Parsha Nitzavim

(29,9) ‘‘You stand, this day all of you before Adonoy, your God; your tribal chieftains, your elders and your law officers, every man of Yisroel.

(29,10) Your young, your wives, and your convert who is within your camps; from your wood cutters to the water drawers.

(29,11) For your passage into the covenant of Adonoy, your God, and His oath-curse, that Adonoy, your God, is making with you today.

(29,12) In order to sustain you today as His people, and He will be for you a God as He promished you and as He promised your forefathers Avrohom, Yitzchok, and Yaakov.

(29,13) And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath-curse.

(29,14) But with whoever is here with us standing today in the presence of Adonoy, our God, and with those who are not here with us today.

(29,15) For you are aware how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations whom you passed through.

(29,16) Where you observed their abominations and their loathsomeness [idols], wood and stone, silver and gold, that they owned.

(29,17) Perhaps there is among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe whose thoughts stray today from [being] with Adonoy, our God, to go serve the gods of those nations; lest there is within you a root producing gall and bitter fruit.

(29,18) When he hears the statements of this oath-curse, he will imagine self-blessings, saying, ‘‘Peace will be my lot when I shall follow what my thoughts envision,’’ so that the unintentional may be added to the sinful.

(29,19) Adonoy will be unwilling to forgive him, because then Adonoy’s nostrils will fume and His vengeful fury will enflame against that man, and there will cling to him the entire oath-curse written in this book; and Adonoy will eliminate his name from beneath the sky.

(29,20) And Adonoy will seperate him for harm from all the tribes of Yisroel, in accord with all the oath-curses of the covenant inscribed in this Torah scroll.

(29,21) The latter generation will say—your children who will arise after you and the stranger who will come from a distant land; and they will see the plagues of that land and its illnesses that Adonoy has harmed it with.

(29,22) Sulfur and salt, all its land, will be burnt, it will not be seeded, and it will not sprout, and no grass will grow there; like the overturning of Sodom and Amoroh, Admoh and Tzevoyim, which Adonoy overturned in His anger and His wrath.

(29,23) And all the nations will say, ‘‘For what did Adonoy do so to this land? Why the vigor of this great anger?’’

(29,24) And they will reply, ‘‘Because they forsook the covenant of Adonoy, the God of their forefathers, which He made with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt.

(29,25) And they went and served other gods and prostrated themselves to them; gods unknown to them and [which] He had not apportioned to them.

(29,26) And Adonoy became furious with that land, [causing Him] to bring on it the entire curse written in this book.

(29,27) And Adonoy forced them away from their land with anger and wrath and great fury; and He cast them into another land like this day.

(29,28) The hidden [matters] are Adonoy’s, our God’s, and the revealed [matters] are ours and our children’s forever, to perform all the statements of this Torah.

(30,1) When it happens that there come upon you all these statements, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you; and you will restore to your perception amid all the nations where Adonoy, your God, has exiled you.

(30,2) You will return to Adonoy, your God, and obey Him exactly as I am commanding you today, you and your sons, wholeheartedly and with your whole being.

(30,3) Adonoy, your God, will bring back your returnees and will be merciful toward you; and He will return and gather you from all the peoples that Adonoy, your God, has dispersed you there.

(30,4) If your exiled one will be at the edge of the heavens, from there will Adonoy, your God, gather you and from there will He take you.

(30,5) And Adonoy, your God, will bring you to the land that your forefathers inherited and you will inherit it; and He will benefit you and multiply you more than your forefathers.

(30,6) And Adonoy, your God, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love Adonoy, your God, wholeheartedly and with all your being in order that you live.

(30,7) Adonoy, your God, will place all these oath-curses upon your enemies and upon your foes who chased you.

(30,8) And you will turn back and obey Adonoy; and you will perform all His commandments that I am commanding you today.

(30,9) Adonoy, your God, will give you surplus in all your endeavors, in the fruit of your belly, and in the offspring of your animals, and in the produce of your soil—for benefit; for Adonoy will return to rejoice over you for benefit as He rejoiced over your forefathers.

(30,10) When you obey Adonoy, your God, to guard His commandments and His statutes, written in this Torah scroll; when you turn back to Adonoy, your God, wholeheartedly and with all your being.

(30,11) For this mitzvah that I am commanding you today; it is not abstruse to you nor is it distant.

(30,12) It is not in heaven, [for you] to say, ‘‘Who will go up to heaven for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?’’

(30,13) Nor is it overseas, [for you] to say, ‘‘Who will travel overseas for us, and acquire it for us, and inform us of it, and we will fulfill it?’’

(30,14) For the matter is extremely close to you; in your mouth and in your mind to fulfill it.

(30,15) See, I have placed before you today life and good, and death and bad.

(30,16) For which I command you this day, to love Adonoy, your God, to go in His ways and to guard His commandments and His statutes and His laws; and you will live and you will flourish, and Adonoy, your God, will bless you in the land that you are coming there to inherit.

(30,17) But if your heart strays and you do not listen, and you are misled, and you prostrate yourself to other gods and worship them.

(30,18) I tell you today that you shall certainly perish; you will not remain long on the land that you are crossing the Yardein to come there to inherit.

(30,19) I invoke, as witnesses against you this day, heaven and earth: Life and death have I placed before you, blessing and curse; you choose life in order that you live, you and your descendants,

(30,20) To love Adonoy, your God, to obey Him and to cling to Him; for He is your life and your longevity, to live on the soil that Adonoy swore to your forefathers—to Avrohom, to Yitzchok, and to Yaakov—to give them.