## Deuteronomy Chapter 32

###### Deuteronomy 32:1
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הַאֲזִ֥ינוּ הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָהוְתִשְׁמַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ אִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Hearken, O heaven as I declare, let the earth hear my mouth’s sayings.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Listen, O heavens, and I shall speak, and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth [wherewith I am forewarning Israel, and be witnesses to the fact that I told them you would be my witnesses (see 30:19). (If they are meritorious, the heavens and the earth will give them their bounty; if not, they will withhold it.)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:2
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יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔יתִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁאוְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Let my instruction flow like rainfall, let my saying drip like dew; like storm winds on verdure, and like raindrops on grass.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[This is what you shall testify, that I say before you that the Torah that I gave to Israel is life to the world, just as rain is.] My teaching [i.e., Torah] shall drip as the rain; My word shall flow as the dew, [which is universally welcome], as winds upon the herbage, [which cause it to flourish (so Torah causes its disciples to flourish)], as showers upon the [(individual) blades] of grass.


###### Deuteronomy 32:3
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כִּ֛י שֵׁ֥ם יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑אהָב֥וּ גֹ֖דֶל לֵאלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When I pronounce the name of Adonoy, give greatness to our God,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
because I will call on the name of the Lord: ascribe greatness to our God.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When I call the name of the L-rd, ascribe greatness to our G-d [(whence it is derived that after a blessing in the Temple, the response is "Blessed is the name of the glory of His kingdom" (Baruch shem kevod malchutho)].


###### Deuteronomy 32:4
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הַצּוּר֙ תָּמִ֣ים פׇּֽעֳל֔וֹכִּ֥י כׇל־דְּרָכָ֖יו מִשְׁפָּ֑ט אֵ֤ל אֱמוּנָה֙ וְאֵ֣ין עָ֔וֶלצַדִּ֥יק וְיָשָׁ֖ר הֽוּא׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
The Almighty’s works are flawless, for all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The Rock [Even when He is strong (as a rock), when He brings punishment upon the flouters of His will] — perfect, [in absolute accord with justice] is His work, for all of His ways are judgment [and not blind fury]. He is a G-d of trust [to repay the righteous in the world to come], without wrong [even to the wicked. He repays their deeds of righteousness in this world.] He is [pronounced] righteous [i.e., All vindicate His judgment], and it is fit [that they do so].


###### Deuteronomy 32:5
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שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑םדּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Destructiveness does not affect Him, it is the defect of His children; a generation warped and twisted.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Not his the corruption, but the blemish of his sons: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They have corrupted [themselves], not Him. [They were] His sons, [and the corruption that they wrought is] their blemish [and not His] — a crooked and twisted generation!


###### Deuteronomy 32:6
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הַ לְיְהֹוָה֙¹ תִּגְמְלוּ־זֹ֔אתעַ֥ם נָבָ֖ל וְלֹ֣א חָכָ֑ם הֲלוֹא־הוּא֙ אָבִ֣יךָ קָּנֶ֔ךָה֥וּא עָשְׂךָ֖ וַֽיְכֹנְנֶֽךָ׃

footnotes:
¹ (בספרי תימן הַֽלְיהֹוָה֙ בתיבה אחת)

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Is it with Adonoy that you deal this way? base people lacking wisdom. Is He not your Father, who made you His? He made you and gave you a base.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that bought thee? has he not made thee, and established thee?

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would you thus requite the L-rd, [who has the power to exact punishment of you, and who accorded you all manner of good?] Ignorant people, [who forgot all that was done to them], and not wise [to foresee consequences, it being in His power to do good and ill]. Is He not your father, your provider? He made you [a nation among nations], and He established you [securely].


###### Deuteronomy 32:7
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זְכֹר֙ יְמ֣וֹת עוֹלָ֔ם בִּ֖ינוּ שְׁנ֣וֹת דֹּר־וָדֹ֑רשְׁאַ֤ל אָבִ֙יךָ֙ וְיַגֵּ֔דְךָ זְקֵנֶ֖יךָ וְיֹ֥אמְרוּ לָֽךְ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Remember world history, study the generational epochs. Ask your father and he will relate to you, your elders and they will tell you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Remember the days of old consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will recount it to thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Remember the days of yore [i.e., what He did to the first ones who angered Him]; reflect upon the years of [the] generation [of Enosh, which He flooded with Oceanus], and [the] generation [of the flood]. Ask your father [the prophets], and he shall tell you; your elders [the sages], and they will relate it [the early happenings] to you.


