BERESHEETH - ENGLISH

Beresheeth – ,hatrc – Genesis
To Our Forefathers Yisrael
Torah Parsha 1
Beresheeth 1:1-6:8
Haftarah Yeshayahu 42:5-43:10
Brit Chadasha Yochanan 1:1-18
Beresheeth bara Elohim Aleph-Taf
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ha shamayim
v-et ha-aretz.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the surface of the deep mayim.
2
And the Ruach
of Elohim moved upon the face of the mayim.
3 And Elohim said, Let there be Light: and Light was.
4 And Elohim saw the Light, that it was tov: and Elohim
divided the Light from the darkness.
5 And Elohim called the Light, Daytime,
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and the darkness
He called Night. And the evening and the morning were
Yom Echad.
6 And Elohim said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the mayim, and let it divide the mayim from the mayim.
7 And Elohim made the firmament, and divided the
mayim that were under the firmament from the mayim
that were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And Elohim called the firmament Shamayim. And the
evening and the morning were Yom Shanee.
9 And Elohim said, Let the mayim under the shamayim be
gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear,
and it was so. And the mayim under the shamayim gathered
to their gatherings and the dry land appeared.
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10 And Elohim called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the mayim He called Seas: and Elohim saw that it
was tov.
11 And Elohim said, Let the earth bring out grass, the herb
yielding zera, and the fruit eytz yielding fruit after its kind,
whose zera is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought out grass, and herb yielding zera
after its kind, and the eytz yielding fruit, whose zera was in
itself, after its kind: and Elohim saw that it was tov.
13 And the evening and the morning were Yom Shlishi.
14 And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of
the shamayim to divide the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for moadim, and for days, and years:
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GENESIS
1 The Hebrew word here is et spelled Aleph Taf, which
are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet and
are used to describe YHWH’s Son in the Renewed
Covenant. Colossians 1:16 and Proverbs 30:4 confirm
that the Son is the true Creator and the Father is the
Master designer.
2 The result of the first global flood spoken of in
Jeremiah chapter four.
3 Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS).
4 DSS and LXX.
5 YHWH’s calendar and feasts existed even before the
creation of Adam and Eve. These feasts predated the
giving of the Torah as well, and therefore are eternal
for all of YHWH’s people, for all ages, at all times.
Notice that the moon and sun are not for determining
weeks and thus cannot be used to determine the
weekly Shabbat.
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
shamayim to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And Elohim made
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two great lights; the greater light
to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He
made the cochavim also.
17 And Elohim set them in the firmament of the
shamayim to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that it
was tov.
19 And the evening and the morning were Yom Revee.
20 And Elohim said, Let the mayim bring out abundantly
the moving creatures that have chayim, and fowl that may
fly above the earth in the open firmament of the
shamayim.
21 And Elohim created great whales, and every living
creature that moves, which the mayim brought out
abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after
its kind: and Elohim saw that it was tov.
22 And Elohim blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and refill the mayim in the seas, and let fowl
multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were Yom
Chameeshe.
24 And Elohim said, Let the earth bring out the living
creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and
beast of the earth after its kind: and it was so.
25 And Elohim made the beast of the earth after its kind,
and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps
upon the earth after its kind: and Elohim saw that it was
tov.
26 And Elohim said, Let Us make man in Our image,
after Our likeness:
7
and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So the Word of Elohim
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created man in His own
image, in the image of Elohim He created him; male and
female He created them.
28 And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
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and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moves upon the earth.
29 And Elohim said, See, I have given you every herb
bearing zera, which is upon the face of all the earth, and
6 As seen in verse 3, the light existed and most likely
the sun and moon were created on the first day, but
were made to function as lights for feasts and YHWH’s
appointed times here on the fourth day. The word used
here is asah which means was made, or assigned; as
opposed to the Hebrew word bara, which means to
create something for the first time.
7 “Our image and Our likeness,” speaks of the plurality
of the one YHWH.
8 Aramaic Targum; Onkelos.
9 To create a single family, or assembly of set apart
chosen people to fill the earth.
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every eytz, which is the fruit of an eytz yielding zera; to
you it shall be for food.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of
the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, in
which there is chayim, I have given every green herb for
food: and it was so.
31 And Elohim saw every thing that He had made; and
see; it was very tov. And the evening and the morning
were Yom Sheshi.
So the shamayim and the earth were finished, and all
their hosts.
2 And on the sixth day
1
Elohim ended His work that He
had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His
work that He had made.
3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and set it apart:
because in it He had rested from all His work that Elohim
created and made.
4 These are the generations of the shamayim and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that vuvh Elohim
made the earth and the shamayim,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it grew: for vuvh
Elohim had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.
7 And vuvh Elohim formed man from the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
chayim; and man became a living nephesh.
8 And vuvh Elohim planted a garden eastward in Ayden;
and there He put the man whom He had formed.
9 And out of the ground made vuvh Elohim to grow every
eytz that is pleasant to the sight, and tov for food; the eytz
chayim also in the midst of the garden, and the eytz of the
da’at of tov and evil.
10 And a river went out of Ayden to water the garden;
and from there it parted, and became four riverheads.
11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is the one
surrounding the whole land of Havilah, where there is
gold;
12 And the gold of that land is tov: bdellium is there and
the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same
one that surrounds the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris: that is the one
that goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth river
is the Euphrates.
15 And vuvh Elohim took the man, and put him into Gan
Ayden to work it and to guard it.
16 And vuvh Elohim commanded the man, saying, Of
every eytz of Gan Ayden you may freely eat:
17 But of the eytz of the da’at of tov and evil, you shall
not eat of it: for in the day that you eat from it you shall
surely die.
18 And vuvh Elohim said, It is not tov that the man
should be alone; I will make for him a helper as his
counterpart.
2
1 Peshitta, LXX fits the context better.
2 To bring forth a people after His heart and image.
19 And out of the ground vuvh Elohim formed every
beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought
them to Ahdahm to see what he would call them: and
whatever Ahdahm called every living creature; that was
the name of it.
20 And Ahdahm gave names to all the cattle, and to the
fowls of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for
Ahdahm there was not found a helper.
21 And vuvh Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Ahdahm and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh in its place;
22 And with the rib that vuvh Elohim had taken from
man, He made a woman, and brought her to the man.
23 And Ahdahm said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Isha, because she
was taken out of Ish.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his abba and his eema, and
shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be basar echad.
25 And they were both naked, the ish and his isha, and
were not ashamed.
Now the serpent was craftier than any beast of the
field that vuvh Elohim had made. And he said to the
woman, Is it emet? Has Elohim really
3
said, You shall
not eat of every eytz of the garden?
2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the
fruit of the eytzim of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the eytz which is in the midst of the
garden, Elohim has said, You shall not eat of it, neither
shall you touch it, lest you die.
4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely
die:
5 For Elohim does know that in the day you eat of it, then
your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like Elohim,
knowing tov and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the eytz was tov for
food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and an eytz to
be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it,
and did eat, and gave it also to her husband with her; and
he did eat.
7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they
knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of vuvh Elohim walking in the
garden in the cool of the day:
4
and Ahdahm and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of vuvh Elohim among
the eytzim of the garden.
9 And vuvh Elohim called to Ahdahm, and said to him,
Where are you?
10 And he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I
was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have
you eaten of the eytz that I commanded you that you
should not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be
with me, she gave me of the eytz, and I did eat.
13 And vuvh Elohim said to the woman, What is this that
you have done? And the woman said, The serpent
3 DSS.
4 The Set Apart Spirit.
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deceived me, and I did eat.
14 And vuvh Elohim said to the serpent, Because you
have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and
dust shall you eat all the days of your chayim:
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your zera and her Zera; He shall crush your
head, and you shall bruise His heel.
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16 Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your
sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring
out children; and your desire shall be to your husband,
and he shall rule over you.
17 And to Ahdahm He said, Because you have listened to
the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the eytz, of
which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you
eat from it all the days of your chayim;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring out for you; and
you shall eat the herb of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face shall you eat lechem, until
you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for
dust you are, and to dust shall you return.
20 And Ahdahm called his wife's name Chavah; because
she was the eema of all living.
21 Unto Ahdahm also and to his wife did vuvh Elohim
make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And vuvh Elohim said, See, the man has become as
one of Us, to know tov and evil: and now, lest he put out
his hand, and take also of the eytz chayim, and eat, and
live le-olam-va-ed:
23 Therefore vuvh Elohim sent him out from Gan Ayden,
to work the ground from where he was taken.
24 So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of
Gan Ayden cheruvim, and a flaming sword that turned in
every direction, to guard the way back to the eytz chayim.
And Ahdahm had known
2
Chavah his wife; and she
conceived, and bore Qayin, and said, I have gotten a man
from vuvh.
3
2 And she again bore his brother Hevel. And Hevel was a
guardian of sheep, but Qayin was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in process of time
4
it came to pass, that Qayin
brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to vuvh.
4 And Hevel, also brought of the bechorot of his flock
and of its fat. And vuvh had respect for Hevel and his
offering:
5 But to Qayin and to his offering He had not respect.
And Qayin was very angry, and his face displayed hate.
