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Beit Midrash

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Balak | בלק | “Balak”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Balak (בָּלָק — Hebrew for “Balak,” a name, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 40th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 22:2–25:9. The parashah is made up of 5,357 Hebrew letters, 1,455 Hebrew words, and 104 verses, and can occupy about 178 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).


Torah: Numbers 22:1 – 25:9

1st reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 22:1-12

Num 22:1  And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ beyond the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo.

Num 22:2  And Balaq son of Tsippor saw all that Yisra’ĕl had done to the Amorites.

Num 22:3  And Mo’aḇ was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Mo’aḇ was in dread because of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 22:4  And Mo’aḇ said to the elders of Miḏyan, “Now this company is licking up all that is around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Now Balaq son of Tsippor was sovereign of the Mo’aḇites at that time,

Num 22:5  and he sent messengers to Bilʽam son of Beʽor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, “See, a people has come from Mitsrayim. See, they have covered the surface of the land, and are settling next to me!

Num 22:6  “And now, please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too strong for me. It might be that I smite them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Num 22:7  And the elders of Mo’aḇ and the elders of Miḏyan left with the fees for divination in their hand, and they came to Bilʽam and spoke the words of Balaq to him.

Num 22:8  And he said to them, “Spend the night here, and I shall bring back word to you, as יהוה speaks to me.” So the heads of Mo’aḇ stayed with Bilʽam.

Num 22:9  And Elohim came to Bilʽam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Num 22:10  And Bilʽam said to Elohim, “Balaq, son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo’aḇ, has sent to me, saying,

Num 22:11  ‘See, a people has come out of Mitsrayim and cover the surface of the land. Come now, curse them for me. It might be that I am able to fight against them and drive them out.’ ”

Num 22:12  And Elohim said to Bilʽam, “Do not go with them. You do not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

2nd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 22:13-20

Num 22:13  And Bilʽam rose in the morning and said to the heads of Balaq, “Go back to your land, for יהוה has refused to allow me to go with you.”

Num 22:14  And the heads of Mo’aḇ arose and went to Balaq, and said, “Bilʽam refuses to come with us.”

Num 22:15  Then Balaq again sent heads, more numerous and more esteemed than they.

Num 22:16  And they came to Bilʽam and said to him, “This is what Balaq son of Tsippor said: ‘Do not be withheld from coming to me, please,

Num 22:17  for I esteem you very greatly, and whatever you say to me, I do. Therefore please come, curse this people for me.’ ”

Num 22:18  And Bilʽam answered and said to the servants of Balaq, “Though Balaq were to give me his house filled with silver and gold, I am unable to go beyond the word of יהוה my Elohim, to do less or more.

Num 22:19  “And now, please, you also stay here tonight, and let me find out what more יהוה says to me.”

Yahweh had distinctly already given His answer in verse 12, and he should not have even allowed these men in his house to tempt him from the word Yahweh gave him.

Num 22:20  And Elohim came to Bilʽam at night and said to him, “If the men come to call you, rise and go with them, but only the word which I speak to you that you do.”

3rd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 22:21-38

Num 22:21  And Bilʽam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey, and went with the heads of Mo’aḇ.

Num 22:22  But the displeasure of Elohim burned because he went, and the Messenger of יהוה stationed Himself in the way as an adversary against him. And he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Num 22:23  And the donkey saw the Messenger of יהוה standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. So Bilʽam beat the donkey to turn her back onto the way.

Num 22:24  Then the Messenger of יהוה stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side.

Num 22:25  And when the donkey saw the Messenger of יהוה, she pushed herself against the wall and crushed Bilʽam’s foot against the wall, so he beat her again.

Bilʽam was a descendent of Laban. The “wall” against which Balaam’s ass crushed the prophet’s leg on his journey to the Plains of Moab to curse the Israelites (see Numbers 22:25) is the very mound of stones erected by Laban and Jacob on Mount Galed to attest to the vow which Balaam was now violating with his journey.

Laban’s father, Bethuel, was the son of Nachor, Abraham’s older brother. In addition, Laban was thrice related by marriage to Abraham’s family: his sister Rebecca married Isaac, and his two daughters, Leah and Rachel, both married Jacob. Thus Laban was Abraham’s great-nephew, Isaac’s cousin and brother-in-law, and Jacob’s uncle and father-in-law.

Laban lived in the city of Charan in Mesopotamia (Aram Naharaiim, the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers in modern-day Iraq/Syria/Turkey), where Abraham’s father and brother and their families settled after accompanying him on the first leg of his journey from Ur Casdim to the Holy Land. We first encounter Laban welcoming Abraham’s servant Eliezer when the latter comes to Charan to find a bride for Isaac. A generation later, Isaac and Rebecca send their younger son Jacob to Charan to “take a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.”

Jacob falls in love with Rachel, the younger of Laban’s daughters, and works for seven years tending Laban’s flocks to earn her hand. But Laban replaces Rachel with her older sister Leah on the wedding night, Jacob discovering the deception only the next morning. Laban consents to give him Rachel in marriage as well — in return for an additional seven years of labor. For the many deceptions that accompany this incident, as well as numerous other ways in which Laban attempts to swindle Jacob in the twenty years that his son-in-law is in  his employ (Jacob works for an additional six years to earn flocks of his own), Laban is known in Midrashic literature as Laban HaRamai, “Laban the Deceiver”. Yet Jacob boasts that, in the end, he bested his father-in-law at his own game, turning his deceptions against him to earn for himself the great wealth with which he returns from Charan to the Holy Land..

Laban tries to prevent that return at all costs, or, at the very least, to compel Leah, Rachel and their children to remain with him in Charan; when Jacob and his family flee Laban’s home, he and his sons chase after them to force their return. It is for this reason that Laban is described as one of Israel’s most dangerous enemies, for he sought to nip the fledgling nation in its bud, when its entire history was concentrated in the first Jewish family. In the end, Laban and Jacob make a truce on Mount Galed, where they erect a mound of stones as a testimonial that “I will not pass over this mound to you, and that you will not pass over this mound and this pillar to me, for harm,” following which Laban returns to Charan.

Num 22:26  And the Messenger of יהוה went further, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn aside, right or left.

Num 22:27  And when the donkey saw the Messenger of יהוה, she lay down under Bilʽam. So Bilʽam’s displeasure burned, and he beat the donkey with his staff.

Num 22:28  Then יהוה opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bilʽam, “What have I done to you, that you have beaten me these three times?”

Num 22:29  And Bilʽam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would have killed you by now!”

Num 22:30  And the donkey said to Bilʽam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden, ever since I became yours, to this day? Was I ever known to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

Num 22:31  Then יהוה opened Bilʽam’s eyes, and he saw the Messenger of יהוה standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand. And he bowed his head and fell on his face.

Num 22:32  And the Messenger of יהוה said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? See, I have come out to stand against you, because your way is reckless before Me.

Num 22:33  “And the donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, I certainly would have killed you by now, and let her live.”

Num 22:34  And Bilʽam said to the Messenger of יהוה, “I have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. And now, if evil is in Your eyes, let me turn back.”

Num 22:35  And the Messenger of יהוה said to Bilʽam, “Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you speak.” Bilʽam then went with the heads of Balaq.

Num 22:36  And when Balaq heard that Bilʽam was coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Mo’aḇ, which is on the border at the Arnon, which was in the extremity of the border.

Num 22:37  And Balaq said to Bilʽam, “Did I not urgently send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to esteem you?”

Num 22:38  And Bilʽam said to Balaq, “See, I have come to you! Now, am I at all able to say somewhat? The word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I speak.”

4th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 22:39-23:12

Num 22:39  And Bilʽam went with Balaq, and they came to Qiryath Ḥutsoth.

Num 22:40  And Balaq slaughtered cattle and sheep, and he sent some to Bilʽam and to the heads who were with him.

Num 22:41  And it came to be the next day, that Balaq took Bilʽam and brought him up to the high places of Baʽal, and from there he saw the extremity of the camp.

Num 23:1  And Bilʽam said to Balaq, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

Num 23:2  And Balaq did as Bilʽam had spoken, and Balaq and Bilʽam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Num 23:3  Bilʽam then said to Balaq, “Stand by your burnt offering, and let me go on. It might be that יהוה does come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I shall declare to you.” And he went to a bare height.

Num 23:4  And Elohim came to Bilʽam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

Num 23:5  And יהוה put a word in the mouth of Bilʽam, and said, “Return to Balaq, and this is what you say.”

Num 23:6  And he returned to him and saw him standing by his burnt offering, he and all the heads of Mo’aḇ.

Num 23:7  And he took up his proverb and said, “Balaq the sovereign of Mo’aḇ has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. ‘Come, curse Yaʽaqoḇ for me, and come, rage at Yisra’ĕl!’

Num 23:8  “How do I curse whom Ěl has not cursed? And how do I rage at whom יהוה has not raged?

Num 23:9  “For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I observe him. Look, a people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations.

Num 23:10  “Who shall count the dust of Yaʽaqoḇ, and the number of one-fourth of Yisra’ĕl? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

Num 23:11  And Balaq said to Bilʽam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have kept on blessing!”

Num 23:12  And he answered and said, “Should I not take heed to speak what יהוה has put in my mouth?”

5th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 23:13-26

Num 23:13  And Balaq said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you see them. You only see the extremity but not all of them. Curse them for me from there.”

Num 23:14  And he took him to the field of Tsophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Num 23:15  And he said to Balaq, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet over there.”

Num 23:16  And יהוה came to Bilʽam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balaq, and say this.”

Num 23:17  So he went to him and saw him standing by his burnt offering, and the heads of Mo’aḇ with him. And Balaq asked him, “What did יהוה say?”

Num 23:18  And he took up his proverb and said, “Rise up, Balaq, and hear! Listen to me, son of Tsippor!

Num 23:19  “Ěl is not a man, to lie; nor a son of man, to repent! Has He said, and would He not do it; or spoken, and would not confirm it?

Num 23:20  “See, I have received, to bless. And He has blessed, and I do not reverse it.

Num 23:21  “He has not looked upon wickedness in Yaʽaqoḇ, nor has He seen trouble in Yisra’ĕl. יהוה his Elohim is with him, and the shout of a Sovereign is in him.

Num 23:22  “Ěl who brought them out of Mitsrayim, is for them like the horns of a wild ox.

Num 23:23  “For there is no sorcery against Yaʽaqoḇ, nor is there any divination against Yisra’ĕl. Now it is said to Yaʽaqoḇ and to Yisra’ĕl, ‘What has Ěl done!’

Num 23:24  “Look, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it lies not down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

Num 23:25  And Balaq said to Bilʽam, “Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”

Num 23:26  And Bilʽam answered and said to Balaq, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, ‘All that יהוה speaks, that I do’?”

6th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 23:27-24:13

Num 23:27  And Balaq said to Bilʽam, “Please come, let me take you to another place. It might be right in the eyes of Elohim that you curse them for me from there.”

Num 23:28  And Balaq took Bilʽam to the top of Peʽor, that overlooks the wasteland.

Num 23:29  And Bilʽam said to Balaq, “Build seven alters for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

Num 23:30  And Balaq did as Bilʽam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Num 24:1  And when Bilʽam saw that it pleased יהוה to bless Yisra’ĕl, he did not go as at other times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Num 24:2  And Bilʽam lifted up his eyes and saw Yisra’ĕl encamped according to their tribes. And the Spirit of Elohim came upon him.

Num 24:3  And he took up his proverb and said, “The saying of Bilʽam, son of Beʽor, and the saying of the man whose eyes are opened,

Num 24:4  the saying of him who hears the words of Ěl, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes opened wide:

Num 24:5  “How good are your tents, O Yaʽaqoḇ, your dwellings, O Yisra’ĕl!

Num 24:6  “Like wadis that stretch out, like gardens by a river, like aloes planted by יהוה, like cedars beside waters.

Num 24:7  “He makes water flow from his buckets, and his seed is in many waters. His sovereign is higher than Aḡaḡ, and his reign is exalted.

Num 24:8  “Ěl who brought him out of Mitsrayim is for them like the horns of a wild ox; he devours nations, his enemies; and he breaks their bones, and with his arrows he smites.

Num 24:9  “He bowed down, he lay down like a lion. And, like a lion, who would rouse him? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.”

Num 24:10  Then the displeasure of Balaq burned against Bilʽam, and he struck his hands together. Balaq then said to Bilʽam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, and see, you have kept on blessing, these three times!

Num 24:11  “And now flee to your place. I said I would greatly esteem you, and see, יהוה has kept you back from esteem.”

Num 24:12  And Bilʽam said to Balaq, “Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

Num 24:13  ‘If Balaq should give me his house filled with silver and gold, I am unable to go beyond the word of יהוה, to do either good or evil of my own heart. What יהוה speaks, that I speak’?

7th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 24:14-25:9

Num 24:14  “And now, see, I am going to my people. Come, let me advise you what this people is going to do to your people in the latter days.”

Num 24:15  And he took up his proverb and said, “The saying of Bilʽam, son of Beʽor, and the saying of the man whose eyes are opened,

Num 24:16  the saying of him who hears the words of Ěl, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes opened wide:

Num 24:17  “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy all the sons of Shĕth.

Num 31:16  “Look, they are the ones who caused the children of Yisra’ĕl, through the word of Bilʽam, to trespass against יהוה in the matter of Peʽor, and there was a plague among the congregation of יהוה.

Num 25:3  Thus Yisra’ĕl was joined to Baʽal Peʽor, and the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl.

2Pe 2:15  having left the right way they went astray, having followed the way of Bilʽam the son of Beʽor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

2Pe 2:16  but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.

Num 24:18  “And Eḏom shall be a possession; and Sĕʽir shall be a possession – enemies – and Yisra’ĕl is doing mightily.

Num 24:19  “And out of Yaʽaqoḇ One shall rule and destroy the remnant from Ar.”

Num 24:20  He then looked on Amalĕq, and he took up his proverb and said, “Amalĕq was first among the nations, but his latter end is to perish forever.”

Num 24:21  He then looked on the Qĕynites, and he took up his proverb and said, “Firm is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock,

Num 24:22  but Qayin is to be burned. Till when does Asshur keep you captive?”

Num 24:23  And he took up his proverb and said, “Oh, who does live when Ěl does this?

Num 24:24  And ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur and afflict Ěḇer, and so shall Amalĕq, and he also perishes.”

Num 24:25  And Bilʽam arose and left, and returned to his place. And Balaq also went his way.

Num 25:1  And Yisra’ĕl dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to whore with the daughters of Mo’aḇ,

Num 25:2  and they invited the people to the slaughterings of their mighty ones, and the people ate and bowed down to their mighty ones.

Num 25:3  Thus Yisra’ĕl was joined to Baʽal Peʽor, and the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl.

Num 25:4  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up before יהוה, before the sun, so that the burning displeasure of יהוה turns away from Yisra’ĕl.”

Num 25:5  And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisra’ĕl, “Each one of you slay his men who were joined to Baʽal Peʽor.”

Num 25:6  And see, one of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and brought to his brothers a Miḏyanite woman before the eyes of Mosheh and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, who were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Num 25:7  And when Pineḥas, son of Elʽazar, son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand,

Num 25:8  and he went after the man of Yisra’ĕl into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra’ĕl, and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague among the children of Yisra’ĕl came to a stop.

Num 25:9  And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Prophets: Micah 5:1 – 7:20

Mic 5:1  Now you are raided, O daughter of raiders, a siege has been laid against us. They strike the Judge of Yisra’ĕl with a rod on the cheek.

Mic 5:2  “But you, Bĕyth Leḥem Ephrathah, you who are little among the clans of Yehuḏah, out of you shall come forth to Me the One to become Ruler in Yisra’ĕl. And His comings forth1 are of old, from everlasting.” Footnote: 1Or His appearances.

The Messiah is prophesied to be born in Bethlehem, the city of king David and He is Elohim and eternal as “His goings forth have been from the days of eternity”. In the Hebrew “H’Olam”, the strongest wording possible to show He has no beginning but is an eternal being.

Mic 5:3  Therefore He shall give them up, until the time that she who is in labour has given birth, and the remnant of His brothers return to the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Mic 5:4  And He shall stand and shepherd1 in the strength of יהוה, in the excellency of the Name of יהוה His Elohim. And they shall dwell, for at that time He shall be great, to the ends of the earth.

Footnote: 1Ezek. 34:13-14 “And I shall bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the lands, and shall bring them to their own land. And I shall feed them on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl, in the valleys, and in all the dwellings of the land.

Eze 34:14  “In good pasture I shall feed them, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Yisra’ĕl. They shall lie there in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl.

Mic 5:5  And this shall be peace. When Ashshur comes into our land, and when he treads in our palaces, we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.

Mic 5:6  And they shall shepherd the land of Ashshur with the sword, and the land of Nimroḏ at its entrances. And He shall deliver us from Ashshur, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our borders.

Mic 5:7  And the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from יהוה, as showers on the grass, which do not wait for man nor delay for the sons of men.

Mic 5:8  And the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be among the gentiles, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of a forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes through, shall both tread down and shall tear, and there is no one to deliver.

Mic 5:9  Let your hand be lifted up against your adversaries, and all your enemies be cut off.

Mic 5:10  “And it shall be in that day,” declares יהוה, “that I shall cut off your horses out of your midst, and I shall destroy your chariots.

Mic 5:11  “And I shall cut off the cities of your land, and I shall pull down all your strongholds.

Mic 5:12  “And I shall cut off witchcrafts out of your hand, and let you have no magicians.

Mic 5:13  “And I shall cut off your carved images, and your pillars from your midst, so that you no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

Mic 5:14  “And I shall pluck your Ashĕrim out of your midst, and I shall destroy your cities.

Mic 5:15  “And I shall take vengeance in wrath and rage on the gentiles who did not obey.”

Mic 6:1  Hear now what יהוה is saying, “Arise, strive with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

Mic 6:2  “Hear, O you mountains, the controversy of יהוה, and you everlasting foundations of the earth! For יהוה has a controversy with His people and He shall reprove Yisra’ĕl.

Mic 6:3  “My people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Answer Me,

Mic 6:4  for I brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, and I ransomed you from the house of bondage. And I sent Mosheh, Aharon, and Miryam before you.

Mic 6:5  “My people, remember, please, what Balaq sovereign of Mo’aḇ counselled, and what Bilʽam son of Beʽor answered him, from Shittim to Gilgal, in order to know the righteousness of יהוה.”

Mic 6:6  With what shall I come before יהוה, bow myself before the high Elohim? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Mic 6:7  Is יהוה pleased with thousands of rams or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my being?

Mic 6:8  He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה require of you but to do right, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?

Mic 6:9  The voice of יהוה cries to the city – and let sound wisdom see Your Name! “Hear the Rod and Him who appointed it!

Mic 6:10  “Are there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?”

Mic 6:11  Would I be innocent with wrong scales, and with a bag of false weights?

Mic 6:12  “For her rich men are filled with cruel unrighteousness, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.

Mic 6:13  “So I also, I shall smite you with a grievous wound, to lay you waste because of your sins:

Mic 6:14  “You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your inside be empty. And you shall store up but not save, and what you save I shall give to the sword.

Mic 6:15  “You shall sow but not reap, you shall tread the olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and make sweet wine but not drink wine.

Mic 6:16  “For the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Aḥab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I give you for a ruin, and your inhabitants for a hissing, and let you bear the reproach of My people.”

Mic 7:1  Woe to me! For I am as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleanings of the grape harvest. There is no cluster to eat. My being has desired the first-ripe fruit.

Mic 7:2  The kind one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net.

Mic 7:3  Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.

Mic 7:4  The best of them is like a prickly plant, the most straight is sharper than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman and your punishment has come, now is their confusion.

Mic 7:5  Trust no friend, rely on no companion, guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

Mic 7:6  For son is despising father, daughter rises up against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, the enemies of a man are the men of his own house.

Mic 7:7  As for me, I look to יהוה, I wait for the Elohim of my deliverance, my Elohim does hear me.

Mic 7:8  Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. When I have fallen I have risen, when I sit in darkness יהוה is a light to me.

Mic 7:9  I bear the displeasure of יהוה, for I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case, and shall execute right-ruling for me, until He brings me out into the light and I look on His righteousness.

Mic 7:10  And let my enemy see it, and let shame cover her who said to me, “Where is יהוה your Elohim?” Let my eyes look on her: now she is trampled down like mud in the streets.

Mic 7:11  The day for building your walls! Let the decree go far and wide in that day –

Mic 7:12  that day when they come to you from Ashshur and the besieged cities of Mitsrayim, and from the siege1 to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain. Footnote: 1“Siege” in this verse could be another name for Mitsrayim.

Mic 7:13  But the earth shall become a waste because of those who dwell in it, and for the fruit of their deeds.

Mic 7:14  Shepherd Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest, in the midst of Karmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilʽaḏ, as in days of old.

Mic 7:15  “As in the days when you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, I shall let him see wonders.”

Mic 7:16  Let the gentiles see and be ashamed of all their might, let them put their hand over their mouth, let their ears be deaf.

Mic 7:17  Let them lick the dust like a serpent, let them come trembling from their strongholds like snakes of the earth, let them be afraid of יהוה our Elohim and fear because of You.

Mic 7:18  Who is an Ěl like You – taking away crookedness and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He shall not retain His wrath forever, for He Himself delights in kindness.

Mic 7:19  He shall turn back, He shall have compassion on us, He shall trample upon our crookednesses! And You throw all our sins into the depths of the sea!

Mic 7:20  You give truth to Yaʽaqoḇ, kindness to Aḇraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old!


Brit Hadasha: Mark 11:12-25

Mar 11:12  And on the next day, when they had come out from Bĕyth Anyah, He was hungry.

Mar 11:13  And seeing at a distance a fig tree having leaves, He went to see whether He would find any fruit on it. And when He came to it, He found none but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

Mar 11:14  And יהושע, responding, said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His taught ones heard it.

Mar 11:15  And they came to Yerushalayim. יהושע, entering into the Set-apart Place, began to drive out those who bought and sold in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Mar 11:16  And He did not allow anyone to carry a vessel through the Set-apart Place.

Mar 11:17  And He was teaching, saying to them, “Has it not been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’

Isa 56:6  “Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to יהוה, to serve Him, and to love the Name of יהוה, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and hold fast to My covenant –

Isa 56:7  them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”

Jer 7:11  “Has this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I Myself have seen it,” declares יהוה.

Mar 11:18  And the scribes and the chief priests heard it and they were seeking how to destroy Him, for they feared Him, because all the crowd was astonished at His teaching.

Mar 11:19  And when evening came, He went out of the city.

Mar 11:20  And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

Mar 11:21  Then Kĕpha, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered.”

Mar 11:22  And יהושע answering, said to them, “Have belief in Elohim.

Mar 11:23  “For truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says, shall be done, he shall have whatever he says.

Mar 11:24  “Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

Mar 11:25  “And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31

1Co 1:17  For Messiah did not send me to immerse, but to bring the Good News, not with wisdom of words, that the stake of Messiah should not be nullified.

1Co 1:18  For the word of the stake is indeed foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of Elohim.

1Co 1:19  For it has been written, “I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the learning of the learned ones.”1

Footnote:

Isa 29:14  “Therefore, see, I am again doing a marvellous work among this people, a marvellous work and a wonder. And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their clever men shall be hidden.”

Mat 11:25  At that time יהושע responding, said, “I thank You, Father, Master of the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these matters from clever and learned ones and have revealed them to babes.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 10:21.

Rom 1:22  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Rom 1:23  and changed the esteem of the incorruptible Elohim into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds and of four-footed beasts and of reptiles.

Rom 1:24  Therefore Elohim gave them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts, to disrespect their bodies among themselves,

Rom 1:25  who changed the truth of Elohim into the falsehood, and worshipped and served what was created rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amĕn.

1Co 1:20  Where is the wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1Co 1:21  For since, in the wisdom of Elohim, the world through wisdom did not know Elohim, it pleased Elohim through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

1Co 1:22  And since Yehuḏim ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

1Co 1:23  yet we proclaim Messiah impaled, to the Yehuḏim a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness,

1Co 1:24  but to those who are called – both Yehuḏim and Greeks – Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim.

1Co 1:25  For the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men.

1Co 1:26  For look at your calling, brothers, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

1Co 1:27  But Elohim has chosen the foolish matters of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the world to put to shame the strong.

1Co 1:28  And Elohim has chosen the low-born of the world and the despised, and the ones that are not, that He might bring to naught the ones that are,

1Co 1:29  so that no flesh should boast in His presence.

1Co 1:30  And of Him you are in Messiah יהושע, who became for us wisdom from Elohim, righteousness also, and set-apartness and redemption,

1Co 1:31  that, as it has been written, “He who boasts, let him boast in יהוה.”

Jer 9:23  Thus said יהוה, “Let not the wise boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches,

Jer 9:24  but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am יהוה, doing kindness, right-ruling, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” declares יהוה.

2 Peter 2:1-22

2Pe 2:1  But there also came to be false prophets1 among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, and deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

Footnote: 1See Mt. 7:15-23 v. 7-8, and again v. 21.

Mat 7:15  “But beware of the false prophets,1 who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves. Footnote: 1See v. 23

Mat 7:16  “By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

Mat 7:17  “So every good tree yields good fruit, but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit.

Mat 7:18  “A good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit, and a rotten tree to yield good fruit.

Mat 7:19  “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Mat 7:20  “So then, by their fruits you shall know them –

Mat 7:21  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens.

Mat 7:22  “Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’

Mat 7:23  “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’

2Pe 2:2  And many shall follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,

2Pe 2:3  and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

2Pe 2:4  For if Elohim did not spare the messengers who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment,

2Pe 2:5  and did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noaḥ, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others, bringing in the flood on the world of the wicked,

2Pe 2:6  and having reduced to ashes the cities of Seḏom and Amorah condemned them to destruction – having made them an example to those who afterward would live wickedly,

2Pe 2:7  and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the indecent behaviour of the lawless1

Footnote: 1The Greek word here, and in 3:17, is athesmos (not the usual one, anomos) but it also means “lawless.”

2Pe 2:8  (for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),

2Pe 2:9  then יהוה knows how to rescue the reverent ones from trial and to keep the unrighteous unto the day of judgment, to be punished,

2Pe 2:10  and most of all those walking after the flesh in filthy lust and despising authority – bold, headstrong, speaking evil of esteemed ones,

2Pe 2:11  whereas messengers who are greater in strength and power do not bring a slanderous accusation against them before the Master.

2Pe 2:12  But these, like natural unreasoning beasts, having been born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheme that which they do not know, shall be destroyed in their destruction,

2Pe 2:13  being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence in the day of pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

2Pe 2:14  having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

2Pe 2:15  having left the right way they went astray, having followed the way of Bilʽam the son of Beʽor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Eze 7:11  ‘The violence has grown into a rod of wrongdoing. There is none of them, and none of its crowd, and none of their riches, and none eminent among them.

2Pe 2:16  but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.

2Pe 2:17  These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a storm, to whom the blackest darkness is kept forever.

2Pe 2:18  For speaking arrogant nonsense, they entice – through the lusts of the flesh, through indecencies – the ones who have indeed escaped from those living in delusion,

2Pe 2:19  promising them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption – for one is a slave to whatever overcomes him.

2Pe 2:20  For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Master and Saviour יהושע Messiah, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the first.

The blood of Messiah pays the penalty of our sins, and the Holy Spirit gives us a new spirit to reject sin and walk in newness of life. If we reject this spirit from Yahweh and go back to our old way of life, then we are blaspheming the Holy Spirit and rejecting eternal life. (Heb 6:4-6)

Heb 6:4  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart Spirit,

Heb 6:5  and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,

Heb 6:6  and fall away, to renew them again to repentance – having impaled for themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him to open shame.1 Footnote: 1Heb. 10:26-31.

Heb 10:26  For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,1 Footnote: 1See also 6:6, Heb. 9:7, Num. 15:15-28.

Heb 10:27  but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.

Heb 10:28  Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.

Heb 10:29  How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?

Heb 10:30  For we know Him who has said, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay, says יהוה.” And again, “יהוה shall judge His people.”

Heb 10:31  It is fearsome to fall into the hands of the living Elohim.

2Pe 2:21  For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the set-apart command1 delivered unto them.

Footnote: 1The singular “command” often means “commands” – see 1 Tim. 6:14, Dt. 17:20, Ps. 19:8.

1Ti 6:14  that you guard the command1 spotlessly, blamelessly, until the appearing of our Master יהושע Messiah, Footnote: 1Command (singular) often means commands, e.g. Dt. 17:20, Ps. 19:8.

Deu 17:20  so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of Yisra’ĕl.

Psa 19:8  The orders of יהוה are straight, rejoicing the heart; The command of יהוה is clear, enlightening the eyes;

2Pe 2:22  For them the proverb has proved true, “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “A washed sow returns to her rolling in the mud.”

Pro 26:11  As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

Revelation 2:12-17

Rev 2:12  “And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos (Fortified) write, ‘He who has the sharp two-edged sword, says this:

Rev 2:13  “I know your works, and where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is. And you hold fast to My Name, and did not deny the belief in Me, even in the days in which Antipas was My trustworthy witness, who was killed near you, where Satan dwells.

Rev 2:14  “But I hold a few matters against you, because you have there those who adhere to the teaching of Bilʽam, who taught Balaq to put a stumbling-block before the children of Yisra’ĕl, to eat food offered to idols, and to commit whoring.

Rev 2:15  “So you also have those who adhere to the teaching of the Nikolaites, which teaching I hate.

Rev 2:16  “Repent, or else I shall come to you speedily and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

Rev 2:17  “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’

Aharonic Blessing

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Chukat | חוקת | “Statute”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Chukat, Hukath, or Chukkas (חֻקַּת — Hebrew for “decree,” the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 39th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 19:1–22:1. The parashah is the shortest weekly Torah portion in the Book of Numbers (although not the shortest in the Torah), and is made up of 4,670 Hebrew letters, 1,245 Hebrew words, and 87 verses, and can occupy about 159 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).


Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 21:35

1st reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 19:1-17

Num 19:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,

Num 19:2  “This is a law of the Torah which יהוה has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish and on which a yoke has never come.

Num 19:3  ‘And you shall give it to Elʽazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and shall slaughter it before him.

Num 19:4  ‘And Elʽazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.

Num 19:5  ‘And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes – he burns its hide, and its flesh, and its blood, and its dung.

Num 19:6  ‘And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and throw them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.

Num 19:7  ‘The priest shall then wash his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest is unclean until evening.

Num 19:8  ‘And he who is burning it washes his garments in water, and shall bathe his body in water, and is unclean until evening.

Num 19:9  ‘And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and shall place them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl for the water for uncleanness, it is for cleansing from sin.

Num 19:10  ‘And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments, and is unclean until evening. And it shall be a law forever to the children of Yisra’ĕl and to the stranger who sojourns in their midst.

Num 19:11  ‘He who touches the dead of any human being is unclean for seven days.

Num 19:12  ‘He is to cleanse himself with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean.

The Red Heifer was the only sacrifice that was done on the third altar across the Kidron Valley on the slope of the Mount of Olives right below where the crucifixion of Yahshua the Messiah took place. This sacrifice was clearly pointing toward His cleansing of all sin. If one did not cleanse himself on the third day (through the resurrection) he would not be clean on the 7th day ( picturing the millennium and the resurrection).

Num 19:13  ‘Anyone who touches the dead of a human being, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the Dwelling Place of יהוה. And that being shall be cut off from Yisra’ĕl. He is unclean, for the water for uncleanness was not sprinkled on him, his uncleanness is still upon him.

Num 19:14  ‘This is the Torah when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days,

Num 19:15  and every open vessel which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean.

Num 19:16  ‘Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, is unclean for seven days.

Num 19:17  ‘And for the unclean being they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for cleansing from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel.

2nd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 19:18-20:6

Num 19:18  ‘And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and shall sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the beings who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or the slain, or the dead, or a grave.

Num 19:19  ‘And the clean one shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall cleanse himself, and shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be clean in the evening.

Num 19:20  ‘But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that being shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the set-apart place of יהוה – water for uncleanness has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.

Num 19:21  ‘And it shall be a law for them forever. And the one who sprinkles the water for uncleanness washes his garments. And the one who touches the water for uncleanness is unclean until evening.

Num 19:22  ‘And whatever the unclean being touches is unclean. And the being who touches it is unclean until evening.’ ”

Num 20:1  And the children of Yisra’ĕl, all the congregation, came into the Wilderness of Tsin in the first month, and the people stayed in Qaḏĕsh. And Miryam died there and was buried there.

Num 20:2  Now there was no water for the congregation and they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon.

Num 20:3  And the people contended with Mosheh and spoke, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before יהוה!

Num 20:4  “Why have you brought up the assembly of יהוה into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

Num 20:5  “And why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim, to bring us to this evil place? – not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

Num 20:6  Then Mosheh and Aharon went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the esteem of יהוה appeared to them.

3rd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 20:7-13

Num 20:7  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 20:8  “Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aharon. And you shall speak to the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water. And you shall bring water for them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their livestock.”

Num 20:9  And Mosheh took the rod from before יהוה as He commanded him.

Num 20:10  And Mosheh and Aharon assembled the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”

Num 20:11  Then Mosheh lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod. And much water came out, and the congregation and their livestock drank.

Num 20:12  But יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, “Because you did not believe Me, to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Yisra’ĕl, therefore you do not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Deu 1:34  “And יהוה heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and took an oath, saying,

Deu 1:35  ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,

Deu 1:36  except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and his children I give the land on which he walked, because he followed יהוה completely.’

Deu 1:37  “And יהוה was enraged with me for your sakes, saying, ‘You do not go in there, either.

Deu 1:38  ‘Yehoshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Strengthen him, for he shall cause Yisra’ĕl to inherit.

Deu 1:39  ‘And your little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and they are to possess it.

Num 20:13  These were the waters of Meriḇah, because the children of Yisra’ĕl contended with יהוה, and He was set apart among them.

The two events of fountains of water coming from the rock are prophetic shadow pictures of the Messiah. The rock was struck the first time and was to be blessed the second time. Meriḇah = Strife

4th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 20:14-21

Num 20:14  And Mosheh sent messengers from Qaḏĕsh to the sovereign of Eḏom. “This is what your brother Yisra’ĕl said, ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

Num 20:15  that our fathers went down to Mitsrayim, and we dwelt in Mitsrayim a long time, and the Mitsrites did evil to us and our fathers.

Num 20:16  ‘And we cried out to יהוה, and He heard our voice and sent the Messenger and brought us up out of Mitsrayim. And see, we are in Qaḏĕsh, a city on the edge of your border.

Num 20:17  ‘Please let us pass over, through your land. We shall not pass over through fields or vineyards, nor drink water from wells, we shall go along the sovereign’s highway. We shall not turn aside, right or left, until we have passed over your border.’ ”

Num 20:18  But Eḏom said to him, “You do not pass over through me, lest I come out against you with the sword.”

Num 20:19  And the children of Yisra’ĕl said to him, “We shall go by the highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I shall pay for it. Let me only pass over on foot, without a word.”

Num 20:20  But he said, “You do not pass over.” And Eḏom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.

Num 20:21  So when Eḏom refused to let Yisra’ĕl pass over through his border, Yisra’ĕl turned away from him.

5th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 20:22-21:9

Num 20:22  And the children of Yisra’ĕl, all the company, departed from Qaḏĕsh and came to Mount Hor.

Num 20:23  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in Mount Hor near the border of the land of Eḏom, saying,

Num 20:24  “Aharon is to be gathered to his people, for he is not to enter the land which I have given to the children of Yisra’ĕl, because you rebelled against My mouth at the water of Meriḇah.

Num 20:25  “Take Aharon and Elʽazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor,

Num 20:26  and strip Aharon of his garments and put them on Elʽazar his son, for Aharon is to be gathered to his people and die there.”

Num 20:27  And Mosheh did as יהוה commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation.