###### Deuteronomy 32:8
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בְּהַנְחֵ֤ל עֶלְיוֹן֙ גּוֹיִ֔םבְּהַפְרִיד֖וֹ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָ֑ם יַצֵּב֙ גְּבֻלֹ֣ת עַמִּ֔יםלְמִסְפַּ֖ר בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When the Exalted One bequeathed nations, when He set apart the sons of man; He established the boundaries of peoples according to the number of Bnei Yisroel.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Yisra᾽el.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When the Most High caused [the] nations [who angered Him] to "inherit," [He inundated them]; when He separated the sons of man [i.e., when He scattered the generation of the Tower of Babel (dor haflagah), He could have removed them from the world; but He did not do so. Instead,] He set the bounds [(seventy tongues)] of the peoples [He established them and did not cause them to go lost], for the sake of the number of the children of Israel [that were destined to go forth from the children of Shem, and in accordance with the number of seventy souls of the children of Israel who went down to Egypt.]


###### Deuteronomy 32:9
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כִּ֛י חֵ֥לֶק יְהֹוָ֖ה עַמּ֑וֹיַעֲקֹ֖ב חֶ֥בֶל נַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Because [of] Adonoy’s portion, His people, Yaakov the cable of His heritage.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the Lord’s portion is his people; Ya῾aqov is the lot of his inheritance.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And why all this?] For the portion of the L-rd [was secreted among them and destined to come forth. And who is His "portion"?] — His people. [And who is His people?] Jacob, the cord of His inheritance, [the third cord of a three-fold cord (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), Jacob and his sons being His inheritance (not Ishmael, the son of Abraham, and not Esav, the son of Isaac.)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:10
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יִמְצָאֵ֙הוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִדְבָּ֔רוּבְתֹ֖הוּ יְלֵ֣ל יְשִׁמֹ֑ן יְסֹבְבֶ֙נְהוּ֙ יְב֣וֹנְנֵ֔הוּיִצְּרֶ֖נְהוּ כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
He found them in a wilderness country, in arid, shrieking desolation. He encircled them around, He granted them understanding, He sheltered them like the pupil of His eye.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He found them [(Jacob's sons) faithful unto Him] in a desert land, [Israel accepting His Torah, His kingdom, and His yoke, as opposed to Ishmael and Esav (see 33:2)], and in a wasteland, howling [with jackals, etc.] and desolate. [(Even there they were steadfast in their faith.)] [There] He surrounded them [with clouds, and with standards on four sides, and with the base of the mountain (Sinai), arching it over them like a barrel], He invested them [with Torah and understanding]. He protected them [from fiery serpents, scorpions, and the nations] like the pupil of His eye.


###### Deuteronomy 32:11
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כְּנֶ֙שֶׁר֙ יָעִ֣יר קִנּ֔וֹ עַל־גּוֹזָלָ֖יו יְרַחֵ֑ףיִפְרֹ֤שׂ כְּנָפָיו֙ יִקָּחֵ֔הוּ יִשָּׂאֵ֖הוּ עַל־אֶבְרָתֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Like an eagle who rouses his nest, fluttering over his young, He extends His wings, grasps them, He bears them on His wing.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
As an eagle stirs up her nest, broods over her young, spreads abroad her wings takes them, bears them on her pinions:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[He led them with mercy and compassion,] as an eagle [by soft motions] awakes its nest, hovering over its fledglings [and not bearing down upon them. (Likewise, the Holy One Blessed be He, in giving Israel the Torah, did not "bear down upon them" from one side, but "projected Himself" from four sides)], spreading its wings and taking them, bearing them on its pinion [from place to place, unlike other birds, who take their young in their talons, fearing the eagle who flies above them. Not so the eagle, which fears no other birds, but only projectiles, from which it shields its fledglings with its body.) The L-rd, likewise, "shielded" Israel at the Red Sea (See Exodus 19:4 and 14: 19-20)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:12
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יְהֹוָ֖ה בָּדָ֣ד יַנְחֶ֑נּוּוְאֵ֥ין עִמּ֖וֹ אֵ֥ל נֵכָֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy conducted them alone, without [opposition by] alien gods.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The L-rd led them [in the desert], alone [and secure], and there was no power [in any of the] strange [i.e., the nations' gods] against them.