6 And vuvh said to Qayin, Why are you angered and
annoyed? And why is your face displaying hate?
7 If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do
1 The proto-evangelium, or the first proclamation of the
Good News. While the Seed here is Messiah Yahshua,
it also speaks of the nation of Yisrael overcoming the
serpent’s people.
2 In the past, indicating a breakdown in communication
after the fall.
3 The first false messiah. Eve hoped that Cain was the
promised seed of Genesis 3:15.
4 YHWH had already revealed the appointed times.
not do well, sin lies at your door. And its desire is for you,
but you should rule over it.
8 And Qayin talked with Hevel his brother: Let us go out
into the plain.
5
And it came to pass, when they were in
the field, that Qayin rose up against Hevel his brother,
and killed him.
9 And vuvh said to Qayin, Where is Hevel your brother?
And he said, I don’t know: Am I my brother's guardian?
10 And He said, What have you done? The voice of your
brother's dahm cries to Me from the ground.
11 And now are you cursed from the earth, that has
opened its mouth to receive your brother's dahm from
your hand;
12 When you till the ground, it shall not from now on
yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shall
you be in the earth.
13 And Qayin said to vuvh, My punishment is greater
than I can bear.
14 See, You have driven me out this day from the face of
the earth; and from Your face shall I be hidden; and I
shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it shall
come to pass, that every one that finds me shall try and
kill me.
15 And vuvh said to him, Therefore whoever kills Qayin,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And vuvh set
a mark upon Qayin, lest any finding him should kill him.
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him.
6
16 And Qayin went out from the presence of vuvh, and
dwelt in the land of Nod, to the east of Gan Ayden.
17 And Qayin knew his wife;
7
and she conceived, and
bore Chanoch: and he built a city, and called the name of
the city, after the name of his son, Chanoch.
18 And to Chanoch was born Irad: and Irad begat
Mehuya-El: and Mehuya-El begat Methusa-El: and
Methusa-El begat Lamech.
19 And Lamech took two wives: the name of one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bore Yaval: he was the abba of such as
dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Yuval: he was the abba of
all such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bore Tuval-Qayin, an instructor in
every kind of brass and iron tool: and the sister of Tuval-
Qayin was Naamah.
23 And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Listen
to my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to my speech:
for I have slain a man to my own wounding, and a young
man to my hurt.
24 If Qayin shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech
seventy-sevenfold.
25 And Ahdahm knew his wife again; and she bore a son,
and called his name Sheth: For Elohim, she said, has
appointed me another zera instead of Hevel, whom Qayin
killed.
26 And to Sheth, also there was born a son; and he called his
5 Found in LXX.
6 Eternal unmerited favor.
7 His sister, which was allowed before the Torah was
fully revealed in greater detail.
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name Enosh: then men began to call upon the Name
of vuvh.
1
This is the scroll of the generations of Ahdahm. In the
day that Elohim created man, in the likeness of Elohim
He made him;
2 Male and female He created them; and blessed them,
and called their name Ahdahm, in the day when they were
created.
3 And Ahdahm lived a hundred thirty years, and begat a
son in his own likeness, after his own image; and called
his name Sheth:
2
4 And the days of Ahdahm after he had begotten Sheth
were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and
daughters:
5 And all the days that Ahdahm lived were nine hundred
thirty years: and he died.
6 And Sheth lived a hundred five years, and begat Enosh:
7 And Sheth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred
seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
8 And all the days of Sheth were nine hundred twelve
years: and he died.
9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan:
10 And Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred
fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred five
years: and he died.
12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalal-El:
13 And Kenan lived after he begat Mahalal-El eight
hundred forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
14 And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten
years: and he died.
15 And Mahalal-El lived sixty-five years, and begat
Yared:
16 And Mahalal-El lived after he begat Yared eight
hundred thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
17 And all the days of Mahalal-El were eight hundred
ninety five years: and he died.
18 And Yared lived a hundred sixty-two years, and he
begat Chanoch:
19 And Yared lived after he begat Chanoch eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters:
20 And all the days of Yared were nine hundred sixty two
years: and he died.
21 And Chanoch lived sixty-five years, and begat
Metushelach:
22 And Chanoch had his halacha with Elohim after he
begat Metushelach three hundred years, and begat sons
and daughters:
23 And all the days of Chanoch were three hundred sixty
five years:
24 And Chanoch had his halacha with Elohim: and he
was not; for Elohim took him.
25 And Metushelach lived a hundred eighty seven years,
and begat Lamech:
26 And Metushelach lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty two years, and begat sons and daughters:
1 A long time before Moses in Exodus 3:15.
2 Not in YHWH’s image since this is after the fall.
27 And all the days of Metushelach
3
were nine hundred
sixty nine years: and he died.
28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty two years, and
begat a son:
29 And he called his name Noach, saying, This one shall
comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
because of the ground that vuvh has cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noach five hundred
ninety five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred
seventy seven years: and he died.
32 And Noach was five hundred years old: and Noach
begat Shem, Ham, and Yahpheth.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
4
2 That the sons of Elohim
5
saw the daughters of men that
that they were beautiful; and they took for themselves
wives of all which they chose.
3 And vuvh said, My Ruach shall not always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be one
hundred twenty years.
4 There were Nephilim
6
in the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons of Elohim came in to the
daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the
same became mighty men who were of old, men
of fame.
7
5 And Elohim saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his lev was only evil continually.
6 And it bothered vuvh that He had made man on the
earth, and it grieved Him in His lev.
7 And vuvh said, I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowl of the air; for it bothers Me
that I have made them.
8 But Noach found favor
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in the eyes of vuvh.
Torah Parsha 2
Noach 6:9-11:32
Haftarah Yeshayahu 54:1-55:5
Brit Chadasha Mattityahu 24:36-44
9 These are the generations of Noach: Noach was a tzadik
man and perfect in his generations, and Noach had his
halacha with Elohim.
10 And Noach begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and
Yahpheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before Elohim, and the
earth was filled with violence.
12 And Elohim looked upon the earth, and, see, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
3 Meaning “when he dies it shall be sent,” speaking of
the flood.
4 As per YHWH’s plan to fill the earth with His people.
5 Fallen melachim/angels.
6 Literally means “fallen ones.”
7 To stop YHWH’s eternal plan to fill the earth with one
pure people.
8 Eternal unmerited favor.
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13 And Elohim said to Noach, The end of all flesh has
come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence
through them; and, see, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make a tayvah of gopher wood; rooms you shall make
in the tayvah, and shall cover it inside and
outside with tar.
15 And this is the design that you shall make it: The
length of the tayvah shall be three hundred cubits, the
width of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shall you make to the tayvah, and in a cubit
shall you finish it above; and the door of the tayvah shall
you set in the side of it; with lower, second, and third
stories shall you make it.
17 And, see, I, even I, do bring a flood of mayim upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of
chayim, from under the shamayim; and everything that is
in the earth shall die.
18 But with you I will establish My brit; and you shall
come into the tayvah, you, and your sons, and your wife,
and your sons' wives with you.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shall you bring into the tayvah, to keep them alive with
you; they shall be male and female.
20 Of the fowl after their kind, and of cattle after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind,
two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
21 And take for you all food that is eaten, and you shall
gather it to you; and it shall be for food for you, and for
them.
22 So Noach did according to all that Elohim commanded
him; so he did.
1
And vuvh said to Noach, Come you and all your bayit
into the tayvah; for you have I seen tzadik before Me in
this generation.
2 Of every clean beast you shall take by sevens,
2
the male
male and the female: and of beasts that are not clean by
two, the male and the female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep all zera alive upon the face of all the
earth.
4 For in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty nights; and every living substance
that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the
earth.
5 And Noach did according to all that vuvh commanded
him.
3
6 And Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of
mayim was upon the earth.
7 And Noach went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him, into the tayvah, because of the
mayim of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creeps upon the earth,
9 They went in two by two to Noach into the tayvah, the
male and the female, as Elohim had commanded Noach.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the mayim
1 Followed Torah as it was progressively revealed.
2 Noah had a revelation of kashrut, or kosher animals.
3 Kept Torah.
of the flood was upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noach's chayim, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same
day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of the shamayim were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.
13 In the same day entered Noach, and Shem, and Ham,
and Yahpheth, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and
the three wives of his sons with them, into the tayvah;
14 They, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon
the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every
bird of every sort.
15 And they went in to Noach into the tayvah, two by two
of all flesh, in which is the breath of chayim.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as Elohim had commanded him: and vuvh shut him
in.
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17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
mayim increased, and lifted up the tayvah, and it was
lifted up above the earth.
18 And the mayim prevailed, and were increased greatly
upon the earth; and the tayvah went upon the face of
the mayim.
19 And the mayim prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and all the high hills that were under the entire shamayim
were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the mayim prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of
fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of chayim, of all
that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed that was
upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowls of the shamayim; and they
were destroyed from the earth: and Noach only remained
alive, and they that were with him in the tayvah.
24 And the mayim prevailed upon the earth one hundred
fifty days.
