forget your fathers' covenant that He swore to them. For, pray, ask of the first days that were before you, from the day G-d created a human on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, has there been the like of this great thing or has its like been heard? Has a people heard G-d's voice speaking from the midst of the fire, as you yourself have heard, and still lived? Or has G-d tried to come to take Him a nation from within a nation in trials and signs and portents and in battle and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terrors, like all that the L-rd your G-d did for you in Egypt before your eyes? You yourself were shown to know that the L-rd is G-d, there is none besides Him. From the heavens He made you hear His voice to reprove you, and on the earth He showed you His great fire, and His words you heard, from the midst of the fire. And since He did love your fathers He chose their seed after them and brought you out from Egypt through His presence with His great power, to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you from before you, to bring you to give to you their land in estate as on this day. And you shall know today and take to your heart that the L-rd, He is G-d in the heavens above and on the earth below, there is none else. And you shall keep His statutes and His commands which I am about to charge you today, that He do well with you and with your sons after you and so that you long endure on the soil that the L-rd your G-d is about to give you for all time."
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Devarim 7:12-7:14 [p. 918]

"And it shall come about in consequence of your heeding these laws when you keep and do them, that the L-rd your G-d will keep the covenant and the faith for you that he swore to your fathers. And he will love you and bless you and multiply you and bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain and your wine and your oil, the spawn of your herds and the calvings of your flock, upon the soil that He swore to your fathers to give to you. Blessed shall you be more than all the peoples.
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Devarim 8:1-8:20 [p. 921]

All the commandment which I charge you today you shall keep to do, in order that you may live and multiply and come and take hold of the land which the L-rd has sworn to your fathers. And you shall remember all the way on which the L-rd your G-d led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commands or not. And He afflicted you and made you hunger and fed you the manna, which you did know know nor did your fathers know, in order to make you know that not on bread alone does human live but on every utterance of the L-rd's mouth does the human live. Your cloak did not wear out upon you nor did your foot swell these forty years. And you knew in your heart that as a man chastises his son the L-rd your G-d chastises you. And you shall keep the commands of the L-rd your G-d, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the L-rd your G-d is about to bring you to a goodly land, a land of brooks of water, springs and deeps coming out in valley and in mountain, a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil oilves and honey, a land where not in penury will you eat bread, you will lack nothing in it, a land whose stones are iron and from whose mountains you will hew copper. And you will eat and be sated and bless the L-rd your G-d on the goodly land that He has given you. Watch yourself, lest you forget the L-rd your G-d and not keep His commands and His laws and His statutes that I charge you today. Lest you eat and be sated and build goodly houses and dwell in them. And your cattle and sheep multiply, and silver and gold multiply for you, and all that you have multiply. And your heart become haughty and you forget the L-rd your G-d who brings you out of the land of Egypt from the house of slaves, Who leads you through the great and terrible wilderness - viperserpent and scorpions, and thirst, where there is no water - Who brings water out for you from flintstone. Who feeds you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and in order to try you, to make it go well with you in your later time. And you will say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my have made me this wealth.' And you will remember the L-rd your G-d, for He it is Who gives you power to make wealth, in order to fulfill His covenant that He swore to your fathers as on this day. And it will be, if you indeed forget the L-rd your G-d and go after other g-ds and worship them and bow to them, I bear witness against you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the L-rd causes to perish before you, so shall you perish, inasmuch as you would not heed the voice of the L-rd your G-d.
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Devarim 10:16 [p. 933]

And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, nor shall you show a stiff neck anymore.
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Devarim 12:1-12:8 [p. 940]

"These are the statues and the laws that you shall keep to do in the land that the L-rd, the G-d of your fathers, has given you to take hold of it all the days that you live on the soil. You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom are you to dispossess worshipped their g-ds - on the high mountains and in the valleys and under every lush tree. And you shall smash their altars and shatter their sacred pillars, and their cultic poles you shall burn in fire, and the images of their g-ds you shall chop down, and you shall destroy their name from that place. You shall not do thus for the L-rd your G-d. But to the place that the L-rd your G-d will choose of all your tribes to set His name there, to make it dwell, you shall seek it and come there. And you shall bring there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and your hand's donation and your votive offerings and your freewill gifts and the firstborn of your herd and your flock. And you shall eat there before the L-rd your G-d and you shall rejoice in all that your hand reaches, you and your households, in which the L-rd your G-d has blessed you.
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Devarim 28:15-28:30 [p. 1013]

