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.
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1The whole command that I am commanding you today you shall keep, to do it, so that you live, and become many, and go in and take possession of the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to your fathers.
2You shall remember the whole way that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his command or not.
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The written consonants are מצותו, without the yod. The Masoretic reading is מצותיו, “his commands,” with the yod. The written form is printed as “his command.”
3He humbled you and let you hunger, and he fed you the man, which you had not known and your fathers had not known, so that he might make you know that a human does not stay alive on bread by itself. A human stays alive on everything that goes out from God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth.
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Man is the food of the wilderness, as in Exodus. “Manna” is not printed. The line says a human lives on every going-out of Yahweh’s mouth, not on bread by itself.
4Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.
5Know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God disciplines you.
6You shall keep the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, to walk in his ways and to fear him.
7For God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of springs and deeps that come out in the valley and in the hill,
8a land of wheat and barley, of vine and fig and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey,
9a land where you will eat bread without scarcity. You will not lack anything in it. A land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you will dig copper.
10You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God for the good land he has given you.
11Keep yourself, so that you do not forget God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God by not keeping his commands, his rules, and his Rules that are meant to last. that I am commanding you today,
12or, when you eat and are full, and build good houses and live in them,
13and your herd and your flock grow, and silver and gold grow for you, and all that you have grows,
14your heart rises, and you forget 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,
15who led you through the great and dreadful wilderness, with burning snake and scorpion and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought water out of the flint rock for you,
16who fed you man in the wilderness, which your fathers had not known, to humble you and to test you, to do you good in the end,
17and you say in your heart, My power and the strength of my hand made this wealth for me.
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Chayil here is wealth, the means a person’s hand makes. See the glossary.
18You shall remember God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, for he is the one who gives you power to make wealth, in order to establish his A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
19If you do forget God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and bow to them, I witness against you today that you will perish, perish.
20Like the nations that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is making perish from before you, so you will perish, because you would not listen to the voice of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.