And Elohim remembered Noach, and every living
thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the tayvah:
and Elohim made a wind to pass over the earth, and the
mayim subsided;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of
shamayim were stopped, and the rain from the shamayim
was restrained;
3 And the mayim returned from off the earth continually:
and after the end of the hundred fifty days the mayim
were abated.
4 And the tayvah rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of
Ararat.
5
4 More unmerited favor.
5 During Tabernacles an appropriate time indeed for a
sukkah/tabernacle in the form of an ark for the fathers
of the future redeemed people of Yisrael.
7
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5 And the mayim decreased continually until the tenth
month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month,
were the tops of the mountains seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noach
opened the window of the tayvah that he had made:
7 And he sent out a raven, which went out back and forth,
until the mayim were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent out a yonah from him, to see if the mayim
were abated from off the face of the ground;
9 But the yonah found no rest for the sole of her foot, and
she returned to him into the tayvah, for the mayim were
on the face of the whole earth: then he put out his hand,
and took her, and pulled her in to him into the tayvah.
10 And he stayed yet seven more days; and again he sent
out the yonah out of the tayvah;
11 And the yonah came in to him in the evening; and, see,
in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:
1
so Noach
knew that the mayim were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet seven more days; and sent out the
yonah; which returned not again to him any more.
2
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred first year, in the
first month, on the first day of the month,
3
the mayim
were dried up from off the earth: and Noach removed the
covering of the tayvah, and looked, and, see, the face of
the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day
of the month, the earth was dried.
15 And Elohim spoke to Noach, saying,
16 Go out from the tayvah, you, and your wife, and your
sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you,
of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every
creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and
multiply upon the earth.
4
18 And Noach went out, and his sons, and his wife, and
his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and
whatever creeps upon the earth, after their kinds, went out
of the tayvah.
20 And Noach rebuilt
5
an altar to vuvh; and took of every
every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar.
6
21 And vuvh smelled a sweet fragrance; and vuvh said in
1 A remez, or hint that after the flood, YHWH would
move forward to ultimately produce olive branches in
the olive tree of Yisrael, so that they would be the only
survivors after the end time destruction of the earth by
fire. The dove symbolizes the Set Apart Spirit’s hold on
Renewed Covenant Yisrael, coming safely into the ark
of Yahshua’s love.
2 In the kingdom the olive tree of Yisrael will branch
out to the whole earth, no longer limited to one spot on
the map.
3 A new year for a renewed family and earth.
4 YHWH refills the earth with Noah’s seed.
5 Initially built by Adam and later by Abraham on the
Mt. of Olives.
6 Noah also knew the Torah method of acceptable
sacrifice.
His lev, I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake; for the imagination of man's lev is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smite any more every living
thing, as I have done.
22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.
And Elohim blessed Noach and his sons, and said to
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth.
7
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon
every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the
fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you;
even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the chayim in it, which is its dahm, shall
you not eat.
8
5 And surely the dahm of your lives I will require; at the
hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of
man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the
chayim of man.
6 Whosoever sheds man's dahm, by man, shall his dahm
be shed: for in the image of Elohim He made man.
9
7 And you, be fruitful, and multiply; bring out abundantly
in the earth, and multiply in it.
10
8 And Elohim spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him,
saying,
9 And I, even I,
11
will establish My brit with you, and
with your zera after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, the
fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you;
from all that go out of the tayvah, to every beast of the
earth.
11 And I will establish My brit with you; neither shall all
flesh be cut off any more by the mayim of a flood; neither
shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.
12
12 And Elohim said, This is the token of the brit that I
make between Me and you and every living creature that
is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a
token of a brit between the earth and Me.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember My brit, which is between Me and
you and every living creature of all flesh; and the mayim
shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon
it, that I may remember the everlasting brit between
Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is upon
7 See note on chapter 8 verse 17.
8 Noah obeys Torah.
9 YHWH installs the right-ruling of capital punishment
as an act of mercy to deter evil.
10 The plan is unchanged. Yisrael the elect of YHWH
will be birthed.
11 Duality in one.
12 The physical multiplicity provision of the Edenic
Covenant renewed in Noah.
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the earth.
1
17 And Elohim said to Noach, This is the token of the
brit, which I have established between My Word
2
and all
all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noach that went out from the tayvah
were Shem, and Ham, and Yahpheth: and Ham is the
abba of Kanaan.
19 These are the three sons of Noach: and from them was
the whole earth filled.
3
20 And Noach began to be a man of the soil, and he
planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and became drunk; and he
was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the abba of Kanaan, saw the nakedness of
his abba, and told his two brothers outside.
23 And Shem and Yahpheth took a garment, and laid it
upon both their shoulders, and went in backwards, and
covered the nakedness of their abba; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their abba's nakedness.
24 And Noach awoke from his wine, and knew what his
younger son had done to him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Kanaan; an eved of avadim
shall he be to his brothers.
4
26 And he said, Barchu-et-vuvh Elohim of Shem; and
Kanaan shall be his eved.
27 Elohim shall enlarge Yahpheth, and he shall dwell in
the tents of Shem; and Kanaan shall be his eved.
5
28 And Noach lived after the flood three hundred fifty
years.
29 And all the days of Noach were nine hundred fifty
years: and he died.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noach,
Shem, Ham, and Yahpheth: and to them were sons born
after the flood.
2 The sons of Yahpheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai,
and Yavan, and Tuval, and Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and
Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Yavan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Chittim,
and Dodanim.
5 By these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their
lands, every one after his tongue, after their mishpachot,
1 Forgiven and redeemed Yisrael will eventually inherit
this same everlasting covenant in Jeremiah 31:31.
2 Targum Onkelos.
3 The Hebrew word is maaleh the same root used in
Genesis 48:19 for “fullness-melo.” YHWH made every
human after the flood from Noah, a single person. We
see that again when He populates all the earth’s
nations through a single person-Jacob.
4 This is not a perpetual curse on blacks, or any race.
Rather it’s a curse on one individual Canaan, who
would be in servitude.
5 A clear-cut prophecy (not question) that all humanity
will one day be gathered as Semites, or in the house of
righteous Shem, later to become the single renewed
Yisraelite body of Messiah. That’s exactly what
Messiah has done, gathering all believers in Shem’s
tent as Yisrael!
in their nations.
6
6 And the sons of Ham; Kush, and Mitzrayim, and Phut,
and Kanaan.
7 And the sons of Kush; Seba, and Havilah, and Savtah,
and Raamah, and Savtecha: and the sons of Raamah;
Sheva, and Dedan.
8 And Kush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one
7
7
in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the face of vuvh: That is
why it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before
the face of vuvh.
8
10 And the beginning of his malchut was Bavel, and
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went out Ashshur, who built Ninveh,
9
9
and the city Rehovoth, and Calah,
10
12 And Resen between Ninveh and Calah: the same is a
great city.
13 And Mitzrayim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehavim, and Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim, and Kasluchim, out of whom came
Plishtim, and Kaphtorim.
15 And Kanaan begat Tzidon his bachor, and Cheth,
16 And the Yevusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite: and afterward were the mishpachot of the
Kanaanites spread abroad.
19 And the border of the Kanaanites was from Tzidon, as
you come to Gerar, to Azah, as you go, to Sedom, and
Amorah, and Admah, and Zevoim, even to Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their mishpachot,
after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
21 Unto Shem also, the abba of all the children of Ever,
the brother of Yahpheth the elder, even to him were
children born.
22 The children of Shem; Eylam, and Ashshur, and
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
11
23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether,
and Mash.
24 And Arphaxad begat Kaynan and Kaynan
12
begat
Salah; and Salah begat Ever.
25 And to Ever were born two sons: the name of one was
Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his
brother's name was Yoktan.
26 And Yoktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-
Maveth, and Yourah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28 And Oval, and Avima-El, and Sheva,
6 These are the same gentile nations that would one
day be filled with Shem’s seed.
7 Worshipped as a deity.
8 Nimrod was worshipped and hunted men’s souls
away from YHWH. The Hebrew here can mean before
and, or against YHWH’s face.
9 Masoretic & Peshitta rendering.
10 Where Efrayim-Yisrael would be taken.
11 The father of the Arameans, who were Semites and
of the same race as the Hebrews.
12 From the LXX that provides the missing link between
Arphaxad and Salah.
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29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Yovab: all these were the
sons of Yoktan.
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you are going
to Sephar a mountain of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, after their mishpachot,
after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
1
32 These are the mishpachot of the sons of Noach, after
their generations, in their nations. By these mishpachot
were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks,
and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower,
whose top may reach to the shamayim; and let us make a
name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth.
5 And vuvh came down to see the city and the tower that
the children of men built.
6 And vuvh said, See, the people are echad, and they all
have one language; and this they begin to do: and now
nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do.
7 Come, let Us
2
go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one another's
speech.
8 So vuvh scattered them abroad from there upon the face
of all the earth: and they ceased to build the city.
9 Therefore its name is called Bavel; because vuvh did
there confuse the language of all the earth: and from there
did vuvh scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a
hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after
the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred
three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Ever:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Ever four hundred three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Ever lived thirty-four years, and begat Peleg:
17 And Ever lived after he begat Peleg four hundred
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and
nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor:
1 Shem’s seed already spread out in many nations.
2 Plurality of YHWH.
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nachor two hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nachor lived twenty nine years, and begat
Terach:
25 And Nachor lived after he begat Terach one hundred
nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Avram,
Nachor, and Charan.
