## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 233

###### Sifrei Devarim 233:1
[Sifrei Devarim 233:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/233:1)

(דברים כב יא-יב) **לֹא תִלְבַּשׁ שַׁעַטְנֵז... גְּדִלִים תַּעֲשֶׂה לָּךְ** – שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד. (שמות כ ח) ״זָכוֹר״ (דברים ה יב) וְ״שָׁמוֹר״ – שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 233**¹⁵²
1. “Do not wear garments of wool and linen fibers *mingled as one* . . .
*Tassels* shall you make for yourself” (Dt. 22:11-12)—
[If one may not mingle fibers how can one make tassels]?
Both of these commandments were given in a single utterance.
**[So, too,] “*Remember* the Sabbath Day” (Ex. 20:8)**
**and “*Preserve* the Sabbath Day” (Dt. 5:12)**
**were both given in a single utterance.**¹⁵³ 7.

footnotes:
¹⁵² H:242-243;JN2:148.
¹⁵³ Mechilta Ishmael, bakhodesh,


###### Sifrei Devarim 233:2
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(שמות לא יד) ״מְחַלְלֶיהָ מוֹת יוּמָת״, (במדבר כח ט) ״וּבְיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת שְׁנֵי כְבָשִׂים בְּנֵי שָׁנָה״ – שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“Who *defiles it* will quickly be put to death” (Ex. 31:14) and “On *the Sabbath Day*, two yearling lambs” (Nu. 28:9)
were both given in a single utterance.


###### Sifrei Devarim 233:3
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(ויקרא יח טז) ״עֶרְוַת אֵשֶׁת אָחִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה״ (דברים כה ה), ״יְבָמָהּ יָבֹא עָלֶיהָ״, שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“Do not reveal the shame of *your bother’s wife*” (Lv. 18:16)
And “Her *brother-in-law* shall consort with her” (Dt. 25:5)
were both given in a single utterance.


###### Sifrei Devarim 233:4
[Sifrei Devarim 233:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/233:4)

(במדבר לו ח) ״וְכָל בַּת יוֹרֶשֶׁת נַחֲלָה״ (במדבר לו ט), ״וְלֹא תִסֹּב נַחֲלָה מִמַּטֶּה אֶל מַטֶּה״, שְׁנֵיהֶם נֶאֶמְרוּ בְּדִבּוּר אֶחָד.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“Every daughter claiming an inheritance among the tribes of Israel shall be taken as a wife
by a man from a clan of *her father’s tribe*” (Nu. 36:8)
and “The inheritance *shall not shift* from one tribe to another” (Nu. 36:9)
were both given in a single utterance.¹⁵⁴

footnotes:
¹⁵⁴ See the supplentary material to Sifre Nu., 42.


###### Sifrei Devarim 233:5
[Sifrei Devarim 233:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/233:5)

מַה שֶּׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְבָשָׂר וָדָם לוֹמַר שְׁנֵי דְבָרִים כְּאַחַת, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים סב יב): ״אַחַת דִּבֶּר אֱלֹהִים, שְׁתַּיִם זוּ שָׁמָעְנוּ״.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
[Now this proves that the Torah is from Heaven,]
for it is clearly impossible for flesh and blood
to say two things with a single utterance.
As it is said:
“God has spoken *once*, but these *two things* have I heard” (Ps. 62:12).¹⁵⁵ 233.1, and much of 234.1, are lacking in many mss. Finkelstein notes that the material before us here is attested as part of Sifre no earlier than the Tosafists (e.g., B. Men.41b, s.v., *beit shamm’ai),* who cite it with other well-attested passages of Sifre. See F:266, n. 6 and RH’s text.

footnotes:
¹⁵⁵ The entirety of Pisqa’