## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 301

###### Sifrei Devarim 301:1
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(דברים כו ה) **וְעָנִיתָ וְאָמַרְתָּ**, נֶאֱמַר כָּאן עֲנִיָּה וְנֶאֱמַר לְהַלָּן עֲנִיָּה, מַה עֲנִיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה לְהַלָּן בִּלְשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ אַף עֲנִיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה כָּאן בִּלְשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 26:5) "And you shall answer": "answer" is written here, and elsewhere (*Ibid*. 27:14): Just as there, in the holy tongue; here, too, in the holy tongue. "And you shall answer and you shall say":


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:2
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מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: בָּרִאשׁוֹנָה כָּל מִי שֶׁהוּא יוֹדֵעַ לִקְרוֹת קוֹרֵא, וְשֶׁאֵינוֹ יוֹדֵעַ לִקְרוֹת מַקְרִים אוֹתוֹ. נִמְנְעוּ מִלְּהָבִיא. הִתְקִינוּ שֶׁיְּהוּ מַקְרִים אֶת הַיּוֹדֵעַ וְאֶת מִי שֶׁאֵינוֹ יוֹדֵעַ. סָמְכוּ עַל הַמִּקְרָא: **וְעָנִית**, אֵין עֲנִיָּה אֶלָּא מִפִּי אֲחֵרִים.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
From here they said: In the beginning, whoever could recite the formula (by himself) did so, whoever could not, recited after another — whereupon they stopped bringing *bikkurim* (to avoid embarrassment). It was, therefore, ordained to have one who knew how (to recite it) do so; and for those who did not know how to recite it, they relied on "and you shall answer" — "answering" is in response to another.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:3
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**וְאָמַרְתָּ לִפְנֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֲרַמִּי אֹבֵד אָבִי**, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁלֹּא יָרַד אָבִינוּ יַעֲקֹב לַאֲרָם אֶלָּא עַל מְנָת לֵאָבֵד, וּמַעֲלֶה עַל לָבָן הָאֲרַמִּי כְּאִלּוּ אִבְּדוֹ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and you shall say before the L-rd your G-d: 'An Aramean would destroy my father'": We are hereby apprised that Jacob went down to Aram to his own destruction, and Scripture accounts it to Lavan the Aramite as if he had destroyed him, (this having been his intention).


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:4
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**וַיֵּרֶד מִצְרַיְמָה**, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁלֹּא יָרַד לְהִשְׁתַּקֵּעַ אֶלָּא לָגוּר שָׁם, שֶׁמָּא תֹּאמַר שֶׁיָּרַד לִטֹּל כֶּתֶר מַלְכוּת, תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **וַיָּגָר שָׁם**. יָכוֹל בְּאוּכְלוּסִים הַרְבֵּה, תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **בִּמְתֵי מְעָט**, כָּעִנְיָן שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברים י כב): ״בְּשִׁבְעִים נֶפֶשׁ יָרְדוּ אֲבוֹתֶיךָ מִצְרָיְמָה״.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and he went down to Egypt": Lest you say he went down to receive the crown of kingdom; it is, therefore, written "*vayagar sham*": We are hereby apprised that he went down there only to sojourn ("*lagur*") there. And thus is it written (Bereshith 47:4) "And they said to Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land did we come. For there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. And now, let your servants abide in the land of Goshen.'" I might think, in great numbers; it is, therefore, written "in scant number," viz. (Devarim 10:22) "With seventy souls did your fathers go down to Egypt."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:5
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**וַיְהִי שָׁם לְגוֹי גָּדוֹל**, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁהָיוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל מְצֻיָּנִים שָׁם.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and he became there a nation": We are hereby apprised that Israel was distinctive there.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:6
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**וַיַּרְא אֶת עָנְיֵנוּ**, כְּמָה שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שם א טז): ״וּרְאִיתֶן עַל הָאָבְנָיִם״.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
("and he saw our pain": as it states (*Exodus 1:16*): "And you see on the birthstool..."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:7
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**וְאֶת עֲמָלֵנוּ**, כְּמָה שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שמות א כב): ״כָּל הַבֵּן הַיִּלּוֹד הַיְאֹרָה תַּשְׁלִיכֻהוּ״ וְכוּ׳.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and our toil": as it states (*Exodus 1:22*): Every son that is born shall you cast in the river". Aggadah).