27 Now these are the generations of Terach: Terach begat
Avram, Nachor, and Charan; and Charan
begat Lot.
28 And Charan died before his abba Terach in the land of
his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Avram and Nachor took wives: the name of
Avram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nachor's wife,
Milcah, the daughter of Charan, the abba of Milcah, and
the abba of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terach took Avram his son, and Lot the son of
Charan his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his
son Avram's wife; and they went out with them from Ur
of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Kanaan; and they
came to Charan, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terach were two hundred five years:
and Terach died in Charan.
Torah Parsha 3
Lech Lecha 12:1-17:27
Haftarah Yeshayahu 40:27-41:16
Brit Chadasha Romiyah 3:19-5:6
Now vuvh had said to Avram, Get out of your
country, and from your mishpacha, and from your abba's
bayit, to a land that I will show you:
2 And I will make of you a great nation,
3
and I will bless
you, and make your name great; and you shall be a
bracha:
3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that
curses you: and in you shall all mishpachot of the earth
be blessed - mixed.
4
4 So Avram departed, as vuvh had spoken to him; and Lot
went with him: and Avram was seventy-five years old
when he departed out of Charan.
5 And Avram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's
son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the
beings that they had gotten in Charan; and they went out
to go into the land of Kanaan; and into the land of Kanaan
they came.
6 And Avram passed through the land to the place of
Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Kanaanites were
then in the land.
7 And vuvh appeared to Avram, and said, To your zera
will I give this land: and there he built an altar to vuvh,
who appeared to him.
8 And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of
Beth-El, and pitched his tent, having Beth-El on the west,
3 Yisrael. The blessed nation.
4 Hebrew for blessed here is nivrechu and not only
means “blessed” but also “mixed.” All nations will
have Abraham’s seed mixed into their populations.
11
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and Ai on the east: and there he rebuilt an altar to vuvh,
and called upon the Name of vuvh.
1
9 And Avram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land: and Avram went
down into Mitzrayim to sojourn there; for the famine was
severe in the land.
11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter
into Mitzrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife, See now, I
know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon:
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Mitzrim shall
see you, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will
kill me, but they will save you alive.
13 Please say you are my sister: that it may be well with
me for your sake; and my being shall live because of you.
14 And it came to pass, that, when Avram came into
Mitzrayim, the Mitzrim beheld the woman that she was
very beautiful.
15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her, and commended
her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into
Pharaoh's bayit.
2
16 And he treated Avram well for her sake: and he had
sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and male avadim,
and female avadim, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 And vuvh plagued Pharaoh and his bayit with great
plagues because of Sarai Avram's wife.
18 And Pharaoh called Avram, and said, What is this that
you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she
was your wife?
19 Why did you say, She is my sister? So I might have
mistakenly taken her to me as my wife: now therefore see
your wife, take her, and go your way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him:
and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
And Avram went up out of Mitzrayim, he, and his
wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
2 And Avram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold.
3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to
Beth-El, to the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Beth-El and Ai;
4 To the place of the altar, which he had made there at the
first: and there Avram called on the Name of vuvh.
5 And Lot also, who went with Avram, had flocks, and
herds, and tents.
6 And the land was not able to bear them so that they
might dwell together: for their substance was great, so
that they could not dwell together.
7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Avram's
cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Kanaanites
and the Perizzites dwelt then in the land.
8 And Avram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, please,
between you, and me and between my herdsmen and your
herdsmen, for we are brothers.
9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself,
please, from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will
go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I
will go to the left.
1 Abraham knew the true Name.
2 As Yisrael would one day be.
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Yarden, that it was well watered everywhere, before vuvh
destroyed Sedom and Amorah, even as the Gan Ayden of
vuvh, like the land of Mitzrayim, as you come to Tzoar.
11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Yarden;
and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves
from one another.
12 Avram dwelt in the land of Kanaan, and Lot dwelt in
the cities of the plain, and camped his tent toward Sedom.
13 But the men of Sedom were wicked and sinners before
vuvh exceedingly.
14 And vuvh said to Avram, after Lot was separated from
him, Lift up now yours eyes, and look from the place
where you are northward, and southward, and eastward,
and westward:
15 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it,
and to your zera le-olam-va-ed.
3
16 And I will make your zera as the dust of the earth: so
that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your
zera also can be numbered.
4
17 Arise, walk through the land in the length and in the
width, for I will give it to you.
18 Then Avram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in
the plain of Mamre, which is in Hevron, and built there an
altar to vuvh.
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel melech
of Shinar, Arioch melech of Ellasar, Chedarlaomer
melech of Eylam, and Tidal melech of nations,
2 That these made war with Bera melech of Sedom, and
with Birsha melech of Amorah, Shinav melech of Admah,
and Shemever melech of Zevoiim, and the melech of
Bela, which is Tzoar.
3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim,
which is the Salt Sea.
4 Twelve years they served Chedarlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedarlaomer, and the
melechim that were with him, and smote the Rephalim in
Ashteroth Karnayim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the
Emims in Shaveh Kiryat-Aim,
6 And the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El-Paran, which
is by the wilderness.
7 And they returned, and came to En-Mishpat, which is
Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and
also the Amorites that dwelt in Hatzazon-Tamar.
8 And there went out the melech of Sedom, and the
melech of Amorah, and the melech of Admah, and the
melech of Zevoiim, and the melech of Bela (the same is
Tzoar), and they joined battle with them in the
vale of Siddim;
9 With Chedarlaomer the melech of Eylam, and with
Tidal melech of nations, and Amraphel melech of Shinar,
and Arioch melech of Ellasar; four melechim against five.
10 And the vale of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the
melechim of Sedom and Amorah fled, and fell there; and
they that remained fled to the mountain.
11 And they took all the items of Sedom and Amorah,
3 Yisrael’s eternal home.
4 A literal promise to a literal seed.
13
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and all their food, and went their way.
12 And they took Lot, Avram's brother's son, who dwelt
in Sedom, and his items, and departed.
13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Avram
the Ivri;
1
for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eschol, and brother of Aner: and these were in
a brit with Avram.
14 And when Avram heard that his brother was taken
captive, he armed his trained avadim, born in his own
bayit, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them to
Dan.
15 And he divided himself against them, he and his
avadim, by night, and smote them, and pursued them to
Hovah, which is on the left hand of Dameshek.
16 And he brought back all the items, and also brought
again his brother Lot, and his items, and the women also,
and the people.
17 And the melech of Sedom went out to meet him after
his return from the slaughter of Chedarlaomer, and of the
melechim that were with him, at the Valley of Shaveh,
which is the melech's valley.
18 And Malki-Tzedek melech of Salem brought out
lechem and wine: and he was the kohen of El-Elyon.
2
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Avram to
3
El-Elyon, Possessor of the shamayim and earth:
20 And blessed be El-Elyon, who has delivered your
enemies into your hand. And he paid him the ma’aser of
all.
4
21 And the melech of Sedom said to Avram, Give me the
persons, and take the items to yourself.
22 And Avram said to the melech of Sedom, I have lifted
up my hand to vuvh, El-Elyon, the Possessor of the
shamayim and earth,
23 That I will not take from you a thread, or even a shoe
latchet, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest
you should say, I have made Avram rich:
24 Except what the young men have eaten, and the
portion of the men who went with me. Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre. Let them take their portion.
After these things the word of vuvh came to Avram
in a vision, saying, Fear not, Avram: I am your shield,
and your exceeding great reward.
2 And Avram said, Master vuvh, what will You give me,
seeing I go childless, and the steward of my bayit is this
Eliezer of Dameshek?
3 And Avram said, See, to me You have given no zera:
and, see, one born in my bayit is my heir.
4 And, see, the Word of vuvh came to him, saying, This
shall not be your heir; but he that shall come out of your
1 Abraham was not a Jew.
2 This was Shem the first Malki-Tzedek in an order that
YHWH established and in which Yahshua would later
come to serve, as its eternal High Priest. See note on
Hebrews 7:3.
3 Aramaic Peshitta. Indicating Abraham being ordained
by Shem as a Malki-Tzedek, as opposed to YHWH
merely being Abraham’s Elohim.
4 Tithing predates the Mt. Sinai marriage to Yisrael.
own bowels shall be your heir.
5
5 And He brought him out abroad, and said, Look now
toward the shamayim, and count the cochavim, if you are
able to number them: and He said to him, So shall your
zera be.
6
6 And he believed in the Word of vuvh;
7
and He counted
counted it to him as tzedakah.
8
7 And He said to him, I am vuvh that brought you out of
Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Master vuvh, how shall I know that I shall
inherit it?
9 And He said to him, Take a heifer three years old, and a
female goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and
a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took for Him all these, and divided them in the
midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds
he divided not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses,
Avram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
upon Avram; and, see, a horror of great darkness fell upon
him.
13 And He said to Avram, Know of a certainty that your
zera shall be gerim in a land that is not theirs, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them fourhundred years;
9
9
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great
substance.
