Torah Portion Vetchanan
Torah Portion Vetchanan
Devarim – Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11
Recall, Moses is giving his grand finale speech to the people as they prepare to cross the Jordan river.
Deu 3:23 I begged YHWH at that time, saying,
Deu 3:24 Adonai YHWH, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what “god” is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
Deu 3:25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Yarden, that goodly mountain, and Levanon.
Deu 3:26 But YHWH was angry with me for your sakes, and didn’t listen to me; and YHWH said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.
Deu 3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Yarden.
Deu 3:28 But charge Yehoshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
Deu 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beit-Pe`or.
Deu 4:1 Now, Yisra’el, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, gives you.
Deu 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the mitzvot of YHWH your Elohim which I command you.
The Oral Law violates this commandment in every possible way. They negate the plain intention of many of Elohim’s laws (for example, negating the schmitta year release of debt by a fake “Sale” of that debt to a foreigner so it can continue to be collected) and make burdensome additions to Elohim’s law (such as which shoe you should put on first in the morning) and stretch the intent of some of Elohim’s law beyond all reasonability (such as requiring 12-14 days of abstinence for a woman’s niddah instead of 7). The “fences” around the written Torah are the opinions of one sect – the Pharisees, who were heavily influenced by pagan Babylon during the first deportation and by pagan Hellenism before and after the second deportation, and later by Catholic Europe to become what we know as the Orthodox Rabbinate.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:3 Your eyes have seen what YHWH did because of Ba`al-Pe`or; for all the men who followed Ba`al-Pe`or, YHWH your Elohim has destroyed them from the midst of you.
Deu 4:4 But you who did cleave to YHWH your Elohim are alive everyone of you this day.
Deu 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as YHWH my Elohim commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deu 4:7 For what [other] great nation is there, that has a “god” so near to them, as YHWH our Elohim is whenever we call on him?
Deu 4:8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
The Rabbinate considers Elohim’s written Torah to be inadequate. They claim it fails to explain or make clear Elohim’s laws to us, but that is just not true. They claim that because the written Torah does not describe one particular way to do many things, that they received a “secret” revelation on Mt. Sinai explaining the “one” particular way to do those things. But in reality, there is no single way to obey a Torah commandment – any method that does not disobey it obviously obeys it, not just “their” way. They intend to put Elohim and all Israel into their straight-jacket of power and control, by saying there is only a single way to follow Elohim’s instructions. Elohim, however, created 12 tribes that had 12 different sets of interpretations and traditions and even spoke different dialects of Hebrew. None were better or worse than any other. They were all valid and all accepted. It was only after the Pharisees were able to cut a deal with the Romans (to collaborate with their takeover of Judea and save their own skins) that they seized control of all tradition and precedent in 70 CE. From that time forward, they defined “Judaism” in their own image and no other – Elohim was excluded from the process entirely by way of their false “it is not in heaven” docrtine.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
Deu 4:10 the day that you stood before YHWH your Elohim in Chorev, when YHWH said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Deu 4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Deu 4:12 YHWH spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
Deu 4:13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten mitzvot; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
Deu 4:14 YHWH commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
This is when the Rabbinate says Moses secretly received the Oral Law. But the Torah itself says that Moses taught the people everything he was told, and wrote it down in the written texts.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that YHWH spoke to you in Chorev out of the midst of the fire.
Deu 4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deu 4:17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Deu 4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
Deu 4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which YHWH your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Paganism is still alive and well, too, in America and around the world. There are plenty of peole who consider animal “rights” to be superior to human beings, and who follow astrologers, and who worship the moon, sun and stars and even trees and rocks in new age occult practices.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:20 But YHWH has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
Deu 4:21 Furthermore YHWH was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Yarden, and that I should not go in to that good land, which YHWH your Elohim gives you for an inheritance:
Deu 4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Yarden; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deu 4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of YHWH your Elohim, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which YHWH your Elohim has forbidden you.
