Parsha Ki Tavo

(26,1) When it happens that you come to the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you as territory, and you inherit it and settle it;

(26,2) You are to take of the first of all the fruits of the soil that you bring from your land, that Adonoy, your God, is giving you, and place [it] in a basket; and go to the place that Adonoy, your God, chooses to house His Presence there.

(26,3) You are to come to the kohein who will be [of service] during those days and you will say to him, ‘‘I ascertain today to Adonoy, your God, that I have arrived in the land that Adonoy swore to our forefathers to give us.’’

(26,4) The kohein shall then take the basket from your hand, and he will place it before the altar of Adonoy, your God.

(26,5) And you shall then proclaim and say before Adonoy, your God, ‘‘ the Aramite destroy[ed] my forefather, then he descended to Egypt and sojourned there with a tiny community; and there he became a great people, powerful and numerous.

(26,6) ‘‘The Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and they imposed hard labor upon us.

(26,7) ‘‘We prayed to Adonoy, God of our forefathers, and Adonoy accepted our prayer, and perceived our oppression, and our labor, and the pressure upon us.

(26,8) ‘‘And Adonoy took us out of Egypt with a powerful hand and with an extended arm, and with great display, and with signs, and with wonders.

(26,9) ‘‘And He brought us to this place, and He gave us this land, a land flowing milk and honey.

(26,10) And now, see! I have brought the first of the fruits of the soil that You have given me Adonoy.’’ And you shall then place it before Adonoy, your God, and you will prostrate yourself in the presence of Adonoy, your God.

(26,11) You shall rejoice with all the good that Adonoy, your God, gave you and your household; you, the levi, and the proselyte in your midst.

(26,12) When you finish tithing all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe; and you have given to the Levi, to the proselyte, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your portals to their satisfaction;

(26,13) You shall declare before Adonoy, your God, ‘‘I have divested my estate of sacred material, and I have also presented it to the Levi and also to the proselyte, the orphan, and the widow, totally according to Your command that You commanded me; I did not transgress any of Your commandments nor did I forget.

(26,14) I did not eat of it when grieving, nor did I devour it when ritually defiled, nor did I make use of it for the dead; I have heeded the voice of Adonoy, my God; I have fulfilled everything that You commanded me.

(26,15) View, from Your sacred residence, from the heavens, and bless Your people, Yisroel and the soil which You have given us, as You swore to our forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’’

(26,16) This very day, Adonoy, your God, commands you to perform these statutes and the laws; you shall observe and perform them wholeheartedly and with your whole being.

(26,17) Adonoy, you have distinguised today to be a God for you and to go in His ways and to guard His statutes and His commandments and His laws, and to obey Him.

(26,18) And Adonoy has distinguished you today to be for Him a treasured people as He said to you, and to guard all His commandments.

(26,19) And to place you superior to all the nations whom He made, for praise and for renown and for glory, and so that you may be a people sanctified to Adonoy, your God, as He said.

(27,1) Moshe and the elders of Yisroel commanded the people the following, ‘‘Keep all of the commandment that I am commanding you today.

(27,2) When the day comes that you cross the Yardein to the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you, erect large stones and coat them with whitewash.

(27,3) You are to write on them all statements of this Torah upon your crossing; in order that you come to the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you, a land flowing milk and honey, as promised by Adonoy, God of your forefathers, to you.

(27,4) As soon as you have crossed the Yardein, set up these stones that I am commanding you today, on Mount Eival, and coat them with whitewash.

(27,5) Build there an altar to Adonoy, your God; an altar of stones; do not lift iron upon them.

(27,6) [Of] whole stones are you to build the altar of Adonoy, your God; and you are to bring upon it burnt-offerings to Adonoy, your God.

(27,7) You are to slaughter peace -offerings and eat [them] there; and you are to rejoice in the presence of Adonoy, your God.

(27,8) You are to write on the stones all the statements of this Torah, explained properly.

(27,9) Moshe and the kohanim-Levi’im addressed all of Yisroel, to say, ‘‘Take heed and accept, Yisroel! [On] this day you have become a people to Adonoy, your God.

(27,10) You are to obey Adonoy, your God, and perform His commandments and His statutes that I am commanding you today.’’

(27,11) Moshe commanded the people on that day, to say,

(27,12) ‘‘The following will stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim, upon your crossing the Yardein: Shimon and Levi and Yehudah, and Yisachar and Yoseif and Binyomin.

(27,13) And the following will stand for the curse at Mount Eival: Reuvein, Gad and Asher, and Zevulun, Don and Naftoli.

(27,14) The Levi’im are to respond and say to every man of Yisroel aloud:

(27,15) ‘Cursed is the man who makes a statue or a molten image, Adonoy’s abomination, the handiwork of a craftsman, and places [it] in a secret [place];’ the entire people will respond and say, Amein.

(27,16) ‘Cursed is whoever reviles his father or his mother,’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,17) ‘Cursed is whoever casts aside the boundary of his fellow;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,18) ‘Cursed is whoever misleads the blind about the way;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,19) ‘Cursed is whoever distorts justice for a convert, orphan, or widow;’ and entire people will say, Amein.

