You shall not make idols for yourselves and graven images and memorial stones you shall not raise up for youselves, and a prostration stone you shall not set in your land upon which to prostrate oneself, for I am Adonoy, your God.

You shall make no idols, nor shall you erect a carved idol, or a pillar, nor shall you install a figured stone in your land, to bow down upon it: for I am the Lord your God.

[The following is addressed to a Jew who sold himself to a gentile, and who might come to say: Since my master serves idols, I, likewise, may do so, etc.] You shall not make for yourselves idols, and a graven image or a pillar you shall not upraise for yourselves, and a covering stone [(a stone pavement covering the ground)] shall you not make in your land to prostrate (yourselves) upon it [even unto Heaven (this being permitted only in the Temple)], for I am the L-rd your G-d.

You shall keep My Shabbosos and you shall fear (revere) My Sanctuary, I am Adonoy.

You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary, I am the Lord.

My Sabbaths shall you keep, and My sanctuary shall you fear; I am the L-rd [trusted to reward].

If you follow My statutes and keep My commandments and you will fulfill them,

If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

If in My statutes you walk [i.e., If in My Torah you toil], and My mitzvoth you keep [that is, if you toil in My Torah in order to keep My mitzvoth and to fulfill them], and you do them,

I will provide your rains in their proper time. The earth shall give forth its produce and the tree of the field shall give forth its produce.

then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Then I shall give your rains in their [proper] times [i.e., when people are not generally found out of doors], and the earth will yield its produce and the tree of the field [i.e., the normally barren tree] will yield its fruit.

[Because of the abundant produce] threshing will overtake the grape harvest and the grape harvest overtake the [time to] plant, and you will eat your bread to satiation and you will live securely in your land.

And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

And your threshing [will be so abundant that it] will reach for you [until] the [time of the] vintage [harvest] and the vintage will reach the sowing, and you will eat your bread to satiety [i.e., you will eat but little, and the food will be "blessed" in your innards], and you will dwell secure in your land.

I will grant peace in the land; you will lie down (sleep) without disturbance (fear). I will banish evil beasts from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land.

And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will remove evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

And [(lest you say: Food and drink without peace is nothing)], I will put peace, [which is over and against all,] in the land, and you will lie down and not tremble; and I will eliminate evil beasts from the land, and a sword shall not pass through your land, [even a sword of "peace" (i.e., an army passing through Eretz Yisrael to attack a different land)].

You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And you will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword, [one by the sword of the other].

Five of you will pursue one hundred and one hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

And there will pursue of you [(even of the weakest)] — five, one hundred; and one hundred of you will pursue ten thousand [(and not "five hundred, ten thousand," as expected proportionately, there being no comparing a small number of Torah observers to a large one)], and your enemies will fall before you [an unnatural falling] by the sword.

I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.

For I will turn myself to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

And I will turn [My regard exclusively] to you [to reward you], and I will make you fruitful [in childbearing], and I will give you an upright stature, and I will establish My covenant with you, [not like the first covenant which you broke, but a new covenant, which will not be broken.]

You will eat the old [store] long kept and the old [store] you will have to clear out because of the new.

And you shall eat old store, and remove the old because of the new.

And you will eat the old [crop] grown old [The produce will be so well preserved that a three-year-old crop will be better to eat than last year's], and you will remove the old [from the overflowing granaries] to make place for the new.

I will set My Sanctuary among you and My spirit will not loathe (reject) you.

And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

And I will place My mishkan [the Temple] in your midst, and My soul will not repel you.

I will walk among you and I will be a God for you, and you will be My people.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

And I will walk [in Gan Eden] in your midst [as one of you, and you will not be in terror of Me] and [lest you think you will not fear Me], I will be to you as a G-d, and you will be to Me as a people.

I am Adonoy your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt from where you were slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and led you forth standing upright.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Miżrayim, that you should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

I am the L-rd your G-d, who took you out of the land of Egypt [You may well believe Me capable of doing all these things, for I took you out of the land of Egypt with great wonders] that you not be slaves to them, and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I made you walk upright.

And if you will not listen to Me and you will not fulfill all of these commandments.

But if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commands:

And if you do not hearken [(to toil in Torah to know the exegeses of the sages)] to Me, [i.e., rebelling "to My face" (knowing your Creator and willing to rebel against Him)], and, [as a result of not hearkening,] you will not do all of these mitzvoth [(thus far, two transgressions)],

If you despise My statutes and your souls loathe My laws so as not to fulfill all My commandments, thereby breaking My convenant.

and if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

And if [as a result of not doing], you despise [the doers of] My statutes, and if [as a result] your souls repel [(the exemplifiers of)] My ordinances, [the sages], so that [as a result] there not be done [i.e., you prevent others from doing] all of My mitzvoth [i.e., As a result, you deny that they are My mitzvoth], to break My covenant [i.e., as a result, you deny Me! — in all, seven transgressions],

Then I will do the same with you. I will impose terror upon you, [which causes] swelling and fever that consume the eyes and fill the soul with grief. You will plant [your seeds] in vain because your enemies will consume [your crops.]

