## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 70

###### Sifrei Devarim 70:1
[Sifrei Devarim 70:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:1)

(דברים יב יג) **הִשָּׁמֶר**, בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה. **פֶּן**, בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 12:13) "Take heed unto yourselves": a negative commandment.


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:2
[Sifrei Devarim 70:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:2)

**פֶּן תַּעֲלֶה עֹלֹתֶיךָ**, וְלֹא עוֹלוֹת גּוֹיִם, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: וְלֹא עוֹלוֹת גּוֹיִם שֶׁהֻקְדְּשׁוּ בְּחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"lest you offer up your burnt-offerings": and not the burnt-offerings of gentiles. These are the words of R. Shimon. R. Yehudah says: and not the burnt-offerings of gentiles that were dedicated outside of Eretz Yisrael.


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:3
[Sifrei Devarim 70:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:3)

**בְּכָל מָקוֹם אֲשֶׁר תִּרְאֶה**, אֲבָל מַעֲלֶה אַתָּה בְּכָל מָקוֹם שֶׁיֹּאמַר לְךָ נָבִיא, כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁהֶעֱלָה אֵלִיָּהוּ בְּהַר הַכַּרְמֶל.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"in every place that you see": but you may offer them up in every place that the prophet tells you as Eliyahu did on Mount Carmel.


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:4
[Sifrei Devarim 70:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:4)

(דברים יב יד) **כִּי אִם בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר ה׳ בְּאַחַד שְׁבָטֶיךָ**, כָּתוּב אֶחָד אוֹמֵר: **בְּאַחַד שְׁבָטֶיךָ**, וְכָתוּב אֶחָד אוֹמֵר (דברים יב ה): ״מִכָּל שִׁבְטֵיכֶם״! זוֹ הִיא שֶׁרַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: כֶּסֶף – מִכָּל שִׁבְטֵיכֶם; בֵּית הַבְּחִירָה – מִשֵּׁבֶט אֶחָד.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
One verse states (12:14) "in (the portion of) *one* of your tribes," and another (*Ibid*. 5) "of *all* your tribes." As R. Yehudah says: The payment (for the site) from "*all* of your tribes": the site of the Temple, in "*one* of your tribes" (i.e., Benjamin).


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:5
[Sifrei Devarim 70:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:5)

**שָׁם תַּעֲלֶה עֹלֹתֶיךָ**, אֵין לִי אֶלָּא עוֹלָה. שְׁאָר קָרְבָּנוֹת מִנַּיִן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **וְשָׁם תַּעֲשֶׂה כֹּל אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּךָּ**.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"But in the place that the L-rd shall choose, in one of your tribes, there shall you offer up your burnt-offerings": This tells me only of burnt-offerings. Whence do I derive (the same for) other offerings? From (*Ibid*.) "and there shall you do *all* that I command you."


###### Sifrei Devarim 70:6
[Sifrei Devarim 70:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/70:6)

וַעֲדַיִן אֲנִי אוֹמֵר: עוֹלָה שֶׁהִיא בַּעֲשֵׂה וְלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה, שְׁאָר קָדָשִׁים לֹא יְהוּ אֶלָּא בַּעֲשֵׂה! תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **שָׁם תַּעֲלֶה עֹלֹתֶיךָ**; עוֹלָה בִּכְלָל הָיְתָה, וְלָמָּה יָצָאת? לְהַקִּישׁ אֵלֶיהָ: מָה עוֹלָה מְיֻחֶדֶת, שֶׁהִיא בַּעֲשֵׂה וְלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה – כָּךְ כָּל שֶׁהוּא בַּעֲשֵׂה הֲרֵי הוּא בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה!

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
But I still would say that burnt-offerings are subject to a positive commandment and negative commandments, but other offerings are subject only to a positive commandment. Whence do I derive that they are also subject to a negative commandment? It is, therefore written "there shall you offer up your burnt-offerings." Burnt-offerings were included in all of the offerings. Why were they singled out (here)? To serve as the basis for a comparison, viz.: Just as burnt-offerings, which are characterized by being subject to a positive commandment, are subject to a negative commandment, so, all offerings that are so characterized are subject to a negative commandment.