Num 20:28  And Mosheh stripped Aharon of his garments and put them on Elʽazar his son. And Aharon died there on the top of the mountain. And Mosheh and Elʽazar came down from the mountain.

Num 20:29  And when all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead, all the house of Yisra’ĕl wept for Aharon, thirty days.

Num 21:1  And the sovereign of Araḏ, the Kenaʽanite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Yisra’ĕl was coming on the way to Atharim, and he fought against Yisra’ĕl and took some of them captive.

Num 21:2  Then Yisra’ĕl made a vow to יהוה, and said, “If You deliver this people into my hand indeed, then I shall put their cities under the ban.”

Num 21:3  And יהוה listened to the voice of Yisra’ĕl and gave up the Kenaʽanites, and they put them and their cities under the ban. So the name of that place was called Ḥormah.

Num 21:4  And they departed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Eḏom. But the being of the people grew impatient because of the way.

Num 21:5  And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, “Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.”

Num 21:6  And יהוה sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’ĕl died.

Num 21:7  Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against יהוה and against you. Pray to יהוה to take away the serpents from us.” So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.

Num 21:8  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

Num 21:9  So Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

6th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 21:10-20

Num 21:10  And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in Oḇoth.

Num 21:11  And they departed from Oḇoth and camped at Iyĕ Ha-Aḇarim, in the wilderness which is east of Mo’aḇ, toward sunrise.

Num 21:12  From there they set out and camped at the wadi Zereḏ.

Num 21:13  From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Mo’aḇ, between Mo’aḇ and the Amorites.

Num 21:14  Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of יהוה, “Wahĕḇ in Suphah, the wadi Arnon,

Num 21:15  and the slope of the wadi that turns aside to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Mo’aḇ.”

Num 21:16  And from there on to Be’ĕr, which is the well where יהוה said to Mosheh, “Gather the people, and let Me give them water.”

Num 21:17  Yisra’ĕl then sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it,

Num 21:18  a well the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves, by the word of the Law-giver.” Then from the wilderness on to Mattanah,

Num 21:19  from Mattanah to Naḥali’ĕl, from Naḥali’ĕl to Bamoth,

Num 21:20  and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Mo’aḇ, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland.

7th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 21:21-22:1

Num 21:21  And Yisra’ĕl sent messengers to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, saying,

Num 21:22  “Let me pass through your land. We shall not turn off into fields or vineyards, we shall not drink water from wells, but go by the sovereign’s highway until we have passed over your border.”

Num 21:23  But Siḥon would not allow Yisra’ĕl to pass through his border. So Siḥon gathered all his people together and went out against Yisra’ĕl in the wilderness, and he came to Yahats and fought against Yisra’ĕl.

Num 21:24  And Yisra’ĕl smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Yabboq, as far as the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

Num 21:25  And Yisra’ĕl took all these cities, and Yisra’ĕl dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites – in Ḥeshbon and in all its villages,

Num 21:26  for Ḥeshbon was the city of Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites, who had fought against the former sovereign of Mo’aḇ, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon.

Num 21:27  That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Ḥeshbon, let the city of Siḥon be built and established.

Num 21:28  “For fire went out from Ḥeshbon, a flame from the city of Siḥon. It consumed Ar of Mo’aḇ, the masters of the heights of the Arnon.

Num 21:29  “Woe to you, Mo’aḇ! You have perished, O people of Kemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites.

Num 21:30  “Then we shot them – Ḥeshbon has perished as far as Diḇon. And we laid waste as far as Nophaḥ, which reaches to Mĕyḏeḇa.”

Num 21:31  So Yisra’ĕl dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

Num 21:32  And Mosheh sent to spy out Yaʽzĕr. And they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there,

Num 21:33  and turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Oḡ sovereign of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Eḏreʽi.

Num 21:34  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, with all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at Ḥeshbon.”

Num 21:35  And they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until no remnant was left to him. And they took possession of his land.

Num 22:1  And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ beyond the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo.

Prophets: Judges 11:1-40

Jdg 11:1  And Yiphtaḥ the Gilʽaḏite was a mighty brave one, but he was the son of a whore. And Gilʽaḏ brought forth Yiphtaḥ.

Jdg 11:2  And the wife of Gilʽaḏ bore sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Yiphtaḥ out, and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in the house of our father, for you are the son of another woman.”

Jdg 11:3  And Yiphtaḥ fled from his brothers and dwelt in the land of Toḇ. And worthless men banded together with Yiphtaḥ and went out with him.

Jdg 11:4  And it came to be, some time later, that the children of Ammon fought against Yisra’ĕl.

Jdg 11:5  And it came to be, when the children of Ammon fought against Yisra’ĕl, that the elders of Gilʽaḏ went to bring Yiphtaḥ out of the land of Toḇ.

Jdg 11:6  And they said to Yiphtaḥ, “Come, and you shall be our commander, and let us fight against the children of Ammon.”

Jdg 11:7  But Yiphtaḥ said to the elders of Gilʽaḏ, “Did you not hate me, and drive me from my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”

Jdg 11:8  And the elders of Gilʽaḏ said to Yiphtaḥ, “That is the reason we have turned to you, that you shall go with us and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilʽaḏ.”

Jdg 11:9  And Yiphtaḥ said to the elders of Gilʽaḏ, “If you take me back home to fight against the children of Ammon, and יהוה gives them to me, am I to be your head?”

Jdg 11:10  And the elders of Gilʽaḏ said to Yiphtaḥ, “יהוה is witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.”

Jdg 11:11  Then Yiphtaḥ went with the elders of Gilʽaḏ, and the people set him over them, as head and commander. And Yiphtaḥ spoke all his words before יהוה in Mitspah.

Jdg 11:12  And Yiphtaḥ sent messengers to the sovereign of the children of Ammon, saying, “What is between you and me, that you have come to fight against me in my land?”

Jdg 11:13  And the sovereign of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Yiphtaḥ, “Because Yisra’ĕl took my land when they came up out of Mitsrayim, from the Arnon as far as the Yabboq, and to the Yardĕn. And now, give back those lands in peace.”

Jdg 11:14  But Yiphtaḥ again sent messengers to the sovereign of the children of Ammon,

Jdg 11:15  and said to him, “This is what Yiphtaḥ said, ‘Yisra’ĕl did not take the land of Mo’aḇ, nor the land of the children of Ammon.

Jdg 11:16  ‘For when they came up from Mitsrayim, and Yisra’ĕl walked through the wilderness as far as the Sea of Reeds and came to Qaḏĕsh,

Jdg 11:17  then Yisra’ĕl sent messengers to the sovereign of Eḏom, saying, “Please let me pass over, through your land.” But the sovereign of Eḏom would not listen. And they also sent to the sovereign of Mo’aḇ, but he refused, so Yisra’ĕl stayed at Qaḏĕsh.

Jdg 11:18  ‘Then they went through the wilderness and around the land of Eḏom and the land of Mo’aḇ, and came to the east side of the land of Mo’aḇ, and encamped beyond Arnon. But they did not enter the border of Mo’aḇ, for Arnon was the border of Mo’aḇ.

Jdg 11:19  ‘And Yisra’ĕl sent messengers to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, sovereign of Ḥeshbon, and Yisra’ĕl said to him, “Please let us pass over, through your land into our place.”

Jdg 11:20  ‘But Siḥon did not trust Yisra’ĕl to pass over through his border, and Siḥon gathered all his people together, and they encamped in Yahats, and fought against Yisra’ĕl.

Jdg 11:21  ‘And יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl gave Siḥon and all his people into the hand of Yisra’ĕl, and they smote them. So Yisra’ĕl took possession of all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that land.

Jdg 11:22  ‘Thus they took possession of all the border of the Amorites, from Arnon to the Yabboq and from the wilderness to the Yardĕn.

Jdg 11:23  ‘And now, יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has driven out the Amorites from before His people Yisra’ĕl, should you then possess it?

Jdg 11:24  ‘Whatever Kemosh your mighty one gives you to possess, do you not possess it? And all that which יהוה our Elohim takes possession of before us, we possess.

Jdg 11:25  ‘And now are you any better than Balaq son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo’aḇ? Did he ever strive against Yisra’ĕl? Did he ever fight against them?

Jdg 11:26  ‘While Yisra’ĕl dwelt in Ḥeshbon and its villages, and in Aroʽĕr and its villages, and in all the cities along the banks of Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

Jdg 11:27  ‘So I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me evil by fighting against me. Let יהוה the Judge, judge today between the children of Yisra’ĕl and the children of Ammon.’ ”

Jdg 11:28  But the sovereign of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words which Yiphtaḥ sent him.

Jdg 11:29  And the Spirit of יהוה came upon Yiphtaḥ, and he passed through Gilʽaḏ and Menashsheh, and passed through Mitspeh of Gilʽaḏ. And from Mitspeh of Gilʽaḏ he passed on toward the children of Ammon.

Jdg 11:30  And Yiphtaḥ made a vow to יהוה, and said, “If You give the children of Ammon into my hands,

Jdg 11:31  then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall belong to יהוה, and I shall offer it up as a burnt offering.”

This verse shows two things. First that vows to Yahweh are binding and number two: one should be very careful when making a vow as Yahweh expects us to keep our vows that we make (Eccl 5:1-7). This vow was extremely costly and was paid with the life of his daughter.

Ecc 5:1  Guard your steps when you go to the House of Elohim. And draw near to listen rather than to give the slaughtering of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

Ecc 5:2  Do not be hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart hurry to bring forth a word before Elohim. For Elohim is in the heavens, and you on earth, therefore let your words be few.

Ecc 5:3  For a dream comes through the greatness of the task, and a fool’s voice is known by his many words.

Ecc 5:4  When you make a vow to Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for He takes no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed.

Ecc 5:5  It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

Ecc 5:6  Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of Elohim that it was a mistake. Why should Elohim be wroth at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Ecc 5:7  For in much dreaming and many words there is futility. But fear Elohim.

Jdg 11:32  Yiphtaḥ then passed on toward the children of Ammon to fight against them, and יהוה gave them into his hands.

Jdg 11:33  And he smote them from Aroʽĕr as far as Minnith, twenty cities, and to Aḇĕl Keramim, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were humbled before the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Jdg 11:34  And Yiphtaḥ came to his house at Mitspah, and saw his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing. Now except for her he had neither son nor daughter.

Jdg 11:35  And it came to be, when he saw her, that he tore his garments, and said, “Oh my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me! And I, I have given my word to יהוה, and I am unable to turn back.”

Jdg 11:36  And she said to him, “My father, if you have given your word to יהוה, do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, because יהוה has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, the children of Ammon.”

Jdg 11:37  And she said to her father, “Let this be done for me: let me alone for two months, and let me go and wander on the mountains and bewail my maidenhood, my friends and I.”

Jdg 11:38  Then he said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months. And she went with her friends, and bewailed her maidenhood on the mountains.

Jdg 11:39  And it came to be at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. And it became a statute in Yisra’ĕl

Jdg 11:40  that the daughters of Yisra’ĕl went every year for four days to lament the daughter of Yiphtaḥ the Gilʽaḏite.

Isaiah 66:1-24

Isa 66:1  Thus said יהוה, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest?

Isa 66:2  “And all these My hand have made, and all these that exist,” declares יהוה. “Yet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word.

Isa 66:3  “But whoever slaughters the bull slays a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog’s neck; whoever brings a grain offering – pig’s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations.

Isa 66:4  “I shall also choose their punishments, and bring their fears on them. Because I called, but no one answered. I spoke and they did not hear, and they did evil before My eyes, and chose what was displeasing to Me.”

Isa 66:5  Hear the Word of יהוה, you who tremble at His Word, “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for My Name’s sake, said, ‘Let יהוה be esteemed, so that we see your joy.’ But they are put to shame.”

Isa 66:6  “A roaring sound from the city, a voice from the Hĕḵal, the voice of יהוה, repaying His enemies!

Isa 66:7  “Before she laboured, she gave birth; before a pain came to her, she was delivered of a male child.

Isa 66:8  “Who has heard the like of this? Who has seen the like of these? Is a land brought forth in one day? Is a nation born at once? For as soon as Tsiyon laboured, she gave birth to her children.

Isa 66:9  “Shall I bring to birth, and not give delivery?” says יהוה. “Shall I who give delivery restrain birth?” said your Elohim.

Isa 66:10  “Rejoice with Yerushalayim, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn for her;

Isa 66:11  so that you feed, and shall be satisfied with the breast of her comforts, so that you drink deeply, and shall delight yourselves in her overflowing esteem.”

Isa 66:12  For thus said יהוה, “See, I am extending peace to her like a river, and the esteem of the gentiles like a flowing stream. And you shall feed; you shall be carried on the side, and be fondled on her knees.

Isa 66:13  “As one whom his mother comforts, so I comfort you. And in Yerushalayim you are comforted.”

Isa 66:14  “And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones flourish as tender grass. And the hand of יהוה shall be known to His servants, and His displeasure to His enemies.

Isa 66:15  “For look, יהוה comes with fire and with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His displeasure with burning, and His rebuke with flames of fire.

Isa 66:16  “For by fire and by His sword יהוה shall judge all flesh, and the slain of יהוה shall be many –

Isa 66:17  those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after ‘One’ in the midst, eating flesh of pigs1 and the abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together,” declares יהוה.

Footnote: 1See 65:4

Isa 65:2  “I have held out My hands all day long to a stubborn people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Isa 65:3  the people who provoke Me continually to My face, who slaughter in gardens, and burn incense on altars of brick;

Isa 65:4  who sit among the graves, and spend the night in secret places, who eat flesh of pigs1, and the broth of unclean meat is in their pots,

Isa 65:5  who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set-apart to you!’ These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day.

Isa 65:6  “See, it is written before Me: I am not silent, but shall repay, and I shall repay into their bosom,

Isa 65:7  your crookednesses and the crookednesses of your fathers together,” said יהוה, “who burned incense on the mountains and reproached Me on the hills. And I shall measure their former work into their bosom.”

Isa 65:8  Thus said יהוה, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one shall say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is blessing in it,’ so I do for My servants’ sake, not to destroy them all.

Isa 66:18  “And I, because of their works and their imaginations, am coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My esteem.

Isa 66:19  “And I shall set a sign among them, and shall send some of those who escape to the nations – Tarshish and Pul and Luḏ, who draw the bow, and Tuḇal and Yawan, the coastlands afar off who have not heard My report nor seen My esteem. And they shall declare My esteem among the gentiles.

Isa 66:20  “And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to יהוה out of all the gentiles, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ĕl bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה.

Isa 66:21  “And from them too I shall take for priests – for Lĕwites,” declares יהוה.

Isa 66:22  “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before Me,” declares יהוה, “so your seed and your name shall stand.

Isa 66:23  “And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה.

Isa 66:24  “And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me1. For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!”

Footnote:

1See 24:6

Isa 24:5  For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot1, changed2 the law, broken the everlasting covenant3.

 Footnotes: 1Torot – plural of Torah, teaching. 2Jer. 23:36. 3This is the only reason, according to all Scriptures, why the earth shall be burned in the day of judgment – see also 13:9, 13:11, 26:21, 66:24, Mic. 5:15, Zeph. 1:2-18.

Isa 24:6  Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.

34:2-3

Isa 34:1  Come near, you gentiles, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all its offspring.

Isa 34:2  For the displeasure of יהוה is against all the gentiles1, and His wrath against all their divisions. He shall put them under the ban, He shall give them over to the slaughter, Footnote: 1See footnote Jer. 30:11.

Isa 34:3  and their slain be thrown out, and their stench rise from their corpses. And mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Isa 34:4  And all the host of the heavens shall rot away. And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host fade like a leaf fading on the vine, and like the fading one of a fig tree.

Isa 34:5  “For My sword shall be drenched in the heavens. Look, it comes down on Eḏom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.

Ps. 110:6

Psa 110:1  יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand, Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Psa 110:2  יהוה sends Your mighty sceptre out of Tsiyon. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

Psa 110:3  Your people volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendours of set-apartness! From the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!

Psa 110:4  יהוה has sworn and does not relent, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Malkitseḏeq.”

Psa 110:5  יהוה at Your right hand Shall smite sovereigns in the day of His wrath.

Psa 110:6  He judges among the nations, He shall fill the nations with dead bodies, He shall crush the Head over the mighty earth!

Psa 110:7  He drinks of the stream by the wayside, Therefore He does lift up the head!

Jer. 25:33

Jer 25:31  “Tumult shall come to the ends of the earth, for יהוה has a controversy with the nations. He shall enter into judgment with all flesh. The wrong He shall give to the sword,’ declares יהוה.”

Jer 25:32  Thus said יהוה of hosts, “See, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind is raised up from the farthest parts of the earth.

Jer 25:33  “And in that day the slain of יהוה shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth1. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried, for they are dung on the face of the ground. Footnote: 1See Isa. 66:24.

Brit Hadasha: Matthew 21:1-17

Mat 21:1  And when they came near to Yerushalayim, and came to Bĕyth Phaḡi, at the Mount of Olives, then יהושע sent two taught ones,

Bĕyth PhaḡI = House of Figs

Mat 21:2  saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and straightaway you shall find a donkey tied, and a colt with her, loosen them, and bring them to Me.

Mat 21:3  “And if anyone says whatever to you, you shall say, ‘The Master needs them,’ and immediately he shall send them.”

Mat 21:4  And all this took place that it might be filled what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

Mat 21:5  “Say to the daughter of Tsiyon, ‘See, your Sovereign is coming to you, meek, and sitting on a donkey, even a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”

Zec 9:9  “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Tsiyon! Shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim! See, your Sovereign is coming to you, He is righteous and endowed with deliverance, humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey1. Footnote: 1Mt. 21:5, John 12:15.

Mat 21:6  And the taught ones went, and having done as יהושע ordered them,

Mat 21:7  they brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their garments on them, and He sat on them.

Mat 21:8  And most of the crowd spread their garments on the way, while others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the way.

Mat 21:9  And the crowds who went before and those who followed cried out, saying, “Hoshia-na to the Son of Dawi! Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה! Hoshia-na in the highest!”

Psa 118:26  Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה!1 We shall bless you from the House of יהוה.

Mat 21:10  And as He entered into Yerushalayim, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”

Mat 21:11  And the crowds said, “This is יהושע, the prophet from Natsareth of Galil.”

Mat 21:12  And יהושע went into the Set-apart Place of Elohim and drove out all those buying and selling in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves.

Mat 21:13  And He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’

Isa 56:1  Thus said יהוה, “Guard right-ruling, and do righteousness, for near is My deliverance to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.

Isa 56:2  “Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, guarding the Sabbath lest he profane it, and guarding his hand from doing any evil.

Isa 56:3  “And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to יהוה speak, saying, ‘יהוה has certainly separated me from His people,’ nor let the eunuch say, ‘Look I am a dry tree.’ ”

Isa 56:4  For thus said יהוה, “To the eunuchs who guard My Sabbaths, and have chosen what pleases Me, and hold fast to My covenant:

Isa 56:5  to them I shall give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters – I give them an everlasting name that is not cut off.

Isa 56:6  “Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to יהוה, to serve Him, and to love the Name of יהוה, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and hold fast to My covenant –

Isa 56:7  them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”

Isa 56:8  The Master יהוה, who gathers the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, declares, “I gather still others to him besides those who are gathered to him.”

Jer 7:1  The word that came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, saying,

Jer 7:2  “Stand in the gate of the House of יהוה, and you shall proclaim there this word, and shall say, ‘Hear the word of יהוה, all you of Yehuḏah who enter in at these gates to bow before יהוה!’ ”

Jer 7:3  Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Make your ways and your deeds good, then I let you dwell in this place.

Jer 7:4  “Do not trust in these false words, saying, ‘This is the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה!’

Jer 7:5  “For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour,

Jer 7:6  if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,

Jer 7:7  then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Jer 7:8  “See, you are trusting in false words, which do not profit –

Jer 7:9  stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, and swearing falsely, and burning incense to Baʽal, and walking after other mighty ones you have not known.

Jer 7:10  “And you came and stood before Me in this house which is called by My Name, and said, ‘We have been delivered’ – in order to do all these abominations!

Jer 7:11  “Has this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I Myself have seen it,” declares יהוה.

Mat 21:14  And blind and lame ones came to Him in the Set-apart Place, and He healed them.

Mat 21:15  But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonders which He did, and the children crying out in the Set-apart Place and saying, “Hoshia-na to the Son of Dawi!” they were greatly displeased,

Psa 118:26  Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה!1 We shall bless you from the House of יהוה.

Mat 21:16  and said to Him, “Do You hear what these say?” And יהושע said to them, “Yea, have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nurslings You have perfected praise’?”

Psa 8:1  O יהוה, our Master, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth, You who set Your splendour above the heavens!

Psa 8:2  Out of the mouth of babes and infants You have founded strength, Because of Your adversaries, To put an end to enemy and avenger.

Mat 21:17  And having left them He went out of the city to Bĕyth Anyah, and spent the night there.

John 3:9-21

Joh 3:9  Naḵdimon answered and said to Him, “How is it possible for this to take place?”

Joh 3:10  יהושע answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Yisra’ĕl, and do not know this?

Joh 3:11  “Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak what We know and witness what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.

Joh 3:12  “If you do not believe when I spoke to you about earthly matters, how are you going to believe when I speak to you about the heavenly matters?

Joh 3:13  “And no one has gone up into the heaven except He who came down from the heaven – the Son of Aḏam.

The dead are not in heaven but are sleeping in the grave waiting the resurrection. John 1:18 Acts 2:29, 34, 1 Corinthians 15:50-52, Acts 7:60, John 11:11, 1 Theselonians 4:13-15 Job 14:13-14

Joh 3:14  “And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,

Joh 3:15  so that whoever is believing in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.

Joh 3:16  “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.

The way to receive everlasting life is to fully surrender one’s life to the Messiah as King of the universe and master over our lives.

Joh 3:17  “For Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Joh 3:18  “He who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only brought-forth Son of Elohim.

His name is Yahshua meaning Yahweh’s salvation.

Joh 3:19  “And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.

Joh 3:20  “For everyone who is practising evil matters hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

Joh 3:21  “But the one doing the truth comes to the light, so that his works are clearly seen, that they have been wrought in Elohim.”

Joh 3:35  “The Father loves the Son, and has given all into His hand.

Joh 3:36  “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”

John 4:3-30

Joh 4:3  He left Yehuḏah and went away again to Galil.

Joh 4:4  And He had to pass through Shomeron.

Joh 4:5  So He came to a city of Shomeron, called Sheḵem, near the piece of land Yaʽaqoḇ gave to his son Yosĕph.

Joh 4:6  And Yaʽaqoḇ’s fountain was there. So יהושע, being wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

Joh 4:7  A woman of Shomeron came to draw water. יהושע said to her, “Give Me to drink.”

Joh 4:8  For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food.

Joh 4:9  The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Yehuḏite, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehuḏim do not associate with Shomeronites.

Joh 4:10  יהושע answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”1

Footnote: 1Jer. 2:13

Jer 2:13  “For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters1, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns, which do not hold water.

Jer. 17:13

Jer 17:13  O יהוה, the expectation of Yisra’ĕl, all who forsake You are put to shame. “Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken יהוה, the fountain of living waters.”

Zech. 14:8

Zec 14:1  See, a day shall come for יהוה, and your spoil shall be divided in your midst.

Zec 14:2  And I shall gather all the gentiles to battle against Yerushalayim1. And the city shall be taken, the houses plundered, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into exile, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Footnote: 1Joel 3:2, Zeph. 3:8, Rev. 16:14.

Zec 14:3  And יהוה shall go forth, and He shall fight against those gentiles, as He fights in the day of battle.

Zec 14:4  And in that day His feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives, which faces Yerushalayim on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

Zec 14:5  And you shall flee to the valley of My mountain – for the valley of the mountains reaches to Atsal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziyah sovereign of Yehuḏah. And יהוה my Elohim shall come – all the set-apart ones with You.

Zec 14:6  And in that day it shall be: there is no light, it is dark.

Zec 14:7  And it shall be one day which is known to יהוה, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.

Zec 14:8  And in that day it shall be that living waters flow from Yerushalayim1, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea, in summer as well as in winter. Footnote: 1Rev. 22:1-2.

Zec 14:9  And יהוה shall be Sovereign over all the earth1. In that day there shall be one יהוה, and His Name one. Footnote: 1Isa. 24:23, Dan. 2:44, Rev. 11:15.

Zec 14:10  All the land shall be changed into a desert plain from Geḇa to Rimmon south of Yerushalayim, and she shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Binyamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Ḥanan’ĕl to the winepresses of the sovereign.

Zec 14:11  And they shall dwell in her, and there shall be no more utter destruction1, but Yerushalayim shall be safely inhabited. Footnote: 1Mal. 4:6.

John 7:37-39

Joh 7:37  And on the last day, the great day of the festival, יהושע stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, and let him who believes in Me drink.

Joh 7:38  “As the Scripture said, out of His innermost shall flow rivers of living water.”1 Footnote: 1Isa. 44:3, Jer. 2:13, Jer. 17:13, Zech. 14:8, Ps. 36:8,9, Prov.14:27, John 4:10, John 6:63, 1 Cor. 10:4, Rev. 7:17, Rev. 21:6, Rev. 22:1 & 17.

Joh 7:39  And this He said concerning the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive, for the Set-apart Spirit was not yet given,1 because יהושע was not yet esteemed. Footnote: 1Ezek. 36:26-27, Joel 2:28-32, Acts 1:4-8, Acts 2:4 & 33, Acts 10:44-47, Acts 11:15-16, Eph. 5:18.

Joh 4:11  The woman said to Him, “Master, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water?

Joh 4:12  “Are You greater than our father Yaʽaqoḇ, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”

Joh 4:13  יהושע answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water shall thirst again,

Joh 4:14  but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Joh 4:15  The woman said to Him, “Master, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

Joh 4:16  יהושע said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

Joh 4:17  The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” יהושע said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’

Joh 4:18  for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

Joh 4:19  The woman said to Him, “Master, I see that You are a prophet.

Joh 4:20  “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that in Yerushalayim is the place where one needs to worship.”

Joh 4:21  יהושע said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Yerushalayim, worship the Father.

Joh 4:22  “You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because the deliverance is of the Yehuḏim.1 Footnote: 1Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 14:1, Isa. 56:6-8, Ezek. 47:22-23, Zech. 2:10-11, Zech. 8:23, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4, Rev. 21:12 & 24.

Joh 4:23  “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him.

Joh 4:24  “Elohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.”

Joh 4:25  The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the One who is called Anointed. When that One comes, He shall announce to us all.”

Joh 4:26  יהושע said to her, “I who am speaking to you am He.”

Joh 4:27  And upon this His taught ones came, and they were marvelling that He was speaking with a woman, however, no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

Joh 4:28  The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and said to the men,

Joh 4:29  “Come, see a Man who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Messiah?”

Joh 4:30  They went out of the city and were coming to Him.

John 12:27-50

Joh 12:27  “Now I Myself am troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this reason I came to this hour.

Joh 12:28  “Father, esteem Your Name.” Then a voice came from the heaven, “I have both esteemed it and shall esteem it again.”

Joh 12:29  So the crowd who stood by and heard it were saying there had been thunder. Others said, “A messenger has spoken to Him.”

Joh 12:30  יהושע answered and said, “This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.

Joh 12:31  “Now is the judgment of this world, now the ruler of this world1 shall be cast out.

Footnote: 1See Luke 4:6.

Luk 4:6  And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I shall give You, and their esteem, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.1 Footnote: 1See 2 Cor. 4:4, also: John. 12:31, John. 14:30, John. 16:11, 1 John 5:19.

Joh 12:32  “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw all men unto Myself.”

Joh 12:33  This He said, signifying by what death He was about to die.

Joh 12:34  The crowd answered Him, “We have heard out of the Torah that the Messiah remains forever. And how do You say, ‘The Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Aḏam?”

Joh 12:35  יהושע, therefore, said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. And he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

Joh 12:36  “While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you become sons of light.” These words יהושע spoke, and went off and was hidden from them.

Joh 12:37  But though He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,

Joh 12:38  that the word of Yeshayahu the prophet might be filled, which he spoke, יהוה, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of יהוה been revealed?”

Isa 53:1  Who has believed our report? And to whom was the arm of יהוה revealed?

Isa 53:2  For He grew up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or splendour that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should desire Him –

Isa 53:3  despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and knowing sickness. And as one from whom the face is hidden, being despised, and we did not consider Him.

Isa 53:4  Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned Him stricken, smitten by Elohim, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And יהוה has laid on Him the crookedness of us all.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, but He did not open His mouth.

Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment. And as for His generation, who considered that He shall be cut off from the land of the living? For the transgression of My people He was stricken.

Isa 53:9  And He was appointed a grave with the wrong, and with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was deceit in His mouth1. Footnote: 1See 1 Peter 2:22.

Isa 53:10  But יהוה was pleased to crush Him, He laid sickness on Him, that when He made Himself an offering for guilt, He would see a seed, He would prolong His days and the pleasure of יהוה prosper in His hand.

Isa 53:11  He would see the result of the suffering of His life and be satisfied. Through His knowledge My righteous Servant makes many righteous, and He bears their crookednesses.

Isa 53:12  Therefore I give Him a portion among the great, and He divides the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His being unto death, and He was counted with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Joh 12:39  Because of this they were unable to believe, because again Yeshayahu said:

Joh 12:40  “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them.”1

Footnote: Isa 6:9  And He said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’

Isa 6:10  “Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and shall turn and be healed.”

Isa 6:11  Then I said, “יהוה, until when?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land is laid waste, a ruin,

Isa 6:12  and יהוה has removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

Isa 6:13  “But still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The set-apart seed is its stump!”

Mat 13:14  “And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive,

Mat 13:15  for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’

Mat 13:16  “And blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,

Mat 13:17  for truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

Joh 12:41  Yeshayahu said this when he saw His esteem and spoke of Him.

Joh 12:42  Still, even among the rulers many did believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the congregation,

Joh 12:43  for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of Elohim.

Joh 12:44  Then יהושע cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.

Joh 12:45  “And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

Joh 12:46  “I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness.

Joh 12:47  “And if anyone hears My Words but does not watch over them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Joh 12:48  “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has one who judges him: the Word that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day.1 Footnote: 1See 3:18-19, 7:16.

Joh 12:49  “Because I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a command,1 what I should say and what I should speak. Footnote: 1See 7:16.

Joh 12:50  “And I know that His command is everlasting life.1 Therefore, whatever I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.” Footnote: 1See Mt. 19:17, John 3:36

The standards for judgment are given in the Torah, so clearly it could never be done away with. (Rev 20:11-15)

 Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne and Him who was sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to their works.

Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and the grave gave up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.

Rev 20:14  And the death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death.1 Footnote: 1See 2:11, 20:6, 21:8.

Rev 20:15  And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Aharonic Blessing

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Korach | קורח | “Korah”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Korach or Korah (קֹרַח — Hebrew for the nameKorah,” which in turn means “baldness, ice, hail, or frost,” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 38th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 16:1–18:32. The parashah is made up of 5,325 Hebrew letters, 1,409 Hebrew words, and 95 verses, and can occupy about 184 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).

There is a discrepancy of the numbering within this portion between the Hebrew text and most English translations.


Torah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32

1st reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 16:1-13

Num 16:1  And Qoraḥ, son of Yitshar, son of Qehath, son of Lĕwi, took both Dathan and Aḇiram the sons of Eliyaḇ, and On, son of Peleth, sons of Re’uḇĕn,

Num 16:2  and they rose up before Mosheh with some of the children of Yisra’ĕl, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, called ones of the meeting, men of name.

Num 16:3  And they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon, and said to them, “Enough of you! For all the congregation is set-apart, all of them, and יהוה is in their midst. Why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of יהוה?”

Num 16:4  And when Mosheh heard, he fell on his face,

Num 16:5  and spoke to Qoraḥ and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning יהוה shall make known who is His and who is set-apart, and bring him near to Him. And let Him bring near to Him the one whom He chooses.

Num 16:6  “Do this: Take fire holders, Qoraḥ and all your company,

Num 16:7  and put fire in them and put incense in them before יהוה tomorrow. And it shall be that the one whom יהוה chooses is the set-apart one. Enough of you, sons of Lĕwi!”

Num 16:8  And Mosheh said to Qoraḥ, “Hear now, you sons of Lĕwi:

Num 16:9  “Is it little to you that the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has separated you from the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, to bring you near to Himself, to perform the service of the Dwelling Place of יהוה, and to stand before the congregation to serve them,

Num 16:10  and that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your brothers, the sons of Lĕwi, with you? Yet you seek the priesthood as well?

Num 16:11  “Therefore you and all your company are set against יהוה. And Aharon, what is he that you grumble against him?”

Num 16:12  And Mosheh sent to call Dathan and Aḇiram the sons of Eliyaḇ, but they said, “We are not coming up!

Num 16:13  “Is it little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you would also seize total rule over us?

This is paramount to blasphemy, as they are condemning the great work Yahovah did by taking them out of Egypt and then calling the slavery in Egypt a land flowing with milk and honey.

2nd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 16:14-19

Num 16:14  “Also, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you bore out the eyes of these men? We are not coming up!”

Num 16:15  And Mosheh became very displeased, and said to יהוה, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.”

Num 16:16  Then Mosheh said to Qoraḥ, “Tomorrow, you and all your company shall be there before יהוה, you and they and Aharon.

Num 16:17  “And take each one his fire holder, and you shall put incense in it. And let each one bring his fire holder before יהוה, two hundred and fifty fire holders, and you and Aharon, each one with his fire holder.”

Num 16:18  So each one took his fire holder, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Mosheh and Aharon.

Num 16:19  And Qoraḥ assembled all the congregation against them at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Then the esteem of יהוה appeared to all the congregation.

3rd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 16:20-17:8 (16:20-16:43)

Num 16:20  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,

Num 16:21  “Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and let Me consume them in a moment.”

We see the consequences when Yahovah’s judicial order is challenged. Yahovah’s mercy is unending but only when there is repentance and not when there is a prideful hardened heart of rebellion.

Num 16:22  But they fell on their faces, and said, “O Ěl, Elohim of the spirits of all flesh! When one man sins, are You wroth with all the congregation?”

Num 16:23  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 16:24  “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Move away from around the tents of Qoraḥ, Dathan, and Aḇiram.’ ”

Num 16:25  So Mosheh rose up and went to Dathan and Aḇiram, and the elders of Yisra’ĕl followed him.

Num 16:26  And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Please turn away from the tents of these wrong men! Do not touch whatever belongs to them, lest you be consumed in all their sins.”

Num 16:27  Then they moved away from around the tents of Qoraḥ, Dathan, and Aḇiram. And Dathan and Aḇiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

Num 16:28  And Mosheh said, “By this you know that יהוה has sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart.

Num 16:29  “If these die as all men do, or if they are visited as all men are visited, then יהוה has not sent me.

Num 16:30  “But if יהוה creates what is unheard of, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you shall know that these men have scorned יהוה.”

Num 16:31  And it came to be, as he ended speaking all these words, that the ground under them split apart,

Num 16:32  and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Qoraḥ, with all their goods.

Num 16:33  So they and all those with them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Num 16:34  And all Yisra’ĕl who were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

Num 16:35  And a fire came out from יהוה and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

Num 16:36  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 16:37  “Say to Elʽazar, son of Aharon the priest, to pick up the fire holders out of the blaze, for they are set-apart, and scatter the fire some distance away.

Num 16:38  “The fire holders of these men who sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the altar. Because they brought them before יהוה, therefore they are set-apart. And let them become a sign to the children of Yisra’ĕl.”

Once we dedicate something to Yahovah it becomes set apart and no longer our own.

Num 16:39  And Elʽazar the priest took the bronze fire holders, which those who were burned up had brought, and they were beaten out as a covering on the altar –

Num 16:40  a remembrance to the children of Yisra’ĕl that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aharon, should come near to offer incense before יהוה, and not be like Qoraḥ and his company – as יהוה had said to him through Mosheh.