###### Deuteronomy 32:13
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יַרְכִּבֵ֙הוּ֙ עַל־[בָּ֣מֳתֵי] (במותי) אָ֔רֶץוַיֹּאכַ֖ל תְּנוּבֹ֣ת שָׂדָ֑י וַיֵּנִקֵ֤הֽוּ דְבַשׁ֙ מִסֶּ֔לַעוְשֶׁ֖מֶן מֵחַלְמִ֥ישׁ צֽוּר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
He shall transport them over the summit of the earth where they will consume the produce of the fields; and He shall nurture them with honey of bedrock and oil of staunchest rock mass.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the fields; and he made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He made him ride on the high places of the earth [(Eretz Yisrael is the highest of all the lands)], and he ate the shoots of the field [(The fruits of Eretz Yisrael "shoot up" faster than all others)]. And He gave him to suck [fig-] honey from the rock, and oil from the flint of the rock [(These are the olives of Gush Chalav.)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:14
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חֶמְאַ֨ת בָּקָ֜ר וַחֲלֵ֣ב צֹ֗אןעִם־חֵ֨לֶב כָּרִ֜ים וְאֵילִ֤ים בְּנֵֽי־בָשָׁן֙ וְעַתּוּדִ֔יםעִם־חֵ֖לֶב כִּלְי֣וֹת חִטָּ֑ה וְדַם־עֵנָ֖ב תִּשְׁתֶּה־חָֽמֶר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Butter-fat of cattle and milk of sheep with the fat of lambs, and rams native to Bashan and goats, with the fat of wheat kidneys, and the wine-flavored blood of the grapes will you drink.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink wine of the pure blood of the grape.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Cream from the herd and milk from the flock [(as transpired in the days of Solomon (I Kings 5:2-3)], with fat of lambs [(as transpired in the days of the ten tribes (Amos 6:4)], and [fat] rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with wheat [as fat as] the fat of kidneys [(as transpired in the days of Solomon (I Kings 5:2)], and blood of the grape did you drink [as choice] wine [(as transpired in the days of the ten tribes (Amos 6:6)].


###### Deuteronomy 32:15
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וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ן יְשֻׁרוּן֙ וַיִּבְעָ֔ט שָׁמַ֖נְתָּ עָבִ֣יתָ כָּשִׂ֑יתָוַיִּטֹּשׁ֙ אֱל֣וֹהַּ עָשָׂ֔הוּ וַיְנַבֵּ֖ל צ֥וּר יְשֻׁעָתֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Yeshurun grew fat and rebelled, you grew fat, you have become thick, and are covered with fat; he forsook the God who made him, he insulted the Rock of his salvation.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked: thou art grown fat, thou art become thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Yeshurun grew fat and it kicked. You grew fat, you grew thick, you were covered [with fat], and he forsook the G-d who made him and abased the Rock of his salvation [see Ezekiel 8:16].


###### Deuteronomy 32:16
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יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They incited His vengeance with strangers, with loathsomeness did they spite Him.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They provoked Him with strange [gods]; they angered Him with abominations [like sodomy and necromancy].


###### Deuteronomy 32:17
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יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּםחֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They slaughtered to ineffectual demons, gods they did not know; novelties, lately arrived—your forefathers were not awed by them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They sacrificed to powerless spirits; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They sacrificed to demons, which availed naught [(If there were some utility to them, His anger would not be "doubled" as it is now)], (to) gods they had not known, new ones, newly come, [who were unknown even to the heathens, (who thought them to be Jewish images)] — your fathers had not dreaded them.


###### Deuteronomy 32:18
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צ֥וּר יְלָדְךָ֖ תֶּ֑שִׁי וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֵ֥ל מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
the Rock Who bore you, you disregarded; you forsook the Almighty Who delivered you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Of the Rock that begot thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The Rock of your birth you forgot; and you forgot the G-d who brought you forth [from the womb].


###### Deuteronomy 32:19
[Deuteronomy 32:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:19)

וַיַּ֥רְא יְהֹוָ֖ה וַיִּנְאָ֑ץ מִכַּ֥עַס בָּנָ֖יו וּבְנֹתָֽיו׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy saw and was angered, by the spite of His sons and His daughters.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provocation of his sons, and of his daughters.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the L-rd saw and He thrust away in anger His sons and His daughters.


###### Deuteronomy 32:20
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וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אַסְתִּ֤ירָה פָנַי֙ מֵהֶ֔ם אֶרְאֶ֖ה מָ֣ה אַחֲרִיתָ֑םכִּ֣י ד֤וֹר תַּהְפֻּכֹת֙ הֵ֔מָּה בָּנִ֖ים לֹא־אֵמֻ֥ן בָּֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
He said, ‘‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are an upsetting generation, sons who are devoid of breeding.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And He said: I shall hide My face from them. I shall see what their end shall be. For they are a generation of conversion [They convert My favor to anger], sons in whom there is no rearing [i.e., in whom My rearing is not evident, I, having reared them to good, and they, having departed from it.]