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:8
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[גדול ועצום. כמה שנאמר, ובני ישראל פרו וישרצו וירבו ויעצמו במאד מאד, ותמלא הארץ אותם.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"great and mighty": as it is written (Shemoth 1:7) "And the children of Israel were fruitful and teemed and multiplied and became exceedingly strong, and the land was filled with them."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:9
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ורב. כמה שנאמר, רבבה כצמח השדה נתתיך, ותרבי ותגדלי ותבאי בעדי עדיים וגו'].

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and populous": as it is written (Ezekiel 16:7) "I made you as numerous as the plants of the field; you increased and grew, and you entered the prime, etc."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:10
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וירעו אותנו המצרים. כמ"ש הבה נתחכמה לו פן ירבה, והיה כי תקראנה מלחמה וגו'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*. 6) "And Egypt wrought evil unto us": as it is written (Shemoth 1:10) "Come, let us outsmart it, lest it become numerous, and it be, that if a war break out, etc."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:11
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ויענונו. כמ"ש וישימו עליו שרי מסים למען ענותו בסבלותם, ויבן ערי מסכנות לפרעה וגו'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and they afflicted us": as it is written (*Ibid*. 11) "And they appointed taskmasters over it in order to afflict it with their toils, and they built treasure cities for Pharaoh."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:12
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ויתנו עלינו עבודה קשה. כמ"ש ויעבידו מצרים את בני ישראל בפרך, וימררו את חייבם בעבודה קשה בחומר ובלבנים ובכל עבודה בשדה, את כל עבודתם אשר עבדו בהם בפרך.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and they placed us under hard labor": as it is written (*Ibid*. 1:13-14) "And Egypt worked the children of Israel with (back-) breaking labor. And they embittered their lives with hard toil: with mortar, and with brick, and with all the labor of the field; all of the labor with which they worked them was (back-) breaking."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:13
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ונצעק אל ה' א-להי אבותינו. כמ"ש ויהי בימים הרבים ההם וימת מלך מצרים, ויאנחו בני ישראל מן העבודה ויזעקו וגו'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*. 7) "And we cried out to the L-rd, the G-d of our fathers": as it is written (Shemoth 2:23) "And it was in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel moaned under the toil, and they cried out, etc."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:14
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וישמע ה' את קולנו. כמ"ש וישמע א-להים את נאקתם וגו'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and the L-rd heard our voices": as it is written (Shemoth, *Ibid*. 24) "And G-d heard their outcry."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:15
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וירא את ענינו. זו פרישות דרך ארץ, כמ"ש וירא א-להים את בני ישראל וידע א-להים.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"And He saw *our affliction*": This refers to (enforced) separation from conjugal relations, as it is written (Shemoth, *Ibid*. 25) "… and G-d saw the children of Israel, and G-d knew (i.e., He "took it to heart.")


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:16
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ואת עמלנו. אלו הבנים, כמ"ש כל הבן הילוד היאורה תשליכהו וכל הבת תחיון.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and our *toil*": the children, viz. (Shemoth 1:22) "Every son that is born, into the Nile shall you throw him, and every daughter shall you keep alive."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:17
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ואת לחצנו. זו הדחק, כמ"ש וגם ראיתי את הלחץ אשר מצרים לוחצים אותם.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and our *lachatz*": This is oppression, viz. (Shemoth 3:9): "and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:18
[Sifrei Devarim 301:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/301:18)

ויוציאנו ה'. לא ע"י מלאך ולא ע"י שרף ולא ע"י שליח, כמה שנאמר ועברתי בארץ מצרים בלילה הזה והכיתי וגו'. ועברתי בארץ מצרים, אני ולא מלאך. והכיתי כל בכור, אני ולא שרף. ובכל אלהי מצרים אעשה שפטים, אני ולא השליח. אני ה'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*. 8) "And the L-rd took us out": not through an angel, and not through a seraph, and not through a messenger, as it is written (Shemoth 12:12) "And I shall pass through the land of Egypt in this night, and I shall smite, etc.": "And I shall pass through the land of Egypt" — I, and not an angel. "and I shall smite every first-born" — I, and not a seraph. "and upon all the gods of Egypt I shall wreak judgments" — I, and not a messenger, "I am the L-rd."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:19
[Sifrei Devarim 301:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/301:19)