Num 16:41  But all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon on the next day, saying, “You, you have killed the people of יהוה.”

Num 16:42  And it came to be, when the congregation assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon, that they turned toward the Tent of Meeting. And see, the cloud covered it, and the esteem of יהוה appeared.

Num 16:43  And Mosheh and Aharon came before the Tent of Meeting.

4th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 17:9-15

Num 16:44  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 16:45  “Arise from amidst this congregation, and let Me consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.

Num 16:46  So Mosheh said to Aharon, “Take the fire holder and put fire in it from the altar, and lay incense on, and go, hurry to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from יהוה, the plague has begun.”

Num 16:47  And Aharon took it as Mosheh commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people. And he laid on the incense and made atonement for the people,

Num 16:48  and stood between the dead and the living. And the plague was stopped.

Num 16:49  And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Qoraḥ.

Num 16:50  Then Aharon returned to Mosheh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, for the plague had stopped.

5th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 17:16-24

Num 17:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 17:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and take from them a rod from each father’s house, all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each one’s name on his rod,

Num 17:3  and write Aharon’s name on the rod of Lĕwi, for there is one rod for the head of each father’s house.

Num 17:4  “You shall then place them in the Tent of Meeting before the Witness, where I meet with you.

Num 17:5  “And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose buds, and I shall rid Myself of the grumblings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they grumble against you.”

Num 17:6  And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and all their leaders gave him a rod each, for each leader according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. And the rod of Aharon was among their rods.

Num 17:7  So Mosheh placed the rods before יהוה in the Tent of the Witness.

Num 17:8  And it came to be on the next day that Mosheh went into the Tent of the Witness and saw that the rod of Aharon, of the house of Lĕwi, had budded, and brought forth buds, and blossomed and bore ripe almonds.

The almond tree is the first tree each year to bear flowers and bud but the last to bear its fruit, and was known in ancient times for its diligence. Due to this Yahweh used it to show His unswerving backing of Aaron as High Priest.

Num 17:9  And Mosheh brought out all the rods from before יהוה to all the children of Yisra’ĕl. And they looked, and each man took his rod.

6th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 17:25-18:20

Num 17:10  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Bring Aharon’s rod back before the Witness, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, so that you put an end to their grumblings against Me, lest they die.”

Num 17:11  And Mosheh did as יהוה had commanded him, so he did.

Num 17:12  And the children of Yisra’ĕl spoke to Mosheh, saying, “See, we shall die, we shall perish, we shall all perish!

Num 17:13  “Anyone who comes near the Dwelling Place of יהוה dies. Shall we be consumed – to die?”

Num 18:1  And יהוה said to Aharon, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you are to bear the crookedness against the set-apart place, and you and your sons with you are to bear the crookedness against your priesthood.

Num 18:2  “But bring with you your brothers of the tribe of Lĕwi too, the tribe of your father to join you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the Tent of the Witness.

Num 18:3  “And they shall guard your charge, and the duty of all the Tent, but they do not come near the furnishings of the set-apart place and the altar, lest they die, both they and you.

Num 18:4  “And they shall be joined with you and guard the duty to the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent, but a stranger does not come near you.

Num 18:5  “And you shall guard the duty of the set-apart place and the duty of the altar, so that there be no more wrath on the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 18:6  “And see, I Myself have taken your brothers the Lĕwites from the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl – a gift to you, given by יהוה, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Num 18:7  “But you and your sons with you are to guard your priesthood for all matters at the altar and behind the veil, and you shall serve. I have given you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the stranger who comes near is put to death.”

Num 18:8  And יהוה spoke to Aharon, “And see, I Myself have also given you the charge of My contributions, all the set-apart gifts of the children of Yisra’ĕl. I have given them to you for the anointing, and to your sons, as a law forever.

Num 18:9  “This is yours of the most set-apart gifts, from the fire: all their offerings, all their grain offerings and all their sin offerings and all their guilt offerings which they render to Me, are most set-apart for you and your sons.

Num 18:10  “Eat it in the most set-apart place – every male eats it. It is set-apart to you.

Num 18:11  “This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Yisra’ĕl. I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as a law forever. Everyone who is clean in your house eats it.

Num 18:12  “All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine and the grain – their first-fruits which they give to יהוה – I have given them to you.

Num 18:13  “The first-fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to יהוה, are yours. Everyone who is clean in your house eats it.

Num 18:14  “All that is dedicated in Yisra’ĕl is yours.

Num 18:15  “Everyone opening a womb of all flesh, which they bring to יהוה, whether man or beast, is yours. But the first-born of man you shall certainly ransom, and the first-born of the unclean beast you ransom.

Num 18:16  “And ransom their ransomed ones when one month old, according to your valuation, five sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, which is twenty gĕrahs.

Num 18:17  “But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat you do not ransom, they are set-apart. Sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

Num 18:18  “And their flesh is yours, as the wave breast and as the right thigh, it is yours.

Num 18:19  “All the contributions of the set-apart gifts, which the children of Yisra’ĕl present to יהוה, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as a law forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before יהוה with you and your seed with you.”

Num 18:20  And יהוה said to Aharon, “You are not to have an inheritance in their land, nor have any portion in their midst. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Yisra’ĕl.

True priests of Yahovah do not gather and hoard mammon, but live by faith and trust Yahweh to provide as they are His possession.

7th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 18:21-32

Num 18:21  “And see, I have given the children of Lĕwi all the tithes in Yisra’ĕl as an inheritance in return for the service which they are serving, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Num 18:22  “And let the children of Yisra’ĕl no more come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin and die,

Num 18:23  because the Lĕwites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, so they themselves bear their crookedness. A law forever, throughout your generations: that among the children of Yisra’ĕl they are to have no inheritance,

Num 18:24  but the tithes of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they present as a contribution to יהוה, I have given to the Lĕwites as an inheritance. That is why I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Yisra’ĕl they have no inheritance.’ ”

Num 18:25  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 18:26  “Speak to the Lĕwites and say to them, ‘When you take from the children of Yisra’ĕl the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution of it to יהוה, a tenth of the tithe.

Num 18:27  ‘And your contribution shall be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing-floor and as filling from the winepress.

Num 18:28  ‘Thus you also present a contribution unto יהוה from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall give from it the contribution to יהוה to Aharon the priest.

Num 18:29  ‘From all your gifts you present every contribution due to יהוה, from all the best of them, the set-apart part of them.’

Num 18:30  “And you shall say to them, ‘When you have presented the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the Lĕwites as the yield of the threshing-floor and as the yield of the winepress.

Num 18:31  ‘And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting,

Num 18:32  and bear no sin because of it, when you have presented the best of it, and do not profane the set-apart gifts of the children of Yisra’ĕl, lest you die.’ ”


Prophets: 1 Samuel 11:14 – 12:25

1Sa 11:14  And Shemu’ĕl said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal and renew the reign there.”

1Sa 11:15  And all the people went to Gilgal, and there they set up Sha’ul to reign before יהוה in Gilgal, and there they made slaughterings of peace offerings before יהוה. And there Sha’ul rejoiced, and all the men of Yisra’ĕl, very greatly.

1Sa 12:1  And Shemu’ĕl said to all Yisra’ĕl, “Look, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have set a sovereign over you.

1Sa 12:2  “And now, look, the sovereign is walking before you. And I am old and grey, and look, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

1Sa 12:3  “Look, here I am. Witness against me before יהוה and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I abused, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? – then I restore it to you.”

1Sa 12:4  And they said, “You have not oppressed us or abused us, nor have you taken any bribe from anyone’s hand.”

1Sa 12:5  So he said to them, “יהוה is witness against you, and His anointed is witness today, that you have found naught in my hand.” And they answered, “He is witness.”

1Sa 12:6  And Shemu’ĕl said to the people, “It is יהוה who appointed Mosheh and Aharon, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Mitsrayim.

1Sa 12:7  “And now, stand still, so that I judge you before יהוה concerning all the righteous acts of יהוה which He did to you and your fathers:

1Sa 12:8  “When Yaʽaqoḇ had come to Mitsrayim, and your fathers cried out to יהוה, then יהוה sent Mosheh and Aharon, who brought your fathers out of Mitsrayim and made them dwell in this place.

1Sa 12:9  “But they forgot יהוה their Elohim, so He sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Ḥatsor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the sovereign of Mo’aḇ. And they fought against them.

1Sa 12:10  “And they cried out to יהוה, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken יהוה and served the Baʽals and the Ashtaroth. And now, deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we serve You.’

1Sa 12:11  “And יהוה sent Yerubbaʽal, and Beḏan, and Yiphtaḥ, and Shemu’ĕl, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies round about, and you dwelt in safety.

1Sa 12:12  “And when you saw that Naḥash sovereign of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but let a sovereign reign over us,’ when יהוה your Elohim was your sovereign.

1Sa 12:13  “And now, here is the sovereign whom you have chosen and whom you have asked. And see, יהוה has set a sovereign over you.

1Sa 12:14  “If you fear יהוה, and shall serve Him and obey His voice, and not rebel against the command of יהוה, then both you and the sovereign who reigns over you shall follow יהוה your Elohim.

1Sa 12:15  “But if you do not obey the voice of יהוה, and shall rebel against the command of יהוה, then the hand of יהוה shall be against you, as it was against your fathers.

1Sa 12:16  “And now, stand and see this great matter which יהוה does before your eyes:

1Sa 12:17  “Is today not the wheat harvest? Let me call to יהוה, so that He sends thunder and rain – know then and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of יהוה, in asking for yourselves a sovereign.”

1Sa 12:18  And Shemu’ĕl called to יהוה, and יהוה sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared יהוה and Shemu’ĕl.

1Sa 12:19  And all the people said to Shemu’ĕl, “Pray for your servants to יהוה your Elohim, that we do not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil of asking for ourselves a sovereign.”

1Sa 12:20  And Shemu’ĕl said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this evil. Only, do not turn aside from following יהוה. And you shall serve יהוה with all your heart,

1Sa 12:21  and do not turn aside after worthless matters which do not profit or deliver, for they are worthless.

1Sa 12:22  “For יהוה would not cast away His people, for His great Name’s sake, seeing it has pleased יהוה to make you His people.

1Sa 12:23  “Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against יהוה in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way.

1Sa 12:24  “Only fear יהוה, and you shall serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider what marvels He has done for you.

1Sa 12:25  “But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your sovereign are consumed.”


Brit Hadasha: Luke 18:35 – 19:28

Luk 18:35  And it came to be, that as He was coming near Yeriḥo, that a certain blind man was sitting by the way begging.

Luk 18:36  And hearing a crowd passing by, he asked what it meant.

Luk 18:37  And they reported to him that יהושע of Natsareth was passing by.

Luk 18:38  And he cried out, saying, “יהושע, Son of Dawiḏ, have compassion on me!”

Luk 18:39  And those going before were rebuking him that he should be silent, but he was crying out much more, “Son of Dawiḏ, have compassion on me!”

Luk 18:40  And יהושע stopped and commanded him to be brought to Him. And when he had come near, He asked him,

Luk 18:41  saying, “What do you wish Me to do for you?” And he said, “Master, to receive my sight.”

Luk 18:42  And יהושע said to him, “Receive your sight! Your belief has saved you.”

Luk 18:43  And immediately he received his sight, and was following Him, praising Elohim. And all the people, seeing it, gave praise to Elohim.

Luk 19:1  And having entered, He was passing through Yeriḥo.

Luk 19:2  And see, a man called Zakkai! And he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich,

Luk 19:3  and he was seeking to see who יהושע was, but was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

Luk 19:4  And having run ahead, he climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, because He was about to pass by.

The Hebrew word for Sycamore is ‘Shickma’ and means redemption, showing about the change that was to come.

Luk 19:5  And as יהושע came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zakkai, hurry and come down, for I have to stay at your house today.”

Luk 19:6  And he hurried and came down, and received Him, rejoicing.

Luk 19:7  And seeing it, they all grumbled, saying, “He has gone in to stay with a man who is a sinner.”

Luk 19:8  But Zakkai stood up and said to the Master, “Look, Master, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have taken whatever from anyone by false accusation, I repay fourfold.”

Luk 19:9  And יהושע said to him, “Today deliverance has come to this house – since he also is a son of Aḇraham.

Luk 19:10  “For the Son of Aḏam has come to seek and to save what was lost.”

Luk 19:11  And as they were hearing this, He spoke another parable, because He was near Yerushalayim and they thought the reign of Elohim was about to be manifested straightaway.

Luk 19:12  He therefore said, “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a reign and to return.

Luk 19:13  “And calling ten of his servants, He gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Trade until I come.’

Luk 19:14  “But his subjects were hating him, and sent a delegation after him, to say, ‘We do not wish this one to reign over us.’

Luk 19:15  “And it came to be, when he came back, having received the reign, that he sent for these servants to whom he had given the silver, in order to know what each had gained by trading.

Luk 19:16  “And the first came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’

Luk 19:17  “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant. Because you were trustworthy in a small matter, have authority over ten cities.’

Luk 19:18  “And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’

Luk 19:19  “And he said to him also, ‘And you – be over five cities.’

Luk 19:20  “And another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept laid up in a handkerchief.

Luk 19:21  ‘For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’

Luk 19:22  “And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I shall judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.

Luk 19:23  ‘Why did you not put the silver in the bank, that when I come I could have collected it with interest?’

Luk 19:24  “Then he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who possesses ten minas.’

Luk 19:25  “But they said to him, ‘Master, he already possesses ten minas.’

Luk 19:26  ‘For I say to you, that to everyone who possesses shall be given; and from him who does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.

Luk 19:27  ‘But those enemies of mine who did not wish me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”

Luk 19:28  And having said this, He went on ahead, going up to Yerushalayim.

Romans 13

Rom 13:1  Let every being be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from Elohim, and the authorities that exist are appointed by Elohim.

Rom 13:2  So he who opposes the authority withstands the institution of Elohim, and those who withstand shall bring judgment on themselves.

Yahweh set a judicial order from creation and all those who have been put in authority are ultimately there due to Him. To be prideful and self-willed and resist the authority ordained by Yahweh, whether in the congregation or civil government it makes no difference, the person is resisting YHWH, the one who gave the authority to him. It stands to reason that YHWH is the ultimate authority and if someone whether it be in the congregation or civil authority would want a believer to violate one of YHWH’s commands, then they would not submit to such an injunction.

Rom 13:3  For those ruling are an object of fear, not to good works, but to evil. Do you wish to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it,

Rom 13:4  for it is a servant of Elohim to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain. For it is a servant of Elohim, a revenger to execute wrath on him who practises evil.

Rom 13:5  Therefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of the conscience.

Rom 13:6  For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are servants of Elohim attending continually to these duties.

Rom 13:7  Render therefore to all what is due to them: tax to whom tax is due, toll to whom toll, fear to whom fear, respect to whom respect.

Rom 13:8  Owe no one any matter except to love one another, for he who loves another has filled the Torah.

Rom 13:9  For this, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other command, is summed up in this word, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

Many under the false grace try to purport that this golden rule replaces the Torah when in fact it is written in the Torah (Lev 19:18). Paul’s whole point is that every law written in the Torah is to show love, either to YHWH or our fellow man.

Exodus 20:13-17; Deuteronomy 5:17-21, Leviticus 19:18

Rom 13:10  Love does no evil to a neighbour. Therefore, love is completion of the Torah.

Rom 13:11  And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for us to wake up from sleep, for now our deliverance is nearer than when we did believe.

Rom 13:12  The night is far advanced, the day has come near. So let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Rom 13:13  Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in living together and indecencies, not in fighting and envy,

Rom 13:14  but put on the Master יהושע Messiah, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh.

It was reported in early 2012 that for the first time in the USA more than 50% of couples are cohabiting instead of getting married, clearly a sign of the times we are living in.

2 Timothy 2

2Ti 2:1  You then, my son, be strong in the favour that is in Messiah יהושע.

2Ti 2:2  And what you have heard from me among many witnesses, entrust these to trustworthy men who shall be competent to teach others as well.

2Ti 2:3  Suffer hardship with us as a good soldier of יהושע Messiah.

2Ti 2:4  No one serving as a soldier gets involved in the affairs of this life, in order to please only him who enlisted him as a soldier.

2Ti 2:5  And if anyone competes in a game, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

2Ti 2:6  The hard-working farmer ought to be first to receive his share of the crops.

2Ti 2:7  Think over what I say, for the Master shall give you understanding into all this.

2Ti 2:8  Remember that יהושע Messiah, of the seed of Dawiḏ, was raised from the dead according to my Good News,

2Ti 2:9  for which I suffer hardship, as a criminal, unto chains, but the Word of Elohim is not chained.

2Ti 2:10  So I endure through it all for the sake of the chosen, so that they too obtain deliverance which is in Messiah יהושע with everlasting esteem.

2Ti 2:11  Trustworthy is the word: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him.

2Ti 2:12  If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also shall deny us.

2Ti 2:13  If we are not trustworthy, He remains trustworthy, it is impossible for Him to deny Himself.

2Ti 2:14  Remind them of this, earnestly witnessing before the Master, not to wage verbal battles – which is useless – to the overthrowing of the hearers.

2Ti 2:15  Do your utmost to present yourself approved to Elohim, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth.

2Ti 2:16  But keep away from profane, empty babblings, for they go on to more wickedness,

2Ti 2:17  and their word shall eat its way like gangrene. Humenaios and Philetos are of this sort,

2Ti 2:18  who have missed the goal concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and overthrow the belief of some.

2Ti 2:19  However, the solid foundation of Elohim stands firm, having this seal, יהוה knows those who are His,” Genesis 16:5 and, “Let everyone who names the Name of Messiah turn away from unrighteous-ness.”

Numbers 16:5

2Ti 2:20  But in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some unto value and some unto no value.

2Ti 2:21  If, then, anyone cleanses himself from these matters, he shall be a vessel unto value, having been set apart, of good use to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.

2Ti 2:22  And flee from the lusts of youth, but pursue righteousness, belief, love, peace with those calling on the Master out of a clean heart.

2Ti 2:23  But refuse foolish and stupid questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

2Ti 2:24  And a servant of the Master should not quarrel but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient when wronged,

2Ti 2:25  in meekness instructing those who are in opposition, lest somehow Elohim gives them repentance unto a thorough knowledge of the truth,

2Ti 2:26  and they come to their senses, out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his desire.

Jude (Judah) 1:1-25
The Book of Judah is a Prophecy for the end of times.

Jud 1:1  Yehuḏah, a servant of יהושע Messiah, and brother of Yaʽaqoḇ, to those who are called, set-apart by Elohim the Father, and preserved in יהושע Messiah:

Jud 1:2  Compassion, and peace, and love be increased to you.

Jud 1:3  Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones.

Jud 1:4  For certain men have slipped in, whose judgment was written about long ago, wicked ones1 perverting the favour of our Elohim for indecency, and denying the only Master יהוה and our Master יהושע Messiah.

Footnote: 1See Mt. 13, 2 Thess. 2.

Judah prophesies about the lawless gospel that is being preached today.

Jud 1:5  But I intend to remind you, though you once knew this, that יהוה, having saved a people out of the land of Mitsrayim, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

This is quite a sobering scripture considering almost 2.8 million people left Egypt and only 2 (20 and above) entered the Promised Land.

Jud 1:6  And the messengers who did not keep their own principality, but left their own dwelling, He has kept in everlasting shackles under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Jud 1:7  Even as Seḏom and Amorah and the cities around them in a similar way to these, having given themselves over to whoring and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing judicial punishment of everlasting fire.

Jud 1:8  In the same way, indeed, these dreamers defile the flesh, and reject authority, and speak evil of esteemed ones.

Judah is prophesying of the end time Laodicean attitude that is fully against Yahweh’s judicial order and ordained leadership.

Jud 1:9  But Miḵa’ĕl the chief messenger, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Mosheh, presumed not to bring against him a blasphemous accusation, but said, יהוה rebuke you!”

Zechariah 3:2

Jud 1:10  But these blaspheme that which they do not know. And that which they know naturally, like unreasoning beasts, in these they corrupt themselves.

Jud 1:11  Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bilʽam for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.

They are led by a spirit of envy, jealousy and self-preservation.

2 Peter 2:6-15

Jud 1:12  These are rocky reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds borne about by the winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

Jud 1:13  wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.

Jud 1:14  And Ḥanoḵ (Enoch), the seventh from Adam, also prophesied of these, saying, “See, יהוה comes with His myriads of set-apart ones,

Jud 1:15  to execute judgment on all, to punish all who are wicked among them concerning all their wicked works which they have committed in a wicked way, and concerning all the harsh words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.”

Jud 1:16  These are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces of others for the sake of gain.

If YHWH is one’s shepherd (Ps 23:1) then he should be happy, satisfied and content under Yahshua’s protection, but these people are miserable and unsatisfied.

Jud 1:17  But you, beloved ones, remember the words spoken before by the emissaries of our Master יהושע Messiah,

Jud 1:18  because they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own wicked lusts.

Jud 1:19  These are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Jud 1:20  But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit,

Jud 1:21  keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master יהושע Messiah unto everlasting life.

Jud 1:22  And show compassion toward some who are doubting,

Jud 1:23  but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating, even the garment defiled by the flesh.1

Footnote: 1See Gal. 5:19-21, Rom. 8:5-10.

Jud 1:24  And to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of His esteem with exceeding joy,

Jud 1:25  to the only wise Elohim, our Saviour, be esteem and greatness and might and authority, both now and forever. Amĕn.

Psalm 118

Psa 118:1  Oh, give thanks to יהוה, for He is good! Because His kindness is everlasting.

Psa 118:2  Let Yisra’ĕl now say, “His kindness is everlasting.”

Psa 118:3  Let the house of Aharon now say, “His kindness is everlasting.”

Psa 118:4  Let those who fear יהוה now say, “His kindness is everlasting.”

Psa 118:5  I called on Yah in distress; Yah answered me in a broad place.

Psa 118:6  יהוה is on my side; I do not fear what man does to me!

Psa 118:7  יהוה is for me among those helping me; Therefore I look on those hating me.

Psa 118:8  It is better to take refuge in יהוה Than to trust in man.

Psa 118:9  It is better to take refuge in יהוה Than to trust in princes.

Psa 118:10  All the gentiles surrounded me, In the Name of יהוה I shall cut them off.

Psa 118:11  They surrounded me, Yea, they surrounded me; In the Name of יהוה shall I cut them off.

Psa 118:12  They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished like burning thorns; In the Name of יהוה I shall cut them off.

Psa 118:13  Pushing, the enemy pushed me to fall, But יהוה helped me.

Psa 118:14  Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my deliverance (Y’shua).

Exo 15:2  “Yah is my strength and song, and He has become my deliverance (Y’Shua). He is my Ěl, and I praise Him – Elohim of my father, and I exalt Him.

Exo 15:3  “יהוה is a man of battle, יהוה is His Name.

Isa 12:1  And in that day you shall say, “I thank You יהוה, though You were enraged with me, Your displeasure has turned back, and You have comforted me.

Isa 12:2  “See, Ěl is my deliverance (Y’shua), I trust and am not afraid. For Yah, יהוה, is my strength and my song; and He has become my deliverance (Y’shua).”

Isa 12:3  And you shall draw water with joy from the fountains of deliverance (Y’shua).

Isa 12:4  And in that day you shall say, “Praise יהוה, call upon His Name; make known His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His Name is exalted.

Isa 12:5  “Sing to יהוה, For He has done excellently; this is known in all the earth.

Isa 12:6  “Cry aloud and shout, O inhabitant of Tsiyon, for great is the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl in your midst!”

Psa 118:15  The voice of rejoicing and deliverance (Y’shua) Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of יהוה is doing mightily.

Psa 118:16  The right hand of יהוה is exalted, The right hand of יהוה acts mightily.

Psa 118:17  Let me not die, but live, And declare the works of Yah.

Psa 118:18  Yah has punished me severely, But did not give me over to death.

Psa 118:19  Open to me the gates of righteousness; I enter through them, I thank Yah.

Psa 118:20  This is the gate of יהוה, The righteous enter through it.

Psa 118:21  I thank You, For You have answered me, And have become my deliverance (Y’shua).

Psa 118:22  The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner-stone.

Acts 4:11

Psa 118:23  This was from יהוה, It is marvellous in our eyes.

Psa 118:24  This is the day יהוה has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psa 118:25  I pray, O יהוה, please save us now. (Hoshianah)

Psa 118:26  Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה! We shall bless you from the House of יהוה.

Mathew 21:9, John 12:13, Deuteronomy 18:18-20

Psa 118:27  יהוה is Ěl, and He gave us light; Bind the festal offering With cords to the horns of the altar.

Psa 118:28  You are my Ěl, and I praise You; You are my Elohim, I exalt You.

Psa 118:29  Give thanks to יהוה, for He is good! For His kindness is everlasting.

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Shelach | שלח | “Send”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Shlach, Shelach, Sh’lah, Shlach Lecha, or Sh’lah L’kha (שְׁלַח or שְׁלַח-לְךָ — Hebrew for “send”, “send to you”, or “send for yourself”) is the 37th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Numbers. Its name comes from the first distinctive words in the parashah, in Numbers 13:2. Shelach (שְׁלַח) is the sixth and lecha (לְךָ) is the seventh word in the parashah. It constitutes Numbers 13:1–15:41. The parashah is made up of 5,820 Hebrew letters, 1,540 Hebrew words, and 119 verses, and can occupy about 198 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).

The parashah tells the story of the twelve spies sent to assess the promised land, Caleb, who proposed entry into the land and the others who discouraged the Israelites, commandments about offerings, the story of the Sabbath violator, and the commandment of the fringes (צִיצִת, tzitzit).


Torah: Numbers 13:1 – 15:41

1st reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 13:1-20

Num 13:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 13:2  “Send men to spy out the land of Kenaʽan, which I am giving to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Send one man from each tribe of their fathers, every one a leader among them.”

Num 13:3  And by the command of יהוה Mosheh sent them from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 13:4  And these were their names. From the tribe of Re’uḇĕn: Shammua, son of Zakkur.

Num 13:5  From the tribe of Shimʽon: Shaphat, son of Ḥori.

Num 13:6  From the tribe of Yehuḏah: Kalĕḇ, son of Yephunneh.

Num 13:7  From the tribe of Yissasḵar: Yiḡ’al, son of Yosĕph.

Num 13:8  From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa, son of Nun.

Num 13:9  From the tribe of Binyamin: Palti, son of Raphu.

Num 13:10  From the tribe of Zeḇulun: Gaddi’ĕl, son of Soḏi.

Num 13:11  From the tribe of Yosĕph, from the tribe of Menashsheh: Gaddi, son of Susi.

Num 13:12  From the tribe of Dan: Ammi’ĕl, son of Gemalli.

Num 13:13  From the tribe of Ashĕr: Shĕthur, son of Miḵa’ĕl.

Num 13:14  From the tribe of Naphtali: Naḥbi, son of Wophsi.

Num 13:15  From the tribe of Gaḏ: Geu’ĕl, son of Maḵi.

Num 13:16  These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land. And Mosheh called Hoshĕa the son of Nun, Yehoshua.

Num 13:17  And Mosheh sent them to spy out the land of Kenaʽan, and said to them, “Go up here into the South, and go up to the mountains,

Num 13:18  and see what the land is like, and the people who dwell in it, whether strong or weak, whether few or many,

Num 13:19  and whether the land they dwell in is good or evil, whether the cities they inhabit are in camps or strongholds,

Num 13:20  and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are forests there or not. And you shall be strong, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first-fruits of grapes.

2nd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 13:21-14:7

Num 13:21  So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Tsin as far as Reḥoḇ, near the entrance of Ḥamath.

Num 13:22  And they went up through the South and came to Ḥeḇron. And Aḥiman, Shĕshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anaq, were there. Now Ḥeḇron had been built seven years before Tsoʽan in Mitsrayim.

Num 13:23  And they came to the wadi Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it between two of them on a pole, also of the pomegranates and of the figs.

Num 13:24  That place was called the wadi Eshkol, because of the cluster which the men of Yisra’ĕl cut down from there.

Num 13:25  And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

Num 13:26  And they went and came to Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl in the Wilderness of Paran, at Qaḏĕsh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

Num 13:27  And they reported to him, and said, “We went to the land where you sent us. And truly, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Num 13:28  “But the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are walled, very great. And we saw the descendants of Anaq there too.

Num 13:29  “The Amalĕqites dwell in the land of the South, while the Ḥittites and the Yeḇusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Kenaʽanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Yardĕn.”

Num 13:30  And Kalĕḇ silenced the people before Mosheh, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are certainly able to overcome it.”

Num 13:31  But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

Num 13:32  And they gave the children of Yisra’ĕl an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

Num 13:33  “And we saw there the Nephilim, sons of Anaq, of the Nephilim. And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their eyes.”

Num 14:1  Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

Num 14:2  And all the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Num 14:3  “And why is יהוה bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become a prey? Would it not be better for us to turn back to Mitsrayim?”

Num 14:4  And they said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and let us turn back to Mitsrayim.”

Num 14:5  Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 14:6  And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their garments,

Num 14:7  and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

3rd reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 14:8-25

Num 14:8  “If יהוה has delighted in us, then He shall bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which is flowing with milk and honey.’

Num 14:9  “Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and יהוה is with us. Do not fear them.”

Num 14:10  But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the esteem of יהוה appeared in the Tent of Meeting before all the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 14:11  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “How long shall I be scorned by these people? And how long shall I not be trusted by them, with all the signs which I have done in their midst?

Num 14:12  “Let Me smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Num 14:13  And Mosheh said to יהוה, “Then the Mitsrites shall hear it, for by Your power You brought these people up from their midst,

Num 14:14  and they shall say to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that You, יהוה, are in the midst of these people, that You, יהוה, are seen eye to eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night.

Num 14:15  “Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,

Num 14:16  ‘Because יהוה was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’

Num 14:17  “And now, I pray, let the power of יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,

Num 14:18  ‘יהוה is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished1; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’

Footnote: 1This is confirmed in Ex. 34:7 and in Jer. 30:11.

Jer 30:11  ‘For I am with you,’ declares יהוה, ‘to save you. Though I make a complete end of all gentiles1 where I have scattered you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.’ Footnote: 1See 46:28, Isa. 34:2, Isa. 45:17, Dan. 2:44, Amos 9:8, Hag. 2:22.

Num 14:19  “Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the greatness of Your kindness, as You have forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now.”

Num 14:20  And יהוה said, “I shall forgive, according to your word,

Num 14:21  but truly, as I live and all the earth is filled with the esteem of יהוה,

Num 14:22  for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,

Num 14:23  shall see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of those who scorned Me see it.

Num 14:24  “But My servant Kalĕḇ, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the land where he went, and his seed shall inherit it.

Num 14:25  “Since the Amalĕqites and the Kenaʽanites are dwelling in the valley, turn back tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.”

4th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 14:26-15:7

Num 14:26  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,

Num 14:27  “How long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra’ĕl are grumbling against Me.

Num 14:28  “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares יהוה, ‘as you have spoken in My hearing, so I do to you:

Num 14:29  ‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.

Num 14:30  ‘None of you except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.

Num 14:31  ‘But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Num 14:32  ‘But as for you, your carcasses are going to fall in this wilderness.

Num 14:33  ‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

Num 14:34  ‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you are to bear your crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.

This day for a year principle is used different times in scripture to delineate the times of certain punishments for Israel

Num 14:35  ‘I am יהוה, I have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.’ ”

Num 14:36  And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report of the land,

Num 14:37  even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before יהוה.

Num 14:38  Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh remained alive.

Num 14:39  And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the children of Yisra’ĕl, the people mourned greatly.

Num 14:40  And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the place which יהוה had spoken of!”

Num 14:41  But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress the command of יהוה, since it does not prosper?

Num 14:42  “Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for יהוה is not in your midst.

Num 14:43  “Because the Amalĕqites and the Kenaʽanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from יהוה, יהוה is not with you.”

Num 14:44  But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the ark of the covenant of יהוה nor Mosheh left the camp.

Num 14:45  So the Amalĕqites and the Kenaʽanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and smote them, and beat them down, even to Ḥormah.

Num 15:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 15:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you have come into the land of your dwellings, which I am giving you,

Num 15:3  and you make an offering by fire to יהוה, a burnt offering or a slaughtering, to accomplish a vow or as a voluntary offering or in your appointed times, to make a sweet fragrance to יהוה, from the herd or the flock,

Num 15:4  then he who brings near his offering to יהוה shall bring near a grain offering of one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil,

Num 15:5  and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you prepare with the burnt offering or the slaughtering, for each lamb.

Num 15:6  ‘Or for a ram you prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,

Num 15:7  and as a drink offering you bring one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

5th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 15:8-16

Num 15:8  ‘And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a slaughtering to accomplish a vow, or as a peace offering to יהוה,

Num 15:9  then shall be brought with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,

Num 15:10  and bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

Num 15:11  ‘This is what is done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat.

Num 15:12  ‘According to the number that you prepare, so you do for each one according to their number.

Num 15:13  ‘Let all who are native do so with them, in bringing near an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

Num 15:14  ‘And when a stranger sojourns with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would make an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה, as you do, so he does.

Num 15:15  ‘One law is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you – a law forever throughout your generations. As you are, so is the stranger before יהוה.

Num 15:16  ‘One Torah and one right-ruling is for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.’ ”

6th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 15:17-26

Num 15:17  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 15:18  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you,

Num 15:19  then it shall be, when you eat of the bread of the land, that you present a contribution to יהוה.

Num 15:20  ‘Present a cake of the first of your dough as a contribution – as a contribution of the threshing-floor you present it.

Num 15:21  ‘Of the first of your dough you are to give to יהוה a contribution throughout your generations.

Num 15:22  ‘And when you sin by mistake, and do not do all these commands which יהוה has spoken to Mosheh,

Num 15:23  all that יהוה has commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from the day יהוה gave command and onward throughout your generations,

Num 15:24  then it shall be, if it is done by mistake, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance to יהוה, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the right-ruling, and one male goat as a sin offering.

Num 15:25  ‘Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was by mistake. And they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to יהוה, and their sin offering before יהוה, for their mistake.

Num 15:26  ‘And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl and the stranger who sojourns in their midst, because all the people did it by mistake.

7th reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 15:27-41

Num 15:27  ‘And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering.

Num 15:28  ‘And the priest shall make atonement for the being who strays by mistake, when he sins by mistake before יהוה, to make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

Num 15:29  ‘For him who does whatever by mistake there is one Torah, both for him who is native among the children of Yisra’ĕl and for the stranger who sojourns in their midst.

Num 15:30  ‘But the being who does whatever defiantly, whether he is native or a stranger, he reviles יהוה, and that being shall be cut off from among his people.

Num 15:31  ‘Because he has despised the word of יהוה, and has broken His command, that being shall certainly be cut off, his crookedness is upon him.’ ”

Num 15:32  And while the children of Yisra’ĕl were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

Num 15:33  And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Mosheh and to Aharon, and to all the congregation.

Num 15:34  And they put him in under guard, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Num 15:35  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “The man shall certainly be put to death, all the congregation stoning him with stones outside the camp.”

Num 15:36  And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, as יהוה commanded Mosheh, and he died.

Num 15:37  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 15:38  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them to make tzitziyot1 on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue cord in the tzitzit1 of the corners.

Footnote: 1See Explanatory notes – “Tzitzit” – plural Tzitziyot.

Num 15:39  “And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring,

Num 15:40  so that you remember, and shall do all My commands, and be set-apart unto your Elohim.

Num 15:41  “I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be          your Elohim. I am יהוה your Elohim.”


Prophets: Joshua 2:1-24

Jos 2:1  And Yehoshua son of Nun secretly sent out two men from Shittim to spy, saying, “Go, see the land, and Yeriḥo.” And they went, and came to the house of a woman, a whore, and her name was Raḥaḇ, and they lay down there.

The word used to describe Rahab here could be a misunderstanding and may mean an innkeeper.

H7901

Original: שׁכב

Transliteration: shâkab

Phonetic: shaw-kab’

BDB Definition:

to lie down
(Qal)
to lie, lie down, lie on
to lodge
to lie (of sexual relations)
to lie down (in death)
to rest, relax (figuratively)
(Niphal) to be lain with (sexually)
(Pual) to be lain with (sexually)
(Hiphil) to make to lie down
(Hophal) to be laid
Origin: a primitive root

Strong’s Definition: A primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose): – X at all, cast down, ([over-]) lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still, with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.

Jos 2:2  But it was reported to the sovereign of Yeriḥo, saying, “See, men from the children of Yisra’ĕl have come here tonight to search out the land.”

Jos 2:3  And the sovereign of Yeriḥo sent to Raḥaḇ, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”

Jos 2:4  But the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she said, “The men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

Jos 2:5  “Then it came to be as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, so that you overtake them.”

Jos 2:6  But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.

Jos 2:7  And the men pursued them by the way to the Yardĕn, to the fords. And they shut the gate afterwards as soon as the pursuers had gone out.

Jos 2:8  And before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,

Jos 2:9  and she said to the men, “I know that יהוה has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of you.

Jos 2:10  “For we have heard how יהוה dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds for you when you came out of Mitsrayim, and what you did to the two sovereigns of the Amorites who were beyond the Yardĕn, Siḥon and Oḡ, whom you put under the ban.

Jos 2:11  “And when we heard, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in anyone because of you, for יהוה your Elohim, He is Elohim in the heavens above and on earth beneath.

Jos 2:12  “And now, please swear to me by יהוה, since I have shown you kindness, that you also show kindness to my father’s house, and shall give me a true token,

Jos 2:13  and shall spare my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and shall deliver our lives from death.”

Jos 2:14  And the men said to her, “Our lives for yours, if you do not expose this matter of ours, then it shall be, when יהוה has given us the land, that we shall treat you in kindness and truth.”

Jos 2:15  So she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall and she dwelt on the wall.

Jos 2:16  And she said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers come upon you. And you shall hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned, and afterwards go on your way.”

Jos 2:17  And the men said to her, “We are released from this oath of yours which you have made us swear,

Jos 2:18  unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home.

Jos 2:19  “And it shall be that anyone who goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood is on his own head, and we are innocent. And anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand is laid on him.

Jos 2:20  “And if you expose this matter of ours, then we shall be released from your oath which you made us swear.”

Jos 2:21  And she said, “Let it be according to your words.” And she sent them away, and they went. And she bound the scarlet cord in the window.

Jos 2:22  So they left and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. And the pursuers sought them in all the way, but did not find them.

Jos 2:23  Then the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and passed over. And they came to Yehoshua son of Nun, and related to him all that had befallen them.

Jos 2:24  And they said to Yehoshua, “Truly יהוה has given all the land into our hands, and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted away because of us.”


Brit Hadasha: Mark 10:1-45

Mar 10:1  And rising up from there He came into the borders of Yehuḏah by the other side of the Yardĕn. And crowds gathered to Him again, and as He usually did, He was teaching them again.

Mar 10:2  And Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it right for a man to put away his wife?” – trying Him.

Mar 10:3  And He answering, said to them, “What did Mosheh command you?”

Mar 10:4  And they said, “Mosheh allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”

Mar 10:5  And יהושע said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this command.

Mar 10:6  “However, from the beginning of the creation, Elohim ‘made them male and female.’

Mar 10:7  ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife,

Mar 10:8  and the two shall become one flesh,’ so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mar 10:9  “Therefore what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate.”

Mar 10:10  And in the house His taught ones asked Him about this again.

Mar 10:11  And He said to them, “Whoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

Mar 10:12  “And if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Footnote: 1Mt. 5:32

Mat 5:31  “And it has been said, ‘Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Mat 5:32  “But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring,1 makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery. Footnote: 1Mt. 19:9, Dt. 24:1.

Mar 10:13  And they were bringing little children for Him to touch them, but the taught ones were rebuking those who were bringing them.

Mar 10:14  And when יהושע saw it, He was much displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the reign of Elohim.

Mar 10:15  “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the reign of Elohim as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it.”

Mar 10:16  And taking them up in His arms, laying His hands on them, He blessed them.

Mar 10:17  And as He was setting out on the way, one came running, and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?”

Mar 10:18  And יהושע said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – Elohim.

Mar 10:19  “You know the commands, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not rob,’ ‘Respect your father and your mother.’ ”

Mar 10:20  And he answering, said to Him, “Teacher, all these I have watched over from my youth.”

Mar 10:21  And יהושע, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One matter you lack: Go, sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me, taking up the stake.”

Mar 10:22  But he, being sad at this word, went away grieved, for he had many possessions.

Mar 10:23  And יהושע, looking around, said to His taught ones, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the reign of Elohim!”

Mar 10:24  And the taught ones were astonished at His words. And יהושע responding, said to them again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the reign of Elohim!

Mar 10:25  “It is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the reign of Elohim.”

Mar 10:26  And they were immeasurably astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then is able to be saved?”

Mar 10:27  And looking at them, יהושע said, “With men it is impossible, but not with Elohim, for with Elohim all is possible.”

Mar 10:28  And Kĕpha began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and we have followed You.”

Mar 10:29  יהושע said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the Good News,

Mar 10:30  who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, everlasting life.

Mar 10:31  “But many who are first shall be last, and the last first.”

Mar 10:32  And they were on the way, going up to Yerushalayim, and יהושע was going before them. And they were astonished, and those who followed were afraid. And again He took the twelve aside and began to say to them what was about to befall Him:

Mar 10:33  “See, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Aḏam shall be delivered to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death and shall deliver Him to the gentiles,

Mar 10:34  and they shall mock Him, and flog Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He shall rise again.”

Mar 10:35  And Yaʽaqoḇ and Yoḥanan, the sons of Zaḇdai, came up to Him, saying, “Teacher, we wish that You would do for us whatever we ask.”

Mar 10:36  And He said to them, “What do you wish Me to do for you?”

Mar 10:37  And they said to Him, “Grant us to be seated in Your esteem, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left.”

Mar 10:38  But יהושע said to them, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?”

Mar 10:39  And they said to Him, “We are able.” And יהושע said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the immersion I am immersed with you shall be immersed,1 Footnote: 1Mt. 20:23 and Luke 12:50.

Mar 10:40  but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

Mar 10:41  And when the ten heard it, they began to be sorely displeased with Yaʽaqoḇ and Yoḥanan.

Mar 10:42  And יהושע, calling them near, said to them, “You know that those who think to rule the gentiles are masters over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Mar 10:43  “But it is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant.

Mar 10:44  “And whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be servant of all.

Mar 10:45  “For even the Son of Aḏam did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Luke 12:1-59

Luk 12:1  Meanwhile, when an innumerable crowd of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His taught ones, first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luk 12:2  “And whatever is concealed shall be revealed, and whatever is hidden shall be known.

Luk 12:3  “So, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms shall be proclaimed on the house-tops.

Luk 12:4  “But I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that are unable to do any more.

Luk 12:5  “But I shall show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after killing, possesses authority to cast into Gehenna. Yea, I say to you, fear Him!

Luk 12:6  “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before Elohim.

Luk 12:7  “But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Do not fear, you are worth more than many sparrows.

Luk 12:8  “And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Aḏam shall also confess him before the messengers of Elohim.

Luk 12:9  “But he that has denied Me before men shall be denied before the messengers of Elohim.

Luk 12:10  “And everyone who shall speak a word against the Son of Aḏam, it shall be forgiven him, but to him who has blasphemed against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven.

Luk 12:11  “And when they bring you to the congregations and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say,

Luk 12:12  for the Set-apart Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what you should say.”

Luk 12:13  And someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me.”

Luk 12:14  But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or divider over you?”

Luk 12:15  And He said to them, “Mind, and beware of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.”

Luk 12:16  He then spoke a parable to them, saying, “The land of a certain rich man yielded well.

Luk 12:17  “And he was reasoning within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?’

Luk 12:18  “And he said, ‘I am going to do this: pull down my storehouses and build greater, and store all my crops and my goods there,

Luk 12:19  then say to myself, “Life, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, rejoice.” ’

Luk 12:20  “But Elohim said to him, ‘You mindless one! This night your life shall be demanded from you. And who shall own what you have prepared?’

Luk 12:21  “So is he who is storing up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward Elohim.”

Luk 12:22  And He said to His taught ones, “For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat; nor about the body, what you shall put on.

Luk 12:23  “The life is more than the food, and the body is more than the clothing.

Luk 12:24  “Look at the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor granary, and Elohim feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds?

Luk 12:25  “And which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his life’s span?

Luk 12:26  “If then you are unable to do the least, why do you worry about the rest?

Luk 12:27  “Look at the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin, and I say to you, even Shelomoh in all his esteem was not dressed like one of these.

Luk 12:28  “And if Elohim so clothes the grass, which today exists in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief?

Luk 12:29  “And do not seek what you shall eat or what you shall drink, and do not keep worrying.

Luk 12:30  “For the gentiles of the world seek all these, and your Father knows that you need these.

Luk 12:31  “But seek the reign of Elohim, and all these shall be added to you.

Luk 12:32  “Do not fear, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign.

Luk 12:33  “Sell your possessions and give in kindness. Make yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief does come near nor moth destroys.

Luk 12:34  “For where your treasure is, there your heart shall be also.

Luk 12:35  “Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,

Luk 12:36  and be like men waiting for their master, when he shall return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they open to him immediately.

Luk 12:37  “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, shall find watching. Truly, I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them sit down to eat, and shall come and serve them.

Luk 12:38  “And if he comes in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Luk 12:39  “And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief comes, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Luk 12:40  “And you, then, be ready, for the Son of Aḏam is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Luk 12:41  And Kĕpha said to Him, “Master, do You speak this parable to us, or also to all?”

Luk 12:42  And the Master said, “Who then is the trustworthy and wise manager, whom his master shall appoint over his household, to give the portion of food in due season?

Luk 12:43  “Blessed is that servant whom his master shall find so doing when he comes.

Luk 12:44  “Truly, I say to you that he shall appoint him over all his possessions.

Luk 12:45  “But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male servants and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

Luk 12:46  the master of that servant shall come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

Luk 12:47  “And that servant who knew his master’s desire, and did not prepare, nor did according to his desire, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Luk 12:48  “But he who did not know, yet did what deserved flogging, shall be beaten with few. And everyone to whom much is given, from him much shall be demanded. And to whom much has been entrusted, from him much more shall be asked.

Luk 12:49  “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

Luk 12:50  “But I have an immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Luk 12:51  “Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I say to you, no, but rather division.

Luk 12:52  “For from now on five in one house shall be divided, three against two, and two against three –

Luk 12:53  father shall be divided against son, and son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

Luk 12:54  And He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it is.

Luk 12:55  “And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There shall be hot weather,’ and it is.

Luk 12:56  “Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?

Luk 12:57  “And why, also, do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

Luk 12:58  “For, as you go with your opponent to a ruler, try hard along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

Luk 12:59  “I say to you, you shall certainly not leave there until you have paid even the last mite.”

Hebrews 3:1-19

Heb 3:1  Therefore, set-apart brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, closely consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah יהושע,

Heb 3:2  who was trustworthy to Him who appointed Him, as also Mosheh in all His house.

Heb 3:3  For this One has been deemed worthy of more esteem than Mosheh, as much as He who built the house enjoys more respect than the house.

Heb 3:4  For every house is built by someone, but He who built all is Elohim.

Heb 3:5  And Mosheh indeed was trustworthy in all His house as a servant, for a witness of what would be spoken later,

Heb 3:6  but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end.

Heb 3:7  Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice,

Heb 3:8  do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Heb 3:9  where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

Heb 3:10  “Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’

Heb 3:11  “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest…’ ”

Footnote: 1Ps. 95:1-11.

Psa 95:1  Come, let us sing to יהוה! Let us raise a shout to the Rock of our deliverance.

Psa 95:2  Let us come before His face with thanksgiving; Let us raise a shout to Him in song.

Psa 95:3  For יהוה is a great Ěl, And a great Sovereign above all mighty ones.

Psa 95:4  In whose hand are the depths of the earth; The mountain peaks are His also.

Psa 95:5  His is the sea, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.

Psa 95:6  Come, let us bow down and bend low, Let us kneel before יהוה our Maker.

Psa 95:7  For He is our Elohim, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice:

Psa 95:8  “Do not harden your hearts as in Meriḇah, And as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Psa 95:9  “When your fathers tried Me, Have proved Me, though they saw My work.

Psa 95:10  “For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’

Psa 95:11  “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they enter into My rest…’ ”

Heb 3:12  Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,

Heb 3:13  but encourage one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened by the deceivableness of sin.

Heb 3:14  For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold fast the beginning of our trust firm to the end,

Heb 3:15  while it is said, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Heb 3:16  For who, having heard, rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Mitsrayim, led by Mosheh?

Heb 3:17  And with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief.


Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Beha’alotcha | בהעלותך | “When You Set Up”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Behaalotecha, Beha’alotecha, Beha’alothekha, or Behaaloscha (בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ — Hebrew for “when you step up,” the 11th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 36th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 8:1–12:16. The parashah is made up of 7,055 Hebrew letters, 1,840 Hebrew words, and 136 verses, and can occupy about 240 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).


Torah: Numbers 8:1 – 12:16

1st  reading (עליה, aliyah)  Bemidbar 8:1–14

Num 8:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 8:2  “Speak to Aharon, and say to him, ‘When you set up the lamps, let the seven lamps give light in front of the lampstand.’ ”

Num 8:3  And Aharon did so. He set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as יהוה commanded Mosheh.

Num 8:4  And this is the work of the lampstand: beaten work of gold, from its base to its blossoms it is beaten work. According to the pattern which יהוה had shown Mosheh, so he made the lampstand.

Num 8:5  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 8:6  “Take the Lĕwites from among the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall cleanse them,

Num 8:7  and do this to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of sin offering on them, and they shall shave all their body, and shall wash their garments, and cleanse themselves,

Num 8:8  and shall take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, while you take another young bull as a sin offering.

Num 8:9  “And you shall bring the Lĕwites before the Tent of Meeting, and you shall assemble all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 8:10  “And you shall bring the Lĕwites before יהוה, and the children of Yisra’ĕl shall lay their hands on the Lĕwites,

Num 8:11  and Aharon shall wave the Lĕwites before יהוה, a wave offering from the children of Yisra’ĕl – so shall they be for doing the service of יהוה.

Num 8:12  “And the Lĕwites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls. And one shall be prepared as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to יהוה, to make atonement for the Lĕwites.

Num 8:13  “And you shall have the Lĕwites stand before Aharon and his sons, and then wave them, a wave offering to יהוה.

Num 8:14  “Thus you shall separate the Lĕwites from among the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the Lĕwites shall be Mine.

The Menorah was the place of holy fire and light within the Mishkan. This holy lampstand was elaborately fashioned out of a single piece of gold. Each of the menorah’s seven branches were intricately engraved with decorative knobs, cups and flower like figures, and pure olive oil was used to illuminate its flames. The wicks of six of the menorah branches were bent toward the center in order to accentuate the shamash (central) wick.

2nd  reading (עליה, aliyah) Bemidbar 8:15-26

Num 8:15  “Then after that the Lĕwites shall go in to do service in the Tent of Meeting, when you have cleansed them and waved them as a wave offering.

Num 8:16  “For they are given ones, given to Me from among the children of Yisra’ĕl. I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb, the first-born of all the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 8:17  “For all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl are Mine, both man and beast. On the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim I set them apart unto Myself.

Num 8:18  “And I have taken the Lĕwites instead of all the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 8:19  “And I have given the Lĕwites as a gift to Aharon and his sons from among the children of Yisra’ĕl, to do the service of the children of Yisra’ĕl in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Yisra’ĕl, that there be no plague among the children of Yisra’ĕl when the children of Yisra’ĕl come near the set-apart place.”

Num 8:20  Thus Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl did to the Lĕwites according to all that יהוה commanded Mosheh concerning the Lĕwites, so the children of Yisra’ĕl did to them.

Num 8:21  And the Lĕwites cleansed themselves and washed their garments, and Aharon waved them, a wave offering before יהוה, and Aharon made atonement for them to cleanse them.

Num 8:22  Then after that the Lĕwites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aharon and his sons as יהוה commanded Mosheh concerning the Lĕwites, so they did to them.

Num 8:23  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 8:24  “This applies to the Lĕwites: From twenty-five years old and above let him come into active service in the service of the Tent of Meeting,

Num 8:25  and at the age of fifty years they retire from active service of the service, and serve no more,

Num 8:26  but they shall attend with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to guard the duty, but shall do no service. Thus you shall do to the Lĕwites regarding their duties.”

3rd  reading (עליה, aliyah) Bemidbar 9:1-14

Num 9:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, saying,

Num 9:2  “Now, let the children of Yisra’ĕl perform the Passover at its appointed time.

Num 9:3  “On the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, perform it at its appointed time. According to all its laws and right-rulings you perform it.”

Num 9:4  And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl to perform the Passover.

Num 9:5  So they performed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings, in the Wilderness of Sinai. According to all that יהוה commanded Mosheh, so the children of Yisra’ĕl did.

Num 9:6  But there were men who were defiled for a being of a man, so that they were not able to perform the Passover on that day. So they came before Mosheh and Aharon that day,

Num 9:7  and those men said to him, “We are defiled for the being of a man. Why are we withheld from bringing near the offering of יהוה at its appointed time among the children of Yisra’ĕl?”

Num 9:8  And Mosheh said to them, “Wait, let me hear what יהוה commands concerning you.”

Num 9:9  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 9:10  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘When any male of you or your generations is unclean1 for a being, or is far away on a journey, he shall still perform the Passover of יהוה. Footnote: 1Defilement can be imparted from one to another.

Num 9:11  ‘On the fourteenth day of the second month, between the evenings, they perform it – with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they eat it.

Num 9:12  ‘They do not leave of it until morning, and they do not break a bone of it. According to all the laws of the Passover they perform it.

Num 9:13  ‘But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and has failed to perform the Passover, that same being shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of יהוה at its appointed time – that man bears his sin.

Num 9:14  ‘And when a stranger sojourns among you, then he shall perform the Passover of יהוה. He shall do so according to the law of the Passover and according to its right-ruling. You have one law, both for the stranger and the native of the land.’ ”

The passover was so serious because it was the renewing of Yahweh’s covenant each year that if someone did not partake in the passover, he was cut off from Israel and the congregation. That is why it is the only set apart day to Yahweh that has a second one if by necessity the first one was missed.

There is one law for both Israelites and Gentiles who have been grafted into the one tree of Israel. Later rabbis developed what they call Noahide laws for Gentiles that are not found in scripture, but only in their oral tradition.

4th reading (עליה, aliyah) Bemidbar 9:15-10:10

Num 9:15  And on the day that the Dwelling Place was raised up, the cloud covered the Dwelling Place, the Tent of the Witness. From evening until morning it was above the Dwelling Place like the appearance of fire.

Num 9:16  Thus it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Num 9:17  And whenever the cloud was taken up from above the Tent, after that the children of Yisra’ĕl would depart. And in the place where the cloud dwelt, there the children of Yisra’ĕl would camp.

Num 9:18  At the command of יהוה the children of Yisra’ĕl departed, and at the command of יהוה they camped. They remained camped as long as the cloud dwelt above the Dwelling Place.

Num 9:19  Even when the cloud lingered many days above the Dwelling Place, the children of Yisra’ĕl guarded the Charge of יהוה, and did not depart.

Num 9:20  And so it was, when the cloud was above the Dwelling Place a few days: according to the command of יהוה they camped, and according to the command of יהוה they would depart.

Num 9:21  And so it was, when the cloud dwelt only from evening until morning: when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they departed. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud was taken up, they departed.

Num 9:22  Whether two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud lingered above the Dwelling Place to dwell upon it, the children of Yisra’ĕl camped, and did not depart. But when it was taken up, they departed.

Num 9:23  At the command of יהוה they camped, and at the command of יהוה they departed. They guarded the Charge of יהוה, at the command of יהוה by the hand of Mosheh.

Num 10:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 10:2  “Make two silver trumpets for yourself, make them of beaten work. And you shall use them for calling the congregation and for breaking camp.

Num 10:3  “And when they blow both of them, all the congregation shall meet before you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Num 10:4  “And if they blow one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Yisra’ĕl, shall gather to you.

Num 10:5  “And when you blow a shout, the camps that lie on the east side shall depart.

Num 10:6  “And when you blow a shout the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall depart – they blow a shout for them to depart.

Num 10:7  “And when the assembly is to be assembled, you blow, but do not shout.

Num 10:8  “And the sons of Aharon, the priests, blow with the trumpets. And it shall be to you for a law forever throughout your generations.

Num 10:9  “And when you go into battle in your land against the enemy that distresses you, then you shall shout with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before יהוה your Elohim, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

Num 10:10  “And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over your peace offerings. And they shall be a remembrance for you before your Elohim. I am יהוה your Elohim.”

5th reading (עליה, aliyah) Bemidbar 10:11-34

Num 10:11  And it came to be on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the Dwelling Place of the Witness.

Num 10:12  And the children of Yisra’ĕl departed, setting out from the Wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud dwelt on it in the Wilderness of Paran.

Num 10:13  Thus they departed the first time, according to the command of יהוה by the hand of Mosheh.

Num 10:14  And the banner of the camp of the children of Yehuḏah departed first according to their divisions. And over their army was Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ.

Num 10:15  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Yissasḵar was Nethanĕ’l, son of Tsuʽar.

Num 10:16  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Zeḇulun was Eliyaḇ, son of Ḥĕlon.

Num 10:17  And the Dwelling Place was taken down. And the sons of Gĕreshon and the sons of Merari departed, bearing the Dwelling Place.

Num 10:18  And the banner of the camp of Re’uḇĕn departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur.

Num 10:19  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Shimʽon was Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai.

Num 10:20  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Gaḏ was Elyasaph, the son of Deu’ĕl.

Num 10:21  And the Qehathites departed, bearing the set-apart objects, while the Dwelling Place was set up before they came.

Num 10:22  And the banner of the camp of the children of Ephrayim departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ.

Num 10:23  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Menashsheh was Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.

Num 10:24  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Binyamin was Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏʽoni.

Num 10:25  Then the banner of the camp of the children of Dan, which formed the rear guard of all the camps, departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Aḥiʽezer, son of Ammishaddai.

Num 10:26  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Ashĕr was Paḡʽi’ĕl, the son of Oḵran.

Num 10:27  And over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Aḥira, the son of Ěnan.

Num 10:28  Such was the order of setting out of the children of Yisra’ĕl, according to their divisions, when they departed.

Num 10:29  And Mosheh said to Ḥoḇaḇ, the son of Reʽuw’ĕl the Miḏyanite, Mosheh’s father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which יהוה said, ‘I give it to you.’ Come with us, and we shall do good to you, for יהוה has spoken good concerning Yisra’ĕl.”

Num 10:30  And he replied to him, “I am not going, but I am going to my own land and to my relatives.”

Num 10:31  Then he said, “Please do not leave us, because you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and you shall be our eyes.

Num 10:32  “And it shall be, when you go with us, then it shall be that whatever good יהוה does to us, the same we shall do to you.”

Num 10:33  So they set out from the mountain of יהוה on a journey of three days. And the ark of the covenant of יהוה went before them for the three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

Num 10:34  And the cloud of יהוה was above them by day when they went out from the camp.

6th reading (עליה, aliyah) Bemidbar 10:35-11:29

Num 10:35  And it came to be, whenever the ark set out, that Mosheh said, “Rise up, O יהוה! And let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You.”

Num 10:36  And when it rested, he said, “Return, O יהוה, to the countless thousands of Yisra’ĕl.”

Num 11:1  And it came to be, when the people were as complainers, it was evil in the ears of יהוה. And יהוה heard it, and His displeasure burned. And the fire of יהוה burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the camp.

Num 11:2  And the people cried out to Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed to יהוה, and the fire died down.

Num 11:3  Then he called the name of the place Taḇʽĕrah, because the fire of יהוה had burned among them.

Num 11:4  And the mixed multitude who were in their midst lusted greatly, so the children of Yisra’ĕl also wept again and said, “Who is giving us meat to eat?

Num 11:5  “We remember the fish which we ate without cost in Mitsrayim, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,

Num 11:6  but now our throat is dried up. There is naught to look at but this manna!”

Num 11:7  Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

Num 11:8  The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in a pot, and made cakes of it. And its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Num 11:9  And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.

Num 11:10  And Mosheh heard the people weeping throughout their clans, each man at the door of his tent. And the displeasure of יהוה burned exceedingly. And in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil,

Num 11:11  so Mosheh said to יהוה, “Why have You done evil to Your servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of all these people on me?

Num 11:12  “Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the foster father carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

Num 11:13  “Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’

Num 11:14  “I am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

Num 11:15  “And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”

Num 11:16  Then יהוה said to Mosheh, “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Yisra’ĕl, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them. And bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand there with you.

Num 11:17  “And I shall come down and speak with you there, and shall take of the Spirit that is on you, and put on them. And they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it yourself alone.

Num 11:18  “And say to the people, ‘Set yourselves apart for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, because you have wept in the hearing of יהוה, saying, “Who is giving us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Mitsrayim.” And יהוה shall give you meat, and you shall eat.

Num 11:19  ‘You are going to eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

Num 11:20  but for a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes an abomination to you, because you have rejected יהוה who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we come up out of Mitsrayim?” ’ ”

Num 11:21  And Mosheh said, “The people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand men on foot, and You, You have said, ‘I give them meat to eat for a month of days.’

Num 11:22  “Could flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

Num 11:23  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Is the arm of יהוה too short? Now see whether My word meets you or not!”

Num 11:24  And Mosheh went out and spoke to the people the words of יהוה, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the Tent.

Num 11:25  And יהוה came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders. And it came to be, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, but did not continue.

Num 11:26  However, two men had remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldaḏ, and the name of the other Mĕyḏaḏ. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but did not go out to the Tent. And they prophesied in the camp.

Num 11:27  And a young man ran and informed Mosheh, and said, “Eldaḏ and Mĕyḏaḏ are prophesying in the camp.”

Num 11:28  And Yehoshua son of Nun, Mosheh’s assistant from his youth, answered and said, “Mosheh my master, forbid them!”

Num 11:29  Then Mosheh said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that all the people of יהוה were prophets, that יהוה would put His Spirit upon them!”

7th reading (עליה, aliyah) Bemidbar 11:30-12:16

Num 11:30  And Mosheh returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 11:31  And a wind went forth from יהוה, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.

Num 11:32  And the people were up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. He who has least gathered ten ḥomers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

Num 11:33  The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, and the wrath of יהוה burned against the people, and יהוה smote the people with an exceeding great plague.

Num 11:34  Then he called the name of that place Qiḇroth Hatta’awah, because there they buried the people who had lusted.

Num 11:35  From Qiḇroth Hatta’awah the people set out for Ḥatsĕroth – and they were at Ḥatsĕroth.

Num 12:1  Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman.

Num 12:2  And they said, “Has יהוה spoken only through Mosheh? Has He not also spoken through us?” And יהוה heard it.

Num 12:3  And the man Mosheh was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.

Num 12:4  And suddenly יהוה said to Mosheh, and Aharon, and Miryam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting!” So the three came out.

Num 12:5  And יהוה came down in the column of cloud and stood in the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miryam. And they both went forward.

Num 12:6  And He said, “Hear now My words: If your prophet is of יהוה, I make Myself known to him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream.

Num 12:7  “Not so with My servant Mosheh, he is trustworthy in all My house.

Num 12:8  “I speak with him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not in riddles. And he sees the form of יהוה. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Mosheh?”

Num 12:9  And the displeasure of יהוה burned against them, and He left.

Num 12:10  And the cloud turned away from above the Tent, and look: Miryam was leprous, as white as snow! And Aharon turned toward Miryam, and look: a leper!

Num 12:11  And Aharon said to Mosheh, “Oh, my master! Please do not hold against us the sin in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.

Num 12:12  “Please do not let her be as one dead when coming out of its mother’s womb, with our flesh half consumed!”

Num 12:13  And Mosheh cried out to יהוה, saying, “O Ěl, please heal her, please!”

Num 12:14  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and after that let her be readmitted.”

Num 12:15  And Miryam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miryam was readmitted.

Num 12:16  And afterward the people departed from Ḥatsĕroth, and they camped in the Wilderness of Paran.


Prophets: Book of Ruth

Rth 1:1  And it came to be, in the days when the rulers ruled, that there was a scarcity of food in the land. And a man from Bĕyth Leḥem, Yehuḏah, went to sojourn in the fields of Mo’aḇ, he and his wife and his two sons.

Rth 1:2  And the name of the man was Elimeleḵ, and the name of his wife was Naʽomi, and the names of his two sons were Maḥlon and Kilyon – Ephrathites of Bĕyth Leḥem, Yehuḏah. And they went to the fields of Mo’aḇ and came to be there.

Elimelek = My God is King

Na’omi = My Delight

Mahon = Sickness

Chilion = Weakness

Ruth = Friendship

Rth 1:3  And Elimeleḵ, husband of Naʽomi, died. And she was left with her two sons.

Rth 1:4  And they took wives of the women of Mo’aḇ, the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.

Rth 1:5  And Maḥlon and Kilyon also died, both of them, so the woman was bereaved of her two sons and of her husband.

Rth 1:6  And she rose up, with her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Mo’aḇ, for she had heard in the fields of Mo’aḇ that יהוה had visited His people in giving them bread.

Rth 1:7  And she left the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. And they went on the way to return to the land of Yehuḏah.

Rth 1:8  And Naʽomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each to her mother’s house. יהוה show kindness to you, as you have shown to the dead and to me.

Rth 1:9  “יהוה grant that you find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

Rth 1:10  And they said to her, “No, we shall go back with you to your people.”

Rth 1:11  But Naʽomi said, “Go back, my daughters, why go with me? Have I still sons in my womb, that they should become your husbands?

Rth 1:12  “Go back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have expectancy, even if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,

Rth 1:13  would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you shut yourselves up, not to have a husband? No, my daughters, for it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of יהוה has gone out against me!”

Rth 1:14  And they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Rth 1:15  And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her mighty ones. Go back, follow your sister-in-law.”

Rth 1:16  But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim1. Footnote: 1An example of how a gentile is “grafted in” among the Chosen People. Ruth, this ex-Mo’aḇite, later on became the great-grandmother of Dawiḏ!

Rth 1:17  “Where you die, I die, and there I shall be buried. יהוה do so to me, and more also – for death itself parts you and me.”

Rth 1:18  And when she saw that she was strengthening herself to go with her, she ceased to speak to her.

Rth 1:19  And both of them went until they came to Bĕyth Leḥem. And it came to be, when they had come to Bĕyth Leḥem, that all the city was moved because of them, and they said, “Is this Naʽomi?”

Rth 1:20  And she said to them, “Do not call me Naʽomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Rth 1:21  “I went out filled, and יהוה has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naʽomi, since יהוה has witnessed against me, and the Almighty has done evil to me?”

Rth 1:22  Thus Naʽomi returned, and Ruth the Mo’aḇitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the fields of Mo’aḇ, and they came to Bĕyth Leḥem at the beginning of barley harvest.

This time description is of Passover.

Rth 2:1  And Naʽomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of great wealth, of the clan of Elimeleḵ, and his name was Boʽaz.

Rth 2:2  And Ruth, the Mo’aḇitess, said to Naʽomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose eyes I find favour.” So she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

The word Favour here can also mean Grace and Ruth in this story is typical of the bride and Boaz the Bridegroom/Kinsmen Redeemer.

Rth 2:3  And she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. As it turned out, she came to the part of the field belonging to Boʽaz, the near relative of Elimeleḵ.

Rth 2:4  And see, Boʽaz had come from Bĕyth Leḥem, and said to the reapers, “יהוה be with you!” And they answered him, “יהוה bless you!”1 Footnote: They had no problem calling יהוה by His Name!

Rth 2:5  And Boʽaz said to his servant who was appointed over the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”

Rth 2:6  So the servant who was appointed over the reapers answered and said, “It is the young Mo’aḇite woman who came back with Naʽomi from the fields of Mo’aḇ,

Rth 2:7  and she said, ‘Please let me glean, and gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.’ And she came and has remained from morning until now – she sat a little in the house.”

Rth 2:8  And Boʽaz said to Ruth, “You have heard, have you not, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, nor go from here, but stay close to my young women.

Rth 2:9  “Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and you shall go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.”

Rth 2:10  And she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favour in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, seeing I am a foreigner?”

Rth 2:11  And Boʽaz answered and said to her, “I have been told all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before.

Rth 2:12  “יהוה repay your work, and your reward is complete from יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”

Rth 2:13  And she said, “Let me find favour in your eyes, my master, because you have comforted me, and have spoken to the heart of your female servant, though I am not like one of your female servants.”

Rth 2:14  And Boʽaz said to her, “Come here at mealtime. Then you shall eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” And she sat beside the reapers, and he passed roasted grain to her. And she ate and was satisfied, and had left over.

Rth 2:15  And she rose up to glean, and Boʽaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not embarrass her.

Rth 2:16  “Rather, draw out from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, and do not restrain her.”

Rth 2:17  And she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ĕphah of barley.

Rth 2:18  And she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out and gave to her what she had left over after she was satisfied.

Rth 2:19  Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who took notice of you.” And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The name of the man I worked today with is Boʽaz.”

Rth 2:20  And Naʽomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of יהוה, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naʽomi said to her, “The man is a relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”

The title Kinsmen Redeemer indicates the rightful next of kin who would redeem his relative who has fallen into bondage, and lost their inheritance, and is indicative in scripture of the Messiah who redeems those who seek Him of the bondage of the debt of their sins, which according to the Torah would be punishable by death. This is why it is very clear the Messiah must return directly before the Jubilee year of redemption (Is 60: 16, Is 59:19-21, Ruth 3:9, 4:1-10, Lev 25:25).

Rth 2:21  And Ruth the Mo’aḇitess said, “He also said to me, ‘Stay close to my young people until they have completed all my harvest.’ ”

Rth 2:22  And Naʽomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that they do not meet you in any other field.”

Rth 2:23  And she stayed close by the young women of Boʽaz to glean, till the completion of barley harvest and wheat harvest, but she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

Rth 3:1  And Naʽomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, so that it is well with you?

Rth 3:2  “And now, is not Boʽaz, with whose young women you have been, our relative? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing-floor.

Rth 3:3  “And, you shall bathe and anoint yourself, and put your garments on and go down to the threshing-floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Rth 3:4  “And it shall be, when he lies down, that you shall notice the place where he lies, and shall go in and uncover his feet, and lie down. And let him make known to you what you should do.”

Rth 3:5  And she said to her, “All that you say to me, I do.”

Rth 3:6  And she went down to the threshing-floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law instructed her.

Rth 3:7  And Boʽaz ate and drank, and his heart was glad, and he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. And she came softly and uncovered his feet, and lay down.

Rth 3:8  And it came to be at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself, and saw a woman lying at his feet!

Rth 3:9  And he said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your female servant. Now you shall spread your covering over your female servant – for you are a redeemer.”

Rth 3:10  And he said, “Blessed are you of יהוה, my daughter! For you have shown more kindness at the end than at the beginning, not to go after young men, whether poor or rich.

Rth 3:11  “And now, my daughter, do not fear. All that you say I do for you, for all the people of my town know that you are a capable woman.

Rth 3:12  “And now, it is true that I am your redeemer. However, there is a redeemer nearer than I.

Rth 3:13  “Stop over tonight, and in the morning it shall be that if he does redeem you, good – let him do it. But if he is not pleased to redeem you, then I shall redeem you, as יהוה lives! Lie down until morning.”

Rth 3:14  And she lay at his feet until morning, and she arose before one could recognise another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing-floor.”

