Deuteronomy
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.
1Moses called all Israel and said to them, Listen, Israel, to the Rules that are meant to last. and the rules that I am speaking in your ears today, and learn them, and keep them, to do them.
2God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with us at Horeb.
3Not with our fathers did God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. cut this A solemn agreement that binds God and people., but with us, we who are here today, all of us alive.
4Face to face God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
5I was standing between God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and you at that time, to tell you the word of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., for you were afraid of the fire and you did not go up the mountain, saying,
6I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a slave house.
7You shall have no other gods before me.
8You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any form of what is in the sky above, or what is on the earth below, or what is in the water under the earth.
9You shall not bow to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, am a jealous God, attending to the guilt of fathers on children, and on the third generation and on the fourth, for those who hate me,
10and doing loyalty to the thousandth generation for those who love me and keep his commands.
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Chesed is loyalty. See the glossary.
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The written consonants are מצותו, “his commands.” The Masoretic reading is מצותי, “my commands.” The written form is printed. Exodus 20:6 writes “my commands.”
11You shall not lift up the name of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God for emptiness, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will not hold innocent the one who lifts up his name for emptiness.
12Keep the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. day, to set it apart, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God commanded you.
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This line says shamor, keep. Exodus 20:8 says zachor, remember. Each book is printed as it is written.
13Six days you shall work and do all your work.
14The seventh day is a A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall do no work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male slave, or your female slave, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your animals, or your A person living in a land that is not their own. who is in your gates, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as you do.
15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God commanded you to keep the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. day.
16Honor your father and your mother, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God commanded you, so that your days are long, and so that it goes well for you, on the soil that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you.
17You shall not murder.
18And you shall not commit adultery.
19And you shall not steal.
20And you shall not answer against your fellow as an empty witness.
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Ed shav is a witness of emptiness. Exodus 20:16 writes a lying witness. The word written here is printed.
21And you shall not desire your fellow’s wife. And you shall not crave your fellow’s house, his field, or his male slave, or his female slave, his ox or his donkey, or anything that is your fellow’s.
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Tachmod is to desire, as in Exodus 20:17. Titaveh is to crave. The two verbs are both printed. The field is named here, and it is not in that Exodus line.
22These words God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to your whole assembly on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick gloom, a great voice, and he did not do it again. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
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Velo yasaf is he did not do it again, the same idiom as in Numbers 11:25. It is not “he did not cease.”
23When you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, and the mountain was burning with fire, you came near me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
24You said, Look, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that God speaks with a human, and he lives.
25Now, why should we die? For this great fire will eat us up. If we hear the voice of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God any more, we will die.
26For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27You go near, and hear all that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God says, and you, you shall speak to us all that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.
28God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people, which they spoke to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
29Who will give that this heart of theirs would stay in them, to fear me and to keep all my commands, all the days, so that it goes well for them and for their children forever?
30Go, say to them, Return to your tents.
31But you, stand here with me, and I will speak to you the whole command, and the Rules that are meant to last., and the rules that you shall teach them, so that they do them in the land that I am giving them to take possession of.
32You shall keep them, to do as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has commanded you. You shall not turn right or left.
33In all the way that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has commanded you, you shall walk, so that you live, and it is good for you, and you lengthen your days in the land you will take possession of.