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Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Vayelech / And He Went - this week’s Torah reading

Prophecy 58, 62, 151;
Deuteronomy 31:1-31:30;
Isaiah 55:6-56:8;
Matthew 21:9-17;

Deuteronomy 31:1-31:30

1 And Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel.
2 And he said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old today. I am not able any more to go out and to come in. And YAHUVEH has said to me, You shall not cross over this Jordan. (Num 27:12-14)
3 YAHUVEH your Elohim will cross over before you; He shall destroy these nations from before you, and you shall possess them. Joshua is the one who shall cross over before you, as YAHUVEH has spoken.
4 And YAHUVEH shall do to them as He has done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which He destroyed before them.
5 And YAHUVEH shall give them up before your face, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
6 Be strong and brave. Do not fear them, or be afraid of them. For YAHUVEH your Elohim is He who is going with you; He shall not fail you nor forsake you.
7 And Moses called for Joshua, and said to him before the eyes of all Israel, Be strong and brave, for you shall go in with this people to the land which YAHUVEH has sworn to their fathers, to give it to them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.
8 And YAHUVEH is He who is going before you; He Himself shall be with you; He shall not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be afraid.
9 And Moses wrote this Torah, and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, those bearing the ark of the covenant of YAHUVEH, and to all the elders of Israel1.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of seven years in the appointed time, in the year of release, in the Feast of Sukkot,
11 when all Israel comes in to see the face of YAHUVEH in the place which He chooses2, you shall proclaim this Torah before all Israel, in their ears.
12 Assemble the people, men and women, and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, so that they may hear, and so that they may learn, and may fear YAHUVEH your Elohim, and take heed to do all the Words of this Torah;
13 and their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear YAHUVEH your Elohim all the days which you live on the land where you are crossing over the Jordan to possess it. (Deut 4:10, Deut 6:7)
14 And YAHUVEH said to Moses, Behold, your days are coming near to die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, and I shall charge him. And Moses and Joshua went, and they presented themselves at the tent of meeting.
15 And YAHUVEH appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle. (Ex 33:9)
16 And YAHUVEH said to Moses, Behold, you shall lie with your fathers, and this people shall rise up and go lusting after the gods of the strangers of the land into which they are going, and shall forsake Me, and shall break My covenant which I cut with them.
17 And My anger shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them. And it shall be consumed, and many evils and distresses shall find this people. And it shall say in that day, Is it not because my Elohim is not in my midst, that these evils have found me?
18 And hiding I will hide My face in that day, because of all the evil which this people has done, for it shall turn to other gods.
19 Now, then, write this song for you, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song shall be for a witness to Me against the sons of Israel.
20 And I shall bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I have sworn to their fathers. And you shall eat and be satisfied, and become fat, and shall turn to other gods; and they shall serve them, and despise Me, and break My covenant.
21 And it shall be, when many evils and distresses have found them, this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their scheme, which they are making today, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn.
22 And Moses wrote this song on that day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.
23 And He commanded Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and brave; for you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them, and I shall be with you.
24 And it happened, when Moses finished writing, until their completion, all the Words of this Torah in a book,
25 that Moses commanded the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of YAHUVEH, saying,
26 Take this book of the Torah, and you shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of YAHUVEH your Elohim, so that it may be there for a witness against you.
27 For I have known your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against YAHUVEH. And how much more after my death!
28 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, and I shall speak in their ears these words, and cause the heavens and the earth to testify against them.
29 For I know that after my death you shall utterly corrupt yourselves, and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil shall happen to you in the latter end of the days because you shall do evil in the eyes of YAHUVEH, to make Him angry with the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until their conclusion: