## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 92

###### Sifrei Devarim 92:1
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(דברים יג יג) **כִּי תִשְׁמַע** – וְלֹא הַחוֹזֵר וְהַמְּצַתֵּת.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 92**¹⁷⁹
1. “Should you *hear*” (Dt. 13:13)—
[even indirectly,] and not by active interrogation.

footnotes:
¹⁷⁹ H:141; JN1:245.


###### Sifrei Devarim 92:2
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יָכוֹל יְהֵא רָטוּשׁ? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: ״וְדָרַשְׁתָּ וְחָקַרְתָּ וְשָׁאַלְתָּ הֵיטֵב״, ״וְדָרַשְׁתָּ״ – מִן הַתּוֹרָה, ״וְחָקַרְתָּ״ – מִן הָעֵדִים, ״וְשָׁאַלְתָּ״ – מִן הַתַּלְמִידִים.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
Is it possible to suppose that
[in this circumstance,] the report should be suppressed?
The Teaching states:
“Then you shall *seek* out, and *investigate*, and *inquire* diligently” (Dt. 13:15)—
“you shall *seek* out” –in the Torah,
“and *investigat*e”—testimony from eye-witnesses,
“and *inquire*”—from disciples
[trained in judicial procedings].¹⁸⁰

footnotes:
¹⁸⁰ This passage is missing in some mss of Sifre, on which grounds F:153, n.13 regards it as an interpolation.,


###### Sifrei Devarim 92:3
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**בְּאַחַת עָרֶיךָ**, עִיר אַחַת עוֹשִׂים עִיר הַנִּדַּחַת, וְאֵין עוֹשִׂים שָׁלֹשׁ עֲיָרוֹת נִדָּחוֹת. יָכוֹל אַף לֹא שְׁתַּיִם? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **בְּאַחַת עָרֶיךָ**.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
2. “That in *one* of your cities” (Dt. 13:13)—
they declare *one* city a condemned city,
but they do not declare three cities
[simultaneously] to be condemned.
**Is it possible to say that**
**not even *two* cities can be**
**condemned simultaneously?**
**The Teaching states:**
**“In *one* of your cities” (Dt. 13:13)—**
**this teaches that only *one* city**
**can be condemned at a time.**¹⁸¹

footnotes:
¹⁸¹ //M. San.1:5; cf. T.San.14:1.


###### Sifrei Devarim 92:4
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**אֲשֶׁר ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ נוֹתֵן לְךָ** – בְּכָל מָקוֹם.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“Which HASHEM your God is giving you” (Dt. 13:13)—
that is, anywhere [in the Land of Israel].


###### Sifrei Devarim 92:5
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**לָשֶׁבֶת שָׁם** – פְּרָט לִירוּשָׁלִַם, שֶׁלֹּא נִתְּנָה לְבֵית דִּירָה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“To dwell there” (Dt. 13: 13)—
this exempts Jerusalem
[from being declared a condemned city],
because it was not given [to any tribe]
as a patrimony.