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Aliya 2
Car l’Éternel, ton Dieu, est un feu dévorant, une divinité jalouse!
Et tu observeras ses lois et ses commandements, que je te prescris aujourd’hui, pour ton bonheur et pour celui de tes enfants après toi, et afin que ton existence se prolonge sur cette terre que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne à perpétuité."
Aliya 3
et toute la Plaine du côté oriental du Jourdain jusqu’à la mer de la Plaine, sous le versant du Pisga.
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Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr] · Licence: Public Domain · Source
Deutéronome 4:9 dans toutes les traductions
English · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009
Look out for yourself and guard your life exceedingly, lest you forget the words your eyes witnessed, and lest they are removed from your mind, all the days of your life; you will make them known to your children and to your grandchildren.
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English · The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein
Only take heed to yourself, and heed your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. [Only if you do not forget them and do them as prescribed will you be thought wise and understanding; but if you distort them through forgetfulness, you will be accounted foolish.] And you shall impart them to your sons and to the sons of your sons.
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עברית · Miqra according to the Masorah
רַ֡ק הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֩ וּשְׁמֹ֨ר נַפְשְׁךָ֜ מְאֹ֗ד פֶּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֨ח אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־רָא֣וּ עֵינֶ֗יךָ וּפֶן־יָס֙וּרוּ֙ מִלְּבָ֣בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י חַיֶּ֑יךָ וְהוֹדַעְתָּ֥ם לְבָנֶ֖יךָ וְלִבְנֵ֥י בָנֶֽיךָ׃
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English · The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917)
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;
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עברית · Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra
רַ֡ק הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֩ וּשְׁמֹ֨ר נַפְשְׁךָ֜ מְאֹ֗ד פֶּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֨ח אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־רָא֣וּ עֵינֶ֗יךָ וּפֶן־יָס֙וּרוּ֙ מִלְּבָ֣בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י חַיֶּ֑יךָ וְהוֹדַעְתָּ֥ם לְבָנֶ֖יךָ וְלִבְנֵ֥י בָנֶֽיךָ׃
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עברית · Tanach with Text Only
רק השמר לך ושמר נפשך מאד פן תשכח את הדברים אשר ראו עיניך ופן יסורו מלבבך כל ימי חייך והודעתם לבניך ולבני בניך
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עברית · Tanach with Nikkud
רַק הִשָּׁמֶר לְךָ וּשְׁמֹר נַפְשְׁךָ מְאֹד פֶּן־תִּשְׁכַּח אֶת־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר־רָאוּ עֵינֶיךָ וּפֶן־יָסוּרוּ מִלְּבָבְךָ כֹּל יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ וְהוֹדַעְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ וְלִבְנֵי בָנֶיךָ׃
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ייִדיש · Yehoyesh's Yiddish Tanakh Translation [yi]
נאָר זײַ דיר אָפּגעהיט און היט זײער דײַן זעל, זאָלסט ניט פֿאַרגעסן די זאַכן װאָס דײַנע אױגן האָבן געזען, און זײ זאָלן ניט אָפּגעטאָן װערן פֿון דײַן האַרצן אַלע טעג פֿון דײַן לעבן, און זאָלסט זײ מאַכן װיסן דײַנע קינדער און דײַנע קינדסקינדער;
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Français · Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr]
Mais aussi garde-toi, et évite avec soin, pour ton salut, d’oublier les événements dont tes yeux furent témoins, de les laisser échapper de ta pensée, à aucun moment de ton existence! Fais-les connaître à tes enfants et aux enfants de tes enfants!
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Polski · Bible in Polish, trans. Izaak Cylkow, 1841 - 1908 [pl]
Wszakże miej się na baczności, a strzeż duszy twej usilnie, byś nie zapominał rzeczy, które widziały oczy twoje, i aby nie odstępowały od serca twojego, po wszystkie dni żywota twego; a opowiadaj o nich synom twoim, i synom synów twoich;
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Deutsch · Die Heilige Schrift, trans. Dr. Simon Bernfeld, Berlin, 1902 - German [de]
Nur hüte dich und nimm dich sehr in Acht, dass du nicht vergessest die Dinge, die deine Augen gesehen, und dass sie nicht aus deinem Herzen weichen all die Tage deines Lebens; vielmehr sollst du sie kund machen deinen Kindern und deinen Kindeskindern.