###### Deuteronomy 32:21
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הֵ֚ם קִנְא֣וּנִי בְלֹא־אֵ֔ל כִּעֲס֖וּנִי בְּהַבְלֵיהֶ֑םוַֽאֲנִי֙ אַקְנִיאֵ֣ם בְּלֹא־עָ֔ם בְּג֥וֹי נָבָ֖ל אַכְעִיסֵֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They have incited Me to vengeance with a non-god—have spited Me with their idols; and I will incite them with a non-people, I shall anger them with a faithless nation.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They have moved me to jealousy with a no god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with a no people; I will provoke them to anger with a vile nation.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They have incited Me with a no-god; they have angered Me with their vanities. And I will incite them with a no-people [i.e., a people of no repute (viz. Isaiah 23:13; Ovadiah 1:2)]. With a base nation [i.e., the heretics (viz. Psalms 14:1)] will I anger them.


###### Deuteronomy 32:22
[Deuteronomy 32:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:22)

כִּי־אֵשׁ֙ קָדְחָ֣ה בְאַפִּ֔י וַתִּיקַ֖ד עַד־שְׁא֣וֹל תַּחְתִּ֑יתוַתֹּ֤אכַל אֶ֙רֶץ֙ וִֽיבֻלָ֔הּ וַתְּלַהֵ֖ט מוֹסְדֵ֥י הָרִֽים׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For a fire shall blaze in My anger, that will burn till the lowest grave; it shall consume the land and its produce, and enflame the bases of mountains.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the nethermost parts of the earth, and shall consume the earth with its produce, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For a fire has been kindled in My wrath, and it shall burn [in you] to the nethermost pit [the foundation], and it shall consume the land [i.e., your land] and its produce, and it shall set ablaze the foundations of the mountains [i.e., Jerusalem, which is founded on the mountains].


###### Deuteronomy 32:23
[Deuteronomy 32:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:23)

אַסְפֶּ֥ה עָלֵ֖ימוֹ רָע֑וֹת חִצַּ֖י אֲכַלֶּה־בָּֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
I shall amass iniquity against them, I shall deplete my arrows against them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows on them.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I will join evils [i.e., evil upon evil] upon them. I will end [all of] My arrows in them [(— but they themselves will not end)].


###### Deuteronomy 32:24
[Deuteronomy 32:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:24)

מְזֵ֥י רָעָ֛ב וּלְחֻ֥מֵי רֶ֖שֶׁף וְקֶ֣טֶב מְרִירִ֑יוְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמֹת֙ אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּ֔ם עִם־חֲמַ֖ת זֹחֲלֵ֥י עָפָֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Bloated with hunger, and embattled with demons and slashed by Meriri; and the teeth of animals will I send against them along with the venom of dust-crawlers.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
They shall be sucked empty by hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
(They will be) hairy with hunger and embattled by reshef [demons] and cut down by Meriri [a demon]. And the tooth of beasts will I send against them [(as it, indeed, happened, that the bite of lambs caused death)], with the venom of the crawlers in the dust [i.e., the serpents].


###### Deuteronomy 32:25
[Deuteronomy 32:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:25)

מִחוּץ֙ תְּשַׁכֶּל־חֶ֔רֶב וּמֵחֲדָרִ֖ים אֵימָ֑ה גַּם־בָּחוּר֙ גַּם־בְּתוּלָ֔ה יוֹנֵ֖ק עִם־אִ֥ישׁ שֵׂיבָֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
From without, the sword shall decimate, and from within chambers, terror; both lad and lass, suckling and aged man.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
On the outside [of the city] the sword [of legions] shall devour [them], and in the chambers [of their hearts, when they flee], fright [will pound, eventually killing them], both young man and virgin, suckling and the man of gray hairs.