Rth 3:15  And he said, “Bring the shawl that is on you and hold it.” So she held it and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her. And she went into the city.

Rth 3:16  And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “Is that you, my daughter?” And she explained to her all that the man had done for her.

Rth 3:17  And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said to me, ‘Do not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’ ”

Rth 3:18  And she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter falls, for the man is not going to rest until he has completed the matter this day.”

Rth 4:1  And Boʽaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And see, the redeemer of whom Boʽaz had spoken came by. And Boʽaz said, “Turn aside, So-and-so, sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.

The city gate in ancient times was the most important point in the city where Kings sat, and official business was conducted as well as judges ruling on important legal matters, Deut 22:15, 2 Sam 19:8.

Rth 4:2  And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.

Rth 4:3  He then said to the redeemer, “Naʽomi, who has come back from the fields of Mo’aḇ, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimeleḵ.

Rth 4:4  “And I thought that I should disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you do redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not redeem it, inform me, so that I know. For there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said, “I redeem it.”

Rth 4:5  And Boʽaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naʽomi, you shall also acquire Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

Rth 4:6  And the redeemer said, “I am not able to redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. Redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I am not able to redeem it.”

Rth 4:7  And this was formerly done in Yisra’ĕl concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm every word: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a witness in Yisra’ĕl.

Rth 4:8  So the redeemer said to Boʽaz, “Buy it for yourself.” Then he took off his sandal.

Rth 4:9  And Boʽaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimeleḵ’s, and all that was Kilyon’s and Maḥlon’s, from the hand of Naʽomi.

Rth 4:10  “And also, Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of Maḥlon, I have acquired as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead should not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

Rth 4:11  And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! יהוה make the woman who is coming to your house as Raḥĕl and as Lĕ’ah, the two who built the house of Yisra’ĕl. And prove your worth in Ephrathah and proclaim the Name in Bĕyth Leḥem.

Rth 4:12  “And let your house be like the house of Perets, whom Tamar bore to Yehuḏah, of the seed which יהוה does give you from this young woman.”

Rth 4:13  And Boʽaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and יהוה granted her conception, and she bore a son.

Rth 4:14  And the women said to Naʽomi, “Blessed be יהוה, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. And let his Name be proclaimed in Yisra’ĕl!

Rth 4:15  “And he shall be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”

Rth 4:16  And Naʽomi took the child and laid him on her bosom, and became a nurse to him.

Rth 4:17  And the women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, “There is a son born to Naʽomi.” And they called his name Oḇĕḏ. He was the father of Yishai, the father of Dawiḏ.

Rth 4:18  And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth Ḥetsron.

Rth 4:19  And Ḥetsron brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ.

Rth 4:20  And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon.

Rth 4:21  And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ.

Rth 4:22  And Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ.

Perets = Breach (Twin son with Zarah of Judah by Tamar and ancestor of two Families of Judah, the Hezronites and the Hamulites; from the Herzonites came the royal line of David and the Messiah.

Ḥetsron = Surrounded by a wall

Ram = High or Exalted

Amminaḏaḇ = My Kinsman is noble

Naḥshon = Enchanter

Salmon = Garment

Boʽaz = Fleetness

Obed = One Serving

Yishai = I Possess

David = Beloved

Gen 38:24  And it came to be, about three months after, that Yehuḏah was informed, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has whored, and see, she has conceived by whoring.” And Yehuḏah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

Gen 38:25  When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please examine whose these are: the seal and the cord and the staff.”

Gen 38:26  And Yehuḏah examined and said, “She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shĕlah my son.” And he never knew her again.

Gen 38:27  And it came to be, at the time for giving birth, that see, twins were in her womb.

Gen 38:28  And it came to be, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand. And the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

Gen 38:29  And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, that see, his brother came out! And she said, “How did you break through? This breach be upon you!” So his name was called Perets.

Gen 38:30  And afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand. So his name was called Zeraḥ.

Jacob/Esau

Peretz/Zarah

Zechariah 1:1-4:7

Zec 1:1  In the eighth month of the second year of Dareyawesh, the word of יהוה came to Zeḵaryah son of Bereḵyah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

Zec 1:2  “יהוה was very wroth with your fathers.

Zec 1:3  “And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Turn back to Me,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and I shall turn back to you,” declares יהוה of hosts.

Zec 1:4  “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not obey or give heed to Me,” declares יהוה.

Zec 1:5  “Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Zec 1:6  “But My words and My laws, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers?” “Then they turned back and said, ‘As יהוה of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done with us.’ ” ’ ”

Zec 1:7  On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sheḇat, in the second year of Dareyawesh, the word of יהוה came to Zeḵaryah son of Bereḵyahu, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

Zec 1:8  “I looked at night and saw a man riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees in the shade. And behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white.”

Zec 1:9  And I said, “My master, what are these?” And the messenger who was speaking to me said to me, “Let me show you what they are.”

Zec 1:10  And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, “They are the ones יהוה has sent to go throughout the earth.”

Zec 1:11  And they answered the messenger of יהוה, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have gone throughout the earth, and see, all the earth is at peace and rest.”

Zec 1:12  And the messenger of יהוה answered and said, “O יהוה of hosts, how long would You have no compassion on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehuḏah, against which You were enraged these seventy years?”

Zec 1:13  And יהוה answered the messenger who talked to me, good words, comforting words.

Zec 1:14  And the messenger who spoke with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “I have been jealous for Yerushalayim and for Tsiyon with great jealousy.

Zec 1:15  “And I am very wroth with the nations who are at ease, for when I was a little wroth, they furthered the evil!”

Zec 1:16  ‘Therefore thus said יהוה, “I shall return to Yerushalayim with compassion. My house shall be built in it,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and a surveyor’s line be stretched out over Yerushalayim.” ’

Zec 1:17  “Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Again My cities shall overflow with goodness. And יהוה shall again comfort Tsiyon, and shall again choose1 Yerushalayim.” ’ ” Footnote: 1See 2:12, Isa. 14:1.

Zec 1:18  And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and saw four horns.

Zec 1:19  And I said to the messenger who was speaking to me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Yehuḏah, Yisra’ĕl, and Yerushalayim.”

Zec 1:20  And יהוה showed me four craftsmen.

Zec 1:21  And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he spoke saying, “These are the horns that scattered Yehuḏah, so that no one lifted up his head. But these come to trouble them, to throw down the horns of the gentiles that lifted up their horn against the land of Yehuḏah to scatter it.”

Zec 2:1  And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Zec 2:2  And I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Yerushalayim, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

Zec 2:3  And see, the messenger who was speaking to me was going out. And another messenger was coming out to meet him,

Zec 2:4  and he said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Yerushalayim is to remain unwalled, because of the many men and livestock in it.

Zec 2:5  ‘For I Myself am to her,’ declares יהוה, ‘a wall of fire all around, and for esteem I am in her midst.’ ”

Zec 2:6  “Oh, Oh! And flee from the land of the north,” declares יהוה, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens,” declares יהוה.

Zec 2:7  “Oh, Tsiyon! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Baḇel.”

Zec 2:8  For thus said יהוה of hosts (for the sake of esteem He sent me to the gentiles which plunder you): “For he who touches you touches the apple of My eye1. Footnote: 1Dt. 32:10.

Zec 2:9  “For look, I am waving My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. And you shall know that יהוה of hosts has sent Me.

Zec 2:10  “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Tsiyon! For look, I am coming, and shall dwell in your midst1,” declares יהוה. Footnote: 1Isa. 12:6.

Zec 2:11  “And many gentiles shall be joined to יהוה in that day1, and they shall become My people. And I shall dwell in your midst. And you shall know that יהוה of hosts has sent Me to you. Footnote: 1Isa. 14:1, Isa. 56:6-8, Isa. 60:3, Ezek. 47:22-23, John 10:16, Acts 15:14-17.

Zec 2:12  “And יהוה shall inherit Yehuḏah, His portion in the Set-apart Land. And He shall again choose Yerushalayim1. Footnote: 1See 1:17.

Zec 2:13  “Hush, all flesh, before יהוה, for He has roused Himself out of His set-apart dwelling!”

Zec 3:1  And he showed me Yehoshua the high priest standing before the messenger of יהוה, and Satan standing at his right hand to be an adversary to him.

Zec 3:2  And יהוה said to Satan, “יהוה rebuke you, Satan! יהוה who has chosen Yerushalayim rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”

Zec 3:3  And Yehoshua was dressed in filthy garments, and was standing before the messenger.

Zec 3:4  And He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your guilt from you, and shall put costly robes on you.”

Zec 3:5  And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” Then they put a clean turban on his head, and they put garments on him. And the messenger of יהוה stood by.

Zec 3:6  And the messenger of יהוה witnessed to Yehoshua, saying,

Zec 3:7  “Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘If you walk in My ways, and if you guard My duty, then you shall also rule My house, and also guard My courts. And I shall give you access among these standing here.

Zec 3:8  ‘Now listen, Yehoshua the high priest, you and your companions who sit before you, for they are men of symbol. For look, I am bringing forth My Servant – the Branch1. Footnote: 1Or Sprout. See Isa. 4:2, Isa. 11:1, Jer. 23:5, Jer. 33:15, Zech. 6:12.

Zec 3:9  ‘See the stone which I have put before Yehoshua: on one stone are seven eyes. See, I am engraving its inscription,’ declares יהוה of hosts, ‘and I shall remove the guilt of that land in one day.

Zec 3:10  ‘In that day,’ declares יהוה of hosts, ‘you shall invite one another, under the vine and under the fig tree.’ ”

Zec 4:1  And the messenger who was speaking to me came back and woke me up as a man is awakened from sleep.

Zec 4:2  And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I said, “I have looked, and see: a lampstand all of gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven spouts to the seven lamps.

Zec 4:3  “And two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.”

Zec 4:4  Then I responded and spoke to the messenger who was speaking to me, saying, “What are these, my master?”

Zec 4:5  And the messenger who was speaking to me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my master.”

Zec 4:6  And he answered and said to me, “This is the word of יהוה to Zerubbaḇel, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ said יהוה of hosts.

Zec 4:7  ‘Who are you, great mountain, before Zerubbaḇel? A plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of “Favour, favour to it!” ’ ”

Ezekiel 1:1-28

Eze 1:1  And it came to be in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, as I was among the exiles by the River Keḇar, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of Elohim.

Eze 1:2  On the fifth of the month, in the fifth year of Sovereign Yehoyaḵin’s exile,

Eze 1:3  the word of יהוה came expressly to Yeḥezqĕl the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Keḇar. And the hand of יהוה came upon him there.

Eze 1:4  And I looked and saw a whirlwind coming out of the north, a great cloud with fire flashing itself. And brightness was all around it, and out of its midst like glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire,

Eze 1:5  and out of the midst of it came what looked like four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

Eze 1:6  And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

Eze 1:7  And their feet were straight feet, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calves’ foot. And they sparkled like the appearance of polished bronze,

Eze 1:8  and under their wings on their four sides were the hands of a man. And each of the four had faces and wings –

Eze 1:9  their wings touched one another. They did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

Eze 1:10  And the likeness of their faces: the face of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, and each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle.

Eze 1:11  Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward, two of each touched one another, and two covered their bodies.

Eze 1:12  And each one went straight forward, going wherever the spirit was to go, and they did not turn when they went.

Eze 1:13  And the likeness of the living creatures: their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of torches, moving back and forth among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning.

Eze 1:14  And the living creatures ran back and forth, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Eze 1:15  And I looked at the living creatures, and saw a wheel on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.

Eze 1:16  The appearance of the wheels and their works was like the appearance of beryl, and all four had the same form. The appearance of their works was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Eze 1:17  When they went, they went in any one of four directions, they did not turn aside when they went.

Eze 1:18  And their rims were high and awesome, and their rims were covered with eyes, all around the four of them.

Eze 1:19  And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Eze 1:20  Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, because there the spirit went. And the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Eze 1:21  When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood. And when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Eze 1:22  And a likeness was over the heads of the living creatures, an expanse like the appearance of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads.

Eze 1:23  And under the expanse their wings were straight, one toward another. Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two which covered the other side of the body.

Eze 1:24  And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army. And when they stood still, they let down their wings.

Eze 1:25  And a voice came from above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they dropped their wings.

Eze 1:26  And above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone. And on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man high above it.

Eze 1:27  And from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw what looked like glowing metal with the appearance of fire all around within it. And from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw what looked like fire, and brightness all around.

Eze 1:28  As the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the esteem of יהוה. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

Brit Hadasha: Luke 17:11 – 18:14

Luk 17:11  And it came to be, as He went to Yerushalayim, that He passed through the midst of Shomeron and Galil.

Luk 17:12  And as He was entering into a certain village, He was met by ten leprous men, who stood at a distance.

Luk 17:13  And they lifted up their voices, saying, “יהושע, Master, have compassion on us!”

Luk 17:14  And having seen them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And it came to be, that as they were going, they were cleansed.

Luk 17:15  And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, praising Elohim with a loud voice,

Luk 17:16  and he fell down upon his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Shomeronite.

Luk 17:17  And יהושע answering, said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

Luk 17:18  “Was no one found to return to give praise to Elohim, except this foreigner?”

Luk 17:19  And He said to him, “Rise, go your way. Your belief has made you well.”

Luk 17:20  And having been asked by the Pharisees when the reign of Elohim would come, He answered them and said, “The reign of Elohim does not come with intent watching,

Luk 17:21  nor shall they say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ For look, the reign of Elohim is in your midst!”

Luk 17:22  And He said to the taught ones, “Days shall come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of Aḏam, but you shall not see it.

Luk 17:23  “And they shall say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them, nor follow.

Luk 17:24  “For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Aḏam shall be in His day.

Luk 17:25  “But first He has to suffer much and be rejected by this generation.

Luk 17:26  “And as it came to be in the days of Noaḥ, so also shall it be in the days of the Son of Aḏam:

Luk 17:27  “They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luk 17:28  “And likewise, as it came to be in the days of Lot: They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building,

Luk 17:29  but on the day Lot went out of Seḏom it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all.

Luk 17:30  “It shall be the same in the day the Son of Aḏam is revealed.

Luk 17:31  “In that day, he who shall be on the house-top, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.

Luk 17:32  “Remember the wife of Lot.

Luk 17:33  “Whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall preserve it.

Luk 17:34  “I say to you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left.

Luk 17:35  “Two shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left.

Luk 17:36  “Two shall be in the field, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left.”

Luk 17:37  And they answering, said to Him, “Where, Master?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the eagles shall be gathered together.”

Luk 18:1  And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,

Luk 18:2  saying, “In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.

Luk 18:3  “And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’

Luk 18:4  “And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,

Luk 18:5  yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ ”

Luk 18:6  And the Master said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge said.

Luk 18:7  “And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?

Luk 18:8  “I say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Aḏam comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?”

Luk 18:9  And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:

Luk 18:10  “Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Luk 18:11  “The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

Luk 18:12  ‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’

Luk 18:13  “But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’

Luk 18:14  “I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.”

John 19:31-37

Joh 19:31  Therefore, since it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the stake on the Sabbath – for that Sabbath was a high one – the Yehuḏim asked Pilate to have their legs broken, and that they be taken away.

Joh 19:32  Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was impaled with Him,

Joh 19:33  but when they came to יהושע and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

Joh 19:34  But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and instantly blood and water came out.

Joh 19:35  And he who has seen has witnessed, and his witness is true. And he knows that he is speaking the truth, in order that you might believe.

Joh 19:36  For this took place in order for the Scripture to be filled: “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”

Joh 19:37  And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

Acts 2:1-47

Act 2:1  And when the Day of the Festival of Weeks had come, they were all with one mind in one place.

Act 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from the heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Act 2:3  And there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and settled on each one of them.

Act 2:4  And they were all filled with the Set-apart Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to speak.

Act 2:5  Now in Yerushalayim there were dwelling Yehuḏim, dedicated men from every nation under the heaven.

Act 2:6  And when this sound came to be, the crowd came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.

Act 2:7  And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying to each other, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?

Act 2:8  “And how do we hear, each one in our own language in which we were born?

Act 2:9  “Parthians and Medes and Ěylamites, and those dwelling in Aram Naharayim, both Yehuḏah and Kappadokia, Pontos and Asia,

Act 2:10  both Phrygia and Pamphulia, Mitsrayim and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Yehuḏim and converts,

Act 2:11  “Cretans and Araḇs, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great deeds of Elohim.”

Act 2:12  And they were all amazed, and were puzzled, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”

Act 2:13  And others mocking said, “They have been filled with sweet wine.”

Act 2:14  But Kĕpha, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, “Men of Yehuḏah and all those dwelling in Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen closely to my words.

Act 2:15  “For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, since it is only the third hour of the day.

Act 2:16  “But this is what was spoken by the prophet Yo’ĕl:

Act 2:17  ‘And it shall be in the last days, says Elohim, that I shall pour out of My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,

Act 2:18  and also on My male servants and on My female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.

Act 2:19  ‘And I shall show wonders in the heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapour of smoke.

Act 2:20  ‘The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of יהוה.

Act 2:21  ‘And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of יהוה shall be saved.’1 Footnote: 1Joel 2:28-32, Rom. 10:13.

Act 2:22  “Men of Yisra’ĕl, hear these words: יהושע of Natsareth, a Man from Elohim, having been pointed out to you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs which Elohim did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,

Act 2:23  this One, given up by the set purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have impaled and put to death through the hands of lawless men –

Act 2:24  “Him Elohim raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was impossible that He could be held in its grip.

Act 2:25  “For Dawiḏ says concerning Him, ‘I saw יהוה before me continually, because He is at my right hand, in order that I should not be shaken.

Act 2:26  ‘For this reason my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad, and now my flesh shall also rest in expectation,

Act 2:27  because You shall not leave my being in the grave, nor shall You give Your Kind One to see corruption.

Act 2:28  ‘You have made known to me the ways of life, You shall fill me with joy in Your presence.’1 Footnote: 1Ps. 16:8-11.

Act 2:29  “Men and brothers, let me speak boldly to you of the ancestor Dawiḏ, that he died and was buried,1 and his tomb is with us to this day. Footnote: 1See v. 34.

Act 2:30  “Being a prophet, then, and knowing that Elohim had sworn with an oath to him: of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne,

Act 2:31  foreseeing this he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah, that His being was neither left in the grave, nor did His flesh see corruption.

Act 2:32  “Elohim has raised up this יהושע, of which we are all witnesses.

Act 2:33  “Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of Elohim, and having received from the Father the promise of the Set-apart Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

Act 2:34  “For Dawiḏ did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said, ‘יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand,

Act 2:35  until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” ’1 Footnote: 1Ps. 110:1.

Act 2:36  “Therefore let all the house of Yisra’ĕl know for certain that Elohim has made this יהושע, whom you impaled, both Master and Messiah.”

Act 2:37  And having heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Kĕpha and the rest of the emissaries, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?”

Act 2:38  And Kĕpha said to them, “Repent, and let each one of you be immersed in the Name of יהושע Messiah for the forgiveness of sins.1 And you shall receive the gift of the Set-apart Spirit. Footnote: 1See 2:40, 3:19, 3:26.

Act 2:39  “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, as many as יהוה our Elohim shall call.”

Act 2:40  And with many other words he earnestly witnessed and urged them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation.”1 Footnote: 1Jer. 51:6, Phil. 2:15, Rev. 18:4.

Act 2:41  Then those, indeed, who gladly received his word, were immersed. And on that day about three thousand beings were added to them.

Act 2:42  And they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers.

Act 2:43  And fear came upon every being, and many wonders and signs were being done through the emissaries.

Act 2:44  And all those who believed were together, and had all in common,

Act 2:45  and sold their possessions and property, and divided them among all, as anyone might have need.

Act 2:46  And day by day, continuing with one mind in the Set-apart Place, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

Act 2:47  praising Elohim and having favour with all the people. And the Master added to the assembly those who were being saved, day by day.

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

1Co 10:1  For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

1Co 10:2  and all were immersed into Mosheh in the cloud and in the sea,

1Co 10:3  and all ate the same spiritual food,

1Co 10:4  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed, and the Rock was Messiah.

1Co 10:5  However, with most of them Elohim was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the wilderness.

1Co 10:6  And these became examples for us, so that we should not lust after evil, as those indeed lusted.

1Co 10:7  And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play.”

1Co 10:8  Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,

1Co 10:9  neither let us try Messiah, as some of them also tried, and were destroyed by serpents,

1Co 10:10  neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

1Co 10:11  And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come,

1Co 10:12  so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.

1Co 10:13  No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it.

Revelation 11:1-19

Rev 11:1  And a reed like a measuring rod was given to me, and the messenger stood, saying, “Rise and measure the Dwelling Place of Elohim, and the altar, and those worshipping in it.

Rev 11:2  “But cast out the court which is outside the Dwelling Place, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles, and they shall trample the set-apart city under foot for forty-two months.

Rev 11:3  “And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.”

Rev 11:4  These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that are standing before the Elohim of the earth.

Rev 11:5  And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wishes to harm them, he has to be killed in that way.

Rev 11:6  These possess authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they wish.

Rev 11:7  And when they have ended their witness, the beast coming up out of the pit of the deep shall fight against them, and overcome them, and kill them,

Rev 11:8  and their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Seḏom and Mitsrayim, where also our Master was impaled,

Rev 11:9  and some of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their dead bodies for three and a half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be placed into tombs,

Rev 11:10  and those dwelling on the earth rejoice over them and exult. And they shall send gifts to each other, because these two prophets tortured those dwelling on the earth.

Rev 11:11  And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from Elohim entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

Rev 11:12  And they heard a loud voice from the heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up into the heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.

Rev 11:13  And in that hour there came to be a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. And in the earthquake seven thousand men were killed, and the rest became afraid and gave esteem to the Elohim of the heaven.

Rev 11:14  The second woe is past, and see, the third woe is coming speedily.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in the heaven, saying, “The reign of this world has become the reign of our Master, and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever!”1 Footnote: 1See 12:10, Ps. 2:8, Ps. 22:28, Dan. 2:44, Dan. 7:13-14, Obad. 15-21, Hag. 2:22, Zech. 14:9.

Rev 11:16  And the twenty-four elders sitting before Elohim on their thrones fell on their faces and worshipped Elohim,

Rev 11:17  saying, “We give You thanks, O יהוה Ěl Shaddai, the One who is and who was and who is coming, because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

Rev 11:18  “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets and to the set-apart ones, and to those who fear Your Name, small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Rev 11:19  And the Dwelling Place of Elohim was opened in the heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His Dwelling Place. And there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Nasso | נשא | Take Up”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Naso or Nasso (נָשֹׂא — Hebrew for “take a census” or “lift up,” the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 35th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 4:21–7:89. Naso has the largest number of letters, words, and verses of any of the 54 weekly Torah portions. The parashah is made up of 8,632 Hebrew letters, 2,264 Hebrew words, and 176 verses, and can occupy about 311 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah). Typically read on the first Shabbat after Shavuot.


Torah: Numbers 4:21 – 7:89

1st  reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 4:21–37

In the first reading (עליה, aliyah), יהוה told Moses to take a census of the Gershonites between 30 and 50 years old, who were subject to service for the Tabernacle. The Gershonites had the duty, under the direction of Aaron‘s son Ithamar, to carry the cloths of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with its covering, the covering of tachash skin on top of it, the screen for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, the hangings of the enclosure, the screen at the entrance of the gate of the enclosure surrounding the Tabernacle, the cords thereof, the altar, and all their service equipment and accessories. Moses was also to take a census of the Merarites between 30 and 50 years old. The Merarites had responsibility, under the direction of Ithamar, for the planks, the bars, the posts, and the sockets of the Tabernacle, and the posts around the enclosure and their sockets, pegs, and cords. Moses, Aaron, and the chieftains recorded 2,750 Kohathites age 30 to 50.

Relative Population and Adult Population of the Levite Divisions DivisionPopulationShare of TotalRank by Pop.AdultsShare of TotalRank by AdultsAdult Share of Division
Kohathites8,60038.612,75032.1232.0
Gershonites7,50033.622,63030.6335.1
Merarites6,20027.833,20037.3151.6
Total22,300100.08,580100.038.5

Num 4:21  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 4:22  “Take a census also of the sons of Gĕreshon, by their fathers’ house, by their clans.

Num 4:23  “Register them, from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter to perform the service, to do the service in the Tent of Meeting.

Num 4:24  “This is the service of the clans of the Gĕreshonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Num 4:25  “And they shall bear the curtains of the Dwelling Place and the Tent of Meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is on it, the covering for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Num 4:26  and the screens of the courtyard and the covering for the door of the gate of the courtyard, which is around the Dwelling Place and altar, and their cords, all the equipment for their service and all that is made for them – so shall they serve.

Num 4:27  “Aharon and his sons are to command all the service of the sons of the Gĕreshonites, all their burden and all their service. And you shall appoint to them all the duty of all their burden.

Num 4:28  “This is the service of the clans of the sons of Gĕreshon in the Tent of Meeting. And let their duties be under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest.

Num 4:29  “As for the sons of Merari, register them by their clans and by their fathers’ house.

Num 4:30  “Register them, from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

Num 4:31  “And this is the duty of their burden, according to all their service for the Tent of Meeting: the boards of the Dwelling Place, and its bars, and its columns, and its sockets,

Num 4:32  and the columns around the courtyard with their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords, with all their equipment and all their service. And assign to each by name the equipment of the duty of their burden.

Num 4:33  “This is the service of the clans of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest.”

Num 4:34  So Mosheh and Aharon and the leaders of the congregation registered the sons of the Qehathites by their clans and by their fathers’ house,

Num 4:35  from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who entered the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.

Num 4:36  And their registered ones, by their clans, were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

Num 4:37  These were the registered ones of the clans of the Qehathites, all those serving in the Tent of Meeting, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered according to the command of יהוה by the hand of Mosheh.

2nd  reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 4:38–49

In the second reading (עליה, aliyah), Moses, Aaron, and the chieftains thus recorded the Levites age 30 to 50 as follows:

  • Kohathites: 2,750,
  • Gershonites: 2,630, and
  • Merarites: 3,200,

for a total of 8,580 undertaking, in summary, ‘the work of service and the work of bearing burdens’.

Num 4:38  And those registered ones of the sons of Gĕreshon, by their clans and by their fathers’ house,

Num 4:39  from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who entered the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

Num 4:40  the registered ones, by their clans, by their fathers’ house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.

Num 4:41  These were the registered ones of the clans of the sons of Gĕreshon, of all who serve in the Tent of Meeting, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered according to the command of יהוה.

Num 4:42  And those of the clans of the sons of Merari who were registered, by their clans, by their fathers’ house,

Num 4:43  from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who entered the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

Num 4:44  the registered ones, by their clans were three thousand two hundred.

Num 4:45  These were the registered ones of the clans of the sons of Merari, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered according to the command of יהוה by the hand of Mosheh.

Num 4:46  All the registered ones of the Lĕwites, whom Mosheh and Aharon and the leaders of Yisra’ĕl registered, by their clans and by their fathers’ houses,

Num 4:47  from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,

Num 4:48  their registered ones were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

Num 4:49  According to the command of יהוה they were registered by the hand of Mosheh, each according to his service and according to his burden, thus were they registered by him, as יהוה commanded Mosheh.

3rd  reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 5:1–10

Num 5:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 5:2  “Command the children of Yisra’ĕl to send out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled1 for a being. Footnote: 1Defilement can be imparted from one to another.

Num 5:3  “Send out both male and female, send them outside the camp, so that they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.”

Num 5:4  And the children of Yisra’ĕl did so, to send them outside the camp. As יהוה had spoken to Mosheh, so the children of Yisra’ĕl did.

Num 5:5  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 5:6  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in trespass against יהוה, and that being is guilty,

Num 5:7  then they shall confess their sin which they have done. And he shall restore his guilt in its principal, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to whom he has been guilty.

Num 5:8  ‘But if the man has no relative to restore the guilt to, the guilt which is restored goes to יהוה, for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him.

Num 5:9  ‘And every contribution of all the set-apart gifts of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they bring to the priest, becomes his.

Num 5:10  ‘And every man’s set-apart gifts becomes his, whatever any man gives the priest becomes his.’ ”

4th reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 5:11–6:27

Col 2:4  And this I say, so that no one deceives you with enticing words.

Col 2:5  For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your belief in Messiah.

Col 2:6  Therefore, as you accepted Messiah יהושע the Master, walk in Him,

Col 2:7  having been rooted and built up in Him, and established in the belief, as you were taught, overflowing in it with thanksgiving.

Col 2:8  See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world,1 and not according to Messiah. Footnote: 1See v. 20, and Gal. 4:3 & 9.

Col 2:9  Because in Him dwells all the completeness of the Mightiness bodily,

Col 2:10  and you have been made complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority.

Col 2:11  In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah,

Col 2:12  having been buried with Him in immersion, in which you also were raised with Him through the belief in the working of Elohim, who raised Him from the dead.

Col 2:13  And you, being dead in your trespasses1 and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, Footnote: 1Eph. 2:1.

Col 2:14  having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.

Col 2:15  Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it.

Col 2:16  Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths –

Col 2:17  which are a shadow of what is to come – but the Body of the Messiah.

Num 5:23  And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

Num 5:24  And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

Num 5:25  Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:

Mat 26:36  Then יהושע came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the taught ones, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

Mat 26:37  And He took with Him Kĕpha and the two sons of Zaḇdai, and He began to be grieved and deeply distressed.

Mat 26:38  Then He said to them, “My being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

Mat 26:39  And going forward a little, He fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I desire, but as You desire.”

Mat 26:40  And He came to the taught ones and found them asleep, and said to Kĕpha, “So, were you not able to watch with Me one hour?

Mat 26:41  “Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak.”

Mat 26:42  Again He went away, a second time, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is impossible for this to pass unless I drink it, let Your desire be done.”

Num 5:11  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 5:12  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When any man’s wife turns aside and has committed a trespass against him,

Num 5:13  and a man has intercourse with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was no witness against her, nor was she caught,

Num 5:14  and a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife although she has not defiled herself,

Num 5:15  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring the offering for her, one-tenth of an ĕphah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing crookedness to remembrance.

Num 5:16  ‘And the priest shall bring her near, and shall make her stand before יהוה.

Num 5:17  ‘And the priest shall take set-apart water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the Dwelling Place and put it into the water.

Num 5:18  ‘And the priest shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and shall uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, while the priest holds in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.

Num 5:19  ‘And the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

Num 5:20  “But if you have turned aside under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you” –

Num 5:21  then the priest shall make the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman – “יהוה make you a curse and an oath among your people, when יהוה makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell,

Num 5:22  and this water that causes the curse shall go into your inward parts, and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amĕn, amĕn.”

Num 5:23  ‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wipe them off into the bitter water,

Num 5:24  and shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter.

Num 5:25  ‘And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before יהוה, and bring it to the altar.

Num 5:26  ‘And the priest shall take a hand filled with the offering, as its remembrance offering, and burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

Num 5:27  ‘And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

Num 5:28  ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children.

Num 5:29  ‘This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband’s authority and defiles herself,

Num 5:30  or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and the priest shall do to her all this Torah.

Num 5:31  ‘And the man shall be clear from crookedness, but the woman bear her crookedness.’ ”

The Nazirite Vow

Num 6:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man or woman does separate, by making a vow of a Nazirite, to be separate to יהוה,

Num 6:3  he separates himself from wine and strong drink – he drinks neither vinegar of wine nor vinegar of strong drink, neither does he drink any grape juice, nor eat grapes or raisins.

Num 6:4  ‘All the days of his separation he does not eat whatever is made of the grapevine, from seed to skin.

Num 6:5  ‘All the days of the vow of his separation a razor does not come upon his head. Until the days are completed for which he does separate himself to יהוה, he is set-apart. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

Num 6:6  ‘All the days of his separation to יהוה he does not go near a dead body.

Num 6:7  ‘He does not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to Elohim is on his head.

Num 6:8  ‘All the days of his separation he is set-apart to יהוה.

Num 6:9  ‘And when anyone dies beside him in an instant, suddenly, and he has defiled the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing – on the seventh day he shaves it.

Num 6:10  ‘And on the eighth day he brings two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Num 6:11  and the priest shall prepare one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and shall make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall set apart his head on that day,

Num 6:12  and shall separate to יהוה the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old, as a guilt offering. But the former days are not counted, because his separation was defiled.

Num 6:13  ‘And this is the Torah of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are completed, he is brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Num 6:14  and he shall bring his offering to יהוה: one male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, as a sin offering, and one ram, a perfect one, as a peace offering,

Num 6:15  and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened thin cakes anointed with oil, and their grain offering with their drink offerings.

Num 6:16  ‘And the priest shall bring them before יהוה and prepare his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Num 6:17  ‘And he shall prepare the ram as a peace offering to יהוה, together with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest shall prepare its grain offering and its drink offering.

Num 6:18  ‘And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair from the head of his separation and shall put it on the fire which is under the slaughtering of the peace offering.

Num 6:19  ‘And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened thin cake, and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his hair of separation.

Num 6:20  ‘Then the priest shall wave them, a wave offering before יהוה. It is set-apart for the priest, besides the breast of the wave offering and besides the thigh of the contribution. And afterwards the Nazirite shall drink wine.’

Num 6:21  “This is the Torah of the Nazirite who vows to יהוה the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide. According to the vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the Torah of his separation.”

The Aaronic Blessing

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

When יהשוצ was crucified, Pilate wrote the sign that was nailed to the cross. The particular wording he chose displeased the Jewish leadership and they asked him to change it. He refused. There are some interesting aspects to this incident that are not apparent in our English translations.

” And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, ‘Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.’ This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, ‘Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.’ Pilate answered. ‘What I have written I have written.'”

John 19:19-22 (KJV)

Pilate refused to revise the epitaph he had composed. This may have more significance than is apparent in our English translations. The Hebrew epitaph is shown below (remember Hebrew is read from right to left):

Ha Yehudi m   vMelech   HaNazarei   Yeshua   YHWH       H     W     H     Y

Yeshua HaNazarei v Melech HaYehudim: Jesus the Nazarei and King of the Jews.

יהשוע

הנצרי

ומלכ

היהודימ

What we don’t notice in the English translation is that the acrostic made up of the first letter of each word spells out Yahovah (YHWH)!

5th reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 7:1–41

Num 7:1  And it came to be, when Mosheh finished setting up the Dwelling Place, that he anointed it and set it apart and all its furnishings, as well as the altar and all its utensils. Thus he anointed them and set them apart.

Num 7:2  And the leaders of Yisra’ĕl, heads of their fathers’ houses who were the leaders of the tribes and over the ones registered, drew near,

Num 7:3  and they brought their offering before יהוה: six covered wagons and twelve cattle, a wagon for every two of the leaders, and for each one a bull. And they brought them near before the Dwelling Place.

Num 7:4  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 7:5  “Accept these from them, and they shall be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting. And you shall give them to the Lĕwites, each one according to his service.”

Num 7:6  And Mosheh took the wagons and the cattle, and gave them to the Lĕwites.

Num 7:7  He gave two wagons and four cattle to the sons of Gĕreshon, according to their service.

Num 7:8  And he gave four wagons and eight cattle to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest.

Num 7:9  But to the sons of Qehath he gave none, because theirs was the service of the set-apart objects, which they bore on their shoulders.

Num 7:10  And the leaders brought the dedication offering of the altar in the day it was anointed. So the leaders brought their offering before the altar.

Num 7:11  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Let them bring their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.”

Num 7:12  And the one who brought his offering on the first day was Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ, from the tribe of Yehuḏah.

Num 7:13  And his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:14  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:15  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:16  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:17  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ.

Num 7:18  On the second day Nethanĕ’l, son of Tsuʽar, leader of Yissasḵar, brought near.

Num 7:19  He brought his offering, one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:20  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:21  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:22  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:23  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanĕ’l, son of Tsuʽar.