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Esperanto · La Malnova Testamento, L.L.Zamenhof [eo]
Nur gardu vin kaj forte gardu vian animon, ke vi ne forgesu la aferojn, kiujn vidis viaj okuloj, kaj ke ili ne eliru el via koro dum via tuta vivo; kaj rakontu al viaj filoj kaj al la filoj de viaj filoj
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Commentaires sur Deutéronome 4:9
Rashi
עברית
רק השמר לך וגו' פן תשכח את הדברים. אז כשלא תשכחו אותם ותעשום על אמתתם תחשבו חכמים ונבונים ואם תעותו אותם מתוך שכחה תחשבו שוטים:
On Your Way · Licence: Public Domain · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Targum Jonathan
English
Only take heed to yourselves and diligently keep your souls, lest you forget the things which you beheld with your eyes at Sinai, and that they depart not from thy heart all the days of thy life, and you may teach them to your children, and to your childrens children;
The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862 · Licence: Public Domain · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Ibn Ezra
English
Only watch yourself Even if you forget everything else, do not forget the day when you stood at Mount Sinai.
the things which your eyes have seen (as in, “all the people saw the thunder…” [Exodus 20: 15])
Ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch; trans. by Jay F. Shachter · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Ramban (Nachmanides)
English
ONLY TAKE HEED TO THYSELF etc. LEST THOU FORGET THE THINGS. “[Only] then when you will not forget them and fulfill them in their true form, will you be accounted wise and understanding men; but if you pervert them due to forgetfulness you will be regarded as fools.” This is Rashi’s language. But it is completely incorrect. (take heed), it should be interpreted as a prohibition as will be explained. According to Rashi, however, it is not a prohibition, but a mere negation: if they do not observe the commandments, they will not be considered wise and understanding men. Rather, this verse, in my opinion, is a negative commandment in which he admonishes [us] severely [as follows]: For, as he stated that we should be careful concerning all the commandments and be heedful to perform the statutes and the ordinances, he again stated: “Only I warn you exceedingly to take heed and guard yourselves very, very much to remember whence the commandments came to you, that you should not forget the Revelation on Mount Sinai, nor all the things which your eyes saw there — the thunderings, and the lightnings, His glory and His greatness and His words that you have heard there out of the midst of the fire. And you should convey all the things which your eyes saw at that glorious Revelation unto thy children and thy children’s children forever.” He explained the reason [for this prohibition]: G-d made that Revelation so that you might learn to fear Him all the days and teach your children during all generations. Therefore, do so [remember the Revelation and convey it to your offspring] and do not forget it. Thus before mentioning the commandments which were proclaimed there [on Mount Sinai] he admonished with a negative commandment that we are not to forget a thing from the Revelation [of the Eternal at Mount Sinai], and we are never to remove it from our hearts. He further charged in the form of a positive commandment that we should inform all our children from generation to generation of everything that happened there — what we saw and what we heard., Vol. I, pp. 263-265). To resolve this difficulty we must say that Ramban includes the positive duty in the general commandment of teaching our children the words of the Torah (further 6:7; “The Commandments,” Vol. I, pp. 16-18), which of course includes the narrative of the Revelation.
The benefit of this commandment is very great. For if the words of the Torah had come to us only through …
Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976 · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Sforno
English
רק השמר לך, even though I have said that you are wise people in the eyes of the gentile nations, be careful not to absorb the views of the wise men of those nations who deny the existence of G’d the Creator and His ability and His supervision of the universe He has created. They may try to convince you with all kinds of intelligent sounding theories.
פן תשכח את הדברים אשר ראו עיניך, The reason why G’d has cautioned you to be so much on your guard is that you might forget the evidence of your own eyes, at Mount Sinai, as well as in Egypt and at the Sea of Reeds, and as a result be misled by your mental eyes when interpreting the Torah. This was the purpose of miracles which challenged your intellect, to show you that commonly held concepts are not necessarily true. [perhaps the author has in mind the first such miracle Moses experienced when he observed with his physical eyes that the burning bush did not burn up and turn into ashes. The Israelites, when observing the spectacle of fire within the ice of the hail, the seventh plague, collectively experienced another challenge to the concept that fire and water are totally incompatible with one another. Ed.]
והודעתם לבניך, you must therefore relate these experiences you had with your own eyes to your children who have not seen such miracles.
Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria