Bar’chu et
YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim
melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed
One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe,
you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us Your Torah.
Blessed are YHVH our Elohim – Giver of the Torah – Amein.’)
Deu
23:9 “When the camp goes out (ki tetze – 21:10) against your enemies, then you shall guard
yourself from every evil matter.
(guard -venishmarta - passive – to be safeguarded ie you
will be safeguarded from every evil matter. So it is with those who are called
to the obedience of spiritual warfare.)
Deu
23:10 “When there is any man among you who is not clean because of an
emission in the night, then he shall go outside the camp. Let him not come into
the midst of the camp.
Deu
23:11 “And it shall be, at the approach [b] of evening, that he bathes with water. And when the sun sets let him
come into the midst of the camp. Footnote: bLit. To the face of evening.
Deu
23:12 “And you shall have a place outside the camp, where you shall go
out,
Deu
23:13 and you shall have a sharp implement among your equipment, and when
you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your
excrement.
Deu
23:14 “For יהוה your Elohim walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and
give your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp shall be set-apart, so that
He does not see unclean matter among you, and shall turn away from you.
Miscellaneous
Laws – they are however all connected.
Deu
23:15 “You do not hand over to his master the slave who has escaped from
his master to you.
Deu
23:16 “Let him dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he
chooses within one of your gates, where it is pleasing to him. Do not oppress
(mistreat) him.
Deu
23:17 “None of the daughters of Yisra’ěl is to be a cult prostitute,(kedesha) nor any of the sons of Yisra’ěl
be a cult prostitute. (kadesh)
Deu
23:18 “Do not bring the harlot-fee of a whore or the pay of a dogc to the
House of יהוה your Elohim for any vowed offering, for both of these are an
abomination to יהוה your Elohim. Footnote: cMale prostitute.
Deu
23:19 “Do not lend at interest to your brother, interest of silver,
interest of food, or interest of whatever is lent at interest.
Deu 23:20
“To a foreigner you lend at interest, but to your brother you do not lend at
interest, so that יהוה your Elohim might bless you in all that you put your hand to in
the land which you are entering to possess.
Deu
23:21 “When you make a vow to יהוה your Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for יהוה
your Elohim is certainly requiring it of you, and it shall be sin in you.
Deu
23:22 “But when you abstain from vowing, it is not sin in you.
Deu
23:23 “That which has gone from your lips you shall guard and do, for you
voluntarily vowed to יהוה your Elohim what you have promised with your mouth.
Deu
23:24 “When you come into your neighbour’s vineyard, you shall eat to the
satisfaction of your desire, but do not put any in a receptacle of yours.
Deu
23:25 “When you come into your neighbour’s standing grain, you shall
pluck the heads with your hand, but do not use a sickle on your neighbour’s
standing grain.
Deu
24:1 “When
a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no
favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness [a] in her, and he shall write her a
certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house,
Footnote: aProof that she is not a maiden, indicating that she had previously
been fornicating. See also Mat_5:32 and Mat_19:9.
Deu
24:2 and if she left his house and went and became another man’s
wife,
Deu
24:3 and the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of
divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or when the
latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,
Deu
24:4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her
back to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be an
abomination before יהוה. And do not bring sin on the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as
an inheritance.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan
lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn
ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you Yahweh, our Elohim, King of the Universe,
you have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting life within
our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah Ameyn.)