And it shall be, if you do not heed the voice of the L-rd your G-d to keep to do all His commands and His statutes that I charge you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. Cursed you will be in the town and cursed you will be in the field. Cursed your basket and your kneading pan. Cursed the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, the get of your herds and the offspring of your flock. Cursed you will be when you come in and cursed you will be when you go out. The L-rd will send against you blight and panic and disaster in all that your hand reaches, that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish swiftly because of the evil of your acts, as you will have forsaken Me. The L-rd will make the plague cling to you until He wipes you out from the face of the soil to which you are coming to take hold of it. The L-rd will strike you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with burning and with desiccation and with emaciation and with jaundice, and they will pursue you till you perish. And your heavens that are over your head will be bronze and the earth that is under you iron. The L-rd will turn your land's rain into dust, and dirt from the heavens will come down upon you until you are destroyed. The L-rd will render you routed before your enemies. On one way you will sally forth toward him, and on seven ways you will flee before him. And you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. And your carcass will become food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, with none to make them afraid. The L-rd will strike you with the burning rash of Egypt and with hemorrhoids and with boils and with scabs from which you will not be able to be healed. The L-rd will strike you with madness and with blindness and with confounding of the heart. And you will grope at noon as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not make your ways prosper, and you will only be exploited and robbed always with no rescuer.
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Devarim 28:61-28:68 [p. 1018]

What's more, every illness and every plague that is not written in this book of teaching the L-rd will bring down upon you until you are destroyed. And you will remain a scant few instead of your being like the stars of the heavens in multitude, for you will not have heeded the voice of the L-rd your G-d. And it shall be, as the L-rd exulted over you to do well with you and to multiply you, so will the L-rd exult over you to make you perish, to destroy you, and you will be torn from the soil to which you are coming to take hold of it. And the L-rd will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and you will worship there other g-ds that you did not know, nether you nor your fathers, wood and stone. And among those nations you will have no quiet and the sole of your foot will have no resting place, and the L-rd will give you there a quaking heart and a wasting away of the eyes and an anguished spirit. And your life will dangle before you, and you will be afraid night and day and will have no faith in your life. In the morning you will say, 'Would that it were evening,' and in the evening you will say, 'Would that it were morning,' from your heart's fright with which you will be afraid and from the sight of your eyes that you will see.
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Devarim 29:28 [p. 1026]

Things hidden are for the L-rd our G-d and things revealed for us and our children forever to do all the words of this teaching.
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Devarim 30:1-30:7 [p. 1027]

And it shall be, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you, that your heart shall turn back among all the nations to which the L-rd your G-d will make you to stray. And you shall turn back to the L-rd your G-d and heed His voice as all that I charge you today, you and your children, with all you heart and with all your being. And the L-rd your G-d shall turn back your former state and have mercy upon you and He shall turn back and gather you in from all the peoples to which the L-rd your G-d has scattered you. Should your strayed one be at the edge of the heavens, from there shall the L-rd your G-d gather you in and from there shall He take you. And the L-rd your G-d shall bring you to the land that your fathers took hold of, and you shall take hold of it, and He shall do well with you and make you more multitudinous than your fathers. And the L-rd your G-d shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed to love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart and with all your being for your life's sake.
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Devarim 30:12-30:15 [p. 1029]

It is not in the heavens, to say, 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and take it for us and let us hear it, that we may do it?' And it is not beyond the sea, to say, 'Who will cross over for us beyond the sea and take it for us and let us hear it, that we may do it?' But the word is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to do it."
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Devarim 32:1-32:43 [p. 1038]