Num 7:24  On the third day Eliyaḇ, son of Ḥĕlon, leader of the children of Zeḇulun:

Num 7:25  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:26  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:27  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:28  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:29  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliyaḇ, son of Ḥĕlon.

Num 7:30  On the fourth day Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur, leader of the children of Re’uḇĕn:

Num 7:31  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:32  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:33  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:34  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:35  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur.

Num 7:36  On the fifth day Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai, leader of the children of Shimʽon:

Num 7:37  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:38  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:39  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:40  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:41  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai.

6th reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 7:42–71

Num 7:42  On the sixth day Elyasaph, son of Deu’ĕl, leader of the children of Gaḏ:

Num 7:43  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:44  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:45  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:46  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:47  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elyasaph, son of Deu’ĕl.

Num 7:48  On the seventh day Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ, leader of the children of Ephrayim:

Num 7:49  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:50  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:51  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:52  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:53  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ.

Num 7:54  On the eighth day Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur, leader of the children of Menashsheh:

Num 7:55  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:56  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:57  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:58  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:59  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.

Num 7:60  On the ninth day Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏʽoni, leader of the children of Binyamin:

Num 7:61  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:62  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:63  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:64  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:65  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏʽoni.

Num 7:66  On the tenth day Aḥiʽezer, son of Ammishaddai, leader of the children of Dan:

Num 7:67  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:68  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:69  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:70  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:71  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Aḥiʽezer, son of Ammishaddai.

7th reading (עליה, aliyah) Numbers 7:72–89

Num 7:72  On the eleventh day Paḡʽi’ĕl, son of Oḵran, leader of the children of Ashĕr:

Num 7:73  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:74  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:75  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:76  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:77  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Paḡʽi’ĕl, son of Oḵran.

Num 7:78  On the twelfth day Aḥira, son of Ěnan, leader of the children of Naphtali:

Num 7:79  his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

Num 7:80  one gold ladle of ten sheqels, filled with incense;

Num 7:81  one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as a burnt offering;

Num 7:82  one male goat as a sin offering;

Num 7:83  and as a peace offering: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Aḥira, son of Ěnan.

Num 7:84  This was the dedication of the altar from the leaders of Yisra’ĕl, when it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve gold ladles.

Num 7:85  Each silver dish was one hundred and thirty sheqels and each bowl seventy sheqels. All the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place.

Num 7:86  The twelve gold ladles filled with incense was ten sheqels each, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place. All the gold of the ladles was one hundred and twenty sheqels.

Num 7:87  All the cattle for the burnt offering were twelve young bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, with their grain offering, and the male goats as a sin offering twelve.

Num 7:88  And all the cattle for the peace offerings were twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.

Num 7:89  And when Mosheh went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the lid of atonement that was on the ark of the Witness, from between the two keruḇim. Thus He spoke to him.


Prophets: Judges 13:2-25

H4494

מָנוֹחַ

mânôach

maw-no’-akh

From H5117; quiet, that is, (concretely) a settled spot, or (figuratively) a home: – (place of) rest.

Jdg 13:2  And there was a certain man from Tsorʽah, of the clan of the Danites, whose name was Manowaḥ. And his wife was barren and had not borne.

Jdg 13:3  And a Messenger of יהוה appeared to the woman and said to her, “See now, you are barren and have not borne, but you shall conceive, and you shall bear a son.

Jdg 13:4  “And now, please guard, and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat any unclean food.

Jdg 13:5  “For look, you are conceiving and bearing a son. And let no razor come upon his head, for the youth is a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb on. And he shall begin to save Yisra’ĕl out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Jdg 13:6  And the woman came and spoke to her husband, saying, “A Man of Elohim came to me, and His appearance was like the appearance of a Messenger of Elohim, very awesome. But I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not declare to me His name.

Jdg 13:7  “And He said to me, ‘See, you are conceiving and bearing a son. And now, drink no wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean food, for the youth is a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb to the day of his death.’ ”

Jdg 13:8  And Manowaḥ prayed to יהוה, and said, “O יהוה, please let the Man of Elohim whom You sent come to us again and teach us what to do for the youth who is to be born.”

Jdg 13:9  And Elohim listened to the voice of Manowaḥ, and the Messenger of Elohim came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field, but Manowaḥ her husband was not with her.

Jdg 13:10  And the woman ran hurriedly and informed her husband, and said to him, “See, He has appeared to me, the Man who came to me the other day!”

Jdg 13:11  And Manowaḥ arose and went after his wife, and came to the Man, and he said to Him, “Are You the Man who spoke to this woman?” And He said, “I am.”

Jdg 13:12  And Manowaḥ said, “Now let Your words come true! What is to be the rule for the youth’s life and his work?”

Jdg 13:13  And the Messenger of יהוה said to Manowaḥ, “Let the woman guard all that I said to her.

Jdg 13:14  “Let her not eat any food that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean food. Let her guard all that which I have commanded her.”

Jdg 13:15  And Manowaḥ said to the Messenger of יהוה, “Please let us detain You, and prepare a young goat for You.”

Jdg 13:16  And the Messenger of יהוה said to Manowaḥ, “Though you detain Me, I do not eat your food. But if you offer a burnt offering, offer it to יהוה.” For Manowaḥ did not know He was a Messenger of יהוה.

Jdg 13:17  Then Manowaḥ said to the Messenger of יהוה, “What is Your name? When Your words come true, then we shall esteem You.”

Jdg 13:18  And the Messenger of יהוה said to him, “Why do you ask My name, since it is wondrous?”

The Hebrew word used here “pelay” is the same word used in Isaiah 9:6 in giving the names of the Messiah of Israel.

Isa 9:6  For a Child shall be born unto us, a Son shall be given unto us, and the rule is on His shoulder. And His Name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Strong Ěl, Father of Continuity, Prince of Peace.

Isa 9:7  Of the increase of His rule and peace there is no end, upon the throne of Dawiḏ and over His reign1, to establish it and sustain it with right-ruling and with righteousness from now on, even forever. The ardour of יהוה of hosts does this. Footnote: 1See 16:5, Ps. 2, Ps. 45:6, Mic. 5:2, Lk. 1:32-33.

פלאH6382  יועץH3289  אלH410  גבורH1368  אביעדH5703   שׂרH8269 שׁלום׃H7965

Wonderful Counselor פלא יועץ =  (Pelay Yawetz)

The mighty God אל גבור =  (El Gibor)

The everlasting Father אביעד =  (Abiyed)

The Prince of Peace שׂר שׁלום =   (Sar Shalom)

Jdg 13:19  And Manowaḥ took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to יהוה. And He did wondrously while Manowaḥ and his wife looked on.

Jdg 13:20  And it came to be, as the flame went up toward the heavens from the altar, that the Messenger of יהוה went up in the flame of the altar. And Manowaḥ and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.

Jdg 13:21  And the Messenger of יהוה did not appear any more to Manowaḥ and his wife. Then Manowaḥ knew that He was a Messenger of יהוה.

Jdg 13:22  And Manowaḥ said to his wife, “We shall certainly die, because we have seen Elohim!”

Jdg 13:23  But his wife said to him, “If יהוה had been pleased to put us to death, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all this, nor would He have let us hear the like of this!”

Jdg 13:24  So the woman bore a son and called his name Shimshon. And the child grew, and יהוה blessed him.

Jdg 13:25  And the Spirit of יהוה began to move him at Maḥanĕh Dan, between Tsorʽah and Eshta’ol.


Brit Hadasha: John 7:53 – 8:11

Joh 7:53  And each one went to his own house.

Joh 8:1  And יהושע went to the Mount of Olives.

Joh 8:2  And at dawn He came again into the Set-apart Place, and all the people were coming to Him. And having sat down, He was teaching them.

Joh 8:3  And the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And having set her in the midst,

Joh 8:4  they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

Joh 8:5  “And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What then do You say?”

Joh 8:6  And this they said, trying Him, so that they might accuse Him. But יהושע, bending down, wrote on the ground with the finger, as though He did not hear.

Joh 8:7  But as they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Joh 8:8  And bending down again, He wrote on the ground.

Joh 8:9  And when they heard it, being reproved by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the older ones until the last. And יהושע was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.

Joh 8:10  And יהושע, straightening up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Did no one condemn you?”

Joh 8:11  And she said, “No one, Master.” And יהושע said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”1 Footnote: 1See also John 5:14, Rom. 6:16-20, 1 Cor. 15:34, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 4:1-2, 1 John 3:4-10, 1 John 5:18.

11:1-54

Joh 11:1  And a certain one was sick, Lʽazar from Bĕyth Anyah, the village of Miryam and her sister Martha.

Joh 11:2  (Now it was Miryam who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lʽazar was sick).

Joh 11:3  Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Master, see, he whom You love is sick.”

Joh 11:4  But when יהושע heard, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the esteem of Elohim, so that the Son of Elohim might be esteemed by it.”

Joh 11:5  Now יהושע loved Martha and her sister and Lʽazar .

Joh 11:6  Therefore, when He heard that he was sick, then indeed He stayed at the place where He was, two more days.

Joh 11:7  Then after this He said to the taught ones, “Let us go back to Yehuḏah.”

Joh 11:8  The taught ones said to Him, “Rabbi, the Yehuḏim were but now seeking to stone You, and are You going back there?”

Joh 11:9  יהושע answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Joh 11:10  “But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Joh 11:11  He said this, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lʽazar has fallen asleep, but I am going there, to wake him up.”

Joh 11:12  Therefore the taught ones said to Him, “Master, if he has fallen asleep he shall recover.”

Joh 11:13  But יהושע had spoken about his death, whereas they thought that He spoke of taking rest in sleep.

Joh 11:14  So then יהושע said to them plainly, “Lʽazar has died.

Joh 11:15  “And for your sake I am glad I was not there, in order for you to believe. But let us go to him.”

Joh 11:16  T’oma, who is called the Twin, then said to his fellow taught ones, “Let us also go, so that we die with Him.”

Joh 11:17  Therefore, when יהושע arrived, He found that he had already been four days in the tomb.

Joh 11:18  Now Bĕyth Anyah was near Yerushalayim, about three kilometres away.

Joh 11:19  And many of the Yehuḏim had come to Martha and Miryam, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Joh 11:20  Martha, then, when she heard that יהושע was coming, met Him, but Miryam was sitting in the house.

Joh 11:21  Martha, then, said to יהושע, “Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

Joh 11:22  “But even now I know that whatever You might ask of Elohim, Elohim shall give You.”

Joh 11:23  יהושע said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.”

Joh 11:24  Martha said to Him, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Joh 11:25  יהושע said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he dies, he shall live.

Joh 11:26  “And everyone that is living and believing in Me shall never die at all. Do you believe this?”

Joh 11:27  She said to Him, “Yea, Master, I believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim, who is coming into the world.”

Joh 11:28  And having said this she went away and called her sister Miryam secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and calls you.”

Joh 11:29  When she heard, she rose up quickly and came to Him.

Joh 11:30  And יהושע had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.

Joh 11:31  Therefore the Yehuḏim who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, when they saw that Miryam rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

Joh 11:32  Miryam, therefore, when she came where יהושע was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Joh 11:33  יהושע, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Yehuḏim who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled,

Joh 11:34  and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Master, come and see.”

Joh 11:35  יהושע wept.

Joh 11:36  The Yehuḏim therefore said, “See how He loved him!”

Joh 11:37  And some of them said, “Was this One, who opened the eyes of the blind, not also able to prevent this one from dying?”

Joh 11:38  יהושע, therefore, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

Joh 11:39  יהושע said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who had died, said to Him, “Master, already he smells, for it is four days.”

Joh 11:40  יהושע said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you shall see the esteem of Elohim?”

Joh 11:41  So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And יהושע lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

Joh 11:42  “And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing by I said this, in order that they believe that You sent Me.”

Joh 11:43  And when He had said this, He cried with a loud voice, “Lʽazar, come out!”

Joh 11:44  And he who died came out bound feet and hands with wrappings, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. יהושע said to them, “Loosen him, and let him go.”

Joh 11:45  Therefore many of the Yehuḏim who had come to Miryam, and had seen what יהושע did, believed in Him.

Joh 11:46  But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what יהושע did.

Joh 11:47  So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? Because this Man does many signs.

Joh 11:48  “If we let Him alone like this, they all shall believe in Him, and the Romans shall come and take away from us both our place and nation.”

Joh 11:49  And one of them, Qayapha, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know naught,

Joh 11:50  neither do you consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the entire nation should perish.”

Joh 11:51  But he did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year he prophesied that יהושע was about to die for the nation,

Joh 11:52  and not for the nation only, but to gather together into one the children of Elohim who were scattered abroad.

Joh 11:53  So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Joh 11:54  יהושע therefore no longer went openly among the Yehuḏim, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephrayim, and remained there with His taught ones.

Acts 21:17-32

Act 21:17  And when we had arrived in Yerushalayim, the brothers received us gladly.

Act 21:18  And on the following day Sha’ul went in with us to Yaʽaqoḇ, and all the elders came.

Act 21:19  And having greeted them, he was relating one by one what Elohim had done among the gentiles through his service.

Act 21:20  And when they heard it, they praised the Master. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Yehuḏim there are who have believed, and all are ardent for the Torah.

Act 21:21  “And they have been informed about you that you teach all the Yehuḏim who are among the gentiles to forsake Mosheh, saying not to circumcise the children nor to walk according to the practices.

Act 21:22  “What then is it? They shall certainly hear that you have come.

Act 21:23  “So do this, what we say to you: We have four men who have taken a vow.

Act 21:24  “Take them and be cleansed with them, and pay their expenses so that they shave their heads. And all shall know that what they have been informed about you is not so, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Torah.

Act 21:25  “But concerning the gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and whoring.”1 Footnote: 1See 15:19-21

Act 15:19  “Therefore I (Yaʽaqoḇ, James)  judge that we should not trouble those from among the gentiles who are turning to Elohim,

Act 15:20  but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Act 15:21  “For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him – being read in the congregations every Sabbath.”

Act 21:26  Then Sha’ul took the men on the next day, and having been cleansed with them, went into the Set-apart Place to announce the completion of the days of separation – until the offering should be presented for each one of them.

Act 21:27  And when the seven days were almost ended, the Yehuḏim from Asia, seeing him in the Set-apart Place, were stirring up all the crowd, and they laid hands on him,

Act 21:28  crying out, “Men of Yisra’ĕl, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people, and the Torah, and this place. And besides, he also brought Greeks into the Set-apart Place and has profaned this Set-apart Place.”

Act 21:29  Because they had previously seen Trophimos the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they thought that Sha’ul had brought into the Set-apart Place.

Act 21:30  And the entire city was moved, and the people rushed together, seized Sha’ul, and dragged him out of the Set-apart Place. And immediately the doors were shut.

Act 21:31  And while they were seeking to kill him, a report came to the commander of the company of soldiers that all Yerushalayim was in confusion.

Act 21:32  At once he took soldiers and captains, and ran down to them. And they, having seen the commander and the soldiers, stopped beating Sha’ul.

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Bamidbar | במדבר | “In the Wilderness”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Bemidbar, BeMidbar, or B’midbar (בְּמִדְבַּר — Hebrew for “in the desert of” [Sinai], the fifth overall and first distinctive word in the parashah), often called Bamidbar or Bamidbor (בַּמִדְבָּר — Hebrew for “in the desert”), is the 34th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 1:1–4:20. The parashah is made up of 7,393 Hebrew letters, 1,823 Hebrew words, and 159 verses, and can occupy about 263 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah)

Torah: Numbers 1:1 – 4:20

1st Alliyot

Num 1:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, saying,

Num 1:2  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head,

Num 1:3  from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army in Yisra’ĕl. Number them by their divisions, you and Aharon.

Num 1:4  “And a man from every tribe should be with you, each one the head of his father’s house.

Num 1:5  “And these are the names of the men who stand with you. From Re’uḇĕn: Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur.

Num 1:6  “From Shimʽon: Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai.

Num 1:7  “From Yehuḏah: Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ.

Num 1:8  “From Yissasḵar: Nethanĕ’l, son of Tsuʽar.

Num 1:9  “From Zeḇulun: Eliyaḇ, son of Ḥĕlon.

Num 1:10  “From the sons of Yosĕph: From Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ. From Menashsheh: Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.

Num 1:11  “From Binyamin: Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏʽoni.

Num 1:12  “From Dan: Aḥiʽezer, son of Ammishaddai.

Num 1:13  “From Ashĕr: Paḡʽi’ĕl, son of Oḵran.

Num 1:14  “From Gaḏ: Elyasaph, son of Deu’ĕl.

Num 1:15  “From Naphtali: Aḥira, son of Ěnan.”

Num 1:16  These are the ones called from the congregation, leaders of their fathers’ tribes, heads of the thousands of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 1:17  And Mosheh and Aharon took these men who were called by name,

Num 1:18  and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month. And they declared their ancestry by clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one head by head.

Num 1:19  As יהוה commanded Mosheh, so he registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

2nd Alliyot

Num 1:20  And the children of Re’uḇĕn, Yisra’ĕl’s first-born, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:21  those who were registered of the tribe of Re’uḇĕn were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Num 1:22  From the children of Shimʽon, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, of those who were registered, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:23  those who were registered of the tribe of Shimʽon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Num 1:24  From the children of Gaḏ, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:25  those who were registered of the tribe of Gaḏ were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Num 1:26  From the children of Yehuḏah, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:27  those who were registered of the tribe of Yehuḏah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Num 1:28  From the children of Yissasḵar, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:29  those who were registered of the tribe of Yissasḵar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Num 1:30  From the children of Zeḇulun, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:31  those who were registered of the tribe of Zeḇulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Num 1:32  From the sons of Yosĕph, the children of Ephrayim, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:33  those who were registered of the tribe of Ephrayim were forty thousand five hundred.

Num 1:34  From the children of Menashsheh, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:35  those who were registered of the tribe of Menashsheh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Num 1:36  From the children of Binyamin, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:37  those who were registered of the tribe of Binyamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Num 1:38  From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:39  those who were registered of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Num 1:40  From the children of Ashĕr, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:41  those who were registered of the tribe of Ashĕr were forty-one thousand five hundred.

Num 1:42  From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,

Num 1:43  those who were registered of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Num 1:44  These were those registered, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered, with the leaders of Yisra’ĕl, twelve men, each one for his father’s house.

Num 1:45  And all those that were registered of the children of Yisra’ĕl, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army in Yisra’ĕl,

Num 1:46  all those that were registered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Num 1:47  But the Lĕwites were not registered among them by their fathers’ tribe,

Num 1:48  because יהוה had spoken to Mosheh, saying,

Num 1:49  “Only the tribe of Lĕwi you do not register, nor take a census of them among the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 1:50  “Instead, appoint the Lĕwites over the Dwelling Place of the Witness, over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They bear the Dwelling Place and all its furnishings, and they attend to it, and camp around the Dwelling Place.

Num 1:51  “And when the Dwelling Place is to go forward, the Lĕwites take it down. And when the Dwelling Place is to be set up, the Lĕwites set it up. And the stranger who comes near is put to death.

Num 1:52  “And the children of Yisra’ĕl shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own banner, according to their divisions,

Num 1:53  but let the Lĕwites camp around the Dwelling Place of the Witness, so that there be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl. And the Lĕwites shall guard the duty of the Dwelling Place of the Witness.”

Num 1:54  And the children of Yisra’ĕl did according to all that יהוה commanded Mosheh, so they did.

3rd Alliyot

Num 2:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,

Num 2:2  “The children of Yisra’ĕl are to camp, each one by his own banner, beside the sign of his father’s house. Let them camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance.”

Num 2:3  And on the east side, towards sunrise: those of the banner of the camp of Yehuḏah camp according to their divisions. And the leader of the children of Yehuḏah: Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ.

Num 2:4  And his army with their registered ones: seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Num 2:5  And those camping next to him is the tribe of Yissasḵar, and the leader of the children of Yissasḵar: Nethanĕ’l, son of Tsuʽar.

Num 2:6  And his army with its registered ones: fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Num 2:7  Then the tribe of Zeḇulun, and the leader of the children of Zeḇulun: Eliyaḇ, son of Ḥĕlon.

Num 2:8  And his army with its registered ones: fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Num 2:9  All the registered ones of the camp of Yehuḏah, according to their divisions: one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. These depart first.

Num 2:10  On the south side: the banner of the camp of Re’uḇĕn according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Re’uḇĕn: Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur.

Num 2:11  And his army with its registered ones: forty-six thousand five hundred.

Num 2:12  And those who camp next to him: the tribe of Shimʽon, and the leader of the children of Shimʽon: Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai.

Num 2:13  And his army with their registered ones: fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Num 2:14  Then the tribe of Gaḏ, and the leader of the children of Gaḏ: Elyasaph, son of Reʽuw’ĕl.

De’u’el; Re’u’el

In Hebrew the letter ‘dalet’ ( ד ) is very similar to the letter ‘resh’ ( ר ); sometimes resulting in a mis-spelling and therefore this person is called both Deʽu’ĕl and Reʽu’ĕl. While the LXX and Syriac have Reʽu’ĕl in Bem. 2:14 / Num 2:14 and elsewhere, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic have Deʽu’ĕl instead. See also Bem. 7:42 & 10:20. / Num 7:42 & Num 10:20

Num 2:15  And his army with their registered ones: forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Num 2:16  All the registered ones of the camp of Re’uḇĕn, according to their divisions: one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. And they are the second to depart.

Num 2:17  And the Tent of Meeting, the camp of the Lĕwites, shall move out in the middle of the camps. As they camp, so they move out, everyone in his place, by their banners.

Num 2:18  On the west side: the banner of the camp of Ephrayim according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ.

Num 2:19  And his army with their registered ones: forty thousand five hundred.

Num 2:20  And next to him the tribe of Menashsheh, and the leader of the children of Menashsheh: Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.

Num 2:21  And his army with their registered ones: thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Num 2:22  Then the tribe of Binyamin, and the leader of the children of Binyamin: Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏʽoni.

Num 2:23  And his army with their registered ones: thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Num 2:24  All the registered ones of the camp of Ephrayim, according to their divisions: one hundred and eight thousand one hundred. And they are the third to depart.

Num 2:25  On the north side: the banner of the camp of Dan, according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Dan: Aḥiʽezer, son of Ammishaddai.

Num 2:26  And his army with their registered ones: sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Num 2:27  And those who camp next to him: the tribe of Ashĕr, and the leader of the children of Ashĕr: Paḡʽi’ĕl, son of Oḵran.

Num 2:28  And his army with their registered ones: forty-one thousand five hundred.

Num 2:29  Then the tribe of Naphtali, and the leader of the children of Naphtali: Aḥira, son of Ěnan.

Num 2:30  And his army with their registered ones: fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Num 2:31  All the registered ones of the camp of Dan: one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They depart last, with their banners.

Num 2:32  These were registered ones of the children of Yisra’ĕl by their fathers’ houses. All who were registered according to their divisions of the camps: six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Num 2:33  But the Lĕwites were not registered among the children of Yisra’ĕl, as יהוה commanded Mosheh.

Num 2:34  And the children of Yisra’ĕl did according to all that יהוה commanded Mosheh. So they camped by their banners and so they departed, each one by his clan, according to their fathers’ houses.

totaling 603,550 in all.

4th Alliyot

Num 3:1  And these are the generations of Aharon and Mosheh when יהוה spoke with Mosheh on Mount Sinai.

Num 3:2  And these are the names of the sons of Aharon: Naḏaḇ, the first-born, and Aḇihu, Elʽazar, and Ithamar.

Num 3:3  These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to act as priests.

Num 3:4  And Naḏaḇ and Aḇihu had died before יהוה when they brought strange fire before יהוה in the Wilderness of Sinai. And they had no children. So Elʽazar and Ithamar acted as priests in the presence of Aharon their father.

Num 3:5  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 3:6  “Bring the tribe of Lĕwi near, and set them before Aharon the priest, and they shall serve him,

Num 3:7  and shall guard his duty and the duty of all the congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the Dwelling Place.

Num 3:8  “And they shall guard all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to do the service of the Dwelling Place.

Num 3:9  “And you shall give the Lĕwites to Aharon and his sons. They are the given ones, given to him from among the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Num 3:10  “And appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

Num 3:11  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 3:12  “Now look, I Myself have taken the Lĕwites from among the children of Yisra’ĕl instead of every first-born who opens the womb among the children of Yisra’ĕl. And the Lĕwites shall be Mine,

Num 3:13  because all the first-born are Mine. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Yisra’ĕl, both man and beast. They are Mine, I am יהוה.”

5th Alliyot

Num 3:14  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Num 3:15  “Register the children of Lĕwi by their fathers’ houses, by their clans. Register every male from a month old and above.”

Num 3:16  So Mosheh registered them according to the word of יהוה, as he had been commanded.

Num 3:17  And these were the sons of Lĕwi by their names: Gĕreshon, and Qehath, and Merari.

Num 3:18  And these are the names of the sons of Gĕreshon by their clans: Liḇni and Shimʽi.

Num 3:19  And the sons of Qehath by their clans: Amram and Yitshar, Ḥeḇron and Uzzi’ĕl.

Num 3:20  And the sons of Merari by their clans: Maḥli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Lĕwites by their fathers’ houses.

Num 3:21  From Gĕreshon came the clan of the Liḇnites and the clan of the Shimʽites. These were the clans of the Gĕreshonites.

Num 3:22  Their registered ones, according to the number of all the males from a month old and above, their registered ones were seven thousand five hundred.

Num 3:23  The clans of the Gĕreshonites were to camp westward, behind the Dwelling Place,

Num 3:24  and the leader of the fathers’ house of the Gĕreshonites: Elyasaph, son of La’ĕl.

Num 3:25  And the duty of the children of Gĕreshon in the Tent of Meeting was the Dwelling Place, and the tent with its covering, and the covering of the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Num 3:26  and the screens of the courtyard and the covering of the door of the courtyard, which is around the Dwelling Place and the altar, and their cords, according to all its service.

Num 3:27  And from Qehath came the clan of the Amramites, and the clan of the Yitsharites, and the clan of the Ḥeḇronites, and the clan of the Uzzi’ĕlites. These were the clans of the Qehathites.

Num 3:28  In number, all the males, from a month old and above, were eight thousand six hundred, guarding the duty of the set-apart place.

Num 3:29  The clans of the children of Qehath were to camp on the south side of the Dwelling Place.

Num 3:30  And the leader of the fathers’ house of the clans of the Qehathites was Elitsaphan, son of Uzzi’ĕl.

Num 3:31  And their duty was the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the utensils of the set-apart place used in the service, and the covering, and all its service.

Num 3:32  And Elʽazar, son of Aharon the priest, was to be chief over the leaders of the Lĕwites, with oversight of those who guard the duty of the set-apart place.

Num 3:33  From Merari came the clan of the Maḥlites and the clan of the Mushites. These were the clans of Merari.

Num 3:34  And the number of their registered ones, all the males from a month old and above, were six thousand two hundred.

Num 3:35  And the leader of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari was Tsuri’ĕl, son of Aḇiḥayil. These were to camp on the north side of the Dwelling Place.

Num 3:36  And the appointed duty of the children of Merari was the boards of the Dwelling Place, and its bars, and its columns, and its sockets, and its utensils, and all its service,

Num 3:37  and the columns of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords.

Num 3:38  And those who were to camp before the Dwelling Place on the east, before the Tent of Meeting, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons, guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕl. But the stranger who came near was to be put to death.

Num 3:39  All the registered ones of the Lĕwites, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered at the command of יהוה, by their clans, all the males from a month old and above, were twenty-two thousand.

Kohathites8,600
Gershonites7,500
Merarites6,200
Total22,300

6th Alliyot

Num 3:40  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Register all the first-born males of the children of Yisra’ĕl from a month old and above, and take the number of their names.

Num 3:41  “And you shall take the Lĕwites for Me – I am יהוה – instead of all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the livestock of the Lĕwites instead of all the first-born among the livestock of the children of Yisra’ĕl.”

Num 3:42  And Mosheh registered all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl as יהוה had commanded him.

Num 3:43  And all the first-born males, by the number of names, from one month old and above of their registered ones, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

Num 3:44  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 3:45  “Take the Lĕwites instead of all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the livestock of the Lĕwites instead of their livestock. And the Lĕwites shall be Mine, I am יהוה.

Num 3:46  “And for the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕl, who are more than the number of the Lĕwites,

Num 3:47  you shall take five sheqels for each one, head by head – take it by the sheqel of the set-apart place, the sheqel of twenty gĕrahs.

Num 3:48  “And you shall give the silver, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aharon and his sons.”

Num 3:49  And Mosheh took the ransom silver from those who were over and above those who were ransomed by the Lĕwites.

Num 3:50  From the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕl he took the silver, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five pieces, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place.

Num 3:51  And Mosheh gave their ransom silver to Aharon, and to his sons, according to the word of יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.

7th Alliyot

Num 4:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,

Num 4:2  “Take a census of the sons of Qehath from among the children of Lĕwi, by their clans, by their fathers’ house,

Num 4:3  from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Num 4:4  “This is the service of the sons of Qehath in the Tent of Meeting, the most set-apart matters:

Num 4:5  “At the breaking of camp, Aharon and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the Witness with it,

Num 4:6  and shall put on it a covering of fine leather, and spread over that an all-blue wrapper, and shall insert its poles.

Num 4:7  “And on the table of showbread they shall spread a blue wrapper, and shall put on it the dishes, and the ladles, and the bowls, and the jars for pouring, and the showbread on it.

Num 4:8  “And they shall spread over them a scarlet wrapper, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather, and shall insert its poles,

Num 4:9  and shall take a blue wrapper and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it.

Num 4:10  “And they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a bar.

Num 4:11  “And over the golden altar they shall spread a blue wrapper, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall insert its poles,

Num 4:12  and shall take all the utensils of service with which they serve in the set-apart place, and shall put them in a blue wrapper, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a bar,

Num 4:13  and shall remove the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple wrapper over it,

Num 4:14  and shall put on it all its utensils by which they serve there: the fire holders, the forks, and the shovels, and the basins, and all the utensils of the altar, and shall spread on it a covering of fine leather, and insert its poles.

Num 4:15  “And when Aharon and his sons have finished covering the set-apart objects and all the furnishings of the Set-apart Place at the breaking of camp, then the sons of Qehath shall come to lift them, but let them not touch that which is set-apart, lest they die. These matters are the burden of the sons of Qehath in the Tent of Meeting.

Num 4:16  “And the oversight of Elʽazar, son of Aharon the priest, is the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the Dwelling Place and all that is in it, with the set-apart place and its furnishings.”

Num 4:17  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,

Num 4:18  “Do not cut off the tribe of the clans of the Qehathites from among the Lĕwites,

Num 4:19  but do this to them, and they shall live and not die when they approach the most set-apart objects: Aharon and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his burden.

Num 4:20  “They are not, however, to go in to watch while the set-apart objects are being covered, lest they die.”

Prophets: Hosea 1:1 – 2:23

The book of Hosea is almost exclusively about the falling away of Ephraim (Northern tribes of Israel) and also about their redemption. It is beautifully played out to show YHVH’s everlasting love for His covenant people and verses from Hosea are reiterated many times in other books of the bible. The name ‘Hosea’ also means salvation showing YHVW’s purpose of someday calling Ephraim back to covenant relationship and the land of Israel. Here, Hosea is told to take a wife of harlotry portraying Ephraim’s harlotry toward YHWH.

Hos 1:1  The word of יהוה that came to Hoshĕa son of Be’ĕri, in the days of Uzziyah, Yotham, Aḥaz, and Ḥizqiyah, sovereigns of Yehuḏah, and in the days of Yaroḇʽam son of Yo’ash, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl.

Hos 1:2  The beginning of the word of יהוה with Hoshĕa. And יהוה said to Hoshĕa, “Go, take yourself a woman of whoring and children of whoring, for the land has utterly whored away from יהוה.”

Hos 1:3  So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diḇlayim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Hos 1:4  And יהוה said to him, “Call his name Yizreʽĕl, for in a little while I shall revenge the bloodshed of Yizreʽĕl on the house of Yĕhu, and put an end to the reign of the house of Yisra’ĕl.

Jezreel means Elohim will sow or plant

Hos 1:5  “And it shall be in that day that I shall break the bow of Yisra’ĕl in the Valley of Yizreʽĕl.”

Hos 1:6  And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruḥamah, for no longer do I have compassion on the house of Yisra’ĕl so as to forgive them at all.

Lo Ruchama means no mercy

Hos 1:7  “But I shall have compassion on the house of Yehuḏah and save them by יהוה their Elohim, and not save them by bow or by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen.”

Hos 1:8  And she weaned Lo-Ruḥamah, and conceived and bore a son,

Hos 1:9  then He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not for you.

Lo Amee means not my people

Hos 1:10  “Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they shall be called, ‘You are the sons of the living Ěl.’

Hos 1:11  “And the children of Yehuḏah and the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be gathered together, and appoint for themselves one head, and shall come up out of the earth, for great is the day of Yizreʽĕl!

Hos 2:1  “Say to your brothers, ‘O my people,’ and to your sisters, ‘O, compassioned one.’

Hos 2:2  “Strive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

Hos 2:3  lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born, and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and shall put her to death with thirst.

Hos 2:4  “And I shall not have compassion on her children, for they are the children of whorings.

Hos 2:5  “For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’

Hos 2:6  “Therefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall her in, so that she does not find her paths.

Hos 2:7  “And she shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and shall seek them but not find them. Then she shall say, ‘Let me go and return to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.’

Hos 2:8  “And she did not acknowledge that I gave her grain, and new wine, and oil, and increased her silver and gold which they prepared for Baʽal.

Hos 2:9  “Therefore I shall turn back and shall take my grain in its time and My new wine in its season, and I shall take away My wool and My linen covering her nakedness.

Verses 1-9 are showing Israel’s unfaithfulness to YHWH and since she did not recognize the blessings that were given to her by Elohim He would remove them from her.

Hos 2:10  “And now I shall uncover her shame before the eyes of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her from My hand.

Hos 2:11  “And I shall cause all her rejoicing, her festivals, her New Moons, and her Sabbaths, even all her appointed times, to cease,

Because of our ancestors lack of obedience we have ceased to celebrate all of the Moedeem of YHWH. Only recently has restoration with the Heavenly Father began to bring us back into a covenant relationship with him through our obedience to his instructions found in the Torah.

Hos 2:12  and lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, ‘these are my rewards that my lovers have given me.’ And I shall make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Hos 2:13  “And I shall punish her for the days of the Baʽals to which she burned incense and adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me,” declares יהוה.

Hos 2:14  “Therefore, see, I am alluring her, and shall lead her into the wilderness, and shall speak to her heart,

Hos 2:15  and give to her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Aḵor as a door of expectation. And there she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Mitsrayim.

“Valley of Achor” is the valley of trouble where Achan died (Jos 7:26).

Hos 2:16  “And it shall be, in that day,” declares יהוה, “that you call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Baʽal.’

The Hebrew word Baal can mean husband (Jer 31:32), but most times means lord or master. It is interesting to note that many people today call Elohim ‘Lord’ instead of His true personal name of YHWH.

Hos 2:17  “And I shall remove the names of the Baʽals from her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

Hos 2:18  “And in that day I shall make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping creatures of the ground, when bow, and sword, and battle I break from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in safety.

Hos 2:19  “And I shall take you as a bride unto Me forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in right-ruling, and kindness and compassion.

Hos 2:20  “And I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know יהוה.

Hos 2:21  “And it shall be in that day that I answer,” declares יהוה, “that I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth,

Hos 2:22  and the earth answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they answer Yizreʽĕl.

Hos 2:23  “And I shall sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people,’ while they say, ‘My Elohim!’ ”

In the end time YHWH will redeem Israel and sow her in fertile soil where she will be blessed for her repentance in that day. As covenant believers, we to are included in this as we are either natural born or grafted in.

Brit Hadasha: Luke 2:1-7

Luk 2:1  And it came to be in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus for all the world to be registered.

Luk 2:2  This took place as a first registration while Quirinius was governing Syria.