(27,20) ‘Cursed is whoever has intercourse with his father’s wife, because he exposed the corner of his father[’s garment];’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,21) ‘Cursed is whoever has intercourse with any animal;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,22) ‘Cursed is whoever has intercourse with his sister, daughter of his father or daughter of his mother;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,23) ‘Cursed is whoever has intercourse with his father’s-in-law wife;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,24) ‘Cursed is whoever strikes his fellow in secret;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,25) ‘Cursed is whoever accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(27,26) ‘Cursed is whoever does not uphold the statements of this Torah to perform them;’ and the entire people will say, Amein.

(28,1) When you hearken and obey Adonoy, your God, to be sure to perform all of His commandments that I am commanding you today; Adonoy, your God, will place you superior to all the nations of the earth.

(28,2) All these blessings will come upon you and will reach you, when you obey Adonoy, your God.

(28,3) Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field.

(28,4) Blessed is the fruit of your belly, and the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your animals, the issue of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats.

(28,5) Blessed will be your [fruit] basket and your solid foods.

(28,6) You will be blessed at your arrival, and blessed at your departure.

(28,7) Adonoy will set your enemies who rise against you smitten before you; by one road will they approach you, but by seven roads they will flee from you.

(28,8) Adonoy will order upon you the blessing in your storehouses and in all your commerce; and He will bless you in the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you.

(28,9) Adonoy will establish you for Himself as a holy people as He swore to you; when you will guard the commandments of Adonoy, your God, and will go in His ways.

(28,10) And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Adonoy’s Name and they will fear you.

(28,11) Adonoy will give you surplus as benefit in the fruit of your belly, and the offspring of your animals, and the produce of your soil; upon the land that Adonoy swore to your forefathers to give you.

(28,12) Adonoy will open for you His good storehouse, the sky, to give you your land’s rain on time and to bless all your endeavors; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

(28,13) Adonoy will place you at the head, not at the tail; and you will be solely on top, you will not be on the bottom; when you heed the commandments of Adonoy, your God, that I am commanding you today to guard and to perform.

(28,14) And you do not deviate from all the statements that I am commanding you today to the right or to the left, to follow other gods to serve them.

(28,15) Should you not obey Adonoy, your God, to guard to perform all His commandments and His statutes that I am commanding you today; then all these curses will come upon you and will reach you.

(28,16) Cursed are you in the city and cursed are you in the field.

(28,17) Cursed is your [fruit] basket and cursed are your solid foods.

(28,18) Cursed is the fruit of your belly and the produce of your soil, the calves of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats.

(28,19) Cursed are you upon your arrival and cursed are you upon your departure.

(28,20) Adonoy will visit upon you ruin, panic, and frustration in all the endeavors you undertake, until you are destroyed and until you are swiftly removed because of the wickedness of your deeds [in] that you forsook Me.

(28,21) Adonoy will attach the plague to you until He exterminates you from upon the land that you are coming there to inherit.

(28,22) Adonoy will smite you with blistering and with searing temperature, and with raging fever, and with charchur, and with the sword, and with wind-blight, and with yellowing; and they will chase you until your annihilation.

(28,23) And the heavens above your head will be like copper and the earth that is beneath you, iron.

(28,24) Adonoy will make the rain of your land into dust and soil; from the sky will it come down upon you until you are destroyed.

(28,25) Adonoy will set you smitten before your enemies. By one road will you go out toward them and by seven roads will you flee before them; and you will be a cause of shuddering for all the kingdoms of the earth.

(28,26) Your corpse will be food for every bird of the sky and for the animals of the earth; with no one to scare [them].

(28,27) Adonoy will plague you with Egyptian boils and with hemorroids and with running and dry boils; from which you will be unable to be healed.

(28,28) Adonoy will plague you with insanity and with blindness, and with utter confusion.

(28,29) You will grope at midday the way a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not succeed your ways; you will be only the victim of wrangling and robbed all the days with no savior.

(28,30) A woman will you marry and another man will lie with her; a house will you build and will not live in it; a vineyard will you plant and will not redeem it[s fruit].

(28,31) Your ox [will be] butchered before your eyes, and you will not eat of it; your ass [will be] robbed in your presence and will not return to you; your flocks [will be] given to your enemies, and you have no savior.

(28,32) Your sons and your daughters [will be] given to another people while your eyes watch and pine for them all day, and your are powerless.

(28,33) The fruit of your soil and all your toil will be eaten by a people that you do not know; and you will be solely oppressed and crushed all the time.

(28,34) And you will become insane from the sights that you see.

(28,35) Adonoy will plague you with bad boils on the knees and on the legs from which you will be unable to be healed; from the sole of your foot till your skull.

(28,36) Adonoy will lead you and your king, whom you will set upon yourself, to a nation that neither you nor your parents knew; and there you will serve other powers [of] wood and stone.

(28,37) You will become an [object of] stupefaction, be cited as an example and become the subject of gossip among all the peoples to whom Adonoy will lead you.

(28,38) Much seed will you take out to the fields, and little will you gather because the locust will demolish it.