###### Deuteronomy 32:26
[Deuteronomy 32:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:26)

אָמַ֖רְתִּי אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם אַשְׁבִּ֥יתָה מֵאֱנ֖וֹשׁ זִכְרָֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
I thought, ‘I shall abandon them,’, I would eliminate from mankind mention of them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I said: I would disclaim them; I would cut off their remembrance from men,


###### Deuteronomy 32:27
[Deuteronomy 32:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:27)

לוּלֵ֗י כַּ֤עַס אוֹיֵב֙ אָג֔וּר פֶּֽן־יְנַכְּר֖וּ צָרֵ֑ימוֹפֶּן־יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ יָדֵ֣נוּ רָ֔מָה וְלֹ֥א יְהֹוָ֖ה פָּעַ֥ל כׇּל־זֹֽאת׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Were it not for the enemy’s amassed rage, lest their oppressors estrange; lest they say, ‘Our armed might has prevailed, and not Adonoy has performed all this.’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
were it not for the heaped up wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misdeem, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord has not done all this.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Were it not that the anger of the foe were stored up [against them to destroy them. And if they did destroy them, they would attribute the victory to themselves and to their gods, and not to Me] — lest their oppressors estrange [i.e., lest they attribute their triumph to a stranger], lest they say: Our hand is exalted, and it is not the L-rd who has wrought all this.


###### Deuteronomy 32:28
[Deuteronomy 32:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:28)

כִּי־ג֛וֹי אֹבַ֥ד עֵצ֖וֹת הֵ֑מָּה וְאֵ֥ין בָּהֶ֖ם תְּבוּנָֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For those nations squander counsel, they lack intelligence.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For it [the foe] is a nation devoid of counsel, and there is no understanding in them, [for]


###### Deuteronomy 32:29
[Deuteronomy 32:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:29)

ל֥וּ חָכְמ֖וּ יַשְׂכִּ֣ילוּ זֹ֑את יָבִ֖ינוּ לְאַחֲרִיתָֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Were they wise they would grasp this, they would contemplate their ending.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If they were wise, they would understand this, they would comprehend their [Israel's] end [i.e., their defeat (as the L-rd's doing and not as theirs). For they would say]


###### Deuteronomy 32:30
[Deuteronomy 32:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:30)

אֵיכָ֞ה יִרְדֹּ֤ף אֶחָד֙ אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׁנַ֖יִם יָנִ֣יסוּ רְבָבָ֑האִם־לֹא֙ כִּֽי־צוּרָ֣ם מְכָרָ֔ם וַֽיהֹוָ֖ה הִסְגִּירָֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
How can one pursue a thousand, and two make ten thousand flee? Unless their Almighty [lit. rock] has dealt them away, and Adonoy has delivered them?

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How should one man chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How could one [of us] pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, if their Rock had not sold them, and the L rd (had not) delivered them [into our hands]!


###### Deuteronomy 32:31
[Deuteronomy 32:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:31)

כִּ֛י לֹ֥א כְצוּרֵ֖נוּ צוּרָ֑ם וְאֹיְבֵ֖ינוּ פְּלִילִֽים׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For their mighty one is not like our Almighty, yet our enemies sit in judgement.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[They should understand this, knowing from past experience] that not as our Rock is their rock, ["their rock" having been entirely powerless against ours], and [now] our foes judge [us! It must be, then, that our Rock has sold us.]


###### Deuteronomy 32:32
[Deuteronomy 32:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:32)

כִּֽי־מִגֶּ֤פֶן סְדֹם֙ גַּפְנָ֔ם וּמִשַּׁדְמֹ֖ת עֲמֹרָ֑העֲנָבֵ֙מוֹ֙ עִנְּבֵי־ר֔וֹשׁ אַשְׁכְּלֹ֥ת מְרֹרֹ֖ת לָֽמוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For their grapevine is of the grapevine of Sedom and from the fields of Amorah; their grapes are grapes of bitter herbs. clusters galling to them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For their vine is of the vine of Sedom, and of the fields of ῾Amora: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
["I said I would disclaim them, etc." (26)], for of the wine of Sodom is their wine, and of the fields of Amorah [i.e., their deeds are those of Sodom and Amorah.] Their grapes are grapes of gall. Bitter clusters are their desert [for their "bitter" deeds].


###### Deuteronomy 32:33
[Deuteronomy 32:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:33)

חֲמַ֥ת תַּנִּינִ֖ם יֵינָ֑ם וְרֹ֥אשׁ פְּתָנִ֖ים אַכְזָֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Like caustic serpents’ venom is their wine, and [like] the gall of adders, cruel.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
their wine is the fierceness of crocodiles, and the cruel venom of asps.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The [bitter] venom of snakes is their wine [of retribution] and the cruel gall of asps [is their cup. A cruel foe will come and exact punishment of them].