Luk 2:3  And all were going to be registered, each one to his own city.

Luk 2:4  And Yosĕph also went up from Galil, out of the city of Natsareth to Yehuḏah, to the city of Dawiḏ, which is called Bĕyth Leḥem, because he was of the house and lineage of Dawiḏ,

Luk 2:5  to be registered with Miryam, who was engaged to him – being pregnant.

Luk 2:6  And it came to be, that while they were there, the days were filled for her to give birth.

Luk 2:7  And she gave birth to her first-born Son, and wrapped Him up, and laid Him down in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in a lodging place.

A manger is a feeding trough cut out of stone and looked like a Jewish burial place. In the Jewish custom the dead person is also wrapped in burial clothes. When Luke states that Yahshua was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger he is telling us that He was born to die. Tradition states Yahshua was born in a cave which would also parallel the same setting as when He died and was placed in a tomb in a cave.

Luke 16:1 – 17:10

Luk 16:1  And He also said to His taught ones, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager and he was accused to him as wasting his possessions.

Luk 16:2  “So having called him he said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you are no longer able to be manager.’

Luk 16:3  “And the manager said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the managership away from me. I am unable to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

Luk 16:4  ‘I know what I shall do, that, when I am removed from the managership, they might receive me into their houses.’

Luk 16:5  “And calling every one of his master’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Luk 16:6  “And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

Luk 16:7  “Then to another he said, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

Luk 16:8  “And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly, because the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

Luk 16:9  “And would I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they shall receive you into everlasting dwellings?

Luk 16:10  “He who is trustworthy in what is least, is trustworthy also in much. And he who is unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.

Luk 16:11  “If, therefore, you have not been trustworthy in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

Luk 16:12  “And if you have not been trustworthy in what is another man’s, who shall give you what is your own?

Luk 16:13  “No servant is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cling to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.”

Luk 16:14  And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard all this, and were sneering at Him,

Luk 16:15  so He said to them, “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.

Luk 16:16  “The Torah and the prophets are until Yoḥanan. Since then the reign of Elohim is being announced, and everyone is doing violence upon it.

Luk 16:17  “And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall.

Luk 16:18  “Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And everyone marrying her who is put away from her husband commits adultery.

Luk 16:19  “But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.

Luk 16:20  “And there was a certain beggar named Elʽazar, being covered with sores, who was placed at his gate,

Luk 16:21  and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Luk 16:22  “And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Aḇraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

Luk 16:23  “And while suffering tortures in the grave, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Aḇraham far away, and Elʽazar in his bosom.

Luk 16:24  “And crying out he said, ‘Father Aḇraham, have compassion on me, and send Elʽazar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.’

Luk 16:25  “But Aḇraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise Elʽazar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering.

Luk 16:26  ‘And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who wish to pass from here to you are unable, nor do those from there pass to us.’

Luk 16:27  “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,

Luk 16:28  for I have five brothers, let him warn them, lest they also come to this place of torture.’

Luk 16:29  “Aḇraham said to him, ‘They have Mosheh and the prophets, let them hear them.’

Luk 16:30  “And he said, ‘No, father Aḇraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they shall repent.’

Luk 16:31  “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Mosheh and the prophets, neither would they be persuaded even if one should rise from the dead.’ ”

Luk 17:1  And He said to the taught ones, “It is inevitable that stumbling-blocks should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

Luk 17:2  “It would be better for him if a millstone is put around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Luk 17:3  “Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

Luk 17:4  “And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day comes back to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

Luk 17:5  And the emissaries said to the Master, “Give us more belief.”

Luk 17:6  And the Master said, “If you have belief as a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Luk 17:7  “But who of you, having a servant ploughing or shepherding, would say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’?

Luk 17:8  “But would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare somewhat for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you shall eat and drink’?

Luk 17:9  “Would he thank that servant because he did what he was commanded? I think not.

Luk 17:10  “So also you, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants, we have done what was our duty to do.’ ”

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

1Co 12:12  For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Messiah.

1Co 12:13  For indeed by one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Yehuḏim or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

1Co 12:14  For indeed the body is not one member but many.

1Co 12:15  If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” does it therefore not belong to the body?

1Co 12:16  And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” does it therefore not belong to the body?

1Co 12:17  If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?

1Co 12:18  But now Elohim has set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as He pleased.

1Co 12:19  And if they all had been one member, where would the body be?

1Co 12:20  And now, there are indeed many members, but one body.

1Co 12:21  And an eye is unable to say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

1Co 12:22  But much rather, those members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary.

1Co 12:23  And to those of the body which we think to be less respected, these we present greater respect. And our unseemly members have greater seemliness,

1Co 12:24  whereas our seemly members have no need. But Elohim blended together the body, having given greater respect to that member which lacks it,

1Co 12:25  that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same concern one for another.

1Co 12:26  And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is esteemed, all the members rejoice with it.

1Co 12:27  And you are a body of Messiah, and members individually.

1Co 12:28  And Elohim has appointed these in the assembly: firstly emissaries, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, ministrations, kinds of tongues.

1Co 12:29  Are all emissaries? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

1Co 12:30  Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

1Co 12:31  But earnestly seek the better gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

Some falsely put the gifts of speaking in another language as a litmus test to whether one has received the Holy Spirit or not, but clearly here we can see that not all members will receive this gift.

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Bechukotai | בחקותי | “In My Statutes”

Deu 6:4  שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Bechukotai, Bechukosai, or B’hukkothai (בְּחֻקֹּתַי – Hebrew for “by my decrees,” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 33rd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual cycle of Torah reading and the 10th and last in the Book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 26:3–27:34. The parashah is made up of 3,992 Hebrew letters, 1,013 Hebrew words, and 78 verses, and can occupy about 131 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).[1]


Torah: Leviticus 26:3 – 27:34

1st Aliyot

Lev 26:3  ‘If you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them,

Lev 26:4  then I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit.

Lev 26:5  ‘And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely.

2nd Aliyot

Lev 26:6  ‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land.

Lev 26:7  ‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

Lev 26:8  ‘And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

Lev 26:9  ‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.

3rd Aliyot

Lev 26:10  ‘And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.

Lev 26:11  ‘And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you.

Lev 26:12  ‘And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people.

Lev 26:13  ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.

Lev 26:14  ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all  את these commands,

Lev 26:15  and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,

Lev 26:16  I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Lev 26:17  ‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

Lev 26:18  ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.

Lev 26:19  ‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

Lev 26:20  ‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Lev 26:21  ‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins,

Lev 26:22  and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted.

Lev 26:23  ‘And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,

Lev 26:24  then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins.

Lev 26:25  ‘And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.

Lev 26:26  ‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Lev 26:27  ‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

Lev 26:28  then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.

Lev 26:29  ‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.

Lev 26:30  ‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.

Lev 26:31  ‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.

Lev 26:32  ‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

Lev 26:33  ‘And I shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,

Lev 26:34  and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Lev 26:35  ‘As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

Lev 26:36  ‘And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

Lev 26:37  ‘And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies.

Lev 26:38  ‘And you shall perish among the gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up,

Lev 26:39  and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.

You see several times in this chapter that if Israel did not obey they would be punished and cast out of Israel for a duration that would last 7 times the punishment. If you take a biblical year of 360 days and times that by 7 you come up with 2,520. Using the year for a day principle in Num 14:34 you come up with a punishment of 2,520 yrs. Interesting enough 2,520 years is equal to the time that separates the beginning of the 573-72 BC exile when Israel was fully in captivity by the Babylonians to 1948, the very year Israel became a nation again.

Lev 26:40  ‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

Lev 26:41  and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness,

Lev 26:42  then I shall remember My covenant with Yaʽaqoḇ, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, and remember the land.

In any covenant in scripture the people (Israel), the Torah (law) and the land (physical land of Israel) never change. By changing any of those three aspects it is merely replacement theology, which scripture does not support.

Lev 26:43  ‘For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws.

Lev 26:44  ‘And yet for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not reject them, nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them. For I am יהוה their Elohim.

Lev 26:45  ‘Then I shall remember for their sake the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I am יהוה.’ ”

Lev 26:46  These are the laws and the right-rulings and the Torot1 which יהוה made between Himself and the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh. Footnote: 1Torot – plural of Torah, teaching.

4th Aliyot

Lev 27:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 27:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of lives unto יהוה,

Lev 27:3  when your evaluation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place.

Lev 27:4  ‘And if it is a female, then your evaluation shall be thirty sheqels;

Lev 27:5  and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be twenty sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels;

Lev 27:6  and if from a month old up to five years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be five sheqels of silver, and for a female your evaluation shall be three sheqels of silver;

Lev 27:7  and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your evaluation shall be fifteen sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels.

Lev 27:8  ‘But if he is too poor to pay your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him. According to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

Lev 27:9  ‘And if it is a beast of which they bring an offering to יהוה, all such given to יהוה is set-apart.

Lev 27:10  ‘He is not to replace it or exchange it, good for spoilt or spoilt for good. And if he at all exchanges beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it is set-apart.

Lev 27:11  ‘And if it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring an offering to יהוה, then he shall present the beast before the priest;

Lev 27:12  and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. According to your evaluation, O priest, so it shall be.

Lev 27:13  ‘But if he indeed redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth to your evaluation.

Lev 27:14  ‘And when a man sets his house apart, to be set-apart to יהוה, then the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. As the priest values it, so it stands.

Lev 27:15  ‘And if he who sets it apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.

5th Aliyot

Lev 27:16  ‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field he owns, then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it – a ḥomer of barley seed at fifty sheqels of silver.

Lev 27:17  ‘If he sets his field apart from the Year of Jubilee, according to your evaluation it stands.

Lev 27:18  ‘But if he sets his field apart after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation.

Lev 27:19  ‘And if he who sets the field apart ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.

Lev 27:20  ‘And if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is no longer redeemed,

Lev 27:21  but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, is set-apart to יהוה as a dedicated field, to be the possession of the priest.

6th Aliyot

Lev 27:22  ‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,

Lev 27:23  then the priest shall reckon to him the amount of your evaluation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your evaluation on that day, set-apart to יהוה.

Lev 27:24  ‘In the Year of Jubilee the field returns to him from whom he bought it, to him whose is the possession of the land.

Lev 27:25  ‘And all your evaluations is to be according to the sheqel of the set-apart place: twenty gĕrahs to the sheqel.

Lev 27:26  ‘However, a first-born of the beasts, which is first-born to יהוה, no man sets it apart – whether bull or sheep, it belongs to יהוה.

Lev 27:27  ‘And if among the unclean beasts, then he shall ransom it according to your evaluation, and shall add one-fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your evaluation.

Lev 27:28  ‘However, whatever a man lays under ban for יהוה of all that he has, man and beast, or the field of his possession, is not sold or redeemed. Whatever is laid under ban is most set-apart to יהוה.

7th Aliyot

Lev 27:29  ‘No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall certainly be put to death.

Lev 27:30  ‘And all the tithe of the land – of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree – belongs to יהוה. It is set-apart to יהוה.

Tithing is a principle that goes back to the beginning of time (Gen 28:22). It is a principle that all belongs to Yahweh (Ps 24:1) and He allows us to keep 90% of our increase if we rightfully give back 10% of our increase to Him for His work.

Lev 27:31  ‘If a man indeed redeems any of his tithes, he adds one-fifth to it.

Lev 27:32  ‘And the entire tithe of the herd and of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth one is set-apart to יהוה.

A shepherd would literally count each of his sheep by having them pass under a rod. As true believers are called the sheep of Yahshua Messiah’s pasture (Joh 10:1-10) they are literally the tithe from this world to be part of the family of Yahweh.

Lev 27:33  ‘He does not inquire whether it is good or spoilt, nor does he exchange it. And if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it are set-apart, it is not redeemed.’ ”

Lev 27:34  These are the commands which יהוה commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai.

חזק חזק ונתחזק

Chazak Chazak Venitchazek

Be Strong, Be Strong, and let us be Strengthened!


Prophets: Jeremiah 16:1 – 17:14

Jer 16:1  And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,

Jer 16:2  “Do not take a wife, nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Jer 16:3  For thus said יהוה concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them and their fathers who bring them forth in this land,

Jer 16:4  “They shall die of deaths from diseases, they shall not be lamented nor be buried, but be like dung on the face of the earth, and be consumed by sword and by scarcity of food. And their corpses shall be meat for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.”

Jer 16:5  For thus said יהוה, “Do not enter the house of mourning, neither go to lament or mourn for them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares יהוה, “even the kindness and the compassions.

Jer 16:6  “Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them, or cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

Jer 16:7  “Neither shall they break bread in mourning for them to comfort them for the dead, nor give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or their mother.

Jer 16:8  “Do not enter the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.”

Jer 16:9  For thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “See, before your eyes and in your days, I am making the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease in this place.

Jer 16:10  “And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, ‘Why has יהוה pronounced all this great evil against us? And what is our crookedness, and what is our sin that we have committed against יהוה our Elohim?’

Jer 16:11  then you shall say to them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ declares יהוה, ‘and have walked after other mighty ones and served them and bowed themselves to them, and have forsaken Me, and did not guard My Torah.

Jer 16:12  ‘And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jer 16:13  ‘So I shall throw you out of this land into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers. And there you shall serve other mighty ones day and night, where I show you no favour.’

Jer 16:14  “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when it is no longer said, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of Mitsrayim,’

Jer 16:15  but, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers.

Jer 16:16  “See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jer 16:17  “For My eyes are on all their ways; they have not been hidden from My face, nor has their crookedness been hidden from My eyes.

Jer 16:18  “And first I shall repay double for their crookedness and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the dead bodies of their disgusting matters, and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Jer 16:19  O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.”

Mar 7:5  Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your taught ones not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”

Mar 7:6  And He answering, said to them, “Well did Yeshayahu prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Mar 7:7  And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.’

Mar 7:8  “Forsaking the command of Elohim, you hold fast the tradition of men.”

Mar 7:9  And He said to them, “Well do you set aside the command of Elohim, in order to guard your tradition.

Mar 7:10  “For Mosheh said, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Mar 7:11  “But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me, is Qorban (that is, a gift),” ’

Mar 7:12  you no longer let him do any matter at all for his father or his mother,

Mar 7:13  nullifying the Word of Elohim through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such traditions you do.”

Jer 16:20  Would a man make mighty ones for himself, which are not mighty ones?

Jer 16:21  “Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is יהוה!”

Jer 17:1  “The sin of Yehuḏah is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars,

Jer 17:2  while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕrim by the spreading trees on the high hills.

Jer 17:3  “My mountain in the field, I give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, your high places of sin, throughout all your borders.

Jer 17:4  “And you, even of yourself, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.”

Jer 17:5  Thus said יהוה, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from יהוה.

Jer 17:6  “For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited.

Jer 17:7  “Blessed is the man who trusts in יהוה, and whose trust is יהוה.

Jer 17:8  “For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and does not see when heat comes. And his leaf shall be green, and in the year of drought he is not anxious, nor does he cease from yielding fruit.

Jer 17:9  “The heart is crooked1 above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Jer 7:23  “But this word I did command them, saying, ‘Obey My voice,1 and I shall be your Elohim, and you be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it be well with you.’ Footnote: 1Aḇraham did so (Gen. 26:5), and יהוה again laid down this condition for Yisra’ĕl to be His people (Ex. 19:5), and the same applies to us (Jn. 3:36, Rom. 6:16, Heb. 4:11, Heb. 5:9, Rev. 22:14).

Jer 7:24  “But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jer 7:25  “From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Mitsrayim until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

Jer 7:26  “But they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers.

Jer 18:12  But they shall say, “It is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.”1 Footnote: 1See  23:17.

Jer 17:10  “I, יהוה, search the heart, I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jer 17:11  “As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Jer 17:12  An esteemed throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our set-apart place.

Jer 17:13  O יהוה, the expectation of Yisra’ĕl, all who forsake You are put to shame. “Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken יהוה, the fountain of living waters.”

Jer 2:13  “For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns, which do not hold water.

Jer 17:14  Heal me, O יהוה, so that I am healed. Save me, so that I am saved, for You are my praise.

2 Kings 17:13-23

2Ki 17:13  And יהוה warned Yisra’ĕl and Yehuḏah, through all of His prophets, and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.”

2Ki 17:14  But they did not listen and hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not put their trust in יהוה their Elohim,

2Ki 17:15  and rejected His laws and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His witnesses which He had witnessed against them, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless, and after the gentiles who were all around them, of whom יהוה had commanded them not to do like them.

2Ki 17:16  And they left all the commands of יהוה their Elohim, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an Ashĕrah and bowed themselves to all the host of the heavens, and served Baʽal,

2Ki 17:17  and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, and practised divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

2Ki 17:18  So יהוה was very enraged with Yisra’ĕl, and removed them from His presence – none was left but the tribe of Yehuḏah alone.

2Ki 17:19  Yehuḏah, also, did not guard the commands of יהוה their Elohim, but walked in the (manmade) laws of Yisra’ĕl which they made.

2Ki 17:20  And יהוה rejected all the seed of Yisra’ĕl, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out from His presence.

2Ki 17:21  For He tore Yisra’ĕl from the house of Dawiḏ, and they made Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat sovereign. And Yaroḇʽam drove Yisra’ĕl from following יהוה, and made them commit a great sin.

2Ki 17:22  And the children of Yisra’ĕl walked in all the sins of Yaroḇʽam which he did. They did not turn away from them,

2Ki 17:23  until יהוה removed Yisra’ĕl from His presence, as He spoke by all His servants the prophets. So Yisra’ĕl was exiled from their land to Ashshur, as it is to this day.


Brit Hadasha:

Mathew 21:33-46

Mat 21:33  “Hear another parable: There was a certain man, a householder who planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. And he leased it to farmers and went abroad.

Mat 21:34  “And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive its fruit.

Mat 21:35  “And the farmers took his servants and beat one, and they killed one, and they stoned another.

Mat 21:36  “Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.

Mat 21:37  “And at last he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They shall respect my son.’

Mat 21:38  “But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and let us possess his inheritance.’

Mat 21:39  “And they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

Mat 21:40  “Therefore, when the master of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those farmers?”

Mat 21:41  They said to Him, “Evil ones! He shall bring them to evil destruction, and lease the vineyard to other farmers who shall give to him the fruits in their seasons.”

Mat 21:42  יהושע said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone. This was from יהוה, and it is marvellous in our eyes’?

Mat 21:43  “Because of this I say to you: the reign of Elohim shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it.

Mat 21:44  “And he who falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomever it falls, he shall be pulverised.”

Mat 21:45  And the chief priests and Pharisees, having heard His parables, knew that He was speaking of them.

Mat 21:46  And seeking to lay hands on Him, they feared the crowds, seeing they held Him to be a prophet.

Stone = אבנ

Father = אב

Son = בנ

Psa 118:22  The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner-stone.

Joh 14:4  “And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Joh 14:5  T’oma said to Him, “Master, we do not know where You are going, and how are we able to know the way?”

Joh 14:6  יהושע said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Joh 14:7  “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father too. From now on you know Him, and have seen.”

Joh 14:8  Philip said to Him, “Master, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

Joh 14:9  יהושע said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father, and how do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Joh 14:10  “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself. But the Father who stays in Me does His works.

Joh 14:11  “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, otherwise believe Me because of the works themselves.

Luke 14:1 – 15:32

Luk 14:1  And it came to be, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely.

Luk 14:2  And see, there was a certain man before Him suffering from dropsy.

Luk 14:3  And יהושע responding, spoke to those learned in the Torah and the Pharisees, saying, “Is it right to heal on the Sabbath?”

Luk 14:4  But they were silent. So taking hold of him He healed him, and let him go.

Luk 14:5  And to them He said, “Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, shall not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

Luk 14:6  And they were unable to answer Him regarding these matters.

Luk 14:7  And He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:

Luk 14:8  “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him,

Luk 14:9  and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give this one place,’ and then you begin with shame to take the last place.

Luk 14:10  “Rather, when you are invited, go and sit down in the last place, so that when he who invited you comes he shall say to you, ‘Friend, come up higher.’ Then you shall have esteem in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.

Luk 14:11  “For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.”

Luk 14:12  And He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbours, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

Luk 14:13  “But when you give a feast, invite poor ones, crippled ones, lame ones, blind ones,

Luk 14:14  and you shall be blessed, because they do not have to repay you. For you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Luk 14:15  And when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard this, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who eats bread in the reign of Elohim!”

Luk 14:16  But He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,

Luk 14:17  and he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all is now ready.’

Luk 14:18  “But one by one they all began making excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’

Luk 14:19  “And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I ask you to have me excused.’

Luk 14:20  “And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come.’

Luk 14:21  “And that servant came and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house, being wroth, said to his servant, ‘Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and crippled, and lame, and blind.’

Luk 14:22  “And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’

Luk 14:23  “And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the street corners and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house is filled.

Luk 14:24  ‘For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

Luk 14:25  And large crowds were going with Him, and turning, He said to them,

Luk 14:26  “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and his own life too, he is unable to be My taught one.

Luk 14:27  “And whoever does not bear his stake and come after Me is unable to be My taught one.

Luk 14:28  “For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Luk 14:29  “Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation, and is unable to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him,

Luk 14:30  saying, ‘This man began to build and was unable to finish.’

Luk 14:31  “Or what sovereign, going to fight against another sovereign, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luk 14:32  “And if not, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.

Luk 14:33  “So, then, everyone of you who does not give up all that he has, is unable to be My taught one.

Luk 14:34  “The salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

Luk 14:35  “It is not fit for land, nor for manure, they throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Luk 15:1  Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming to Him to hear Him.

Luk 15:2  And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, saying, “This One receives sinners and eats with them.”

Luk 15:3  And He spoke this parable to them, saying,

Luk 15:4  “What man among you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

Luk 15:5  “And having found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

Luk 15:6  “And having come home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

Luk 15:7  “I say to you that in the same way there shall be more joy in the heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous ones who need no repentance.

Luk 15:8  “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it?

Luk 15:9  “And having found it, she calls friends and neighbours together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost!’

Luk 15:10  “I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.”

Luk 15:11  And He said, “A certain man had two sons,

Luk 15:12  and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods falling to me.’ And he divided his livelihood between them.

Luk 15:13  “And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, went away to a distant country, and there wasted his goods with loose living.

Luk 15:14  “And when he had spent all, there arose a severe scarcity of food throughout that land, and he began to be in need.

Luk 15:15  “And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

Luk 15:16  “And he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the pigs were eating, and no one gave to him.

Luk 15:17  “But having come to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!

Luk 15:18  ‘Having risen, I shall go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against the heaven, and before you,

Luk 15:19  and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

Luk 15:20  “And having risen, he went to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Luk 15:21  “And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against the heaven, and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Luk 15:22  “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Luk 15:23  ‘And bring the fattened calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and rejoice,

Luk 15:24  because this son of mine was dead and is alive again, and he was lost and is found.’ And they began to rejoice.

Luk 15:25  “And his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luk 15:26  “And having called one of the servants he asked what this meant.

Luk 15:27  “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he received him back in health.’

Luk 15:28  “And he was wroth and would not go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Luk 15:29  “And answering, he said to his father, ‘See, these many years I have been serving you, and I have never transgressed a command of yours, but to me you have never given a young goat, so I could rejoice with my friends.

Luk 15:30  ‘But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with whores, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

Luk 15:31  “Then he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all I have is yours.

Luk 15:32  ‘And we had to rejoice and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive, and was lost and is found.’ ”

John 14:15-21

Joh 14:15  “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.

Footnote: See Ex. 20:6, 21-23, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 1:6.

Joh 14:16  “And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever –

Joh 14:17  the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.

Joh 14:18  “I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you.

Joh 14:19  “Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live.

Joh 14:20  “In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

Joh 14:21  “He who possesses My commands and guards them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him.”

1st John 2:1-7

1Jn 2:1  My little children, I write this to you, so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Intercessor with the Father, יהושע Messiah, a righteous One.

1Jn 2:2  And He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world.

1Jn 2:3  And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.1 Footnote: 1See 3:6.

1Jn 2:4  The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1Jn 2:5  But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected1 in him. By this we know that we are in Him.2 Footnotes: 1Gen. 17:1, Ps. 119:1, Mt. 5:48. 2See 3:24.

1Jn 2:6  The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.

1Jn 2:7  Beloved, I write no fresh command to you, but an old command which you have had from the beginning. The old command is the Word which you heard from the beginning.

2nd John 1:6

2Jn 1:6  And this is the love, that we walk according to His commands.1 This is the command, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. Footnote: 1See 1 John 5:3, and John 14:15.

1st John 5:3

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands,1 and His commands are not heavy

John 15:10-11

Joh 15:10  “If you guard My commands, you shall stay in My love, even as I have guarded My Father’s commands and stay in His love.

Joh 15:11  “These words I have spoken to you, so that My joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

2Co 6:14  Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

2Co 6:15  And what agreement has Messiah with Beliyaʽal? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?

2Co 6:16  And what union has the Dwelling Place of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, “I shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”

2Co 6:17  Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.

2Co 6:18  “And I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says יהוה the Almighty.”

1 John 1:1-10

1Jn 1:1  What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life:

1Jn 1:2  And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and announce to you that everlasting life which was with the Father and was manifested to us.

1Jn 1:3  We announce to you what we have seen and heard, so that you too might have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son יהושע Messiah.

1Jn 1:4  And we write this to you in order that your joy might be complete.

1Jn 1:5  And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that Elohim is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

1Jn 1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and are not doing the truth.

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of יהושע Messiah His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1Jn 1:9  If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1Jn 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Behar | בהר | “On the Mountain”

Deu 6:4    שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B’har (בְּהַר — Hebrew for “on the mount,” the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 25:1–26:2. The parashah is the shortest of the weekly Torah portions in the book of Leviticus (although not the shortest in the Torah), and is made up of 2,817 Hebrew letters, 737 Hebrew words, and 57 verses, and can occupy about 99 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).[1]


Torah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2

1st Aliyot

Lev 25:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying,

Lev 25:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to יהוה.

Lev 25:3  ‘Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit,

Lev 25:4  but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to יהוה. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard.

Lev 25:5  ‘Do not reap אה what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.

Lev 25:6  ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,

Lev 25:7  and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its crops are for food.

Lev 25:8  ‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

Lev 25:9  ‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land.

The reason why the Jubilee was announced at Yom Kippur is that planting for the next year was done directly after Sukkot before the rainy season, and if the next year was not to harvest the grain, there would be no reason to plant or sow the ground. Yom Kippur is also thought to be indicative of the wedding supper of the Messiah.

Lev 25:10  ‘And you shall set אה the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.

The 50th year is to be set apart. Some start the next jubilee year 1 of the next 7 year cycle on the 50th year and inadvertently count this year twice and only will have 49 years until the next Jubilee. Clearly, in the Hebrew, the 50th year is to be set apart (holy means set apart) and is separated from the 7 cycles of 7 years each, just as Shavuot is the 50 day, separarted from the 7 weeks of 7 days.

Lev 25:11  ‘The fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you. Do not sow, nor reap what grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned vine.

Lev 25:12  ‘It is a Jubilee, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops.

Lev 25:13  ‘In the Year of this Jubilee let each one of you return to his possession.

2nd Aliyot

Lev 25:14  ‘And when you sell whatever to your neighbour or buy from the hand of your neighbour, do not exploit one another.

Lev 25:15  ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you buy from your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he sells to you.

Lev 25:16  ‘According to the greater number of years you increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you diminish its price, because he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.

Lev 25:17  ‘And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim. For I am יהוה your Elohim.

Lev 25:18  ‘And you shall do My laws and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety,

3rd Aliyot

Lev 25:19  ‘and the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and shall dwell there in safety.

Lev 25:20  ‘And since you might say, “What do we eat in the seventh year, since we do not sow nor gather in our crops?”

Lev 25:21  ‘Therefore I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth the crop for three years.

Lev 25:22  ‘And you shall sow אה in the eighth year, and eat of the old crop until the ninth year. Eat of the old until its crop comes in.

Lev 25:23  ‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.

Lev 25:24  ‘And provide for a redemption for the land, in all the land of your possession.

4th Aliyot

Lev 25:25  ‘When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, then he shall redeem what his brother sold.

This word indicates the rightful next of kin who would redeem his relative who has fallen into bondage, and is indicative in scripture of the Messiah who redeems those who seek Him of the bondage of the debt of their sins, which according to the Torah would be punishable by death. This is why some assume that the Messiah must return directly before the Jubilee year of redemption (Is 60:16, Is 59:19-21, Ruth 2:20, 3:9, 4:1-10).

Lev 25:26  ‘And when the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,

Lev 25:27  then let him count the years since its sale, and return the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he shall return to his possession.

Lev 25:28  ‘And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. And it shall be released in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his possession.

5th Aliyot

Lev 25:29  ‘And when a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption shall be at the end of the year after it is sold. His right of redemption lasts a year.

Lev 25:30  ‘But if it is not redeemed within a complete year, then the house in the walled city shall be established beyond reclaim to the buyer of it, throughout his generations. It is not released in the Jubilee.

Lev 25:31  ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Jubilee.

Lev 25:32  ‘As for the cities of the Lĕwites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Lĕwites have a right of redemption forever.

Lev 25:33  ‘And that which is redeemed from the Lĕwites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Lĕwites are their possession in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Lev 25:34  ‘But the field of the open land of their cities is not sold, for it is their everlasting possession.

Lev 25:35  ‘And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall sustain him, and he shall live with you, like a stranger or a sojourner.

Lev 25:36  ‘Take no interest from him, or profit, but you shall fear your Elohim, and your brother shall live with you.

Lev 25:37  ‘Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your food for profit.

Lev 25:38  ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kenaʽan, to be your Elohim.

6th Aliyot

Lev 25:39  ‘And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave.

Lev 25:40  ‘But as a hired servant, as a settler he is with you, and serves you until the Year of Jubilee.

Lev 25:41  ‘And then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own clan, even return to the possession of his fathers.

Lev 25:42  ‘For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves.

Lev 25:43  ‘Do not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim.

Lev 25:44  ‘And your male and female slaves whom you have from the nations that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves,

Lev 25:45  and also from the sons of the strangers sojourning among you, from them you buy, and from their clans who are with you, which they shall bring forth in your land, and they shall be your property.

Lev 25:46  ‘And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl, you do not rule with harshness, one over another.

7th Aliyot

Lev 25:47  ‘Now when a sojourner or a settler with you becomes rich, and your brother with him becomes poor, and sells himself to the settler or sojourner with you, or to a member of the sojourner’s clan,

Lev 25:48  after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption to him – one of his brothers does redeem him,

Lev 25:49  or his uncle or his uncle’s son does redeem him, or anyone who is a close relative to him in his clan does redeem him, or if he is able, then he shall redeem himself.

Lev 25:50  ‘And he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; as the days of a hired servant it is with him.

Lev 25:51  ‘If there are yet many years, according to them he repays the price of his redemption, from the silver of his purchase.

Lev 25:52  ‘And if few years are left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he repays him אה the price of his redemption.

Lev 25:53  ‘He is with him as a yearly hired servant, and he does not rule with harshness over him before your eyes.

Lev 25:54  ‘And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

Lev 25:55  ‘Because the children of Yisra’ĕl are servants to Me, they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am יהוה your Elohim.

Lev 26:1  ‘Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am יהוה your Elohim.

Lev 26:2  ‘Guard אה My Sabbaths and reverence My set-apart place. I am יהוה.

Prophets: Isaiah 61:1-11

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Master יהוה is upon Me, because יהוה has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

Isa 61:2  to proclaim the acceptable year of יהוה, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn,

This is the Jubilee year when the kinsman redeemer will restore back to His own that which was lost (Lev 25:25-29). The very first time Yahshua read in the synagogue (Luk 4:16-20), He read verses 1 & 2, but stopped in the middle of verse two as verse 1 and part of 2 was about His first mission on earth and the rest of verse 2 and verse 3 is about judgment on the day of YHWH at His return.

Isa 61:3  to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.

Isa 61:4  And they shall rebuild the old ruins, raise up the former wastes. And they shall restore the ruined cities, the wastes of many generations.

Isa 61:5  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner be your ploughmen and your vinedressers.

Isa 61:6  But you shall be called, ‘Priests of יהוה,’ ‘Servants of our Elohim’ shall be said of you. You shall consume the strength of the gentiles, and boast in their esteem.

Isa 61:7  Instead of your shame and reproach, they rejoice a second time in their portion. Therefore they take possession a second time in their land, everlasting joy is theirs.

Isa 61:8  “For I, יהוה, love right-ruling; I hate robbery for burnt offering. And I shall give their reward in truth, and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isa 61:9  “And their seed shall be known among the gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed יהוה has blessed.”

Isa 61:10  I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isa 61:11  For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the seed to shoot up, so the Master יהוה causes righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations!

Jeremiah 32:6-27

Jer 32:6  And Yirmeyahu said, “The word of יהוה came to me, saying,

Jer 32:7  ‘See, Ḥaname’ĕl son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.” ’

This word indicates the rightful next of kin who would redeem his relative who has fallen into bondage, and is indicative in scripture of the Messiah who redeems those who seek Him of the bondage of the debt of their sins, which according to the Torah would be punishable by death. This is why some assume that the Messiah must return directly before the Jubilee year of redemption (Is 60:16, Is 59:19-21, Ruth 2:20, 3:9, 4:1-10).

Jer 32:8  “So Ḥaname’ĕl my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of יהוה, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Binyamin, for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption. Buy it for yourself.’ And I knew that this was the word of יהוה.

Jer 32:9  “And I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Ḥaname’ĕl, my uncle’s son, and weighed out to him the silver, seventeen sheqels of silver.

Jer 32:10  “And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.

Jer 32:11  “Then I took the deed of purchase – that which was sealed according to the command and law, and that which was open –

Jer 32:12  and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah, son of Maḥsĕyah, in the presence of Ḥaname’ĕl my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Yehuḏim who sat in the court of the guard.

Baruk = Blessed

Jer 32:13  “And I commanded Baruḵ before their eyes, saying,

Jer 32:14  ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Take these deeds, both this deed of purchase which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that they remain many days.”

Jer 32:15  ‘For thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.” ’

Jer 32:16  “And after I had given the deed of purchase to Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah, I prayed to יהוה, saying,

Jer 32:17  ‘Ah, Master יהוה! See, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is no matter too hard for You,

Jer 32:18  who show kindness to thousands, and repay the crookedness of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them – the Great, the Mighty Ěl, יהוה of hosts is His Name,

Jer 32:19  great in counsel and mighty in work, for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jer 32:20  ‘For You have set signs and wonders in the land of Mitsrayim, to this day, and in Yisra’ĕl and among other men. And You have made Yourself a Name, as it is this day.

Jer 32:21  ‘And You have brought Your people Yisra’ĕl out of the land of Mitsrayim with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great fearsome deeds.

Jer 32:22  ‘And You gave them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jer 32:23  ‘And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah. They did not do all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this evil upon them.

Jer 32:24  ‘See the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it. And the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and the scarcity of food and the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come about, and look, You see it!

Jer 32:25  ‘Yet You, O Master יהוה, have said to me, “Buy the field for silver, and take witnesses”! although the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ ”

Jer 32:26  Then the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyahu, saying,

Jer 32:27  “See, I am יהוה, the Elohim of all flesh. Is there any matter too hard for Me?”

Brit Hadasha: Luke 4:16-21

Luk 4:16  And He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up. And according to His practice, He went into the congregation on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

Luk 4:17  And the scroll of the prophet Yeshayahu was handed to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it was written:

Luk 4:18  “The Spirit of יהוה is upon Me,1 because He has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release,

Luk 4:19  to proclaim the acceptable year of יהוה.”1 Footnote: 1Isa. 61:1-2.

Luk 4:20  And having rolled up the scroll, He gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the congregation were fixed upon Him.

Luk 4:21  And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been filled in your hearing.”

Luke 13:1-35

Luk 13:1  And some were present at that time, reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their offerings.