(28,39) Vineyards will you plant and labor in, but wine will you not drink nor will you store because worms will consume it.

(28,40) Olives will you have within your entire boundary, but oil will you not annoint because your olives (trees) will be discarded.

(28,41) Sons and daughters will you bear, but you will not have them because they will go into captivity.

(28,42) All your trees and the fruit of your soil the cicada will impoverish.

(28,43) The non-Jew among you will rise above you higher and higher, while you descend lower and lower.

(28,44) He will lend to you but you will not lend to him; he will be at the head, and you will be at the tail.

(28,45) All these curses will come upon you and will chase you and reach you until you are destroyed; for you have not obeyed Adonoy, your God, to guard His commandments and His statutes that He commanded you.

(28,46) They will happen to you as a sign and a wonder, and to your descendants forever.

(28,47) Since you did not serve Adonoy, your God, with joy and goodheartedness, in total affluence.

(28,48) You will serve your enemies whom Adonoy sends against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and lacking everything; and he will set an iron yoke upon your neck until he destroys you.

(28,49) Adonoy will raise upon you a nation from afar from the end of the earth, as the eagle soars, a nation whose language you will not hear.

(28,50) A hard-faced nation that will not show favor to the old, and will not pity the young.

(28,51) They will consume the offspring of your animals, and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed; that will not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the calves of your cattle, or the flocks of your sheep and goats until they have you removed.

(28,52) They will make you suffer in all your cities until mastering your ramparts and fortified walls upon which you rely throughout your land; they will make you suffer in all your cities throughout your land that Adonoy, your God, has given you.

(28,53) You will eat the flesh of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters that Adonoy, your God, gave you; in the siege and in the distress that your enemy will distress you.

(28,54) The delicate among you and the fastidious, [even] he will look askance at his brother and at the wife of his bosom and at the rest of his sons whom he will leave over.

(28,55) From giving to any of them of the flesh of his sons that he is eating for [fear of] not leaving everything for himself; in siege and in distress that your enemy will distress you in all your cities.

(28,56) The soft female among you and the indulged one the sole of whose foot never experienced standing on the ground out of indulgence and out of softness; her eye will begrudge the husband of her bosom, and her son and daughter.

(28,57) And her infant who emerges from between her legs, and her children whom she bears, when she eats them for lack of everything, secretly; in siege and in distress that your enemy will distress you in your cities.

(28,58) If you will not guard to perform all the statements of this Torah that are written in this book to fear the respected and awesome Name, of Adonoy, your God.

(28,59) Adonoy will strike you with prodigous blows and blows on your offspring, blows, great and dependable and illnesses harmful and dependable.

(28,60) He will bring back for you all the Egyptian diseases which you dreaded and they will cling to you.

(28,61) Also every illness and every plague that is not written in the book of this Torah, will Adonoy raise up against you until you are destroyed.

(28,62) You will remain numerically few instead of your having been like the stars in the sky, multitudinous; for you have not obeyed Adonoy, your God.

(28,63) It will happen that as Adonoy rejoiced over you to benefit you and to multiply you, so will Adonoy bring joy to others over you to remove you and to destroy you; and you will be uprooted from upon the land that you are coming there to inherit.

(28,64) Adonoy will disperse you among all the peoples from the end of the earth to the end of the earth; and you shall serve there other gods which neither you nor your ancestors knew, wood and stone.

(28,65) And among those nations you will not be tranquil and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; and Adonoy will give you there a fearful heart and pining eyes and disillusioned spirit.

(28,66) Your life will dangle before you, and you will be in fear night and day, and will have no faith in your living.

(28,67) In the morning you will say, ‘‘Would that it were evening,’’ and in the evening you will say, ‘‘Would that it were morning,’’ from the fear in your heart that you will fear and from the sights of your eyes that you will see.

(28,68) Adonoy will send you back to Egypt on ships, along the route that I told you, ‘‘You are not to see it again,’’ and there you will attempt to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves and as maidservants but no one will buy.

(28,69) These are the statements of the covenant that Adonoy commanded Moshe to ratify with Bnei Yisroel in the land of Moav, beside the covenant that he had made with them at Choreiv.

(29,1) Moshe called to all of Yisroel and said to them, ‘‘You have seen everything that Adonoy did as you watched, in the land of Egypt, to Pharoah and to all his attendants and to his entire land.

(29,2) The great miracles that you witnessed, those great signs and wonders.

(29,3) Yet Adonoy did not grant you a knowledgeable mind and eyes to see, and ears to hear until this day.

(29,4) I have led you forty years in the wilderness, your garments have not worn out on you and your shoes have not worn out on your feet.

(29,5) Bread have you not eaten, neither fresh nor aged wine have you drunk, in order that you know that I, Adonoy, am your God.

(29,6) Then when you came to this place, Sichon, king of Cheshbon, came out—and Og, king of Boshon—toward us to wage war and we smote them.

(29,7) And we took the their land and gave it as territory to the Reuvenites and to the Gaddites, and to half the tribe of the Menashians.

(29,8) You are to guard the tenets of this covenant and fulfill them, in order that you succeed in everything that you do.’’