DEUT1213 R. Yochanan said: Great is the "draught," [withholding of] which estranges kin, as it is written: [Amon and Moav are forbidden to Israel (their kin by way of Lot)] "because they did not greet you with bread and with water" (Sanhedrin 103b)

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DEUT1219 "And the Lord your God did not desire to heed Bilaam, and the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you": This teaches us that the curser is cursed. Why? "For the Lord your God loves you" (Sifrei)

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DEUT1229 R. Yossi opened [his discourse] in honor of the host, expounding: Now if of the Egyptians, who befriended Israel for mercenary motives only, as it is written (Genesis 47:6): "And if you know of capable men among them, then make them overseers of my cattle" -- Scripture writes: "You shall not despise an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land" -- then one who is host to a Torah scholar, and feeds him, and gives him to drink, and treats him of his possessions -- how much more so! (Berachoth 63b)

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DEUT1233 Rava asked Rabbah b. Mari: Whence is derived the folk-expression: "Cast no aspersions on the well from which you have drunk"? From: "You shall not despise an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land" (Bava Kamma 92b)

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DEUT1235 R. Shimon says: The Egyptians, who drowned Israel in the Nile, and the Edomites, who went out against Israel with the sword, were forbidden by Scripture only until the third generation, whereas the Amonites and Moavites, who took counsel to make Israel sin, were forbidden by Scripture forever -- to teach that one who causes another to sin is worse than one who kills him; for one who kills him removes him only from this world, whereas one who causes him to sin removes him even from the next world (Sifrei)

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DEUT1240 I might think that this refers to [the need for circumspection vis-à-vis] uncleanliness, cleanliness, and tithe; it is, therefore, written (verse 16): "and there shall not be seen in you a thing of nakedness" [indicating this to be the "evil thing" in question]. And whence is included [in the need for circumspection] idolatry, bloodshed, blasphemy, and all the things for which the Canaanites were exiled and which caused the Shechinah to depart? From: "then you shall guard yourself from every evil thing." And "evil thing" [davar] includes even slander (Sifrei)

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DEUT1241 It was taught: R. Nathan says: "then you shall guard yourself against every evil thing [davar]" -- This constitutes an exhortation against the spreading of an evil name ["davar," also construable as "dibbur" ("speech")] (Ketuvoth 46a)

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DEUT1242 That one not gaze at a beautiful woman, even if unmarried, or a married woman, even if ugly; nor any woman's colorful clothes, nor at a male or female ass, a male or female pig, or birds when they are mating (Avodah Zarah 20b)

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DEUT1243 The Rabbis taught: "then you shall guard yourself against every evil thing" -- that one not think lewd thoughts in the daytime so that he not become unclean [with an emission] at night (Avodah Zarah 20b)

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DEUT1246 Let one never allow anything unseemly to leave his lips; for Scripture deviated [into superfluity of] nine or ten letters [in the Hebrew] to avoid unseemly speech, it being written: "if there be among you a man who is not clean" [instead of, simply: "who is unclean"] (Pesachim 3a)

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