ביד חזקה. זו הדבר, כמ"ש הנה יד ה' הויה במקנך אשר בשדה וגו'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*.) "with a strong hand": This is the pestilence, as it is written (Shemoth 9:3) "Behold, the *hand* of the L-rd is in your cattle in the field … a very sore *pestilence*."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:20
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ובזרוע נטויה. זו החרב, כמ"ש וחרבו שלופה בידו נטויה וגו'.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and with an outstretched arm": This is the sword, as it is written (Joshua 5:13) "with his sword *sh'lufah* in his hand": ("*sh'lufah*" =) outstretched.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:21
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ובמורא גדול. זו גלוי שכינה, כמ"ש או הנסה א-להים לבוא לקחת לו גוי מקרב גוי, במסות באותות ובמופתים ובמלחמה וביד חזקה ובזרוע נטויה ובמוראים גדולים, ככל אשר עשה לכם ה' א-להיכם במצרים לעיניך.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and with great fear": This is *revelation* of the Shechinah, as it is written (Devarim 4:34) "Or has a god ever done miracles to come and take for himself a nation with trials, with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and *with great fears, before your eyes*?"


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:22
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ובאותות. זה המטה, כמ"ש ואת המטה הזה תקח בידך, אשר תעשה בו את האותות.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and with signs": This is the staff, as it is written (Shemoth 4:17) "And this staff you shall take in your hand, wherewith you shall do the signs."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:23
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ובמופתים. זה הדם, כמ"ש ונתתי מופתים בשמים ובארץ, דם ואש ותמרות עשן.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and with wonders": This is the blood: as it is written (*Joel* 3:3) "And I will set wonders in heaven and earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:24
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דבר אחר - ביד חזקה, שתים. ובזרוע נטויה, שתים. ובמורא גדול, שתים. ובאותות, שתים. ובמופתים, שתים. אלו עשר מכות שהביא הקב"ה על המצרים: דם, צפרדע, כנים, ערוב, דבר, שחין, ברד, ארבה, חשך, מכת בכורות].

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
Variantly: "with a strong hand": two. "with an outstretched arm: two. "and with great fears": two. "and with signs": two. "and with wonders": two. These are the ten plagues that the Holy One Blessed be He brought upon the Egyptians.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:25
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רַבִּי יְהוּדָה הָיָה נוֹתֵן בָּהֶם סִימָן: דְּצַ״ךְ עֲדַ״שׁ בְּאַחַ״ב.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
R. Yehudah would give them (the ten plagues) signs: *d tz ach* (*d*am [blood] *tz*fardea [frogs] *k*inim [lice]; *a d*a *sh* (*a*rov [mixed multitude] *d*ever [pestilence] *sh*chin [boils]); *b a ch*a *v* (*b*arad [hail] *ch*oshech [darkness] *a*rbeh [locusts] *v* (=b) [(the plague of) *b*echoroth (the first-born)].


