Nitzavim Parashat

Bullet Point Summary

– Moshe tells the people he is 120 years old and he cannot go out or come in anymore
– YHWH and Yahushua son of Nun shall go before you
– YHWH will do to the people before you what He did to Sichon and Og
– Be strong and of good courage for He will not forsake you
– Moshe tells Yahushua before all the people to be strong and of good courage
– Moshe writes the law and gives it to the Levi’im to put in the ark
– Command to read the law every 7th Sukkot to all the people
– Gather the people together to hear the law so they may learn to fear YHWH
– YHWH tells Moshe to bring Yahushua and himself to the tabernacle to receive his charge
– Prophecy of Yisra’el going after other elohim once Moshe dies
– Moshe commanded to write his song to witness against them in the future
– Moshe declares to the people how rebellious they have been, and will be after his death
– Haftarah – The mercy of YHWH and the stranger allowed into Yisra’el

Parashat Text with Readers and Daily Portions (Reader 1 Starts on Saturday Evening)

Va’yelech “And he went”
Deut 31:1 – 30 , Isaiah 55:6 – 56:8

Reader 1 (Saturday Evening Portion)

Deu 31:1 And Moshe went and spoke * these words unto all Yisra’el.
Deu 31:2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more
go out and come in: also YHWH has said unto me, You shall not go over * this Yarden.
(Sunday Morning Portion)
Deu 31:3
YHWH your Elohim, He will go over before you, and He will destroy * these nations
from before you, and you shall possess them: and Yahushua, he shall go over before you, as
YHWH has said.
Reader 2 (Sunday Evening Portion)
Deu 31:4
And YHWH shall do unto them as He did to Sichon and to Og, kings of the Amori, and
unto the land of them, whom * He destroyed.
Deu 31:5 And YHWH shall give them up before your face, that you may do unto them according
unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
(Monday Morning Portion)
Deu 31:6
Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for YHWH your
Elohim, He it is that does go with you; He will not fail you, nor forsake you.
Reader 3 (Monday Evening Portion)
Deu 31:7
And Moshe called unto Yahushua, and said unto him in the sight of all Yisra’el, Be
strong and of good courage: for you must go with this people unto the land which YHWH
has sworn unto their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
Deu 31:8 And YHWH, He it is that does go before you; He will be with you, He will not fail you,
neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.
(Tuesday Morning Portion)
Deu 31:9
And Moshe wrote * this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which
bore * the ark of the covenant of YHWH, and unto all the elders of Yisra’el.
Reader 4 (Tuesday Evening Portion)
Deu 31:10
And Moshe commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the
[appointed time] of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Deu 31:11 When all Yisra’el is come to appear * before YHWH your Elohim in the place which
He shall choose, you shall read * this law before all Yisra’el in their hearing.
(Wednesday Morning Portion)
Deu 31:12
Gather * the people together, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that
is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear * YHWH your
Elohim, and observe to do * all the words of this law:
Deu 31:13 And that their children, which have not known, may hear, and learn to fear * YHWH
your Elohim, as long as you live in the land where you go over * Yarden to possess it.
Reader 5 (Wednesday Evening Portion)
Deu 31:14
And YHWH said unto Moshe, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call *
Yahushua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him
a charge. And Moshe and Yahushua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Deu 31:15 And YHWH appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the
cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
(Thursday Morning Portion)
Deu 31:16
And YHWH said unto Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this
people will rise up, and go a whoring after the elohim of the strangers of the land, where
they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break * my covenant which I have made
with them.
Deu 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and
I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall
befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our
Elohim is not among us?
Deu 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have
wrought, in that they are turned unto other elohim.
Deu 31:19 Now therefore write * you this song for you, and teach it to the children of Yisra’el:
put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Yisra’el.
Reader 6 (Thursday Evening Portion)
Deu 31:20
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers,
that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed
fat; then will they turn unto other elohim, and serve them, and provoke me, and break * my
covenant.
Deu 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that 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 imagination which they go about, even now, before I have
brought them into the land which I swore.
Deu 31:22 Moshe therefore wrote * this song the same day, and taught it to * the children of
Yisra’el.
Deu 31:23 And he gave * Yahushua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good
courage: for you shall bring * the children of Yisra’el into the land which I swore unto them:
and I will be with you.
Deu 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moshe had made an end of writing * the words of this law
in a book, until they were finished,
Reader 7 (6th Day Friday Morning Double Portion)
Deu 31:25
Moshe commanded * the Levi’im, which bore the ark of the covenant of YHWH,
saying,
Deu 31:26 Take * this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of YHWH
your Elohim, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Deu 31:27 For I know * your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you
this day, you have been rebellious against YHWH; and how much more after my death?
Deu 31:28 Gather unto me * all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak *
these words in their ears, and call * heaven and earth to witness against them.
Deu 31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside
from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days;
because you will do * evil in the sight of YHWH, to provoke Him to anger through the work
of your hands.
Deu 31:30 And Moshe spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Yisra’el * the words of this
song, until they were ended.
Haftarah (Shabbat Evening Portion)
Isa 55:6
Seek you YHWH while He may be found, call you upon Him while He is near:
Isa 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto YHWH, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our Elohim, for He will
abundantly pardon.
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith YHWH.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa 55:10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not there, but
waters * the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater:
Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish * that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent
it.
Isa 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills
shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Isa 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up
the myrtle tree: and it shall be to YHWH for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be
cut off.
Isa 56:1 Thus saith YHWH, Keep you judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to
come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Isa 56:2 Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that lays hold on it; that keeps
the sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
Isa 56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to YHWH, speak, saying,
YHWH has utterly separated me from His people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
dry tree.
Isa 56:4 For thus saith YHWH unto the eunuchs that keep * my sabbaths, and choose the
things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Isa 56:5 Even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better
than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isa 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to YHWH, to serve Him, and to love
* the name of YHWH, to be His servants, every one that keeps the sabbath from polluting it,
and takes hold of my covenant;
Isa 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my
house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
Isa 56:8 YHWH Elohim which gathers the outcasts of Yisra’el saith, Yet will I gather others to
him, besides those that are gathered unto him.
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