THE TORAH – DEUTERONOMY/Chapter by Chapter

[This is a work in progress; simply featuring the translation of Everett Fox’s THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES.  It does not include all the commentaries we usually insert after each verse, from PENTATEUCH AND HAFTORAHS, Everett Fox’s as well as Robert Alter whose translation is the same title as Fox.  We hope we can finish adding the commentary this year, but for now, for the serious student of the TORAH who has no access to Everett Fox’s translation, this is the alternative source.  We do urge all to secure a copy of it, whether by ebook or hard copy, it is worth the cost!—Admin1]

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Deuteronomy/Dabarim

• Revisit: A Literary Approach to the book of Deuteronomy/Davarim
• Deuteronomy/Davarim – Introduction
• Deuteronomy/Davarim: Forgotten in the Kingdom Period
• Revisit: “Choose Life” . . . how?

• Deuteronomy/Davarim 1: “These are the words that Moshe spoke to all Israel “
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 2-3,1-22: “You are not to be afraid of them, for YHVH your God, he is the one who wages-war for you!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 3:23-29/4: “Surely this great nation is a wise and comprehending people.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 4:44-49/ to 5: “Not with our fathers did YHVH cut this covenant, but with us, yes, us, those here today, all of us (that are) alive!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 6: “Hearken O Israel: YHVH our God, YHVH (is) One!”
• Understanding the SHEMA
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 7: “YHVH your God chose for him as a treasured people from among all peoples.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 8: “You must bear-in-mind YHVH your God, that he was the one who gave you the power to produce wealth”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 9: “YHVH your God, he is the one who is crossing over before you, a consuming fire”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 10: ” And now, O Israel, what does YHVH your God ask of you. . .”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 11: “See, I place before you today a blessing or a curse:”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 12: “How do these foreign nations serve their gods?”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 13: “so shall you burn out the evil from your midst!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 14: “3 You are not to eat any abominable-thing!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 15: “However, there will not be among you any needy-person,”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 16: “You are to slaughter the Passover-offering to YHVH your God . . .in the place that YHVH chooses to have his name dwell.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 17: “When you enter the land that YHVH your God is giving you, and you possess it and settle in it, should you say: I will set over me a king like all the nations that are around me . . .”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 18: “How can we know it is the word that YHVH did not speak?”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 19: “the (accidental) murderer who flees there, that he may stay-alive”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 20: “When you draw-near to a town, to wage-war against it, you are to call out to it terms-of-peace.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 21: “you are not to leave his carcass overnight on the stake, rather, you are bury him on that (very) day, for an insult to God is a hanging-person “
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 22: “There is not to be a man’s item on a woman, a man is not to clothe himself in the garment of a woman, for an abomination to YHVH your God is anyone doing these!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 23: ‘Kindness must not be abused.’
• Revisit: Deuteronomy/Davarim 24: Immorality defiles the land.
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 25: “you are to blot out the name of Amalek from under the heavens; you are not to forget!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 26: Recognition of God is the Source of All Blessings
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 27: First duty in the Land: build an altar to YHWH
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 28: “And it will come to pass . . . IF . . .”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 29: “But YHVH has not given you a mind to know or eyes to see or ears to hear, until this day.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 30: “Rather, near to you is the word, exceedingly, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 31: “Here, you are about to lie beside your fathers”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 32: “at-a-distance you shall see the land, but there you shall not enter”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 33: “who is like you, a people delivered by YHVH”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 34: “But there arose no further prophet in Israel like Moshe, whom YHVH knew face to face”