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:26
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(דברים כו ט) **וַיְבִאֵנוּ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה**, זֶה בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ. אוֹ יָכוֹל זֶה אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל? כְּשֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר **וַיִּתֶּן לָנוּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת**, הֲרֵי אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲמוּרָה. וּמַה תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר **וַיְבִאֵנוּ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה**? בִּשְׂכַר בִּיאָתֵנוּ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*. 9) "And He brought us to *this place*": the Temple — But perhaps it refers to Eretz Yisrael? — (No, for) "and He gave us this land already refers to Eretz Yisrael. How, then, am I to understand "And he brought us to *this place*"? As the Temple. "And He brought us to this place and He gave us this land": As a reward for our coming to this place, we were given this land.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:27
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**אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ**, נֶאֱמַר כָּאן **אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ** וְנֶאֱמַר לְהַלָּן (שמות יג ה) ״אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ״, מָה ״אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ״ הָאֲמוּרָה לְהַלָּן חֲמֵשֶׁת עֲמָמִים אַף **אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ** הָאָמוּר כָּאן אֶרֶץ חֲמֵשֶׁת עֲמָמִים. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי הַגְּלִילִי אוֹמֵר: אֵין מְבִיאִים בִּכּוּרִים מֵעֵבֶר לַיַּרְדֵּן, שֶׁאֵינוֹ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"a land flowing with milk and honey": It is written here "a land flowing with milk and honey," and elsewhere (Shemoth 13:1) "a land flowing with milk and honey." Just as there, the land of the five nations (is being referred to), so, here. From here R. Yossi Haglili ruled: *Bikkurim* are not brought from across the Jordan, it not flowing with milk and honey.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:28
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(דברים כו י) **וְעַתָּה**, מִיָּד.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim, *Ibid*. 10) "And now": Immediately upon harvesting.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:29
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**הִנֵּה**, בְּשִׂמְחָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"behold": with joy.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:30
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**הֵבֵאתִי**, מִשֶּׁלִּי.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"*I* have brought": what is mine.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:31
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**אֶת רֵאשִׁית כָּל פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה**, מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: יוֹרֵד אָדָם לְתוֹךְ שָׂדֵהוּ וְרוֹאֶה תְּאֵנָה שֶׁבִּכְּרָה, אֶשְׁכּוֹל שֶׁבִּכֵּר, רִמּוֹן שֶׁבִּכֵּר, קוֹשְׁרִים אוֹתוֹ בְּגֶמִי וְאוֹמֵר: הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ בִּכּוּרִים.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"the first of the fruit of the land": From here they ruled: One goes down to his field, and seeing a fig or a cluster or a pomegranate of the fruit ripening, he ties them with a reed rope over them and says "These are *bikkurim*."


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:32
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**אֲשֶׁר נָתַתָּ לִּי ה׳**, מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: הָאַפּוֹטְרוֹפִּיס וְהָעֶבֶד וְהַשָּׁלִיחַ אִשָּׁה וְטוּמְטוּם וְאַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס מְבִיאִים וְלֹא קוֹרִים, שֶׁאֵין יְכוֹלִים לוֹמַר ״אֲשֶׁר נָתַתָּ לִּי ה׳״.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"which you have given me, O L-rd": From here it was ruled: A caretaker, a bondsman, a messenger, a woman, a *tumtum* (one whose sex is in doubt) and a hermaphrodite bring *bikkurim*, but do not recite the formula, for "which You have given me" does not obtain with them.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:33
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**וְהִנַּחְתּוֹ לִפְנֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתָ לִפְנֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ**, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁטְּעוּנִים הַנָּחָה שְׁתֵּי פְעָמִים, אַחַת בִּשְׁעַת קְרִיאָה וְאַחַת בִּשְׁעַת הִשְׁתַּחֲוָיָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"Then you shall place it before the L-rd your G-d and you shall bow down before the L-rd your G-d": This (the repetition of "placing" [viz. 4]) teaches us that two "placings" are necessary," one while reciting the formula, and one while bowing.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:34
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(דברים כו יא) **וְשָׂמַחְתָּ**, בְּכָל מִינֵי שְׂמָחוֹת.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"And you shall rejoice": at a time of joy.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:35
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**בְּכָל הַטּוֹב**, זֶה הַשִּׁיר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"And you shall rejoice *in all the good*": This refers to the (accompanying) song (of the Levites).


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:36
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**אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לְךָ ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּלְבֵיתֶךָ**, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁאָדָם מֵבִיא בִּכּוּרִים מִנִּכְסֵי אִשְׁתּוֹ וְקוֹרֵא.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"that the L-rd your G-d gave to you and to your household": We are hereby taught that a man brings *bikkurim* of his wife's property and recites for her.


###### Sifrei Devarim 301:37
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**אַתָּה וְהַלֵּוִי וְהַגֵּר אֲשֶׁר בְּקִרְבֶּךָ**, מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: יִשְׂרָאֵל מַמְזֵרִים מִתְוַדִּים, אֲבָל לֹא גֵּרִים וַעֲבָדִים מְשֻׁחְרָרִים שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם חֵלֶק בָּאָרֶץ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(*Ibid*. 11) "You and the Levite": Wherever he finds a Levite, he gives him of his portion. If he has nothing left of his portion, he gives him second-tithe. If he does not have that, he gives him poor-tithe. If he does not have that, he gives him peace-offerings. If he does not have that he feeds him from charity. This is the intent of "and the Levite and the stranger that is in your midst."