###### Deuteronomy 32:34
[Deuteronomy 32:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:34)

הֲלֹא־ה֖וּא כָּמֻ֣ס עִמָּדִ֑י חָת֖וּם בְּאוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Is this not sequestered with Me, sealed in My treasuries.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[They think I have forgotten their deeds, but] is it ["the fruit of their wine and the produce of their fields" (see 32)] not laid up with Me and sealed in My stores!


###### Deuteronomy 32:35
[Deuteronomy 32:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:35)

לִ֤י נָקָם֙ וְשִׁלֵּ֔ם לְעֵ֖ת תָּמ֣וּט רַגְלָ֑םכִּ֤י קָרוֹב֙ י֣וֹם אֵידָ֔ם וְחָ֖שׁ עֲתִדֹ֥ת לָֽמוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Vengeance is with Me, and I shall administer retribution at the time that they shall stumble for the day of their calamity is close by, and destiny speeds towards them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
To me belongs vengeance, and recompense, when their foot slides: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
With Me is [readied] vengeance, and it shall pay them [in accordance with their deeds] at the time their foot gives way [i.e., when they exhaust the merit of their fathers, which is their support]. For readied is the day of their calamity, and what is destined [for them] shall quickly befall them. [(Thus far, Moses' words of chastisement, the song to serve as witness, when retribution comes upon them, that he had forewarned them. There follow his words of consolation, relating to what will befall them after their punishment has been exacted (see 30:1-2)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:36
[Deuteronomy 32:36](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:36)

כִּֽי־יָדִ֤ין יְהֹוָה֙ עַמּ֔וֹ וְעַל־עֲבָדָ֖יו יִתְנֶחָ֑םכִּ֤י יִרְאֶה֙ כִּֽי־אָ֣זְלַת יָ֔ד וְאֶ֖פֶס עָצ֥וּר וְעָזֽוּב׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When Adonoy administers justice against His people and He will reconsider about His servants; when He sees the power surging, and none are structured or fortified.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When the L rd has judged His people [with the aforementioned afflictions], and He repents Himself of His servants, [turning to be merciful to them], seeing that the hand [of the foe] is becoming progressively stronger, and that they (Israel) are bereft of [saving] restraint or strengthening,


###### Deuteronomy 32:37
[Deuteronomy 32:37](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:37)

וְאָמַ֖ר אֵ֣י אֱלֹהֵ֑ימוֹ צ֖וּר חָסָ֥יוּ בֽוֹ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
He shall say, ‘‘Where is their god the rock on which they relied for shelter?

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then He will say [about them]: Where are their gods? The rock in whom they sought shelter,


###### Deuteronomy 32:38
[Deuteronomy 32:38](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:38)

אֲשֶׁ֨ר חֵ֤לֶב זְבָחֵ֙ימוֹ֙ יֹאכֵ֔לוּ יִשְׁתּ֖וּ יֵ֣ין נְסִיכָ֑םיָק֙וּמוּ֙ וְיַעְזְרֻכֶ֔ם יְהִ֥י עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם סִתְרָֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
They ate the fat of their sacrifices, they drank the wine of their libation? Let them arise and help you, let them serve as your shield.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
those that did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them arise and aid you! Let him [the "rock"] be covert for you!


###### Deuteronomy 32:39
[Deuteronomy 32:39](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:39)

רְא֣וּ**׀** עַתָּ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי֙ ה֔וּא וְאֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִ֖ים עִמָּדִ֑יאֲנִ֧י אָמִ֣ית וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶרְפָּ֔אוְאֵ֥ין מִיָּדִ֖י מַצִּֽיל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Now observe! For it is I! I am the One! and no god matches Me; I put to death and make live, I smite and I heal and no one can rescue from My grasp.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
See, now, [from the retribution that I brought upon you and from which none could save you, and from the salvation that I shall bring you, from which none can deter Me], that it is I [for "lowering," and] I [for "lifting"], and there is no god against Me [to deter Me]. I put to death and I bring to life, I smite and I heal, and there is no saving [those who sin against Me] from My hand.