I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

I, too, will do this to you, and I will command panic upon you — consumption, and burning fever, making the eyes languish [in vain hope of recovery] and grieving the soul [of your family in your death], and you will sow your seed in vain, [for it will not sprout], and, [if it does sprout], your foes will eat it.

I will set my face against you and you will be defeated before your enemies; your foes will rule over you and you will flee [even] when no one is pursuing you.

And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

And I will turn My regard against you, and you will be smitten before your foes, and your haters shall rule over you, and you will flee [in fear] when none pursue you, [being powerless (to threaten them)].

If after these [catastrophes] you still do not listen to Me, then I will increase your punishment sevenfold, as your sins.

And if you will not yet for all this hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

And if while these [are yet upon you] you do not hearken to Me, then I will chastise you even more — seven-fold, for your [seven] sins [see 15].

I will break the pride of your power. I will make your heavens like iron and your land like copper.

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your skies like iron, and your earth like brass:

And I shall break the pride of your strength [the Temple], and I shall make your skies as iron and your earth as brass.

Your strength will be exhausted in vain. Your land will not yield its produce and the tree[s] of the land will not give forth its produce.

and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

And your strength [in plowing, sowing, etc.] shall be spent in vain, and your land will not yield [even] what is brought to it [at sowing time], and the tree of the land will not yield [(It will be smitten in point of the land, the land not fructifying at blooming time)] its fruit [(It will also be smitten in point of its fruit, any fruit that is produced, falling — two curses; all together, seven punishments)].

If you walk contrary to Me and have no desire to listen to Me, I will increase the blows upon you sevenfold, as your sins.

And if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

And if you walk with Me in obduracy, and you will not wish to hearken to Me, then I shall smite you even more — seven, according to your [seven] sins [i.e., seven other punishments for your seven sins].

I will send among you wild animals of the field and they will make you bereft of children, destroy your cattle, reduce your [population] and make your roads into wasteland.

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.

And I will incite against you the animal of the field [(two more punishments, viz. (Deuteronomy 32:24): "and the teeth of (domestic) beasts will I send against them," and (Ibid.): "with the venom of crawling things of the dust" (i.e., death by biting)], and it will bereave you (of your children), and it will cut off your cattle [outside (the city)] and it will reduce you [inside], and your roads [both large and small] will be desolate [ — all together, seven punishments].

If after these [catastrophes] you have not been disciplined [to listen] to Me, and walk contrary to Me,

And if you will not be admonished by me as a result of these things, but will walk contrary to me;

And if with these you will not be chastised [to return] to Me, and you will walk with Me in obduracy,

[Then] I, too, will walk contrary to you; and I shall also smite you seven fold, for your sins.

then will I also walk contrary to you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

Then I, too, will walk with you in obduracy, and I, too, will smite you seven, for your [seven] sins.

I will bring an avenging sword upon you avenging the covenant You will be huddled [in your cities]. I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into the hand of the enemy.

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And I will bring upon you a sword [i.e., an army], avenging the vengeance of [i.e., foretold in] the Covenant [the Torah], and you will be gathered together [because of the siege] into your cities, and I will send pestilence in your midst, and, [as a result because they were not permitted to leave the dead in Jerusalem overnight and were constrained to take them outside for burial)], you will be delivered into the hand of the foe.

When I break the staff of your bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and they will return your bread by weight. You will eat but you will not be satiated.

And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return you your bread by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

When I break your staff of bread [i.e., When I bring famine upon you], ten women shall bake your bread in one oven [for lack of wood], and they shall [sit and] dole out your bread by weight [(for the wheat will be rotten and the loaf will crumble)]. And you will eat and not be sated, [the bread being "cursed" in your intestines — all together, seven punishments].

If [in spite] of this you [still] will not listen to Me, and you will walk contrary to Me,

And if you will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary to me;

And if with this you will not hearken to Me, but walk with Me in obduracy,

I will walk contrary to you in fury, and indeed I too shall punish you sevenfold, for your sins.

then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Then I will walk with you in the fury of obduracy, and I, too, will chastise you, seven, for your sins.

You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

And you will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters will you eat.

I will destroy your high places and I will smash your sun images. I will set your corpses upon the carcasses (remains) of your idols, and My soul will loathe you.

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

And I will destroy your high places [your towers and castles], and I will cut down your [idolatrous] sun pillars [(which they set up on roofs)], and I will cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols [(They would take their idols from their bosoms and kiss them, their hunger-swollen bellies would burst, and they would fall upon them)], and My soul will repel you.

I will turn your cities into ruins and bring your Sanctuaries into desolation. I will no longer scent (accept favorably) the fragrance of your offerings.

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

And I will make your cities waste [of passersby], and I will make desolate your sanctified ones [i.e., the (festival) pilgrims, who used to sanctify themselves to ascend there], and I will not smell your sweet savors [ — all together, seven punishments].