Deu 4:24 For YHWH your Elohim is a devouring fire, a jealous Elohim.
Deu 4:25 When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of YHWH your Elohim, to provoke him to anger;
Deu 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deu 4:27 YHWH will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where YHWH shall lead you away.
Deu 4:28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
This has happened to most of 10-Israel and a great percentage of Jews/Levites, too. They have become assimilated into pagan nations. What we call “Jews” today are only two tribes of Judaism, with a set of traditions and precedents that they insist show they are ALL of Israel and that they claim are binding on all Israel, but that is not the case. Israel’s covenant with Elohim is His Written Torah, which is written on our hearts and minds when we are infused with the Ruach HaKodesh upon our immersion and profession of faith in Yeshua HaMashiach. There is no other covenant and no other law. Teshuvah (repentance) is, by definition, returning to Elohim’s Written Torah – it is NOT adopting the Rabbinate’s Oral Law, which VIOLATES Elohim’s real Torah.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:29 But from there you shall seek YHWH your Elohim, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu 4:30 When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to YHWH your Elohim, and listen to his voice:
His voice, not the Rabbis.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:31 for YHWH your Elohim is a merciful Elohim; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Deu 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that Elohim created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
Deu 4:33 Did ever a people hear the voice of Elohim speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Deu 4:34 Or has Elohim tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deu 4:35 To you it was shown, that you might know that YHWH he is Elohim; there is none else besides him.
Deu 4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deu 4:37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
Deu 4:38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
Deu 4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that YHWH he is Elohim in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.
Deu 4:40 You shall keep his statutes, and his mitzvot, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which YHWH your Elohim gives you, forever.
“That I command you this day” also is evidence that there was no “secret” Oral Law handed down to anyone. Elohim gave His Written Torah to the entire nation and that was all they needed. No instructions were kept back from them – indeed, it is ridiculous to claim that Elohim becomes angry and punishes people for not following instructions they never received.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 4:41 Then Moshe set apart three cities beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise;
Deu 4:42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
Deu 4:43 [namely], Betzer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Re’uveni; and Ramot in Gil`ad, for the Gadi; and Galon in Bashan, for the Manashi.
Deu 4:44 This is the law which Moshe set before the children of Yisra’el:
Deu 4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra’el, when they came forth out of Egypt,
Deu 4:46 beyond the Yarden, in the valley over against Beit-Pe`or, in the land of Sichon king of the Amori, who lived at Cheshbon, whom Moshe and the children of Yisra’el struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
Deu 4:47 They took his land in possession, and the land of `Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise;
Deu 4:48 from `Aro`er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Tzion (the same is Chermon),
Deu 4:49 and all the `Aravah beyond the Yarden eastward, even to the sea of the `Aravah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
Deu 5:1 Moshe called to all Yisra’el, and said to them, Hear, Yisra’el, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.
Again, no secret law here, only Elohim’s explicit and public instructions to all Israel.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:2 YHWH our Elohim made a covenant with us in Chorev.
Deu 5:3 YHWH didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
“All of us” includes not just the 12 Tribes of Israel but also the entire mixed multitude that stayed with them since they came out of Egypt. This covenant is binding upon the descendents of every one of these people, whether they were native born or not. The fact is that taking what we know of genetic transmission and the migrations of 10-Israel and the Jews/Levites, no one of European and Near Eastern or Native American descent can claim with a straight face that they don’t have any Israelite ancestors.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:4 YHWH spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,
Deu 5:5 (I stood between YHWH and you at that time, to show you the word of YHWH: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain;) saying,
Deu 5:6 “I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deu 5:7 You shall have no other “gods” before me.
Literally, you shall have no other “mighty ones” before me. No kings, no priests, no Rabbis, no ministers, no prophets, no angels or demon are to come between you and YHWH. They are created beings, and while they may claim to speak for Him, if you want to know His word you should read it and let the Ruach HaKodesh clarify it, not rely on earthly teachers. The days are long gone when texts of the Tanakh were too expensive or too hard to come by. Everyone today is responsible for reading the Bible and learning it themselves, not put themselves under the power of some other authority.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:8 “You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Deu 5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, YHWH, your Elohim, am a jealous Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
Deu 5:10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my mitzvot.