15 And you shall go to your ahvot in shalom; you shall be
buried in a tov old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again:
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and
it was dark, see a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that
passed between those pieces.
10
18 In the same day vuvh made a brit with Avram, saying,
To your zera have I given this land, from the river of
Mitzrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates:
19 The land of the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the
Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephayim,
5 YHWH tells Abraham that his house will be built with
physical heirs, not only those who are spiritual heirs
like Eliezer. Even though Eliezer was a member of the
household of faith, YHWH was planning on seeding the
nations with those of Abraham’s faith and seed, and
thus promised the birth of Isaac. This shows clearly
that today members of the household of faith are
considered both physical and spiritual
Yisraelites/Hebrews before YHWH.
6 Not metaphorical - the literal plan to fill the earth with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’s seed.
7 Aramaic Targum Onkelos.
8 How did Abraham get saved? By trusting the promise
promise of physical multiplicity. If you are Abraham’s
seed, you must believe what Abraham believed.
9 General approximation of Yisrael’s time of slavery in
Egypt.
10 The Divine Shechinah/Presence.
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21 And the Amorites, and the Kanaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Yevusites.
Now Sarai Avram's wife bore him no children: and
she had a handmaid, a Mitzri, whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said to Avram, See now, vuvh has restrained
me from bearing: Please, go in to my maid; it may be that I
may obtain children by her; And Avram listened to the
voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Avram's wife took Hagar her maid the Mitzri,
after Avram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kanaan, and
gave her to her husband Avram to be his wife.
4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived: and when
she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised
in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said to Avram, My wrong is upon you: I have
given my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that she
had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: vuvh judge
between me and you.
6 But Avram said to Sarai, See, your maid is in your hand;
do to her as it pleases you. And when Sarai dealt harshly
with her, she fled from her face.
7 And the Malach-vuvh found her by a fountain of mayim
in the wilderness, by the fountain on the derech to Shur.
8 And He said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, where did you come
from? And where will you go? And she said, I flee from the
face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the Malach-vuvh said to her, Return to your mistress,
and submit yourself under her hands.
10 And the Malach-vuvh said to her, I will multiply your
zera exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for
multitude.
11 And the Malach-vuvh said to her, See, you are with
child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Yishma-
El; because vuvh has heard your affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against
every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his brothers.
13 And she called on the Name of vuvh that spoke to her,
You are El-Roi: for she said, Have I even here looked upon
Him that sees me?
14 Therefore the well was called Beer-Lahai-Roi; and it is
between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bore Avram a son: and Avram called his
son's name, which Hagar bore, Yishma-El.
16 And Avram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore
Yishma-El to Avram.
And when Avram was ninety-nine years old, vuvh
appeared to Avram, and said to him, I am El-Shaddai; have
your halacha before Me, and be perfect.
2 And I will make My brit between Me and you, and will
multiply you exceedingly.
3 And Avram fell on his face: and Elohim talked with him,
saying,
4 As for Me, see, My brit is with you, and you shall be the
abba of many nations.
1
1 These many nations would come to pass through
Isaac and Jacob as we are later told, not Ishmael the
father of one large nation.
5 Neither shall your name any more be called Avram, but
your name shall be Avraham;
2
for the abba of many
nations I have made you.
3
6 And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will
make nations from you, and melechim shall come from
you.
7 And I will establish My brit between My Word
4
and
you and your zera after you in their generations as an
everlasting brit, to be an Elohim to you, and to your zera
after you.
8 And I will give to you, and to your zera after you, the
land in which you are a ger, all the land of Kanaan, for
an everlasting possession; and I will be their Elohim.
9 And Elohim said to Avraham, You shall keep My brit
therefore, you, and your zera after you in their
generations.
10 This is My brit that you shall keep, between Me and
you and your zera after you; every male child among you
shall enter brit-milah.
11 And you shall perform brit-milah on the flesh of your
foreskin;
5
and it shall be a token of the brit between you
and Me.
12 And he that is eight days old shall become brit-milah
among you, every male child in your generations, he that
is born in the bayit, or bought with the money of any ger,
which is not of your zera.
13 He that is born in your bayit, and he that is bought
with your money, must enter brit-milah: and My brit shall
be in your flesh for an everlasting brit:
6
14 And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his
foreskin is not circumcised, that being shall be cut off
from his people; he has broken My brit.
7
15 And Elohim said to Avraham, As for Sarai your wife,
you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be
her name.
16 And I will bless her, and give you a son also by her:
And I will bless her, and she shall be an eema of nations;
8 melechim of peoples shall be from her.
17 Then Avraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and
said in his lev, Shall a child be born to him that is a
2 By adding the Hebrew letter “hey,” or the breath of
YHWH to give life to Abraham’s seed. Moreover, “hey”
is the second letter of the Tetragrammaton, thus by
changing the name to Avraham he carried YHWH’s
Name and breath, signifying new birth and new life as
a Hebrew.
3 See note at Genesis 17:4. The promise repeated.
4 Memra in Aramaic Targum.
5 The Hebrew word used here and elsewhere when
referring to removing the foreskin is ahrlot, which
literally means harlotry, from where we get the English
word harlot. YHWH sees the removal of the male
foreskin as a sign of a mans willingness to leave
behind all spiritual and physical harlotry.
6 Therefore the Renewed Covenant cannot possibly
teach against an eternal ordinance.
7 That has not changed for all Yisraelites.
8 Mother of nations is vehaytah legoyim; she will
become nations - a promise not given to Hagar, who
would mother just one nation.
16
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hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years
old, bear?
18 And Avraham said to Elohim, O that Yishma-El might
live before You!
19 And Elohim said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son
indeed; and you shall call his name Yitzchak: and I will
establish My brit with him for an everlasting brit, and
with his zera after him.
1
20 And as for Yishma-El, I have heard you: See, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he bring forth, and
I will make him a great nation.
2
21 But My brit will I establish with Yitzchak, whom Sarah
shall bear to you at this set time in the next year.
3
22 And He stopped talking with him, and Elohim went up
from Avraham.
23 And Avraham took Yishma-El his son, and all that
were born in his bayit, and all that were bought with his
money, every male among the men of Avraham's bayit;
and performed brit-milah in the flesh of their foreskin on
the very same day that Elohim had spoken to him.
24 And Avraham was ninety-nine years old when he
performed brit-milah in the flesh of his foreskin.
25 And Yishma-El his son was thirteen years old, when
he performed brit-milah in the flesh of his foreskin.
26 In the very same day did Avraham perform brit-milah,
and Yishma-El his son also.
27 And all the men of his bayit, born in the bayit, and
bought with money of the ger,
4
received brit-milah with
him.
Torah Parsha 4
Vayera 18:1-22:24
Haftarah Melechim Bet 4:1-37
Brit Chadasha Yaakov 2:14-24
And vuvh appeared to him in the plains of Mamre:
and Avraham sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
2 And Avraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and see,
three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to
meet them at the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground,
3 And Avraham said, vuvh; if now I have found favor in
Your sight, please do not leave Your eved:
4 Please let a little mayim be taken, and wash Your feet,
and rest yourselves under the eytz:
5 And I will get a morsel of lechem, and so comfort Your
levim; after that You shall go Your way: for this is why
You have come to Your eved. And they said, Go do, as
you have said.
6 And Avraham ran into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three measures of fine flour, knead it, and
make cakes.
7 And Avraham ran to the herd, and took a tov tender
1 The promised seed of physical multiplicity goes
through Isaac not through Ishmael.
2 Notice one nation not many nations.
3 A covenant is more detailed and extensive than the
mere blessing that Ishmael experienced.
4 All who joined his faith including strangers.
calf, and gave it to a young man; and he hurried to
prepare it.
8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf that he had
prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them
under the eytz, and they did eat.
5
9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And
he said, See; in the tent.
10 And He said, I will certainly return to you according
to the time of chayim; and, see; Sarah your wife shall
have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door that was
behind Him.
6
11 Now Avraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in
age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of
women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I
am grown old shall I have pleasure, my master being old
also?
13 And vuvh said to Avraham, Why did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a certainty bear a child, seeing I am
old?
14 Is any thing too hard for vuvh? At the time appointed I
will return to you, according to the time of chayim, and
Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, I laughed not; for she
was afraid. And He said, No; but you did laugh.
16 And the men rose up from there, and looked toward
Sedom: and Avraham went with them to bring them on
the derech.
17 And vuvh said, Shall I hide from Avraham that thing
which I must do;
18 Seeing that Avraham shall surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will command his children and
his household after him, and they shall keep the halacha
of vuvh, to do mishpat and justice; that vuvh may bring
upon Avraham that which He has spoken about him.
7
20 And vuvh said, Because the cry of Sedom and Amorah
is great, and because their sin is very severe;
21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to Me;
and if not, I will know.
22 And the men turned their faces from there, and went
toward Sedom: but Avraham still stood before vuvh.
23 And Avraham drew near, and said, Will You also
destroy the tzadikim with the wicked?
24 Suppose there are fifty tzadikim within the city: will
You also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
tzadikim that are in it?
25 That be far from You to do after this manner, to kill
the tzadikim with the wicked: and that the tzadikim
should be as the wicked, that be far from You: Shall not
The Shophet of all the earth do right?
26 And vuvh said, If I find in Sedom fifty tzadikim within
the city, then I will spare the entire place for their sakes.
5 We see meat and dairy mixing fully legal according to
to Torah, with Abraham, and YHWH Himself in his tent.
6 The promised seed.
7 A Torah keeper.
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27 And Avraham answered and said, See now, I have
taken it upon me to speak to vuvh, who am but
dust and ashes:
28 Suppose there shall lack five from the fifty tzadikim:
will You destroy the whole city for lack of five? And He
said, If I find forty-five, I will not destroy it.
29 And he spoke to Him yet again, and said, Suppose
there shall be forty found there. And He said, I will not do
it for forty's sake.
30 And he said to Him, Oh let not vuvh be angry, and I
will speak: Suppose thirty shall be found there. And He
said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
31 And he said, See now, I have taken it upon me to
speak to vuvh: Suppose there shall be twenty found there.
And He said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not vuvh be angry, and I will speak
yet this once more: Suppose ten shall be found there. And He
said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
1
2
33 And vuvh went His way, as soon as He had left
communing with Avraham: and Avraham returned to his
place.
And there came two heavenly malachim to Sedom at
evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sedom: and Lot seeing
them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with
his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, See now, my masters, turn in and stay
here, Please, into your eved's bayit, and stay all night, and
wash your feet, and You shall rise up early, and go on
your way. And they said, No; but we will stay in the street
all night.
3 And he pressured them greatly; and they turned in to
stay with him, and entered into his bayit; and he made
them a feast, and did bake matzah, and they did eat.
3
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city of Sedom,
surrounded the bayit all round, both old and young, all the
people from every quarter:
5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the
men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us,
that we may know them.
6 And Lot went out of the door to them, and shut the door
behind him,
7 And said, Please, brothers, do not do this wickedness.
8 See now, I have two daughters who have not known a
man; let me, please, bring them out to you, and do to them
as you desire: only to these men do nothing; because they
came under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back; And they said again, This
one fellow came in here to sojourn, and he desires to be a
shophet: now will we deal worse with you, than with
them. And they leaned heavily upon Lot, and came close
to breaking down the door.
10 But the men put out their hands, and pulled Lot into
1 YHWH fulfilled this promise in a sense when He
spared the 10 tribes of non-Jewish Yisrael.
2 If wicked mankind doesn’t need a mediator as some
claim, then why was the first father of Yisrael allowed
to be a mediator by YHWH? Abraham was a mediator
here, just like Yahshua would be one later.
3 Possibly at Passover.
the bayit to them, and shut the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the
bayit with blindness, both small and great: so that they
struggled to find the door.
12 And the men said to Lot, Do you have anyone else
here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters,
and whoever else you have in the city, bring them out of
this place:
13 For we will destroy this place, because their sinful cry
has grown great before the face of vuvh; and vuvh has
sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, who
married his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this
place; for vuvh will destroy this city. But he seemed as
one that mocked to his sons in law.
15 And when the morning dawned, then the heavenly
malachim hurried Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and
your two daughters, who are here; lest you be consumed
in the punishment of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his
hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of
his two daughters; vuvh being full of rachamim to him:
and they brought him out, and placed him outside the
city.
4
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them out,
that he said, Escape for your chayim; look not behind
you, and do not stay in any part of the plain; escape to the
mountain, lest you be consumed.
18 And Lot said to them, Please don't, my master:
19 See now, your eved has found favor in your sight, and
you have magnified your rachamim, which you have
shown to me in saving my chayim; and I cannot escape to
the mountain, lest some evil overtake me, and I die:
20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little
one: Oh, let me escape there - is it not a small matter - and
my nephesh shall be rescued.
21 And he said to him, See, I have accepted you
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the
city, about which you have spoken.
22 Hurry and escape there; for I cannot do anything until
you get there. Therefore the name of the city was called
Tzoar.
23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered into
Tzoar.
24 Then the Word
5
of vuvh
6
rained upon Sedom and upon
upon Amorah brimstone and fire from vuvh out of the
shamayim;
7
25 And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and
all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew up
from the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt.
27 And Avraham got up early in the morning to the place
where he stood before vuvh:
4 YHWH’s mercy did not start at Golgotha.
5 Aramaic Memra, or Word.
6 Aramaic Targum considered authoritative and used in
in the ancient synagogues.
7 The Greater and Lesser YHWH. The Sender and the
Sent.
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28 And he looked toward Sedom and Amorah, and
toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, see, the
smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when Elohim destroyed the cities
of the plain, that Elohim remembered Avraham, and sent
Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew
the cities where Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Tzoar, and dwelt in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared
to dwell in Tzoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two
daughters.
31 And the bechora said to the younger, Our abba is old,
and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after
the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our abba drink wine, and we will
lie with him, that we may preserve zera for our abba.
33 And they made their abba drink wine that night: and
the bechora went in, and lay with her abba; and he did not
perceive when she lay down, or when she arose.
34 And it came to pass the next day, that the bechora said
to the younger, See, I lay last night with my abba: let us
make him drink wine this night also; and you go in, and
lie with him, that we may preserve zera for our abba.
35 And they made their abba drink wine that night also:
and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 So both the daughters of Lot were with a child by their
abba.
37 And the bechora bore a son, and called his name
Moav: the same is the abba of the Moavites to this day.
38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his
name Ben-Ammi: the same is the abba of the children of
Ammon to this day.
And Avraham journeyed from there toward the south
country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and
sojourned in Gerar.
2 And Avraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister:
and Avimelech melech of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
3 But Elohim came to Avimelech in a dream by night,
and said to him, See, you are but a dead man, because of
the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
4 But Avimelech had not come near her: and he said,
vuvh, will You kill also a tzadik nation?
5 Didn’t he say to me, She is my sister? And she, even
said herself, He is my brother. In the integrity of my lev
and innocence of my hands have I done this.
6 And Elohim said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that
you did this in the integrity of your lev; for I also withheld
you from sinning against Me: therefore I allowed you not
to touch her.
7 Now therefore restore the man to his wife; for he is a
navi, and he shall make tefillah for you, and you shall
live: and if you restore her not, know that you shall surely
die, you, and all that belongs to you.
8 Therefore Avimelech rose early in the morning, and
called all his avadim, and told all these things to them:
and the men were very afraid.
9 Then Avimelech called Avraham, and said to him, What
have you done to us? And how have I offended you that
you have brought on me and on my malchut a great sin?
You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.
10 And Avimelech said to Avraham, What were you
thinking seeing that you have done this thing?
11 And Avraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear
of Elohim is not in this place; and they will kill me for my
wife's sake.
12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of
my abba, but not the daughter of my eema; and she
became my wife.
13 And it came to pass, when Elohim caused me to
wander from my abba's bayit, that I said to her, This is
your chesed which you shall show to me; in every place
where we shall come, say about me, He is my brother.
14 And Avimelech took sheep, and oxen, and male
avadim, and female avadim, and gave them to Avraham,
and restored him to Sarah his wife.
15 And Avimelech said, See, my land is before you:
dwell where it pleases you.
16 And to Sarah he said, See, I have given your brother a
thousand pieces of silver: see, he is to you a covering of
the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all others: by
this she was reproved.
17 So Avraham made tefillah to Elohim: and Elohim
healed Avimelech, and his wife, and his female avadim;
and they bore children.
18 For vuvh had closed up all the wombs of the bayit of
Avimelech, because of Sarah Avraham's wife.
And vuvh visited Sarah as He had said, and vuvh did
to Sarah as He had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old
age, at the set time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
3 And Avraham called the name of his son that was born
to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitzchak.
4 And Avraham performed brit-milah upon his son
Yitzchak being eight days old, as Elohim had commanded
him.
5 And Avraham was one hundred years old, when his son
Yitzchak was born to him.
6 And Sarah said, Elohim has made me to laugh, so that
all that hear will laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said to Avraham, that
Sarah would nurse children? For I have born him a son in
his old age.
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Avraham
made a great feast the same day that Yitzchak was
weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Mitzri, whom she
had birthed for Avraham, mocking.
10 So she said to Avraham, Cast out this bondwoman and
her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir
with my son, Yitzchak.
11 And the thing was very severe in Avraham's sight
because of his son.
12 And Elohim said to Avraham, Let it not be severe in
your sight because of the lad, and because of your
bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to
her voice; for in Yitzchak shall your zera be called.
13 And also of the son of the eved woman will I make a
nation,
1
because he is your zera.
1 Nation, not nations.
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14 And Avraham rose up early in the morning, and took
lechem, and a bottle of mayim, and gave it to Hagar,
putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent
her away: and she left, and wandered in the wilderness of
Beer-Sheva.
15 And the mayim was used up in the bottle, and she cast
the child under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat down opposite him a tov ways
off, about the distance of a bowshot: for she said, Let me
not see the death of the child. And she sat opposite him,
and lifted up her voice, and wept.
17 And Elohim heard the voice of the lad; and the
heavenly malach of Elohim called to Hagar out of the
shamayim, and said to her, What is the matter with you,
Hagar? Fear not, for Elohim has heard the voice of the lad
where he is.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in your hand; for I
will make him a great nation.
19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
mayim; and she went, and filled the bottle with mayim,
and gave the lad drink.
20 And Elohim was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt
in the wilderness, and became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his eema
took for him a wife out of the land of Mitzrayim.
22 And it came to pass at that time, that Avimelech and
Phichol the chief captain of his army spoke to Avraham,
saying, Elohim is with you in all that you do:
23 Now therefore swear to me here by Elohim that you
will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with
my son's son: but according to the chesed that I have done
to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you
have sojourned.
24 And Avraham said, I will swear.
25 And Avraham reproved Avimelech because of a well
of mayim, which Avimelech's avadim had violently taken
away.
26 And Avimelech said, I don’t know who has done this
thing: neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until
today.
27 And Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to
Avimelech; and both of them made a brit.
28 And Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
29 And Avimelech said to Avraham, What do these seven
ewe lambs mean that you have set by themselves?
30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall you take
of my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have
dug this well.
31 So he called that place Beer-Sheva; because there both
of them swore.
32 So they made a brit at Beer-Sheva: then Avimelech
rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his army, and
they returned into the land of the Plishtim.
33 And Avraham planted a grove in Beer-Sheva, and
called there on the Name of vuvh, El-Olam.
34 And Avraham sojourned in the Plishtims’ land many
days.
And it came to pass after these things, that Elohim
did test Avraham, and said to him, Avraham: and he said,
See, Hinayni.
2 And He said, Take now your son, your only son
Yitzchak,
1
whom you love, and get into the land of
Moriyah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon
one of the mountains
2
of which I will tell you.
3 And Avraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled
his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and
Yitzchak his son, and cut the wood for the burnt offering,
and rose up, and went to the place that Elohim had told
him.
4 Then on the third day Avraham lifted up his eyes, and
saw the place far off.
5 And Avraham said to his young men, Stay here with the
donkey; and I and the lad will go over there and worship,
and come again to you,
3
6 And Avraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and
laid it upon Yitzchak his son; and he took the fire in his
hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Yitzchak spoke to Avraham his abba, and said, My
abba: and he said, Hinayni, my son. And he said, See, the
fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?
8 And Avraham said, My son, Elohim will provide
Himself a Lamb for the burnt offering:
4
so they went
both of them together.
9 And they came to the place that Elohim had told him
about; and Avraham rebuilt an altar there, and laid the
wood in order, and bound Yitzchak his son, and laid him
on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Avraham stretched out his hand, and took the
knife to kill his son.
11 And the Malach-vuvh called to him out of the
shamayim, and said, Avraham, Avraham: and he said,
Hinayni.
12 And He said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither
do anything to him: for now I know that you fear Elohim,
seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son
from Me.
13 And Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw
behind him a ram caught in a thicket by its horns: and
Avraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a
burnt offering instead of his son.
14 And Avraham called the name of that place
vuvh-Yireh: as it is said to this day, On the mountain
5
vuvh is seen.
15 And the Malach-vuvh called to Avraham out of the
shamayim the second time,
16 And said, By Myself have I sworn, says vuvh, because
you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son,
your only son:
17 That in the bracha I will bless you, and in multiplying I
will multiply your zera as the cochavim of the shamayim,
and as the sand that is upon the seashore; and your zera
1 YHWH considers only the promised seed as
Abraham’s son.
2 Mt. of Olives.
3 Faith in Isaac’s resurrection.
4 YHWH Himself will become the Lamb.
5 Olivet.
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shall possess the gate of its enemies;
1
18 And in your zera shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; because you have obeyed My voice.
2
19 So Avraham returned to his young men, and they rose
up and went together to Beer-Sheva; and Avraham dwelt
at Beer-Sheva.
20 And it came to be after these things, that it was told
Avraham, saying, See, Milcah, she has also born children
to your brother Nachor;
21 Huz his bachor, and Buz his brother, and Kemu-El the
abba of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Yidlaph, and
Bethu-El.
23 And Bethu-El begat Rivkah: these eight Milcah did
bear to Nachor, Avraham's brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she
bore also Tevah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Torah Parsha 5
Chayai Sarah 23:1-25:18
Haftarah Melechim Alef 1:1-31
Brit Chadasha Mattityahu 8:19-22
Luka 9:57-62
And Sarah was one hundred twenty seven years old:
these were the years of the chayim of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kiryath-Arba; the same is Hevron in
the land of Kanaan: and Avraham came to mourn for
Sarah, and to weep for her.
3 And Avraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke
to the sons of Cheth, saying,
4 I am a ger and a sojourner with you: give me a
possession for a burial-place with you, that I may bury my
dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Cheth answered Avraham, saying to
him,
6 Hear us, my master: you are a mighty sar among us: in
the choicest of our sepulchers bury your dead; none of us
shall withhold from you his sepulcher, so that you may
bury your dead.
7 And Avraham stood up, and bowed himself to the
people of the land, even to the children of Cheth.
8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind
that I should bury my dead out of my sight; listen to me,
and inquire for me to Ephron the son of Tzohar,
9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
has, which is at the end of his field; for as much money as
it is worth he shall give it me for a possession for a burialplace
among you.
10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Cheth: and
Ephron the Hittite answered Avraham in the audience of
the children of Cheth, even all those that went in at the
gate of his city, saying,
11 No, my master, hear me: the field I give you, and the
1 The Yisraelite nations would be among the world’s
stronger end-time nations.
2 The repetition of this same promise seems
redundant, but YHWH knew most wouldn’t grasp its
full implication. Therefore, it needed to be repeated
and expanded.
cave that is in it, I give it to you; in the presence of the
sons of my people I give it to you: bury your dead.
12 And Avraham bowed down himself before the people
of the land.
13 And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people
of the land, saying, But if you will give it to me, Please,
hear me: I will give you money for the field; take it from
me, and I will bury my dead there.
14 And Ephron answered Avraham, saying to him,
15 My master, listen to me: the land is worth four
hundred shekels of silver; what is that between you and
me? Bury therefore your dead.
16 And Avraham listened to Ephron; and Avraham
weighed for Ephron the silver, which he had named in the
presence of the sons of Cheth, four hundred shekels of
silver, current money with the merchant.
17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah,
which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave that was
in it, and all the eytzim that were in the field, that were in
all the borders all around, were made sure,
18 Unto Avraham for a possession in the presence of the
children of Cheth, before all that went in at the gate of his
city.
19 And after this, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the
cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is
Hevron in the land of Kanaan.
20 And the field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to
Avraham for a possession of a burial-place by the sons of
Cheth.
And Avraham was old, and well stricken in age: and
vuvh had blessed Avraham in all things.
2 And Avraham said to his eldest eved of his bayit, that
ruled over all that he had, Please put your hand under my
thigh:
3 And I will make you swear by vuvh, the Elohim of the
shamayim, and the Elohim of the earth, that you shall not
take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Kanaanites,
among whom I dwell:
4 But you shall go to my country, and to my mishpacha,
and take a wife for my son Yitzchak.
3
5 And the eved said to him, Suppose the woman will not
be willing to follow me to this land: do I need to bring
your son again to the land from where you came?
6 And Avraham said to him, Beware that you bring not my
son there again.
4
7 vuvh Elohim of the shamayim, who took me from my
abba's bayit, and from the land of my mishpacha, and who
spoke to me, and that swore to me, saying, Unto your zera
will I give this land; He shall send His Malach before
you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow you,
then you shall be clear from this oath: only bring not my
son there again.
9 And the eved put his hand under the thigh of Avraham
his master, and swore to him concerning that matter.
10 And the eved took ten camels from the camels of his
master, and departed; for all the items of his master were
3 A Hebrew.
4 Separation unto YHWH.
23
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in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to
the city of Nachor.
11 And he made his camels to kneel down outside the city
by a well of mayim at the time of the evening, even the
time that women go out to draw mayim.
12 And he said, O vuvh, Elohim of my master Avraham,
Please, send me with
Your bracha this day, and show chesed to my master
Avraham.
13 See, I stand here by the well of mayim; and the
daughters of the men of the city come out to draw mayim:
14 And let it come to pass, that the young girl to whom I
shall say, Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink;
and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels drink
also: let the same be she that you have appointed for your
eved Yitzchak; and thereby shall I know that you have
shown chesed to my master.
15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that,
see, Rivkah came out, who was born to Bethu-El, son of
Milcah, the wife of Nachor, Avraham's brother, with her
pitcher upon her shoulder.
16 And the young girl was very beautiful to look at, a
virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went
down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
17 And the eved ran to meet her, and said, Please let me
drink a little mayim from your pitcher.
18 And she said, Drink, my master: and she hurried and
let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I
will draw mayim for your camels also, until they have
done drinking.
20 And she hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the
trough, and ran again to the well to draw mayim, and
drew for all his camels.
1
21 And the man wondering about her held his silence, to
see whether vuvh had made his journey prosperous, or
not.
22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,
that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight,
and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of
gold;
23 And said, whose daughter are you? Please tell me: is
there room in your abba's bayit for us to lodge?
