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The Bible · 49/54

Ki Tetzé

The greatest number of commandments: family, restitution, wages, weights.

Hebrew name
כִּי תֵצֵא
Book
Deuteronomy
Verses
Dt 21,10–25,19
Haftara
Is 54,1–10

Seventy-four commandments, almost all directed toward ordinary life: returning the lost object, raising the beast fallen under its burden, paying the worker before nightfall, not having two weights in one's bag, not taking the mother with the chicks. Holiness is there a sum of small gestures. The section ends with the order to remember Amalek and not to forget.