Give ear, O heavens, that I may speak,
and let the earth hear my mouth's utterances.
Let my teaching drop like rain,
my saying flow like dew,
like showers on the green
and like cloudbursts on the grass.
For the name of the L-rd do I call.
Hail greatness for our G-d.
The Rock, His acts are perfect,
for all His ways are justice.
A steadfast G-d without wrong,
true and right is He.
Did He act ruinously? No, his sons' the fault -
A perverse and twisted brood.
To the L-rd will you requite this,
base and unwise people?
Is He not your father, your shaper,
He made you and set you unshaken?
Remember the days of old,
give thought to the years of times past.
Ask your father, that he may tell you.
When Elyon gave estates to nations,
when He split up the sons of man,
He set out the boundaries of peoples,
by the number of the sundry g-ds.
Yes, the L-rd's portion is His people
Jacob the parcel of His estate.
He found him in the wilderness land,
in the waste of the howling desert.
He encircled him, gave mind to him,
watched him like the apple of His eye.
Like an eagle who rouses his nest,
over his fledglings he hovers,
He spread His wings, He took him,
He bore him on His pinion.
The L-rd alone did lead him,
no alien G-d by His side.
He set him down on the heights of the land,
and he ate the bounty of the field.
He suckled him honey from the crag
and oil from the flinty stone,
Cattle's curd and milk of the flocks
with the fat of the lambs
and rams of Bashan and he-goats
with the fat of kernels of wheat,
and the blood of the grape you drank as mead.
And Jeshurun [Israel] fattened and kicked -
you fattened, you thickened, grew gross -
and abandoned the G-d who had made him
and despised the Rock of his rescue.
He provoked Him with strangers,
with abhorrences he did vex Him.
They sacrificed to the demons, to the ung-ds,
g-ds they had not known,
new ones just come lately,
whom their fathers had not feared.
The Rock your bearer you neglected
you forgot the G-d who gave you birth.
The L-rd saw and He spurned,
from the vexation of His sons and His daughters.
And He said, "Let Me hide My face from them,
I shall see what their end will be.
For a wayward brood are they,
children with no trust in them.
They provoked Me with an ung-d,
they vexed Me with their empty things.
And I, I will provoke them with an unpeople
with a base nation I will vex them.
For fire has flared in My nostrils
and blazed to Sheol down below,
eaten up earth and its yield
and kindled the mountains' foundations.
I will sweep down evils upon them,
my arrows, spending against them,
wasted with famine, withered by blight and bitter scourge,
and the fang of beasts will I send against them,
with the venom of creepers in the dust.
Outside will the sword bereave
and within chambers - terror.
Both youth and virgin,
suckling and gray-haired man.
I would have said, 'Let Me wipe them out,
let Me make their name cease among men.'
Had I not feared the foe's provocation,
lest their enemies dissemble,
lest they say, 'Our hand was high,
and not the L-rd has wrought all this.'
For a nation lost in counsel are they,
there is no understanding among them.
Were they wise they would give mind to this,
understand their latter days:
O how could one chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
had not their Rock handed them over,
had the L-rd not given them up?
For not like our Rock is their rock,
our enemies' would-be-g-ds.
Yes, Sodom's vine is their vine,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
death-bitter clusters they have.
venom of vipers their wine,
and pitiless poison of asps.
Look, it is concealed with Me,
sealed up in My stores.
Mine is vengeance, requital,
at the moment their foot will slip.
For their day of disaster is close,
what is readied then swiftly comes.
Yes, the L-rd champions His people,
for His servants He shows change of heart
when He sees that power is gone,
no ruler or helper remains.
He will say, 'Where are their g-ds,
the rock in whom they sheltered,
who ate the fat of their offerings,
drank their libation wine?
Let them arise and help you,
be over you as a shield!'
See now that I, I am He,
and no g-d is by My side.
I put to death and give life,
I smash and I also heal
and none rescues from My hand.
When I raise to the heavens My hand
and say, 'As I live forever.'
When I hone the flash of My sword
and My hand takes hold of justice,
I will bring back vengeance to My foes
and My enemies I will requite.
I will make My shafts drunk with blood,
and My sword will eat up flesh,
from the blood of the fallen and captive,
from the flesh of the long-haired foe.
Nations, O gladden His people,
for His servants' blood will He avenge,
and vengeance turn back on His foes,
and purge His soil, His people."
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Devarim 33:1-33:29 [p. 1048]

And this is the blessing that Moses the man of G-d, blessed the Israelits before his death. And he said:

"The L-rd from Sinai came
and from Seir He dawned upon them,
He shone from Mount Paran
and appeared from Ribeboth-Kodesh,
from His right hand, fire-bolts for them.
Yes, lover of peoples is He,
all His holy ones in your hand,
and they are flung down at Your feet,
he bears Your utterances.
'A teaching did Moses charge us,
a heritage for Jacob's assembly!'
And He became a king in Jeshurun [Israel]
when the chiefs of the people gathered,
all together the tribes of Israel.
Let Reuben live and not die,
though his menfolk be but few.
And this for Judah, and he said:
Hear, L-rd, Judah's voice
and to his people You shall bring him.
With his hands he strives for himself -
a help from his foes You shall be.
And for Levi he said:
Your Thummin and Your Urim
for your devoted man,
whom you tested at Massah,
you disputed with him at the waters of Meribah,
who says of his father and mother,
I have not seen them,
and his brothers he recognized not,
and his sons he did not know.
For they kept Your pronouncement
and Your covenant they preserved.
They shall teach Your laws to Jacob
and Your teaching to Israel.
They shall put incense in Your nostrils
and whole offerings on Your altar.
Bless, O L-rd his abundance,
and his handiwork look on with favour.
Smash the loins of his foes,
that his enemies rise no more.
For Benjamin he said:
The L-rd's friend, may he dwell securely,
He shelters him constantly,
and between His shoulders he dwells.
And for Joseph he said:
Blessed of the L-rd is his land,
from the bounty of heavens, from dew,
and from the deep that couches below,
and from the bounty of the yield of the sun
and from the top of the age-old mountains,
from the bounty of earth and its fullness
and the favour of the bush-dwelling One.
May these come on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of him set apart from his brothers.
His firstborn bull is his glory,
wild ox's antlers his horns.
With them he gores peoples,
all together, the ends of the earth,
and they are the myriads of Ephraim
and they are Manasseh's thousands.
And for Zebulun he said:
Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go out
and Issachar, in your tents.
Peoples they call to the mountain
there they sacrifice offerings of triumph.
For the plenty of seas do they suckle
and the hidden treasures of sand.
And for Gad he said:
Blessed he who enlarges Gad.
Like a lion he dwells
and tears apart arm, even pate.
And he saw the prime for himself
for there is the lot of the hidden chieftain.
And the heads of the people came,
he performed the L-rd's benefaction,
and His judgments for Israel.
And for Dan he said:
Dan is a lion's whelp,
he springs forth from the Bashan.
And for Naphtali he said:
Naphtali is sated with favour
and filled with the blessing of the L-rd.
To the west and the south his possession.
And for Asher he said:
Blessed among sons is Asher,
May he be favoured of his brothers
and bathe in oil his foot.
iron and bronze your gate-bolts,
and as your days be your might.
There is none like the G-d of Jeshurun
riding through heavens as your help -
and in His triumph through the skies.
A refuge, the G-d of old,
from beneath, the arms everlasting.
He drone from before you the enemy
and He said, 'Destroy!'
And Israel dwelled securely,
untroubled Jacob's abode,
in a land of grain and wine,
its heavens, too, drop dew.
Happy are you, Israel. Who is like you?
A people delivered by the L-rd,
Your shield of help and the sword of your triumph.
Your enemies cower before you
and you on their backs will tread."
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Devarim 34:5-24:12 [p. 1058]

And Moses, the L-rd's servant, died there in the land of Moab by the word of the L-rd. And he was buried in the glen in the land of Moab opposite Beth-Peor, and no man has known his burial place to this day. And Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye had not grown bleary and his sap had not fled. And the Israelites keened for Moses in the steppes of Moab thirty days, and the days of keening in mourning for Moses came to an end. And Joshua son of Nun was filled with a spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him, and the Israelites heeded him and did as the L-rd had charged Moses. But no prophet again arose in Israel like Moses, whom the L-rd knew face to face, with all the signs and portents which the L-rd sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all hs land, and with all the strong hand and with all the great fear that Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.
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