And now, O Israel, give heed to the laws and rules that I am instructing you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that יהוה, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Observe them faithfully, for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will say, “Surely, that great nation is a wise and discerning people.”
But take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously, so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do not fade from your mind as long as you live. And make them known to your children and to your children’s children:
The day you stood before your God יהוה at Horeb, when יהוה said to me, “Gather the people to Me that I may let them hear My words, in order that they may learn to revere Me as long as they live on earth, and may so teach their children.”
For your own sake, therefore, be most careful—since you saw no shape when יהוה spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire—
Word-by-Word Analysis
ונשמרתם
1036
מאד
45
לנפשתיכם
930
כי
30
לא
31
ראיתם
651
כלתמונה
551
ביום
58
דבר
206
יהוה
26
אליכם
101
בחרב
212
מתוך
466
האש
306
Deuteronomy 4:16
Gematria: 4709
פןתשחתוןועשיתםלכםפסלתמונתכלסמלתבניתזכראונקבה
not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness whatever: the form of a man or a woman, a man or a woman More precisely, “a male or a female.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
פןתשחתון
1294
ועשיתם
826
לכם
90
פסל
170
תמונת
896
כלסמל
180
תבנית
862
זכר
227
או
7
נקבה
157
Deuteronomy 4:17
Gematria: 4645
תבניתכלבהמהאשרבארץתבניתכלצפורכנףאשרתעוףבשמים
the form of any beast on earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Word-by-Word Analysis
תבנית
862
כלבהמה
102
אשר
501
בארץ
293
תבנית
862
כלצפור
426
כנף
150
אשר
501
תעוף
556
בשמים
392
Deuteronomy 4:18
Gematria: 4190
תבניתכלרמשבאדמהתבניתכלדגהאשרבמיםמתחתלארץ
the form of anything that creeps on the ground, the form of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.—
And when you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing down to them or serving them. These your God יהוה allotted to other peoples everywhere under heaven;
Now יהוה was angry with me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan and enter the good land that your God יהוה is assigning you as a heritage.
Take care, then, not to forget the covenant that your God יהוה concluded with you, and not to make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, against which your God יהוה has enjoined you.
Word-by-Word Analysis
השמרו
551
לכם
90
פןתשכחו
864
אתברית
1013
יהוה
26
אלהיכם
106
אשר
501
כרת
620
עמכם
170
ועשיתם
826
לכם
90
פסל
170
תמונת
896
כל
50
אשר
501
צוך
116
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
Deuteronomy 4:24
Gematria: 753
כייהוהאלהיךאשאכלההואאלקנאפ
For your God יהוה is a consuming fire, an impassioned God.
When you have begotten children and children’s children and are long established in the land, should you act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, causing your God יהוה displeasure and vexation,
I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you that you shall soon perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you shall not long endure in it, but shall be utterly wiped out.
You have but to inquire about bygone ages that came before you, ever since God created humankind on earth, from one end of heaven to the other: has anything as grand as this ever happened, or has its like ever been known?
Word-by-Word Analysis
כי
30
שאלנא
382
לימים
130
ראשנים
601
אשרהיו
522
לפניך
190
למןהיום
181
אשר
501
ברא
203
אלהיםאדם
131
עלהארץ
396
ולמקצה
271
השמים
395
ועדקצה
275
השמים
395
הנהיה
75
כדבר
226
הגדול
48
הזה
17
או
7
הנשמע
465
כמהו
71
Deuteronomy 4:33
Gematria: 3536
השמעעםקולאלהיםמדברמתוךהאשכאשרשמעתאתהויחי
Has any people heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have, and survived?
Or has any deity ventured to go and take one nation from the midst of another by prodigious acts, by signs and portents, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and awesome power, as your God יהוה did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
Word-by-Word Analysis
או
7
הנסה
120
אלהים
86
לבוא
39
לקחת
538
לו
36
גוי
19
מקרב
342
גוי
19
במסת
502
באתת
803
ובמופתים
584
ובמלחמה
131
וביד
22
חזקה
120
ובזרוע
291
נטויה
80
ובמוראים
305
גדלים
87
ככל
70
אשרעשה
876
לכם
90
יהוה
26
אלהיכם
106
במצרים
382
לעיניך
190
Deuteronomy 4:35
Gematria: 1898
אתההראתלדעתכייהוההואהאלהיםאיןעודמלבדו
It has been clearly demonstrated to you ” that יהוה alone is God; there is none else.
Translation Notes
*It has been clearly demonstrated to you — Lit. “You have been shown to know.
From the heavens [God] let you hear the divine voice to discipline you; on earth [God] let you see the great divine fire; and from amidst that fire you heard God’s words.
And having loved your ancestors, [God] chose their heirs after them; [God] personally note at Exod. 33.14. —in great, divine might—led you out of Egypt,
Translation Notes
*[God] personally — Lit. “with His face (or: Presence)”; cf.
to drive from your path nations greater and more populous than you, to take you into their land and assign it to you as a heritage, as is still the case.
Observe God’s laws and commandments, which I enjoin upon you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may long remain in the land that your God יהוה is assigning to you for all time.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ושמרת
946
אתחקיו
525
ואתמצותיו
959
אשר
501
אנכי
81
מצוך
156
היום
61
אשר
501
ייטב
31
לך
50
ולבניך
118
אחריך
239
ולמען
196
תאריך
631
ימים
100
עלהאדמה
155
אשר
501
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
נתן
500
לך
50
כלהימיםפ
235
Deuteronomy 4:41
Gematria: 2802
אזיבדילמשהשלשעריםבעברהירדןמזרחהשמש
Then Moses set aside three cities on the east side of the Jordan
to which [a man] [a man] Like all ancient Near Eastern law collections, the Torah’s laws are illustrative rather than comprehensive. Its asylum schema does not appear to treat the case of a woman who kills someone, which would have been more complicated. who has killed someone who has killed someone I.e., regardless of intent to kill, or of the victim’s gender; trad. “manslayer.” could escape, one who unwittingly slew another without having been an enemy in the past; he could flee to one of thes
Bezer, in the wilderness in the Tableland, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth, in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan, in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אתבצר
693
במדבר
248
בארץ
293
המישר
555
לראובני
299
ואתראמת
1048
בגלעד
109
לגדי
47
ואתגולן
496
בבשן
354
למנשי
430
Deuteronomy 4:44
Gematria: 2989
וזאתהתורהאשרשםמשהלפניבניישראל
This is the Teaching that Moses set before the Israelites:
beyond the Jordan, in the valley at Beth-peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated after they had left Egypt.