[“TSTL” is our acronym for “Thus Saith the Lord.” Here are verses in the TORAH from two translations: AST/ArtScroll Tanach, and EF/Everett Fox’s The Five Books of Moses.]
Translation 1:
[AST] DEUTERONOMY
4:5-8
See, I have taught you decrees and ordinances, as HaShem my God, has commanded me, to do so in the midst of the Land to which you come, to possess it. You shall safeguard and perform them, for it is your wisdom and discernment in the eyes of the peoples, who shall hear all these decrees and who shall say. “Surely a wise and discerning people is this great nation! “ For which is a great nation that has a God Who is close to it, as is HaShem, our God, whenever we call to Him? And which is a great nation that has righteous decrees and ordinances, such as this entire Torah that I place before you this day?
4:20
But HaShem has taken you and withdrawn you from the iron crucible, from Egypt, to be a nation of heritage for Him, as this very day.
4:33-39
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire as you have heard and survived? Or has any god ever miraculously come to take for himself a nation from amidst a nation, with challenges, with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with greatly awesome deeds, such as everything that HaShem your God, did for you in Egypt before your eyes? You have been shown in order to know that HaShem, He is the God! There is none like Him!
From heaven He caused you to hear His voice in order to teach you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire, because He loved your forefathers, and He chose His offspring after him and took you out before Himself with His great strength form Egypt, to bring you, to give you their land as an inheritance, as this very day. You shall know this day and take to your heart that HaShem, He is the God—in heaven above and the earth below —there is no other.
7:1–
When HaShem, your God, will bring you to the Land to which you come to possess it, and He will thrust away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivvite, and the Jebusite— seven nations greater and mightier than you, and HaShem your God will deliver them before you. . .
7:6-9
For you are a holy people to HaShem, your God; HaShem, your God, has chosen you to be for Him a treasured people above all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. Not because you are more numerous than all the peoples did HaShem desire you and choose you, for you are the fewest of all the peoples. Rather, because of HaShem’s love for you and because He observes the oath that He swore to your forefathers did He take you out and with a strong hand and redeem you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. You must know that HaShem, your God –He is the God, the faithful God, Who safeguards the covenant and the kindness for those who love Him and for those who observe His commandments, for a thousand generations.
9:5-6
Not because of your righteousness and the uprightness of your heart are you coming to possess their Land, but because of the wickedness of these nations does HaShem, your God, drive them away from before you, and in order to establish the word that HaShem swore to your forefathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And you should know that not because of your righteousness does HaShem, your God, give you this good Land to possess it, for you are a stiff-necked people.. Rather, because of HaShem’s love for you and because He observes the oath that He swore to your forefathers did He take you out and with a strong hand and redeem you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. You must know that HaShem, your God –He is the God, the faithful God, Who safeguards the covenant and the kindness for those who love Him and for those who observe His commandments, for a thousand generations.
10:12-17
Now, O Israel, what does HaShem , your God ask of you? Only to fear HaShem, your God, to go in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve HaShem, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, to observe the commandments of HaShem and His decrees, which I command you today, for your benefit. Behold! To HaShem, your God, are the heaven and highest heaven, the earth and everything that is in it. Only your forefathers did HaShem cherish to love them, and He chose their offspring after them–you–from among all the peoples, as this day. You shall cut away the barrier of your heart and no longer stiffen your neck. For HaShem, your God –He is the God of the powers and the Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, Who does not show favor and Who does not accept a bribe.
15: 6
For HaShem, your God, has blessed you as He has told you; you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.
26:16-19
This day, HaShem, your God, commands you to perform these decrees and the statutes, and you shall observe and perform them with all your heart and with all your soul. You have distinguished HaShem today to be a God for you, and to walk in His ways, and to observe His decrees, His commandments, and His statutes, and to hearken to His voice. And HaShem has distinguished you today to be for Him a treasured people, as He spoke to you, and to observe all His commandments, and to make you supreme over all the nations that He made, for praise, for renown,and for splendor, and so that you will be a holy people to Hashem, your God, as He spoke.
28:1-15
And it shall be that if you hearken to the voice of HaShem, your God, to observe, to perform all His commandments that I command you this day, then HaShem, your God, will make you supreme over all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you hearken to the voice of HaShem, your God: Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, and fruit of your animals. . . blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out. HaShem shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you; on one road will they go out toward you and on seven roads will they flee before you. HaShem will command the blessing for you in your storehouse and your every undertaking; and He will bless you in the Land that HaShem, your God, gives you. HaShem will confirm you for Himself as a holy people, as He swore to you—if you observe the commandments of HaShem, your God, and you go in His ways. Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the Name of HaShem is proclaimed over you, and they will revere you.