###### Deuteronomy 32:40
[Deuteronomy 32:40](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:40)

כִּֽי־אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶל־שָׁמַ֖יִם יָדִ֑יוְאָמַ֕רְתִּי חַ֥י אָנֹכִ֖י לְעֹלָֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For I shall lift My hand heavenward, and I shall say, ‘I live forever.’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For [in My wrath] I shall raise My hand [in oath] to heaven [i.e., to Myself], and I shall say: As I live forever,


###### Deuteronomy 32:41
[Deuteronomy 32:41](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:41)

אִם־שַׁנּוֹתִי֙ בְּרַ֣ק חַרְבִּ֔יוְתֹאחֵ֥ז בְּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט יָדִ֑י אָשִׁ֤יב נָקָם֙ לְצָרָ֔יוְלִמְשַׂנְאַ֖י אֲשַׁלֵּֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If I whet My saber to a gleam, and hold judgement in My grasp. I shall wreak vengeance on My foes and My spiters will I pay.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I shall whet the flash of My sword and My hand shall take hold of justice, [abandoning mercy for My foes — "for I was wroth (against Israel) but little, and they (Israel's foes) 'assisted' in evil" (Zechariah 1:15)]; I shall return vengeance to My adversaries, and I shall repay those who hate Me.


###### Deuteronomy 32:42
[Deuteronomy 32:42](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:42)

אַשְׁכִּ֤יר חִצַּי֙ מִדָּ֔םוְחַרְבִּ֖י תֹּאכַ֣ל בָּשָׂ֑ר מִדַּ֤ם חָלָל֙ וְשִׁבְיָ֔המֵרֹ֖אשׁ פַּרְע֥וֹת אוֹיֵֽב׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
I shall make My arrows drunk with blood and My saber shall consume flesh; for the blood of the slaughtered and the captives, for the original savagery of the enemy.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives; with the head of the wild bands of the enemy.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I will make My arrows drunk with blood [of the nations], and My sword shall eat [their] flesh, [this, in retribution] for the blood of [Israel's] slain and [their] captivity, [in retribution] for [the sins of] the beginning of the breaches of the foe. [(When the Holy One Blessed be He exacts punishment of the nations, He visits upon them their sins and those of their forefathers, from the very beginning of the breach that they made in Israel.)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:43
[Deuteronomy 32:43](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:43)

הַרְנִ֤ינוּ גוֹיִם֙ עַמּ֔וֹכִּ֥י דַם־עֲבָדָ֖יו יִקּ֑וֹם וְנָקָם֙ יָשִׁ֣יב לְצָרָ֔יווְכִפֶּ֥ר אַדְמָת֖וֹ עַמּֽוֹ׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Let the nations extol His people for He shall avenge the blood of His servants and wreak vengeance on His enemies and reconcile His land, His people.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Rejoice, O nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will forgive his land, and his people.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[At that time] the nations will praise His people [for cleaving to Him in all of their vicissitudes and not forsaking Him, knowing His goodness and His glory]. For, the [shedding of the] blood of His servants shall He avenge, and vengeance shall He return to His adversaries [for their despoiling of Israel], and He will conciliate His land [and] His people [for the suffering they endured and for what the foe did to them. (When His people are consoled, His land is consoled.)]


###### Deuteronomy 32:44
[Deuteronomy 32:44](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:44)

וַיָּבֹ֣א מֹשֶׁ֗ה וַיְדַבֵּ֛ר אֶת־כׇּל־דִּבְרֵ֥י הַשִּׁירָֽה־הַזֹּ֖את בְּאׇזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם ה֖וּא וְהוֹשֵׁ֥עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Moshe came and he spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people; he and Hoshe’a, the son of Nun.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Moshe came and spoke all the words of this poem in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Moses came and he spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun. [Moses invested Joshua with the authority to expound in his (Moses') lifetime in order to raise his stature in the eyes of Israel (but Joshua, nonetheless, persisted in his humility, this, the signification of the reversion to "Hoshea" here, after he had already been granted the eminence of Yehoshua")].


###### Deuteronomy 32:45
[Deuteronomy 32:45](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/32:45)

וַיְכַ֣ל מֹשֶׁ֗ה לְדַבֵּ֛ר אֶת־כׇּל־הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה אֶל־כׇּל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When Moshe finished speaking all these words to all of Yisroel,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And Moshe made an end of speaking all these words to all Yisra᾽el:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And Moses finished speaking all of these things to all of Israel.


###### Deuteronomy 32:46
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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ לְבַבְכֶ֔ם לְכׇ֨ל־הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י מֵעִ֥יד בָּכֶ֖ם הַיּ֑וֹם אֲשֶׁ֤ר תְּצַוֻּם֙ אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם לִשְׁמֹ֣ר לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת אֶת־כׇּל־דִּבְרֵ֖י הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
He said to them, ‘‘Focus your thoughts on all the statements that I am bringing to witness against you today; which you are to command to your sons to guard and to fulfill all the statements of this Torah.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this Tora.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And he said to them: Put your hearts to all of these things which I place as testimony in you this day, which you shall command your children to keep and to do — all the words of this Torah.


