Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² So teach us to number yameinu, that we may apply levav unto chochmah.

¹³ Shuvah, Hashem. Ad mosai? Have compassion on Thy avadim.

¹⁴ O satisfy us baboker with Thy chesed; that we may sing for joy and be glad kol yameinu (all our days).

¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen ra’ah.

¹⁶ Let Thy work appear unto Thy avadim, and Thy glory unto their banim.

¹⁷ And let the no’am (favor, delightfulness) of Adonoi Eloheinu be upon us; and establish Thou the ma’aseh yadeinu upon us; yes, the ma’aseh yadeinu establish Thou it.

5 And Moshe called kol Yisroel, and said unto them, Shema, Yisroel, to the chukkim and mishpatim which I speak in your ears today, that ye may learn them, and be shomer to do them.

² Hashem Eloheinu made a Brit with us in Chorev.

³ Hashem made not this Brit with Avoteinu, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.

⁴ Hashem talked with you panim b’panim in the har out of the midst of the eish,

⁵ (I stood between Hashem and you at that time, to show you the Devar Hashem; for ye were afraid by reason of the eish, and went not up into the har) saying:

⁶ I am Hashem Eloheicha, Which brought thee out of Eretz Mitzrayim, from the bais avadim.

⁷ Thou shalt have no elohim acharim before Me.

⁸ Thou shalt not make thee any pesel, or any temunah of anything that is in Shomayim above, or that is in Ha’Aretz beneath, or that is in the mayim beneath ha’aretz;

⁹ Lo tishtachaveh (thou shalt not bow down thyself) unto them, nor serve them; for I Hashem Eloheicha am an El Kannah, visiting the iniquity of the avot upon the banim unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me,

¹⁰ And showing chesed unto thousands of them that love Me and are shomer over My mitzvot.

¹¹ Thou shalt not take the Shem of Hashem Eloheicha in vain; for Hashem will not hold him guiltless that taketh Shmo in vain.

¹² Keep shomer Shabbos to set Shabbos apart as kodesh as Hashem Eloheicha commanded thee.

¹³ Sheshet yamim thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:

¹⁴ But the Yom HaShevi’i is the Shabbos of Hashem Eloheicha: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy ben, nor thy bat, nor thy eved, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine donkey, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy ger that is within thy she’arim; that thy eved and thy amah may rest as well as thou.

¹⁵ And remember that thou wast an eved in Eretz Mitzrayim, and that Hashem Eloheicha brought thee out thence through a yad chazakah and by an outstretched zero’a; therefore Hashem Eloheicha commanded thee to be shomer Shabbos on Yom HaShabbat.

¹⁶ Honor thy av and thy em, as Hashem Eloheicha hath commanded thee; that thy yamim may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in ha’adamah which Hashem Eloheicha giveth thee.

¹⁷ Lo tirtzah (thou shalt not murder).

¹⁸ V’lo tinaf (neither shalt thou commit adultery).

¹⁹ V’lo tignov (neither shalt thou steal).

²⁰ V’lo ta’aneh v’reacha ed shav (neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor).

²¹ V’lo tachmod (neither shalt thou covet, desiring) thy neighbor’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s bais, his sadeh, or his eved, or his amah, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

⁷ Therefore, just as the Ruach Hakodesh says, "HAYOM IM BEKOLO TISHMAU ("Today, if you hear His voice" TEHILLIM 95:7f);

⁸ AL TAKSHU LEVAVCHEM KIMRIVAH K’YOM MASSAH BAMIDBAR ("Do not harden your heart as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert")

⁹ ASHER NISSUNI AVOTECHEM BEKHANUNI GAM RA’U PO’OLI ARBA’IM SHANAH ("Where your Fathers tested me and tried me though they saw my deeds forty years")

¹⁰ Therefore "AKUT BEDOR VAOMAR AM TO’EY LEVAV HEM V’HEM LO YAD’U DERAKHAI" ("I was angry with that generation and I said they are a strayingof-heart people and they have not had da’as of my ways");

¹¹ ASHER NISHBA’ETI V’APEY IM YEVO’UN EL MENUKHATI ("Therefore I declared on oath in my anger, Never shall they enter into my Rest, Home, Abode, Place of Tranquility.") [BERESHIS 49:15; TEHILLIM 23; YESHAYAH 28:12; 66:1; RUTH 1:9; MELACHIM ALEF 8:56]

¹² Beware, Achim b’Moshiach, lest there will be in any one of you a lev rah (evil heart) without Emunah, that turns away shmad from Elohim Chayyim.

¹³ Instead, give one another chozek (strength) each and every day, as long as it is still called "HAYOM," ("today, " TEHILLIM 95:7) lest some of you may fall into KESHI (stubbornness, hardness DEVARM 9:27) and be stubbornly hardened by the nechalim (deceitfulness) of Chet.

¹⁴ We have become chavrusa partners of Moshiach if only our bitachon (confidence) we had initially we hold firm until HaKetz;

¹⁵ As it is said, "HAYOM IM BEKOLO TISHMAU AL TAKSHU LEVAVCHEM ("Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart" TEHILLIM 95:7) as in the Meribah Mered (Rebellion) [the Ma’al shmad Defection, the Azivah Desertion, see 2Th 2:3].

¹⁶ Now who were they who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all the ones having had litzi’at Mitzrayim (going out from Egypt) under Moshe Rabbeinu?

¹⁷ And with whom was Hashem angry ARBA’IM SHANAH? Was it not with the ones having sinned, whose "PEGARIM" ("corpses" BAMIDBAR 14:29) lay where they had "fallen BAMIDBAR ("in the desert" BAMIDBAR 14:29)?

¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into the menuchah (resting place) of Him? Was it not to the ones without mishma’at (obedience)?

¹⁹ And so we see that they were not able to enter because of lack of Emunah.