But it shall be that if you do not hearken to the voice of HaShem, your God, to observe, to perform all His commandments and all His decrees that I command you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you . .
28:64
HaShem will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth to the end of the earth, and there you will work for gods of others, whom you did not know — you or your forefathers — of wood and stone. And among those nations you will not be tranquil, there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; there HaShem will give you a trembling heart, longing of eyes, and suffering of soul.
29:13-14
Not with you alone do I seal this covenant and this imprecation, but with whoever is here, standing with us today before HaShem, our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.
23-28
And all the nations will say, “For what reason did HaShem do so to this Land; why this wrathfulness of great anger? And they will say, “Because they forsook the covenant of HaShem, the God of their forefathers, that He sealed with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt; and they went and served the gods of others and prostrated themselves to them—gods they knew not and He did not apportion to them. So God’s anger flared against that Land, to bring upon it the entire curse that is written in this Book, and HaShem removed them from upon their soil, with anger, with wrath, and with great fury, and He case them to another land, as this very day!”
The hidden [sins] are for HaShem, our God, but the revealed [sins] are for us and our children forever, to carry out all the words of this Torah.
Translation 2: The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox
DEUTERONOMY
4: 5-8
See,
I am teaching you laws and regulations
as YHWH my God has commanded me to do thus,
amid the land that you are entering to possess.
You are to keep (them), you are to observe (them),
for that (will be) wisdom-for-you and understanding-for-you in the eyes of the peoples
who, when they hear all these laws, will say:
Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!
For who (else) is (such) a great nation
that has gods so near to it
as YHWH our God
in all our calling on him?
And who (else) is (such) a great nation
that has laws and regulations so equitable
as all this Instruction
that I put before you today?
20. But you, YHWH took
and brought you out of the Iron Furnace, out of Egypt,
to be for him a people of inheritance, as (is) this (very) day.
33-40
Has a people ever heard the voice of a god speaking from the midst of the fire
as you have heard, yourself,
and remained-alive?
Or has a god ever essayed to come and take himself a nation from within a nation,
with trials, signs, portents and deeds-of-war,
with a strong hand and an outstretched arm
and with great awe-inspiring (acts), according as all that YHWH your God did in Egypt before your eyes?
You yourself have been made-to-see, to know
that YHWH—He is God,
there is none else beside him!
From the heavens he had you hear his voice, to discipline you;
on earth he had you see his great fire,
and his words you heard from the midst of the fire.
Now since he loved your fathers,
he chose their seed after them
and brought you out of his presence with great power from Egypt,
to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you from before you,
by bringing you out, by giving you their land as an inheritance, as (is) this (very) day—
know today and lay it up in your heart,
that YHWH—he is God
in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, (there is) none else!
You are to keep his laws and his commandments that I command you today,
that it may go-well with you and with your children after you,
in order that you may prolong days on the soil
that YHWH your God is giving you,
all the days (to come).
Deuteronomy 7:1-2
When YHWH your God brings you to the land that you are entering to possess,and dislodges great nations before you
—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perrizite, the Hivvite, and the Yevusite–
seven nations more numerous and mightier (in number) than you,
and YHWH your God gives them before you and you strike them down:
you are to devote-them-to-destruction,
you are not to cut with them a covenant, you are not to show-them-mercy!
vss. 6-10
(it is) you (that) YHWH your God chose for him as a treasured people
from among all peoples that are on the face of the soil.
Not because of your being many-more than all the peoples
has YHWH attached himself to you and chosen you,
for you are the least-numerous of all peoples!
Rather, because of YHWH’s love for you
and because of his keeping the sworn-oath that he swore to your fathers
did YHWH take you out, with a strong hand,
and redeem you from a house of serfs,
from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Know
that YHWH your God, he is God,
the trustworthy God,
keeping the covenant of loyalty with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments,
to the thousandth generation,
and paying back those who hate him to his face, by causing them to perish–
he does not delay (punishment) to those who hate him to his face; he pays them back!
9:5-6
Not because of your righteous-merit, or because of the uprightness of your heart, are you entering to possess their land,but rather because of the wickedness of these nations
is YHWH your God dispossessing them from before you,
and in order that he might uphold the word that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzhak, and to Yaakov.
You are to know
that not because of your righteous-merit is YHWH your God giving you this good land to possess, for a people hard of neck are you!
