H9002–/וְ–v

And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

וְעַתָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.

וְאַתֶּם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֔ים (וּ) u. “and”

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

וּבִ֣ינַתְכֶ֔ם (וּ) u. “and”וְנָב֔וֹן (וְ) ve. “and”

And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

וּמִי֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

וּשְׁמֹ֨ר (וּ) u. “and”וּפֶן־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלִבְנֵ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

וְאַשְׁמִעֵ֖ם (וְ) ve. “so”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

וְהָהָ֞ר (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲרָפֶֽל׃ (וַ) va. “and”

And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

וּתְמוּנָ֛ה (וּ) u. “and”

And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

וְאֹתִ֞י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֑ים (וּ) u. “and”

And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven

וּפֶן־ (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

וְאֶתְכֶם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:

וַֽיהוָ֥ה (וַֽ) va. “and”וּלְבִלְתִּי־ (וּ) u. “and”

But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage.

וְאַתֶּם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

וּבְנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”

May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

וָאֶ֔בֶן (וָ) va. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been

וּלְמִקְצֵ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your

וּבְמוֹפְתִ֜ים (וּ) u. “and”וּבְמִלְחָמָ֗ה (וּ) u. “and”וּבְיָ֤ד (וּ) u. “and”וּבִזְר֣וֹעַ (וּ) u. “and”וּבְמוֹרָאִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּדְבָרָ֥יו (וּ) u. “and”

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

וְתַ֗חַת (וְ) ve. “and”

Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

וַעֲצֻמִ֛ים (וַ) va. “and”