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Deuteronomychapter 7

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Original Language

Deuteronomy 7Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 7. 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

Weekly portion 45 of 54

וָאֶתְחַנַּן Va'etchanan, Deuteronomy 3:23 to 7:11

Read with it: Isaiah 40:1 to 40:26.

Weekly portion 46 of 54

עֵקֶב Eikev, Deuteronomy 7:12 to 11:25

Read with it: Isaiah 49:14 to 51:3.

The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →

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.

Make no covenant; break down their altars1

Deuteronomy 7:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

Rashi on Deuteronomy 7:1

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
ונשל This is an expression denoting casting away, and throwing to a distance, and similar is, (Deuteronomy:5) “and the iron flies off" (ונשל).

Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934