10:12-21
And now, O Israel,what does YHWH your God ask of you
except to hold YHWH your God in awe,
to walk in all his ways
and to love him
and to serve YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your being,
to keep the commandments of YHWH and his laws which I command you today,
to have it go well for you?
Here, HYHWH your God are
the heavens and the heavens of heavens,
the earth and all that is on it!
Only to your fathers was YHWH attached, to love them, so he chose their seed after them,
you, above all (other) peoples, as (is) this (very) day.
So circumcise the foreskin of your heart,
your neck you are not to keep hard anymore;
for YHWH your God,
he is the God of gods and the Lord of lords,
the God great, powerful, and awe-inspiring,
he who lifts up no face (in favor) and takes no bribe,
providing justice (for) orphan and widow,
loving the sojourner, by giving him food and clothing.
So you are to love the sojourner,
for sojourners were you in the land of Egypt;
YHWH your God you are to hold-in-awe,
him you are to srve,
to him you are to cling,
by his name you are to swear!
He is your praise, he is your God,
who did for you these great and awe-inspiring (acts) that your (own) eyes saw.
15:6
indeed, YHWH your God will bless you as he promised you;you will cause many nations to give-pledges,
but you will not (have to) give pledges;
you will rule over many nations,
but over you they shall not rule.
26:16-19
This dayYHWH your God commands you to observe these laws and the regulations;
you are to take care and observe them
with all your heart and with all your being.
YHWH you hae declared today, to be for you a god,
to walk in his ways and to keep his laws, his commandments and his regulations,
and to hearken to his voice.
And YHWH has declared you today, to be for him a specially-treasured people,
as he promised you,
to be-careful (regarding) all his commandment,
and to set you most-high above all the nations that he has made,
for praise, for fame, and for honor, f
or you to be a people holy to YHWH your God,
as he promised.
28:1-15
Now it shall be:if you hearken, yes, hearken to the voice of YHWH your God,
taking-care to observe all his commandments that I command you today,
then YHWH your God will make you most-high
above all the nations of the earth.
Then there will come upon you all these blessings, and overtake you,
since you have hearkened to the voice of YHWH your God:
Blessed be you, in the town,
blessed be you, in the (open) field;
blessed be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your soil, and the fruit of your animals,
the offspring of your cattle and the fecundity of your sheep.
Blessed be your basket and your kneading-bowl.
Blessed be you, in your coming-in,
blessed be you, in your going-out.
May YHWH make your enemies, those that rise against you,
be smitten before you;
by one road they will go out against you,
by seven roads they will flee before you.
YHWH will ordain for you the blessing
in your storehouses,
in all the enterprises of your hand,
and he will bless you in the land that YHWH your God is giving you.
YHWH will establish you to be a people holy to him,
as he swore to you,
when you keep the commandments of YHWH your God
and walk in his ways.
And when all the peoples of the earth see
that the name of YHWH is proclaimed over you,
they will hold you in awe.
YHWH will leave-excess for you of good things,
in the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your animals, and the fruit of your soil,
on the soil that YHWH swore to your father, to give them.
YHWH will open for you his goodly treasuries, the heavens,
by giving the rain of your hand in its set-time,
and by blessing all the doings of your hand;
you will lend to many nations,
but you yourself will to have to take-a-loan.
YHWH will make you the head and not the tail
you will be only top, you will not be bottom, –
—if you hearken to the commandments of YHWH your God
which I command you today, by taking-care and by observing (them),
that you not turn aside from all the words that I command you today,
to the right or to the left,
by walking after other gods, by serving them.
But it shall be:
If you do not hearken to the voice of YHWH your God,
by taking-care and by observing all his commandments and his laws
that I command you today,
then there will come upon you all these curses and overtake you . . .
64 YHWH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the edge of the earth to the (other) edge of the earth; you will serve there other gods, whom you have not known, (either ) you or your fathers, of wood and of stone.
29:13 Not wit you, you alone
do I cut this covenant and this oath,but with the one that is here, standing with us today,
before the presence of YHWH our God,
and (also) with the one that is not here with us today. 23-28 Then shall say all the nations:
For what (reason) did YHWH do thus to this land,
(for) what was this great flaming anger?
And they shall say (in reply):
Because they abandoned the covenant of YHWH the God of their fathers
that he cut with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
they went and served other gods and prostrated-themselves to them,
gods they had not known and that he had not apportioned to them.
So the anger of YHWH flared up against that land,
to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this document.
So YHWH uprooted them from their soil
in anger, wrath, and great fury,
and he cast them into another land, as (is) this day.
The hidden things are for YHWH our God,
but the revealed-things are for us and for our children, for the ages,
to observe all the words of this instruction.
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