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Re'eh 1st Aliyah (Deu 11)26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—

27 the blessing, that you will obey the mitzvot of יהוה your Elohim which I am giving you today; 28 and the curse if you will not obey the mitzvot of יהוה your Elohim, but turn away from the way I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Re'eh 1st Aliyah (Deu 11)29 And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has brought you into

the land to which you go, to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount G’rizim, and the curse on Mount ‘Eival. 30 Are they not across the Yarden, way beyond, in the direction of the setting sun, in the land of the Kena‘ani, who dwell in the ‘Aravah, opposite Gilgal, near the terebinth trees of Moreh?

Re'eh 1st Aliyah (Deu 11-12)31 For you are crossing the Yarden to enter to possess the land

which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it, 32 and you shall be sure to do all the laws and right-rulings that I am setting before you today.

1 These are the laws and right-rulings that you must be careful to do in the land which יהוה Elohim of your fathers, has given you to possess—as long as you live on the soil.

Re'eh 1st Aliyah (Deu 12)2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations

whom you shall dispossess worship their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall break down their altars, smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire; cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4 You must not worship יהוה your Elohim with such things.

Re'eh 1st Aliyah (Deu 12)5 But you shall seek יהוה at the place which יהוה your Elohim

will choose from all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling, and there you shall enter; 6 there you shall take your burnt offerings and your offerings, your tithes and the separation by your hand, and your vows and your offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Re'eh 1st Aliyah (Deu 12)7 And there you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, and shall

rejoice in all your endeavors you and your households, in which יהוה your Elohim has blessed you.

8 You shall not do as all the things that we do here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes, 9 for you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.

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10 But you shall cross the Yarden and dwell in the land which your Elohim is giving you to inherit, and he shall give you יהוהrest from all your enemies around you, and you shall dwell in safety.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)

11 You shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your offerings, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to your Elohim will choose for his Name יהוה to the place—יהוהto dwell.


12 And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim—you and your sons and your daughters, and your male and female servants, and the Levi who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. 13 Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)14 But only in the place which יהוה chooses in one of your

tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 However, whatever you desire you shall slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth

like water. 17 You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or your flock, or any of your offerings which you vow, or your voluntary offerings, or the contribution of your hand.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)18 But you shall eat them before יהוה your Elohim in the place

which יהוה your Elohim will choose—you and your son and your daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levi who is within your gates—and you shall rejoice before your Elohim in all your endeavors. 19 Be careful that you יהוהdo not forsake the Levi as long as you live in your land.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)20 When יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border as he has

promised you, and you say, "I will eat meat," because you long to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire. 21 If the place יהוה your Elohim chooses to put his Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter of your herd and of your flock which יהוה has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates, according to every desire of your being.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)22 But as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you will eat it.

The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. 23 Only be firm not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. 24 You must not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 25 You shall not eat it, so that it be well with you and your sons after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.

Re'eh 2nd Aliyah (Deu 12)26 Only your set-apart gifts which you will have, and your vowed

offerings, you shall take and go to the place which יהוה chooses. 27 And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of יהוה your Elohim. And the blood of your offerings must be poured out on the altar of יהוה your Elohim, and you may eat the meat.


28 Guard, and hearken to all these words which I command you, that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim.

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 12)29 When יהוה your Elohim cuts off before you the nations which

you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?”

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 12-13)31 You must not worship יהוה your Elohim in that way; for every

abominable act which יהוה hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. 1 Everything I command you that you shall be careful to do it. You shall not add to nor take away from it.

2 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 13)3 and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he

spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,” 4 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for your יהוה your Elohim is trying you to find out if you love יהוהElohim with all your heart and with all your being.

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5 You shall follow יהוה your Elohim and fear him; and you shall guard his mitzvot, listen to his voice, serve him, and cling to him.

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 13)6 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to

death, because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה your Elohim who brought you from the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to seduce you from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 13)7 If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or

the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own being, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, 8 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 13)9 you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not

pardon him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. 10 But you shall certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 11 So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from יהוה your Elohim who brought you out from the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage.