This does not prohibit artwork – indeed, the “sea” itself has cast bulls as its base, for example. The prohibition is strictly against idol worship.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:11 “You shall not take the name of YHWH your Elohim in vain: for YHWH will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
This primarily regards taking oaths, but can also apply to “curse” words.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:12 “Observe the day of Shabbat, to keep it holy, as YHWH your Elohim commanded you.
Deu 5:13 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
Deu 5:14 but the seventh day is a Shabbat to YHWH your Elohim: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Deu 5:15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your Elohim brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore YHWH your Elohim commanded you to keep the day of Shabbat.
There was no such thing as a “two day” weekend until very recently in modern times. The first day of the week was a workday like any other, and there is nothing sacred about it. Constantine declared that Sunday, the day of the sun god mithras, would replace Elohim’s real weekly Sabbath in the 4th century CE. Until that time, all apostles and believers observed Elohim’s real 7th day Sabbath. The fact that Yeshua rose from the grave on the first day of the week was in fulfillment of the Feast of Firstfruits, which always falls on the first day of the week following Pesach. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the regular weekly Sabbath. In fact, the Feast of Firstfruits is not even a sabbath itself.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:16 “Honor your father and your mother, as YHWH your Elohim commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which YHWH your Elohim gives you.
Deu 5:17 “You shall not murder.
Often mistranslated as “kill,” this is not a prohibition against a just war or self-defense.
Deuteronony, continued:
Deu 5:18 “Neither shall you commit adultery.
Adultery is seeking sexual gratification from any source other than your legal spouse. It includes pornography of all kinds, as well as flirtations and such with someone who is not your spouse.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:19 “Neither shall you steal.
To steal is to take something from someone to whom it legally belongs. Therefore cheating on your taxes, defrauding a government program or your insurance company, etc., is also stealing.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:20 “Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
Meant primarily concerning court cases, the “court of public opinion” also applies.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:21 “Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Coveting is not the same as having a goal and saving up for it because you admire it, or working toward emulating someone who is spirit-filled and good at what they do. We need goals and aspirations to motivate us to be good stewards and do well. However, there are realistic limits to what we can achieve with our own resources, and we need to be satisfied with what Elohim provided – not lusting after things that are not useful for the kingdom and not beneficial for your family and yourself. Social status is not the goal of a Believer.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:22 These words YHWH spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
These are the basis of the entire corpus of the written Torah – our verticle duties to Elohim and our horizontal duties to our fellow men. From these, all the details of the written Torah spring.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deu 5:24 and you said, Behold, YHWH our Elohim has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that Elohim does speak with man, and he lives.
Deu 5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of YHWH our Elohim any more, then we shall die.
Deu 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
Deu 5:27 Go you near, and hear all that YHWH our Elohim shall say: and speak you to us all that YHWH our Elohim shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
In other words, they commit to obeying all of Elohim’s commandments – for themselves and all their descendents for all time, including us in this day who may not even know about having an Israelite ancestor.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 5:28 YHWH heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and YHWH said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.
Deu 5:29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my mitzvot always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
Deu 5:30 Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
Deu 5:31 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Deu 5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Deu 5:33 You shall walk in all the way which YHWH your Elohim has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
Again, no “secret” instructions here. The results of Moshe’s time on Mt. Chorev were written down and read to all Israel every 7th year in a public assembly, as we will later see. There aren’t thousands and thousands of pages of Elohim’s instructions – there is only the Written Torah.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 6:1 Now this is the mitzvah, the statutes, and the ordinances, which YHWH your Elohim commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
Deu 6:2 that you might fear YHWH your Elohim, to keep all his statutes and his mitzvot, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
Deu 6:3 Hear therefore, Yisra’el, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu 6:4 Hear, Yisra’el: YHWH is our Elohim; YHWH is one:
Deu 6:5 and you shall love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deu 6:6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
Deu 6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deu 6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Deu 6:9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
This passage is recited in the daily prayers at least twice each day.
