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- These are the statutes and ordinances that you shall keep to perform in the land which the Lord God of your fathers gives you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.
- You shall utterly destroy from all the places where the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods, upon the lofty mountains and upon the hills, and under every lush tree.
- And you shall tear down their altars, smash their monuments, burn their asherim with fire, cut down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name from that place.
- You shall not do so to the Lord, your God.
Devarim is also called “Mishne Torah” literally translated as the “repetition of the Torah.”. Although there are 199 new commandments ( Mitzvos) counted in Devarim, there are many passages that seem only to repeat ideas and Mitzvos mentioned before in the Chumash. The entire giving of the Torah and G-d’s proclaiming to us the ten ...
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Similarly, the name Deuteronomy, meaning “repetition of the law,” reflects the content of the book and is parallel (and perhaps a translation of) the Hebrew title Mishneh Torah, understood as “second Torah.” The term Mishneh Torah appears in Deuteronomy 17:18, where it means “copy of (this) teaching.” This phrase was chosen as the book’s name follo...
But this depiction of Deuteronomy as an interpretation of what preceded is never found in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy instead presents itself as Moses’ final communication in which he is conveying, for the first and only time, all the laws he received at Horeb forty years earlier (5:1-6:1). The only earlier revelation in Deuteronomy is the Decalogue, ...
In short, the book’s self-perception is the opposite of the harmonistic view, reflected in the title Deuteronomy (Mishneh Torah). This harmonistic notion influenced not only the later title of the book, but the Jewish interpretation of a crucial verb as well. Deuteronomy 1:5 reads: “Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab הואיל משה באר this law as fo...
Only once Deuteronomy was appended to the earlier books now in the Torah, and became the final book of the Torah, was the book, and the word באר, understood differently. The fact that Deuteronomy in its present place comes after the book of Numbers and is interpreted as Moses’ speechto the people before his death enables the reader to view this spe...
Devarim, Dvarim, or Debarim ( Hebrew: דְּבָרִים, romanized : Dəwārim, lit. 'things' or 'words') is the 44th weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה, parašāh) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22. The parashah recounts how Moses appointed chiefs ...
The Book of D'varim (Deuteronomy): Full Text. 1:1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy (“Devarim”) is the fifth and last book of the Torah, primarily consisting of Moses’ final speeches ahead of his death. He reminds the Israelites of seminal events that happened in the desert, like the sin of the spies, the giving of the Torah, and the sin of the Golden Calf. He also reviews old laws, introduces new laws to follow as the Israelites enter Israel, and emphasizes ...
The Book of D'varim (Deuteronomy): Chapter 12. 1 These are the statutes and the ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which HaShem, the G-d of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their ...
