Deuteronomychapter 26
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Original Language
Deuteronomy 26— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 26. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
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כִּי־תָבוֹא Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy 26:1 to 29:8
Read with it: Isaiah 60:1 to 60:22.
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Where the rabbis cite this chapter
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
A wandering Syrian was my father1
Deuteronomy 26:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Onkelos Deuteronomy 26:1
When it happens that you come to the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you as territory, nd you inherit it and settle it;
Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
Deuteronomy 26:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Deuteronomy 26:10
והנחתו AND THOU SHALT PLACE IT [BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD] — This tells us that he takes it after the priest has waved it, and holds it in his hand whilst he makes the declaration, and then again waves it (Sukkah 47b; cf. Sifrei Devarim:33).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Deuteronomy 26:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Look down from thy holy habitation12
Deuteronomy 26:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Deuteronomy 26:14
Even though the avowal. The “avowal was recited at the time of the Afternoon Offering on the last day of Passover, in the fourth and seventh years of the Sabbatical cycle.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Deuteronomy 26:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
His own people, set high above the nations16
Deuteronomy 26:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 26:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