“Your children” is generally considered to supplement the Genesis commandment to “go forth and multiply.” That is, from these passages we derive a commandment to marry and have children if at all possible.
“Bind them for a sign upon your hand” is the source of the tradition of using t’fillin (also called “phylacteries”) during prayer. Yeshua did not claim that this was an invalid interpretation of the Torah commandment (though there are obviously other interpretations) – but he did complain that the Pharisees had made their t’fillin obnoxiously large to show off. (Matt 23:5)
“Write them on the doorposts of your house” is the source of the tradition of placing a mezuzah on the doors of the home and the gates of the property. It contains verses from Torah, including this passage, to demonstrate to all who enter that the family is obedient to Elohim. There are, of course, other ways of obeying this commandment, such as actually writing verses from Torah on the doorposts.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 6:10 It shall be, when YHWH your Elohim shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
Deu 6:11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
Deu 6:12 then beware lest you forget YHWH, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deu 6:13 You shall fear YHWH your Elohim; and him shall you serve, and shall swear by his name.
Deu 6:14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
Deu 6:15 for YHWH your Elohim in the midst of you is a jealous Elohim; lest the anger of YHWH your Elohim be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
Deu 6:16 You shall not tempt YHWH your Elohim, as you tempted him in Massah.
Deu 6:17 You shall diligently keep the mitzvot of YHWH your Elohim, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Deu 6:18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of YHWH; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which YHWH swore to your fathers,
Deu 6:19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as YHWH has spoken.
In addition to actually obeying Elohim’s commandments, we are here commanded to “do that which is good and right,” meaning all our actions, even things in everyday life which do not appear to have anything to do with Torah commandments, should be conducted in such a way as to be above reproach, be generous, and be kind. A torah-observant skinflint is still a skinflint, and brings a bad name both to Elohim and to other Believers.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 6:20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which YHWH our Elohim has commanded you?
Deu 6:21 then you shall tell your son, We were Par`oh’s bondservants in Egypt: and YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
Deu 6:22 and YHWH showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Par`oh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
Deu 6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
Deu 6:24 YHWH commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH our Elohim, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
Deu 6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this mitzvah before YHWH our Elohim, as he has commanded us.
This is the definition of righteousness which Yeshua, as YHWH Incarnate, gave us. There is no other definition of righteousness. If you are disobedient of Elohim’s commandments, you are living in sin and are not righteous, period. It’s that simple.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 7:1 When YHWH your Elohim shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Chittite, and the Girgashi, and the Amori, and the Kena`ani, and the Perizzi, and the Chivvi, and the Yevusi, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
Deu 7:2 and when YHWH your Elohim shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
Deu 7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.
Unless a person has committed themselves to Torah Observance and faith in Yeshua HaMashiach, they are not a fit marriage partner. You cannot “fix” a spouse who has a rebellious heart. Until someone repents, they are not to be considered for marriage. We are commanded to marry “in Adonai,” as Paul put it (I Cor 7:39). Marrying a pagan or a disobedient person leads to sin in your home.
Deuteronomy, continued:
Deu 7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
Deu 7:5 But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Deu 7:6 For you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim: YHWH your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deu 7:7 YHWH didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
Deu 7:8 but because YHWH loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has YHWH brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Par`oh king of Egypt.
Deu 7:9 Know therefore that YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim, the faithful Elohim, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his mitzvot to a thousand generations,
Deu 7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
Deu 7:11 You shall therefore keep the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
These are the words of Yeshua, as YHWH Incarnate. We must take them seriously. Whether we are native born or grafted-in, they apply to us.
Next: Haftarah Vetchanan.
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