Luk 13:2  And יהושע answering, said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they have suffered like this?

Luk 13:3  “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way.

Repentance is always a prerequisite for forgiveness

Luk 13:4  “Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Shiloaḥ fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater offenders than all other men who dwelt in Yerushalayim?

Luk 13:5  “I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way.”

Luk 13:6  And He spoke this parable, “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

Luk 13:7  “And he said to the gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down, why does it even make the ground useless?’

Luk 13:8  “And he answering, said to him, ‘Master, leave it this year too, until I dig around it and throw manure.

Luk 13:9  ‘And if indeed it bears fruit, good. But if not so, you shall cut it down.’ ”

Luk 13:10  And He was teaching in one of the congregations on the Sabbath,

Luk 13:11  and see, there was a woman having a weakening spirit for eighteen years, and was bent over and was unable to straighten up at all.

Luk 13:12  And יהושע, seeing her, called her near and said to her, “Woman, you are loosened from your weakness.”

Luk 13:13  And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was straightened up, and praised Elohim.

Luk 13:14  But the ruler of the congregation, responding, much displeased that יהושע had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men should work, so come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”

Luk 13:15  Then the Master answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loosen his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?

Luk 13:16  “And this one, being a daughter of Aḇraham, whom Satan has bound, look, for eighteen years, should she not be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath?”

Luk 13:17  And when He said this, all His opponents were put to shame. And all the crowd rejoiced for all the splendid works being done by Him.

Luk 13:18  Therefore He said, “What is the reign of Elohim like? And to what shall I compare it?

Luk 13:19  “It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his garden. And it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the heavens nested in its branches.”

Luk 13:20  And again He said, “To what shall I compare the reign of Elohim?

Luk 13:21  “It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened.”

Luk 13:22  And He was going through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Yerushalayim,

Luk 13:23  and someone said to Him, “Master, are there few who are being saved?” And He said to them,

Luk 13:24  “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Luk 13:25  “When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Master, Master, open for us,’ and He shall answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’

Luk 13:26  then you shall begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’

Luk 13:27  “But He shall say, ‘I say to you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness.’

Luk 13:28  “There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq and Yaʽaqoḇ and all the prophets in the reign of Elohim, and yourselves thrown outside.

Luk 13:29  “And they shall come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and sit down in the reign of Elohim.

Luk 13:30  “And see, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.”

Luk 13:31  On the same day there came certain Pharisees, saying to Him, “Get out and go from here, for Herodes wishes to kill You.”

Luk 13:32  And He said to them, “Go, say to that fox, ‘See, I cast out demons and perform healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’

Luk 13:33  “But I have to journey today, and tomorrow, and the day following, because it is not fitting for a prophet to perish outside of Yerushalayim.

Luk 13:34  “Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!

Luk 13:35  “See, your House is left to you laid waste. And truly I say to you, you shall by no means see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה!’ ”

Zec 12:8  “In that day יהוה shall shield the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. And the feeble among them in that day shall be like Dawiḏ, and the house of Dawiḏ like Elohim, like the Messenger of יהוה before them!

Zec 12:9  “And it shall be in that day that I seek to destroy all the gentiles that come against Yerushalayim.

Zec 12:10  “And I shall pour on the house of Dawiḏ and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim a spirit of favour and prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. And they shall be in bitterness over Him as a bitterness over the first-born.

Zec 12:11  “In that day the mourning in Yerushalayim is going to be great, like the mourning at Haḏaḏ Rimmon in the valley of Meḡiddo.

In this glorious day when Yahshua Messiah returns, the House of Judah will accept Him and the sacrifice He made.

12:11  is equating the morning to that of the slaying of good king Josiah by Pharaoh Necco, 2Kgs 23:29.

Mat 7:13  “Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide – and the way is broad – that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in through it.

Mat 7:14  “Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed1 which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Footnote: 1Or the way is afflicted.

Mat 7:15  “But beware of the false prophets,1 who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves. Footnote: 1See v. 23

Mat 7:16  “By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

Mat 7:17  “So every good tree yields good fruit, but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit.

Mat 7:18  “A good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit, and a rotten tree to yield good fruit.

Mat 7:19  “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Mat 7:20  “So then, by their fruits you shall know them –

Mat 7:21  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens.

Mat 7:22  “Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’

Mat 7:23  “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’1 Footnote: 1 See v. 15.

1 Corinthians 7:21-24

1Co 7:21  Were you called while a slave? It matters not to you, but if you are able to become free too, rather use it.

1Co 7:22  For he who is called in the Master while a slave is the Master’s freed man. Likewise he who is called while free is a slave of Messiah.1 Footnote: 1Eph. 6:6, 1 Peter 2:16.

1Co 7:23  You were bought with a price, do not become slaves of men.

1Co 7:24  Brothers, let each one remain with Elohim in that calling in which he was called.

Galatians 6:7-10

Gal 6:7  Do not be led astray: Elohim is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap.

Gal 6:8  Because he who sows to his own flesh shall reap corruption from the flesh, but he who sows to the Spirit shall reap everlasting life from the Spirit.

Gal 6:9  And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not grow weary.

Gal 6:10  So then, as we have occasion, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of the belief.

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25         יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃  

Emor | אמור | “Say”

Deu 6:4           שׁמע  ישׂראל  יהוה  אלהינו  יהוה  אחד׃  

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!

Emor (אֱמֹר — Hebrew for “speak,” the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 31st weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 21:1–24:23. The parashah has the most verses (although not the most letters or words) of any of the weekly Torah portions in the book of Leviticus, and is made up of 6,106 Hebrew letters, 1,614 Hebrew words, and 124 verses and can occupy about 215 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah). (Parashah Vayikra has the most letters and words of any weekly Torah portion in Leviticus.)

Generally read in early May, or rarely in late April. Jews also read parts of the parashah, Leviticus 22:26–23:44, as the initial Torah readings for the second day of Passover and the first and second days of Sukkot.

In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות, aliyot


Torah: Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23

1st reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 21:1 – 21:15

Lev 21:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: ‘No one is to be defiled for the dead among his people,

Lev 21:2  except for his relatives who are nearest to him: for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;

Lev 21:3  and for his maiden sister who is near to him, who has had no husband – for her he is defiled.

Lev 21:4  ‘A leader does not defile himself among his people, to profane himself;

Lev 21:5  they do not make any bald place on their heads, and they do not shave the corner of their beard, and they do not make a cutting in their flesh.

Lev 21:6  ‘They are set-apart to their Elohim and do not profane the Name of their Elohim, for they bringאה  the offerings of יהוה made by fire, and the bread of their Elohim, and shall be set-apart.

Lev 21:7  ‘They do not take a woman who is a whore or a defiled woman, and they do not take a woman put away from her husband, for he is set-apart to his Elohim.

Lev 21:8  ‘And you shall set him apart, for he brings אה the bread of your Elohim, he is set-apart to you. For I, יהוה, setting you apart, am set-apart.

Lev 21:9  ‘And when the daughter of any priest profanes herself by whoring, she profanes אה her father. She is burned with fire.

Lev 21:10  ‘And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and אה who is ordained to wear the garments, does not unbind his head nor tear his garments,

Lev 21:11  nor come near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother,

Lev 21:12  nor go out of the set-apart place, nor profane אה the set-apart place of his Elohim, for the sign of dedication of the anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him. I am יהוה.

Lev 21:13  ‘And let him take a wife in her maidenhood.

Lev 21:14  ‘A widow or one put away or a defiled woman or a whore – these he does not take. But a maiden of his own people he does take as a wife.

Lev 21:15  ‘And he does not profane his offspring among his people, for I am יהוה, who sets him apart.’ ”

2nd reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 21:15 – 22:16

Lev 21:16  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 21:17  “Speak to Aharon, saying, ‘No man of your offspring throughout their generations, who has any defect, is to draw near to bring the bread of his Elohim.

Lev 21:18  ‘For any man who has a defect is not to draw near: a man blind or one lame or disfigured or deformed,

Lev 21:19  a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,

Lev 21:20  or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.

Lev 21:21  ‘No man among the offspring of Aharon the priest, who has a defect, is to come near to bring the offerings made by fire to יהוה – he has a defect, he does not come near to bring the bread of his Elohim.

Lev 21:22  ‘He does eat the bread of his Elohim, both the most set-apart and the set-apart,

Lev 21:23  only, he does not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest he profanes My set-apart places. For I am יהוה, who sets them apart.’ ”

Lev 21:24  Thus Mosheh spoke to Aharon and his sons, and to all the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Lev 22:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 22:2  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, that they separate themselves from the set-apart offerings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and that they do not profane My set-apart Name in what they set apart to Me. I am יהוה.

Lev 22:3  “Say to them, ‘Any man of all your offspring throughout your generations who draws near the set-apart offerings which the children of Yisra’ĕl set apart to יהוה, while he has uncleanness upon him, that being shall be cut off from before Me. I am יהוה.

Lev 22:4  ‘Any man of the offspring of Aharon, who is a leper or has a discharge, does not eat the set-apart offerings until he is clean. And whoever touches what is rendered unclean by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,

Lev 22:5  or a man who touches any creeping creature by which he would be made unclean, or any being by whom he would become unclean, even any of his uncleanness;

Lev 22:6  the being who has touched it shall be unclean until evening, and does not eat the set-apart offerings, but shall bathe his body in water.

Lev 22:7  ‘And when the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward eat the set-apart offerings, because it is his food.

Lev 22:8  ‘He does not eat that which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it. I am יהוה.

Lev 22:9  ‘And they shall guard אה My Charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, when they profane it. I יהוה set them apart.

Lev 22:10  ‘And no stranger eats the set-apart offering. A sojourner with the priest, or a hired servant, does not eat the set-apart offering.

Lev 22:11  ‘But when the priest buys a being with his money, he does eat of it. And one who is born in his house does eat his food.

Lev 22:12  ‘And when a priest’s daughter is married to a stranger, she does not eat of the set-apart offerings.

Lev 22:13  ‘But when a priest’s daughter is a widow or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she does eat her father’s food, but no stranger eats of it.

Lev 22:14  ‘And when a man eats the set-apart offering by mistake, then he shall give a set-apart offering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it.

Lev 22:15  ‘And let the priests not profane the set-apart offerings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they lift up to יהוה,

Lev 22:16  or allow them to bear the crookedness of trespass when they eat their set-apart offerings. For I am יהוה, who sets them apart.’ ”

3rd reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 22:17 – 22:33

Lev 22:17  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 22:18  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, and to all the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Yisra’ĕl, or of the strangers in Yisra’ĕl, who brings his offering for any of his vows or for any of his voluntary offerings, which they bring to יהוה as a burnt offering,

Lev 22:19  for your acceptance, is a male, a perfect one from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats.

Lev 22:20  ‘Whatever has a defect, you do not bring, for it is not acceptable for you.

Lev 22:21  ‘And when a man brings a peace offering to יהוה, to complete a vow, or a voluntary offering from the cattle or the sheep, it is to be perfect to be accepted, let there be no defect in it.

Lev 22:22  ‘Those blind or broken or having a cut, or have an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you do not bring to יהוה, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to יהוה.

Lev 22:23  ‘As for a bull or a lamb that has any limb deformed or dwarfed you do prepare as a voluntary offering, but for a vow it is not accepted.

Lev 22:24  ‘Do not bring to יהוה what is bruised or crushed, or torn or cut, nor do it in your land.

Lev 22:25  ‘And from a son of a stranger’s hand you do not bring any of these as אה the bread of your Elohim, for their corruption is in them, and defects are in them, they are not acceptable for you.’ ”

Lev 22:26  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 22:27  “When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its mother. And from the eighth day and thereafter it is acceptable as an offering made by fire to יהוה.

Lev 22:28  “But do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

Lev 22:29  “And when you bring a slaughtering of thanksgiving to יהוה, bring it for your acceptance.

Lev 22:30  “It is eaten that same day, leave none of it till morning. I am יהוה.

Lev 22:31  “And you shall guard My commands and do them. I am יהוה.

Lev 22:32  “And do not profane My set-apart Name, and I shall be set-apart among the children of Yisra’ĕl. I am יהוה, who sets you apart,

Lev 22:33  who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am יהוה.”

4th reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 23:1 – 23:22

Lev 23:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 23:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘The appointed times of יהוה, which you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, My appointed times, are these:

Lev 23:3  ‘Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering. You do no work, it is a Sabbath to יהוה in all your dwellings.

Lev 23:4  ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה, set-apart gatherings which you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

Lev 23:5  ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, is the Passover to יהוה.

Lev 23:6  ‘And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to יהוה – seven days you eat unleavened bread.

Lev 23:7  ‘On the first day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.

Lev 23:8  ‘And you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה for seven days. On the seventh day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.’ ”

Lev 23:9  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 23:10  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap אה its harvest, then you shall bring אה a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest.

Lev 23:11  ‘And he shall wave אה the sheaf before יהוה, for your acceptance. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest waves it.

Lev 23:12  ‘And on that day when you wave אה the sheaf, you shall prepare a male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as a burnt offering to יהוה,

Lev 23:13  and its grain offering: two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to יהוה, a sweet fragrance, and its drink offering: one-fourth of a hin of wine.

Lev 23:14  ‘And you do not eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the same day that you have brought אה an offering to your Elohim – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Lev 23:15  ‘And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought אה the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven completed Sabbaths.

Lev 23:16  ‘Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to יהוה.

Lev 23:17  ‘Bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two loaves of bread, of two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour they are, baked with leaven, first-fruits to יהוה.

Lev 23:18  ‘And besides the bread, you shall bring seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are a burnt offering to יהוה, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

Lev 23:19  ‘And you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old, as a peace offering.

Lev 23:20  ‘And the priest shall wave them, besides the bread of the first-fruits, as a wave offering before יהוה, besides the two lambs. They are set-apart to יהוה for the priest.

Lev 23:21  ‘And on this same day you shall proclaim a set-apart gathering for yourselves, you do no servile work on it – a law forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Lev 23:22  ‘And when you reap אה the harvest of your land do not completely reap the corners of your field when you reap, and do not gather any gleaning from your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”

5th reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 23:23 – 23:32

Lev 23:23  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 23:24  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a rest, a remembrance of blowing of trumpets, a set-apart gathering.

Lev 23:25  ‘You do no servile work, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה.’ ”

Lev 23:26  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 23:27  “On the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall afflict אה your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה.

Lev 23:28  “And you do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before יהוה your Elohim.

Lev 23:29  “For any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

Lev 23:30  “And any being who does any work on that same day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people.

Lev 23:31  “You do no work – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Lev 23:32  ‘It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict אה your beings. On the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.”

6th reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 23:33 – 23:44

Lev 23:33  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 23:34  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths for seven days to יהוה.

Lev 23:35  ‘On the first day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.

Lev 23:36  ‘For seven days you bring an offering made by fire to יהוה. On the eighth day there shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה. It is a closing festival, you do no servile work.

Lev 23:37  ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה which you proclaim as set-apart gatherings, to bring an offering made by fire to יהוה, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a slaughtering and drink offerings, as commanded for every day –

Lev 23:38  besides the Sabbaths of יהוה, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings which you give to יהוה.

Lev 23:39  ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in אה the fruit of the land, observe אה the festival of יהוה for seven days. On the first day is a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.

Lev 23:40  ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of good trees, branches of palm trees, twigs of leafy trees, and willows of the stream, and shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim for seven days.

Lev 23:41  ‘And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה for seven days in the year – a law forever in your generations. Observe it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  ‘Dwell in booths for seven days; all who are native Yisra’ĕlites dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  so that your generations know that I made the children of Yisra’ĕl dwell in  אה booths when I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”

Lev 23:44  Thus did Mosheh speak of אה the appointed times of יהוה to the children of Yisra’ĕl.

7th reading (עליה, aliyah) Vayikra 24:1 – 24:23

Lev 24:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 24:2  “Command אה the children of Yisra’ĕl that they bring to you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.

Lev 24:3  “Outside the veil of the Witness, in the Tent of Meeting, Aharon is to arrange it from evening until morning before יהוה continually – a law forever throughout your generations.

Lev 24:4  “He is to arrange אה the lamps on the clean gold lampstand before יהוה continually.

Lev 24:5  “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it, two-tenths of an ĕphah in each cake.

Lev 24:6  “And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the clean table before יהוה.

Lev 24:7  “And you shall put clear frankincense on each row, and it shall be on the bread as a remembrance portion, an offering made by fire to יהוה.

Lev 24:8  “On every Sabbath he is to arrange it before יהוה continually, from the children of Yisra’ĕl – an everlasting covenant.

Lev 24:9  “And it shall be for Aharon and his sons, and they shall eat it in the set-apart place, because it is most set-apart to him from the offerings of יהוה made by fire – an everlasting law.”

Lev 24:10  And the son of an Yisra’ĕlite woman, whose father was a Mitsrite, went out among the children of Yisra’ĕl. And the Yisra’ĕlite woman’s son and a man of Yisra’ĕl strove in the camp.

Lev 24:11  And the Yisra’ĕlite woman’s son blasphemed אה the Name, and cursed. So they brought him to Mosheh. Now his mother’s name was Shelomith the daughter of Diḇri, of the tribe of Dan.

Lev 24:12  And they put him in under guard, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of יהוה.

Lev 24:13  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Lev 24:14  “Bring the one who has cursed אה outside the camp, and all those who heard him shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him.

Lev 24:15  “And speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘Anyone who curses his Elohim shall bear his sin.

Lev 24:16  ‘And he who blasphemes the Name of יהוה shall certainly be put to death, and all the congregation certainly stone him, the stranger as well as the native. When he blasphemes the Name, he is put to death.

Lev 24:17  ‘And he who smites the life from any man shall certainly be put to death.

Lev 24:18  ‘And he who smites a beast repays it, body for body.

Lev 24:19  ‘And when a man inflicts a blemish upon his neighbour, as he has done so it is done to him:

Lev 24:20  ‘Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he inflicts a blemish upon him, so it is done to him.

Lev 24:21  ‘And he who smites a beast repays it, and he who smites a man to death is put to death.

Lev 24:22  ‘You are to have one right-ruling, for the stranger and for the native, for I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”

Lev 24:23  And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Yisra’ĕl did as was commanded by יהוה  אהMosheh.

Again, we see the great importance of the sacred name of Yahovah and how we need to keep that name sanctified. The Rabbis however take this to the point of not ever mentioning the name and actually changing scripture when reading it to another name (Deut 4:2). The third commandment stating not to take Yahweh’s name in vain, literally means not to change or falsify it, or bring it to nothing. We are commanded to praise His name, worship His name, call on His name and glorify His name; how can you do this if you do not ever vocalize it? In essence, by not vocalizing the name Yahovah, they inadvertently bring it to nothing.

Prophets: Ezekiel 44:15-31

Eze 44:15  “But the priests, the Lĕwites, the sons of Tsaḏoq, who guarded the duty of My set-apart place when the children of Yisra’ĕl went astray from Me, they shall draw near to Me to serve Me, and shall stand before Me to bring to Me the fat and the blood,” declares the Master יהוה.

The regular priests in this sanctuary will be only the sons of “Zadok”. The high priestly order in the Millennium will be Melchi- Zedek, or king of righteousness. “Zadok” means “righteous” and this verse is showing the changeover from the Levitical order to the Melchizedek order. See all of Hebrews 7. Also look at what John the baptist, who was the last true Levitical High priest through the line of his father, said to Yahshua who was the eternal Melchizedek priest in John 3:30, ” It is necessary for Him to increase and I must decrease.”

Mar 1:1  The beginning of the Good News of יהושע Messiah, the Son of Elohim.

Mar 1:2  As it has been written in the Prophets, “See, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You,1 Footnote: 1Mal. 3:1.

Mar 1:3  a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of יהוה, make His paths straight.’ ”1 Footnote: 1Isa. 40:3.

Mar 1:4  Yoḥanan came immersing in the wilderness and proclaiming an immersion of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Mar 1:5  And all the country of Yehuḏah, and those of Yerushalayim, went out to him and were all immersed by him in the Yardĕn River, confessing their sins.

Mar 1:6  And Yoḥanan was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather girdle around his waist, and eating locusts and wild honey.

Mar 1:7  And he proclaimed, saying, “After me comes One who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

Mar 1:8  “I indeed did immerse you in water, but He shall immerse you in the Set-apart Spirit.”

Mar 1:9  And it came to be in those days that יהושע came from Natsareth of Galil, and was immersed by Yoḥanan in the Yardĕn.

Mar 1:10  And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit coming down on Him like a dove.

Mar 1:11  And a voice came out of the heavens, “You are My Son, the Beloved, in whom I did delight.”

Deu 25:5  “When brothers dwell together, and one of them has died, and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not become a stranger’s outside. Her husband’s brother does go in to her, and shall take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Deu 25:6  “And it shall be that the first-born son which she bears does rise up for the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Yisra’ĕl.

Deu 25:7  “But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Yisra’ĕl, he does not agree to perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’

Deu 25:8  “The elders of his city shall then call him and speak to him, and he shall stand and say, ‘I have no desire to take her,’

Deu 25:9  then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and remove his sandal from his foot, and shall spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

Deu 25:10  “And in Yisra’ĕl his name shall be called, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’

Eze 44:16  “They shall enter My set-apart place, and they shall draw near to My table to serve Me, and they shall guard My charge.

Eze 44:17  “And it shall be, when they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, that they put on linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them while they attend within the gates of the inner courtyard or within the house.

Eze 44:18  “They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies, they shall not gird themselves with sweat.

Eze 44:19  “And when they go out to the outer courtyard, to the outer courtyard to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have attended, and shall leave them in the set-apart rooms, and shall put on other garments. And they shall set apart the people in their set-apart garments.

Eze 44:20  “And their heads they shall not shave, nor shall they let their hair grow long – they shall keep their hair well trimmed.

Eze 44:21  “And no priest is to drink wine when he comes into the inner court.

Eze 44:22  “And they do not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman, but take maidens of the seed of the house of Yisra’ĕl, or widows of priests.

The priest was not allowed to take a divorced woman as a wife (Lev 21:6-7). As Melchizedek priests in the New Covenant, Yahshua clearly stated that to divorce a spouse and marry another is adultery, Mk 10:11-12.

Mar 10:11  And He said to them, “Whoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

Mar 10:12  “And if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”1 Footnote: 1Mt. 5:32.

Eze 44:23  “And they are to teach My people the difference between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean.

Eze 44:24  “And they are to stand as judges in a dispute, and judge it according to My right-rulings. And they are to guard My Torot and My laws in all My appointed festivals, and set apart My Sabbaths.

The priests will be the judges as originally laid out in the Torah in Deut 17:8-13, and the people will honor and listen to Yahweh’s set apart leaders at this time. The priests will teach the people how to honor Yahweh’s Torah and His plan of salvation through the Holy Days.

Eze 44:25  “And they are not to defile themselves by coming near a dead man. Only for a father or mother, for a son or daughter, for a brother or unmarried sister they defile themselves.

Eze 44:26  “And after his cleansing, they count seven days for him,

Eze 44:27  and on the day that he comes into the inner court of the set-apart place to attend in the set-apart place, he brings his sin offering,” declares the Master יהוה.

Eze 44:28  “And it shall be to them for an inheritance, I am their inheritance. And you give them no possession in Yisra’ĕl – I am their possession.

The priests were not to own property (Num 18:20, 23-24 Deut 10:9), The possession of the priest was Yahweh Himself. In the millennium, the true believers who are the bride of Yahshua will also be His possession (1Cor 6:19-20) and with Him in His sanctuary and cared for, Rev 7:13-17.

Eze 44:29  “The grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering they are to eat, and all that is dedicated in Yisra’ĕl is theirs.

Eze 44:30  “And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every contribution of all, of all your contributions, belong to the priests. And the first of your ground meal you give to the priest, so that a blessing rests on your house.

Eze 44:31  “The priests are not to eat any bird or beast found dead or torn to pieces.


Brit Hadasha: Luke 11:1 – 12:59

Luk 11:1  And it came to be while He was praying in a certain place, as He ceased, one of His taught ones said to Him, “Master, teach us to pray, as Yoḥanan also taught his taught ones.”

Luk 11:2  And He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Luk 11:3  “Give us day by day our daily bread.

Luk 11:4  “And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one.”

Luk 11:5  And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

Luk 11:6  since a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I do not have food to set before him,’

Luk 11:7  then the one inside answering, says, ‘Do not trouble me, the door is already locked, and my children with me are in bed. I am unable to get up and give to you’?

Luk 11:8  “I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.

Luk 11:9  “And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.

Luk 11:10  “For everyone asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

Luk 11:11  “And what father among you whose son asks for bread shall give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish shall give him a snake instead of a fish,

Luk 11:12  or if he asks for an egg shall give him a scorpion?

Luk 11:13  “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!”

Luk 11:14  And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to be, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb spoke. And the crowds marvelled.

Luk 11:15  But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beʽelzebul, the ruler of the demons,”

Luk 11:16  and others, trying Him, were seeking from Him a sign from heaven.

Luk 11:17  And He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every reign divided against itself is laid waste, and a house divided against a house falls.

Luk 11:18  “So if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his reign stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beʽelzebul.

Luk 11:19  “Now if I cast out demons by Beʽelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges.

Luk 11:20  “But if I cast out demons by the finger of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you.

Luk 11:21  “When a strong man, having been well armed, watches over his own court, his possessions are in peace.

Luk 11:22  “But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armour in which he trusted, and divides his booty.

Luk 11:23  “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

Luk 11:24  “When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest. And finding none, he says, ‘I shall return to my house from which I came.’

Luk 11:25  “And when he comes, he finds it swept and decorated,

Luk 11:26  then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

Luk 11:27  And it came to be, as He was saying this, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You sucked!”

Luk 11:28  But He said, “Blessed rather are those hearing the Word of Elohim and watching over it!”1 Footnote: 1See 8:21.

Luk 11:29  And while the crowds were thronging, He began to say, “This generation is wicked. It seeks a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Yonah the prophet.

Luk 11:30  “For as Yonah became a sign to the Ninewites, so also the Son of Aḏam shall be to this generation.

Luk 11:31  “The sovereigness of the South shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shelomoh is here.

Luk 11:32  “The men of Ninewĕh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here.

Luk 11:33  “And no one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in shall see the light.

Luk 11:34  “The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, all your body also is enlightened. But when your eye is evil, your body also is darkened.1 Footnote: 1This is Hebrew idiom – a good eye means to be generous, while an evil eye means to be stingy.

Luk 11:35  “See to it therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness.

Luk 11:36  “If then all your body is enlightened, having no part dark, all shall be enlightened, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.”

Luk 11:37  And as He spoke, a certain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him, so He went in and sat down to eat.

Luk 11:38  And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that He did not first wash before dinner.

Luk 11:39  And the Master said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is filled with greed and wickedness.

Luk 11:40  “Mindless ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

Luk 11:41  “But give in kindness of that which is within, and see, all are clean to you.

Luk 11:42  “But woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe the mint and the rue and every plant, and pass by the right-ruling and the love of Elohim. These you should have done, without leaving the others undone.

Luk 11:43  “Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the best seats in the congregations and the greetings in the market-places.

Luk 11:44  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like the unseen tombs, and the men walking over them do not know.”

Luk 11:45  And one of those learned in the Torah, answering, said to Him, “Teacher, when You say this You insult us too.”

Luk 11:46  And He said, “Woe to you also, you learned in the Torah, because you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

Luk 11:47  “Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Luk 11:48  “So you bear witness that you approve of the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

Luk 11:49  “And because of this the wisdom of Elohim said, ‘I shall send them prophets and emissaries, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,’

Luk 11:50  so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world shall be required of this generation,

Luk 11:51  from the blood of Heḇel to the blood of Zeḵaryah who perished between the altar and the Dwelling Place. Yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

Luk 11:52  “Woe to you learned in the Torah, because you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”

Luk 11:53  And as He was saying this to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely, and to draw Him out on many subjects,

Luk 11:54  watching Him, and seeking to catch Him in whatever He says, so as to accuse Him.

Luk 12:1  Meanwhile, when an innumerable crowd of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His taught ones, first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luk 12:2  “And whatever is concealed shall be revealed, and whatever is hidden shall be known.

Luk 12:3  “So, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms shall be proclaimed on the house-tops.

Luk 12:4  “But I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that are unable to do any more.

Luk 12:5  “But I shall show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after killing, possesses authority to cast into Gehenna. Yea, I say to you, fear Him!

Luk 12:6  “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before Elohim.

Luk 12:7  “But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Do not fear, you are worth more than many sparrows.

Luk 12:8  “And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Aḏam shall also confess him before the messengers of Elohim.

Luk 12:9  “But he that has denied Me before men shall be denied before the messengers of Elohim.

Luk 12:10  “And everyone who shall speak a word against the Son of Aḏam, it shall be forgiven him, but to him who has blasphemed against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven.

Luk 12:11  “And when they bring you to the congregations and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say,

Luk 12:12  for the Set-apart Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what you should say.”

Luk 12:13  And someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me.”

Luk 12:14  But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or divider over you?”

Luk 12:15  And He said to them, “Mind, and beware of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.”

Luk 12:16  He then spoke a parable to them, saying, “The land of a certain rich man yielded well.

Luk 12:17  “And he was reasoning within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?’

Luk 12:18  “And he said, ‘I am going to do this: pull down my storehouses and build greater, and store all my crops and my goods there,

Luk 12:19  then say to myself, “Life, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, rejoice.” ’

Luk 12:20  “But Elohim said to him, ‘You mindless one! This night your life shall be demanded from you. And who shall own what you have prepared?’

Luk 12:21  “So is he who is storing up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward Elohim.”

Luk 12:22  And He said to His taught ones, “For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat; nor about the body, what you shall put on.

Luk 12:23  “The life is more than the food, and the body is more than the clothing.

Luk 12:24  “Look at the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor granary, and Elohim feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds?

Luk 12:25  “And which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his life’s span?

Luk 12:26  “If then you are unable to do the least, why do you worry about the rest?

Luk 12:27  “Look at the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin, and I say to you, even Shelomoh in all his esteem was not dressed like one of these.

Luk 12:28  “And if Elohim so clothes the grass, which today exists in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief?

Luk 12:29  “And do not seek what you shall eat or what you shall drink, and do not keep worrying.

Luk 12:30  “For the gentiles of the world seek all these, and your Father knows that you need these.

Luk 12:31  “But seek the reign of Elohim, and all these shall be added to you.

Luk 12:32  “Do not fear, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign.

Luk 12:33  “Sell your possessions and give in kindness. Make yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief does come near nor moth destroys.

Luk 12:34  “For where your treasure is, there your heart shall be also.

Luk 12:35  “Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,

Luk 12:36  and be like men waiting for their master, when he shall return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they open to him immediately.

Luk 12:37  “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, shall find watching. Truly, I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them sit down to eat, and shall come and serve them.

Luk 12:38  “And if he comes in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Luk 12:39  “And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief comes, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Luk 12:40  “And you, then, be ready, for the Son of Aḏam is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Luk 12:41  And Kĕpha said to Him, “Master, do You speak this parable to us, or also to all?”

Luk 12:42  And the Master said, “Who then is the trustworthy and wise manager, whom his master shall appoint over his household, to give the portion of food in due season?

Luk 12:43  “Blessed is that servant whom his master shall find so doing when he comes.

Luk 12:44  “Truly, I say to you that he shall appoint him over all his possessions.

Luk 12:45  “But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male servants and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

Luk 12:46  the master of that servant shall come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

Luk 12:47  “And that servant who knew his master’s desire, and did not prepare, nor did according to his desire, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Luk 12:48  “But he who did not know, yet did what deserved flogging, shall be beaten with few. And everyone to whom much is given, from him much shall be demanded. And to whom much has been entrusted, from him much more shall be asked.

Luk 12:49  “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

Luk 12:50  “But I have an immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Luk 12:51  “Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I say to you, no, but rather division.

Luk 12:52  “For from now on five in one house shall be divided, three against two, and two against three –

Luk 12:53  father shall be divided against son, and son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

Luk 12:54  And He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it is.

Luk 12:55  “And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There shall be hot weather,’ and it is.

Luk 12:56  “Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?

Luk 12:57  “And why, also, do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

Luk 12:58  “For, as you go with your opponent to a ruler, try hard along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

Luk 12:59  “I say to you, you shall certainly not leave there until you have paid even the last mite.”

Galatians 3:26-29

Gal 3:26  For you are all sons of Elohim through belief in Messiah יהושע.

Gal 3:27  For as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah.

An Aramaic idiom also used in (Eph 6:14, Is 59:17)

(Isa 59:17) And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and the helmet of YAHSHUA on His head. And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped Himself with ardour as a mantle.

Gal 3:28  There is not Yehuḏite nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע.

Gal 3:29  And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise.

1 Peter 2:4-10


1Pe 2:4  Drawing near to Him, a living Stone – rejected indeed by men, but chosen by Elohim and precious –

1Pe 2:5  you also, as living stones, are being built up, a spiritual house, a set-apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual slaughter offerings acceptable to Elohim through יהושע Messiah.

1Pe 2:6  Because it is contained in the Scripture, “See, I lay in Tsiyon a chief corner-stone, chosen, precious, and he who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame.”

Footnote: Isa. 28:16  Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am laying in Tsiyon a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a settled foundation. He who trusts shall not hasten away.

1Pe 2:7  This preciousness, then, is for you who believe; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone,”

Footnote: Ps. 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner-stone.

1Pe 2:8  and “A stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling,”1 who stumble because they are disobedient2 to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

Footnotes: Isa 8:13 “יהוה of hosts, Him you shall set apart. Let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.

Isa 8:14  “And He shall be for a set-apart place, but a stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling to both the houses of Yisra’ĕl, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

Isa 8:15  “And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken and snared and taken.”

Isa 8:16  Bind up the witness, seal the Torah among my taught ones.

John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”

Heb. 3:18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19 So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief.

A Change of belief brings about a change of actions.

Mat 7:13  “Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide – and the way is broad – that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in through it.

Mat 7:14  “Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed1 which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Mat 7:15  “But beware of the false prophets,1 who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves.

Mat 7:16  “By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

Mat 7:17  “So every good tree yields good fruit, but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit.

Mat 7:18  “A good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit, and a rotten tree to yield good fruit.

Mat 7:19  “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Mat 7:20  “So then, by their fruits you shall know them –

Mat 7:21  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens.

Mat 7:22  “Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’

Mat 7:23  “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’

1Jn 3:7  Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one doing righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

1Jn 3:8  The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.

 Footnote: Titus 2:14

1Jn 3:9  Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim.

1Jn 3:10  In this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone not doing righteousness is not of Elohim, neither the one not loving his brother.

1Pe 2:9  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,

1Pe 2:10  who once were not a people, but now the people of Elohim; who had not obtained compassion, but now obtained compassion.

The intention of YHWH when He took Israel out of Egypt was to make a nation of priests (Ex. 19:5, 6). This did not happen due to the continual rebellion of the people, so in the New Covenant clearly the intention, as it originally was, is to make a kingdom of priests according to the order of Melchizedek (Heb 7:11, Heb 3:1)

As shown in 1Pe 1:1, this letter is written to Israelites living abroad and Peter uses a direct quote from Hosea 1:6-10, to show through Messiah these dispersed Israelites are able to be rejoined to the covenant of Yahweh, even in their Diaspora. (Hos. 1:6; 9-10; 2:1; 23; Eph 2: 11-19)

Num 6:22  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 6:23  “Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, ‘This is how you bless the children of Yisra’ĕl. Say to them:

Num 6:24  “יהוה bless you and guard you;

Num 6:25  יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;

Num 6:26  יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” ’

Num 6:27  “Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and I Myself shall bless them.”

Num 6:24         יברכך  יהוה  וישׁמרך׃  

Num 6:25       יאר  יהוה  פניו  אליך  ויחנך׃  

Num 6:26         ישׂא  יהוה  פניו  אליך  וישׂם  לך  שׁלום׃