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 13)12 Then all Isra’el will hear and be afraid, and will never again do

such a wicked thing among you. 13 If you hear in one of your cities, which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to dwell in, anyone saying that 14 some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom you have not known),


15 then you shall inquire and search out and ask diligently. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you, 16 you shall certainly smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its livestock with the edge of the sword.


17 Then you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its open street and burn the city and all its plunder with fire as a whole burnt offering to יהוה your Elohim; and it shall be a tel forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

Re'eh 3rd Aliyah (Deu 13)18 Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your

hand, in order that יהוה may turn from his burning displeasure and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as he has sworn to your fathers, 19 if you will listen to the voice of יהוה your Elohim, keeping all his mitzvot which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of יהוה your Elohim.

Re'eh 4th Aliyah (Deu 14)1 You are the children of יהוה your Elohim. You shall neither cut

yourselves nor shave your forehead for the dead, 2 for you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim, and יהוה has chosen you to be a treasured people for his own possession out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Re'eh 4th Aliyah (Deu 14)4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep,

the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. 6 And any beast that has a split hoof and has a hoof divided into two hoof sections and chews the cud among the beasts that you may eat.

Re'eh 4th Aliyah (Deu 14)7 But you may not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that

have split hooves: the cloven one, as the camel, the hare and the rabbit, for they chew the cud, they do not have split hooves; therefore they are unclean for you. 8 The pig, because it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

Re'eh 4th Aliyah (Deu 14)9 These you may eat of all that are in the water, anything that has

fins and scales you may eat. 10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean for you.

11 You may eat of all clean birds. 12 But these are those from which you may not eat: the eagle or the griffin vulture, and the vulture, and the osprey, 13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the buzzard after its kinds, 14 and every raven after its kind,

Re'eh 4th Aliyah (Deu 14)15 and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the

hawk after their kinds, 16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl, 17 and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the cormorant, 18 and the stork, and the heron and its species, and the hoopoe and the atalef.

19 And every flying insect is unclean for you; they may not be eaten. 20 You may eat any clean bird.

Re'eh 4th-5th Aliyah (Deu 14)21 You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it

to the stranger who is in your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart people to .your Elohim יהוה

You shall not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.22 You shall tithe all the yield from what you sow that the field

brings forth year by year.

Re'eh 5th Aliyah (Deu 14)

23 And you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, in the place where he chooses to establish his Name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine and your oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and and your sheep, so that you may learn to fear יהוה your Elohim always.

Re'eh 5th Aliyah (Deu 14)24 And if the way is too long for you, that you are not able to

bring the tithe (for the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put his Name is too far from you), when יהוה your Elohim blesses you, 25 then you shall exchange it for silver, and take the silver in your hand and go to the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses.

Re'eh 5th Aliyah (Deu 14)26 And you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires:

for cattle, or sheep, wine or strong drink, or whatever your being desires. And you shall eat there before יהוה your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27 And as for the Levi who is in your gates you shall not forsake him, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

Re'eh 5th Aliyah (Deu 14)28 At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of

your increase in that year and store it in your gates. 29 And the Levi (because he has no portion or inheritance with you) and the sojourner, and the fatherless and the widow who are in your gates shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that יהוה your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release of

debts. 2 This is the word of sh’mittah: to release the hand of every creditor from what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not require it of his neighbor and his brother, because s release has been proclaimed. 3 From a foreigner you'יהוהmay require it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother.


4 However, there will be no poor among you, since יהוה will greatly bless you in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance to possess, 5 if only you listen diligently to the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to observe carefully all this mitzvot which I am commanding you today.

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)6 For יהוה your Elohim shall bless you as he has promised you,

and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 7 If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your gates in your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)8 but you shall certainly open your hand to him, and shall

certainly lend him enough for his need in whatever he lacks. 9 Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying: “The seventh year, the year of sh’mittah, is near,” and your eye is evil toward your poor brother, and you give him naught; then he shall cry to יהוה against you, and it shall be a sin in you.

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)10 You shall certainly give to him, and your heart shall not be

grieved when you give to him, because for this reason יהוה your Elohim will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings. 11 For the poor will never cease to be in the land. Therefore I command you, saying: “You shall certainly open your hand to your brother, to your poor and needy in your land.”

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)12 If your brother—a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman—is sold

to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you must send him forth free from you. 13 And when you send him forth free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed. 14 You shall richly supply him from your flock, and from your threshing-floor, and from your winepress. You shall give to him as יהוה has blessed you.

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of

Mitsrayim, and יהוה your Elohim redeemed you. Therefore I am commanding you this word today.

16 And it shall be, if he says to you, "I will not go out from you," because he loves you and your house, for it is good for him with you,

Re'eh 6th Aliyah (Deu 15)17 then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear and

into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

18 It shall not seem hard to you when you send him free from you, for he has given you six years with double the service of a hired servant. And יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in all that you shall do.

Re'eh 7th Aliyah (Deu 15)19 Every firstborn male that is born of your herd and of your flock

you shall sanctify for יהוה your Elohim. You shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 You and your household shall eat it each year before יהוה your Elohim at the place יהוה will choose. 21 And if there be any defect in it, whether it be lame or blind, or has any evil defect, you must not slaughter it to יהוה your Elohim.

Re'eh 7th Aliyah (Deu 15-16)22 You shall eat it in your gates. The unclean and the clean

person may eat it together, as the gazelle or the deer. 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Guard the month of Aviv, and perform the Pesach to יהוה your Elohim, for in the month of Aviv יהוה your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night.

Re'eh 7th Aliyah (Deu 16)2 You shall slaughter the Pesach to יהוה your Elohim from the

flock and the herd, in the place which יהוה will choose to put his Name. 3 You shall not eat hametz with it, for seven days you shall eat with it matzah, even the bread of affliction, for you came out of the land of Mitsrayim in haste—so that you may remember all the days of your life the time when you came out of the land of Mitsrayim.


4 And no yeast shall be seen with you in all your border for seven days. Neither shall any thing of the meat you slaughter on the evening of the first day stay until morning. 5 You must not slaughter the Pesach in any of your gates, which יהוה your Elohim gives you

Re'eh 7th Aliyah (Deu 16)6 except in the place which יהוה, your Elohim will choose to

establish his Name. There you must slaughter the Pesach in the evening, when the sun sets, on the anniversary that you came out of Mitsrayim. 7 And you shall roast and eat it at the place which יהוה your Elohim will choose. And in the morning you are to return to your tents.

Re'eh 7th Aliyah (Deu 16)8 For six days you shall eat matzah and on the seventh day there

shall be a solemn assembly to יהוה your Elohim. You shall do no work on it.

9 You shall count seven weeks for yourself; from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain, you shall begin to count seven weeks.


10 Then you shall perform the Festival of Shavu’ot to יהוה your Elohim with a tribute of the voluntary offering of your hand, which you shall give unto יהוה your Elohim, according to how ADONAI your God has given you.

Re'eh 7th Aliyah (Deu 16)11 And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim—you, and your

son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the L’vi’im who is in your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place which יהוה your Elohim will choose to establish his Name. 12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws.

Re'eh Maftir (Deu 16)13 You shall perform the Festival of Sukkot for seven days after

you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 And you shall rejoice in your festival—you, and your son and your daughter, and your male and female servants, and the L’vi’im, and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

Re'eh Maftir (Deu 16)

15 Seven days you shall observe a festival to יהוה your Elohim in the place which יהוה chooses, because יהוה your Elohim will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.


16 Three times in a year all your males must appear before יהוה your Elohim in the place which he will choose: at the Festival of Matzah, and at the Festival of Shavu‘ot and the Festival of Sukkot. And he shall not appear before יהוה empty-handed:


17 But every man must bring as much as he can afford, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which he has given you.

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