I will make the land [so] desolate that your enemies who live on it will be astonished.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

And I will make desolate the land, and your foes who dwell therein will be awe-struck thereby [(a "goodly provision" for Israel — its foes will find no satisfaction in the land, it being desolate of its inhabitants)].

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheath the sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will be in ruins.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

And you, will I scatter among the nations [so that you lack even the consolation of togetherness], and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land will be desolate [(You will not quickly return there)], and [(as a result)] your cities will be waste [(You will perceive them as "ruined," not expecting to return there)].

The land will then be appeased for its Shabbosos [during] all the days of its desolation while you are in the land of your enemies. Then the land will rest and be appeased for its Shabbosos.

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies’ land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Then shall the land requite its Sabbaths [It will appease the wrath of the King over its unobserved shemitoth (sabbatical and Jubilee years)], all the days of its desolation — and you in the land of your foes! [see 25:18]. Then shall the land rest and it shall requite its Sabbaths.

All the days that it lies desolate it shall have its rest—the rest it did not have on your Shabbosos when you were living upon it.

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

All the days of its desolation it shall rest — what it did not rest in your [seventy] sabbatical years when you dwelt upon it [(in sin) four hundred and thirty years].

To those who survive among you, I will send timidity into their hearts [as they live] in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blown leaf will put them to flight and they will flee as though fleeing from a sword; and they will fall with no one chasing them.

And upon those who are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.

And those who are left of you — I will bring terror into their hearts in the lands of their foes, and they will be chased by the sound of a driven leaf, and they will flee as one flees the sword, and they will fall though none pursue.

They will stumble over one other as though before a sword when there is no pursuer, and you will have no power to stand upright before your enemies.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And they will stumble [in their panic] one man against the other, as if [they were fleeing] before the sword, though none pursue; and there will be no rising for you before your foes.

You will be lost among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you.

And you shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And you will go lost [from each other by being scattered] among the nations, and the land of your foes will devour you [(The allusion is to those who die in exile)].

Those of you who survive will rot away in their iniquity in the land of your enemies, and also due to the iniquities of their ancestors which are [still] with them, [they] will they rot away.

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

And those that are left of you will melt away in their sins in the land of their enemies; and also with the sins of their fathers with them [i.e., which they continue to hold onto] will they melt away.

They will [then] confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors in the unfaithfulness with which they were unfaithful to Me, and also for walking contrary to Me.

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;

And they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers, their faithlessness wherein they betrayed Me, and also their having walked with Me in obduracy [see 21]

I, too, will go contrary to them and bring them into the land of their enemies. Or perhaps then will be humbled their uncircumcised (unyielding) heart and then their iniquities will be appeased (forgiven).

and that I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; then only will their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and then they will make amends for their sin.

I, too, will walk with them in obduracy, and I [Myself] will bring them into the land of their foes. [This is providential for Israel, viz.: I shall not allow them to become assimilated, though they see no other recourse, but I will raise up My prophets and bring them back under the wings of the Shechinah.] If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and then they requite their sin [i.e., if they atone for their sin through their afflictions],

I will [then] remember My covenant with Yaakov and also My covenant with Yitzchok and also My covenant with Avrohom, I will remember and I will remember the land.

Then will I remember my covenant with Ya῾aqov, and also my covenant with Yiżĥaq, and also my covenant with Avraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember [(If Jacob, the "smallest" of the patriarchs is not worthy enough (to atone for them) then Isaac is with him, etc. ("remember" is not mentioned in respect to Isaac, for his ashes on the altar (of the akeidah) are always present to His sight)], and the land will I remember.

The land, being bereft of them, will be appeased for its Shabbosos, during the time of its desolation from them and their iniquities will then be appeased (forgiven) since what certainly caused [this] is that they despised My laws and their soul loathed (rejected) My statutes.

The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them: and they shall make amends for their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

And the land will be abandoned of them, and it will requite its Sabbaths in being desolate of them, and they will requite their sins — in retribution and in retribution — [because] they rejected My ordinances and because their souls repelled My statutes.

All this not withstanding, even when they are in the land of their enemies I will not despise them and I will not loathe them to annihilate them, to break My covenant with them, for I am Adonoy, their God.

And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.

And notwithstanding all this [i.e., that I shall bring this retribution upon them], while they are in the land of their foes, I will not reject them and I will not repel them to destroy them, to break My covenant with them, for I am the L-rd their G-d.

I shall remember for them the covenant of their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in sight of the nations to be a God for them, I am Adonoy.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Miżrayim in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

And I will remember for them the covenant of the first ones [the tribes], whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to be a G-d unto them; I am the L-rd.

These are the statutes, the laws and the teachings that Adonoy set between Himself and between Bnei Yisroel, on Mount Sinai, through the hand of Moshe.

These are the statutes and the judgments and the Torot, which the Lord made between him and the children of Yisra᾽el in Mount Sinay by the hand of Moshe.

These are the statutes and the ordinances and the Toroth [the written and the oral laws (both having been given to Moses at Sinai)], which the L-rd gave between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.