###### Deuteronomy 32:47
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כִּ֠י לֹא־דָבָ֨ר רֵ֥ק הוּא֙ מִכֶּ֔ם כִּי־ה֖וּא חַיֵּיכֶ֑ם וּבַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֗ה תַּאֲרִ֤יכוּ יָמִים֙ עַל־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אַתֶּ֜ם עֹבְרִ֧ים אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּ֛ן שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For it is not a futile thing for you, for it is your life; and by this matter will you live long on the land that you are crossing the Yardein there to inherit.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this word you shall prolong your days in the land, into which you go over the Yarden to possess it.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For it is not an empty thing for you [Not in vain do you toil in it; great reward inheres in it]; for it is your life, and by this thing you shall prolong days on the land whither you cross over the Jordan to inherit it.


###### Deuteronomy 32:48
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וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה בְּעֶ֛צֶם הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Adonoy spoke to Moshe at the very height of that day, saying,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And the Lord spoke to Moshe that same day, saying,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And the L-rd spoke to Moses on this very day [(in the middle of the day, so that no one could later say that had he known of it, he would have prevented Moses' departure)] saying:


###### Deuteronomy 32:49
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עֲלֵ֡ה אֶל־הַר֩ הָעֲבָרִ֨ים הַזֶּ֜ה הַר־נְב֗וֹ אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מוֹאָ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֣י יְרֵח֑וֹ וּרְאֵה֙ אֶת־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲנִ֥י נֹתֵ֛ן לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לַאֲחֻזָּֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
‘‘Go up to this Mount Ho’avorim, Mount Nevo, which is in the land of Moav, that faces Yereicho; and see the land of Canaan that I am giving to Bnei Yisroel as inheritance.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Go up into this mount ῾Avarim, to mount Nevo, which is in the land of Mo᾽av, that is facing Yereĥo; and behold the land of Kena῾an, which I give to the children of Yisra᾽el for a possession:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Go up to this Mount Avarim, Mount Nevo, which is in the land of Moav, facing Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel as a holding.


###### Deuteronomy 32:50
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וּמֻ֗ת בָּהָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אַתָּה֙ עֹלֶ֣ה שָׁ֔מָּה וְהֵאָסֵ֖ף אֶל־עַמֶּ֑יךָ כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־מֵ֞ת אַהֲרֹ֤ן אָחִ֙יךָ֙ בְּהֹ֣ר הָהָ֔ר וַיֵּאָ֖סֶף אֶל־עַמָּֽיו׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And die on the mountain upon which you are going up and be gathered unto your people, just as your brother Aharon died in Hor Hohor and was gathered unto his people.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and die in the mount into which thou goest up, and be gathered to thy people; as Aharon thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And die on the mountain which you are ascending, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died [(i.e., with the same kind of death that you witnessed, and which you longed for)], in Hor Hahar, and he was gathered to his people.


###### Deuteronomy 32:51
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עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר מְעַלְתֶּ֜ם בִּ֗י בְּתוֹךְ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּמֵֽי־מְרִיבַ֥ת קָדֵ֖שׁ מִדְבַּר־צִ֑ן עַ֣ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־קִדַּשְׁתֶּם֙ אוֹתִ֔י בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Because you were unfaithful to Me amid Bnei Yisroel at the waters of argument at Kodeish in the Tzin wilderness; because of [the fact] that you did not sanctify Me amid Bnei Yisroel.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
because you transgressed against me among the children of Yisra᾽el at the waters of Merivat-qadesh, in the wilderness of Żin; because you sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Yisra᾽el.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
("And die") because of your having trespassed against Me [i.e., because of your having led to a trespass against Me] in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Merivath Kadesh in the desert of Tzin, because of your not having sanctified Me [i.e., because of your having led to My not being sanctified] in the midst of the children of Israel [see Numbers 20:12].


###### Deuteronomy 32:52
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כִּ֥י מִנֶּ֖גֶד תִּרְאֶ֣ה אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁ֙מָּה֙ לֹ֣א תָב֔וֹא אֶל־הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י נֹתֵ֖ן לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For from afar will you see the land but you will not come there to the land that I am giving to Bnei Yisroel.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go there into the land which I give to the children of Yisra᾽el.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For from afar shall you see the land, [for I know that it is beloved by you], but there you shall not come [(If you do not see it now, you will not see it at all — wherefore I tell you: "Go up … and see, etc."] — to the land that I give to the children of Israel.