24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethu-El the
son of Milcah that she bore to Nachor.
25 She said moreover to him, We have both straw and
fodder enough, and room to lodge.
26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped
vuvh.
27 And he said, Barchu-et-vuvh Elohim of my master
Avraham, who has not left my master destitute of His
rachamim and His emet: I was traveling in the way, and
now vuvh has led me to the bayit of my master's brothers.
28 And the young girl ran, and told those of her eema's
bayit these things.
29 And Rivkah had a brother, and his name was Lavan:
and Lavan ran out to the man, to the well.
1 Ten camels drinking in the land from a mother of
Yisrael, shows beautiful typology of Efrayim’s return in
physical abundance and in the Spirit.
30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and
bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the
words of Rivkah his sister, saying, This is what the man
spoke to me; then Lavan came to the man; as he stood by
the camels at the well.
31 And he said, Come in, you blessed of vuvh; Why do
you stand outside? For I have prepared the bayit, and
room for the camels.
32 And the man came into the bayit: and he undressed his
camels, and gave straw and fodder for the camels, and
mayim to wash his feet, and the men's feet that
were with him.
33 And there was set food before him to eat: but he said, I
will not eat, until I have told of my errand. And he said,
Speak on.
34 And he said, I am Avraham's eved.
35 And vuvh has blessed my master greatly; and he is
become great: and He has given him flocks, and herds,
and silver, and gold, and male avadim, and female
avadim, and camels, and donkeys.
36 And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master
when she was old: and to him has he given all that he has.
37 And my master made me swear, saying, You shall not
take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Kanaanites,
in whose land I dwell:
38 But you shall go to my abba's bayit, and to my
mishpacha, and take a wife for my son.
39 And I said to my master, Suppose the woman will not
follow me?
40 And he said to me, vuvh, before whom I have my
halacha, will send His Malach with you, and prosper your
derech; and you shall take a wife for my son from my
mishpacha, and from my abba's bayit:
41 Then shall you be clear from this oath, when you come
to my mishpacha; if they give you no one, you shall be
clear from my oath.
42 And I came this day to the well, and said, O vuvh,
Elohim of my master Avraham, if now You do prosper
my derech in which I go;
43 See, I stand by the well of mayim; and it shall come to
pass, that when the virgin comes out to draw mayim, and
I say to her, Please give me a little mayim from your
pitcher to drink;
44 And she says to me, Drink and I will draw for your
camels too; let therefore the same one be the woman
whom vuvh has appointed for my master's son.
45 And before I had done speaking in my lev, see, Rivkah
came out with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went
down to the well, and drew mayim: and I said to her,
Please let me drink.
46 And she hurried, and let down her pitcher from her
shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give your camels
drink also: so I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.
47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are you?
And she said, The daughter of Bethu-El, Nachor's son,
whom Milcah bore to him: and I put the earring upon her
face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped vuvh,
and blessed vuvh Elohim of my master Avraham, who
had led me in the right derech to take my master's
brother's daughter to his son.
49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my
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master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
50 Then Lavan and Bethu-El answered and said, This
thing proceeds from vuvh: we cannot speak to you bad, or
tov.
51 See, Rivkah is before you, take her, and go, and let her
be your master's son's wife, as vuvh has spoken.
52 And it came to pass, that, when Avraham's eved heard
their words, he worshipped vuvh, bowing himself to the
earth.
53 And the eved brought out jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rivkah: he gave
also to her brother and to her eema precious things.
54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were
with him, and stayed all night; and they rose up in the
morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.
55 And her brother and her eema said, Let the young girl
stay with us a few days, at least ten; after that she shall
go.
56 And he said to them, Do not hinder me, seeing vuvh
has prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my
master.
57 And they said, We will call the young girl, and ask her.
58 And they called Rivkah, and said to her, Will you go
with this man? And she said, I will go.
59 And they sent away Rivkah their sister, and her nurse,
and Avraham's eved, and his men.
60 And they blessed Rivkah, and said to her, You are our
sister, now become the eema of thousands of millions,
1
and let your zera possess the gate of those who hate them.
61 And Rivkah arose, and her young girls, and they rode
upon the camels, and followed the man: and the eved took
Rivkah, and went his way.
62 And Yitzchak came from the way of the well Lachai-
Roei, for he dwelt in the south country.
63 And Yitzchak went out to meditate in the field in the
evening: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, see, the
camels were coming.
64 And Rivkah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
Yitzchak, she was lifted from off the camel.
65 For she had said to the eved, What man is this that
walks in the field to meet us? And the eved had said, It is
my master: therefore she took a veil,
2
and covered
herself.
66 And the eved told Yitzchak all things that he had done.
67 And Yitzchak brought her into his eema Sarah's tent,
and took Rivkah, and she became his wife; and he loved
her: and Yitzchak was comforted after his eema's death.
Then again Avraham took a wife, and her name was
Keturah.
2 And she bore him Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan,
and Midyan, and Ishvak, and Shuah.
3 And Yokshan begat Sheva, and Dedan. And the sons of
Dedan were Ashurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
1 Billions – Rivkah was said to have billions of
biological offspring. These are those who would spring
forth through Jacob/Yisrael and become biological
Yisraelites.
2 Sign of authority and submission.
4 And the sons of Midyan; Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Avida, and Eldah. All these were the
children of Keturah.
5 And Avraham gave all that he had to Yitzchak.
3
6 But to the sons of the concubines, whom Avraham had,
Avraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Yitzchak
his son, eastward, to the east country.
7 And these are the days of the years of Avraham's
chayim that he lived, one hundred seventy five years.
8 Then Avraham gave up the ruach, and died in a tov old
age, an old man, and full of years; and was
gathered to his people.
4
9 And his sons Yitzchak and Yishma-El buried him in the
cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of
Tzoar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
10 The field that Avraham purchased from the sons of
Cheth: there was Avraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
11 And it came to pass after the death of Avraham, that
Elohim blessed his son Yitzchak; and Yitzchak dwelt by
the well Lachai-Roei.
12 Now these are the generations of Yishma-El,
Avraham's son, whom Hagar the Mitzri, Sarah's
handmaid, bore to Avraham:
13 And these are the names of the sons of Yishma-El, by
their names, according to their generations: the bachor of
Yishma-El, Nevayoth; and Kedar, and Adveel, and
Mivsam,
14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15 Hadar, and Tema, Yetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
16 These are the sons of Yishma-El, and these are their
names, by their towns, and by their settlements, twelve
princes according to their tribes.
5
17 And these are the years of the chayim of Yishma-El,
one hundred thirty seven years: and he gave up the ruach
and died; and was gathered to his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur that is before
3 Due to covenant.
4 When a family member died in a Hebrew family he or
she was placed on a burial bench in the tomb along
with personal items such as vases and jewelry. After
the dead body decayed, the bones were collected and
placed in a bone repository located in a separate area
of the same tomb, to allow for other family members to
later be buried in the same tomb. This Hebraic practice
is referred to as being “gathered unto his fathers.”
This term used here in Scripture for the first time, is
used many more times in the First Covenant. This key
phrase helps to strongly establish the “One Yisrael”
doctrine. The mention here of Abraham being gathered
in this matter, lends further evidence that YHWH
considered all those before Abraham to be faithful
Torah keepers like Enoch, Noah, and Shem, who all
walked in His ways. He honored them by calling them
Abraham’s fathers. In YHWH’s view the nation and
people that would become Yisrael, started long before
Abraham, and as such were the physical and spiritual
fathers to whom Abraham was gathered.
5 Tribes initially, that became Arabic nations, who will
also make up the end time revived beast empire.
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Mitzrayim, as you go towards Ashshur: and he died in the
presence of all his brothers.
Torah Parsha 6
Toldot 25:19-28:9
Haftarah Malachi 1:1-2:7
Brit Chadasha Romiyah 9:6-16
19 And these are the generations of Yitzchak, Avraham's
son: Avraham begat Yitzchak:
20 And Yitzchak was forty years old when he took
Rivkah to be his wife, the daughter of Bethu-El the
Aramean of Padan-Aram, the sister of Lavan the
Aramean.
1
21 And Yitzchak sought vuvh for his wife, because she
was barren: and vuvh was found by him, and Rivkah his
wife conceived.
22 And the children struggled together within her; and she
said, If it is so, why am I like this? And she went to
inquire of vuvh.
23 And vuvh said to her, Two nations are in your womb,
and two kinds of peoples shall be separated from your
bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the
other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
2
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, see,
there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like a hairy
garment; and they called his name Esav.
26 And after that came out his brother, and his hand took
hold on Esav's heel; and his name was called Yaakov: and
Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.
27 And the boys grew: and Esav was a skilled hunter, a
man of the field; and Yaakov was a plain man, dwelling
in tents.
28 And Yitzchak loved Esav, because he did eat of his
venison: but Rivkah loved Yaakov.
29 And Yaakov cooked pottage: and Esav came from the
field, and he was faint:
30 And Esav said to Yaakov, Please feed me with that
same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name
called Edom.
31 And Yaakov said, Sell me this day your bechora.
32 And Esav said, See, I am at the point of death: so what
profit shall this bechora be to me?
33 And Yaakov said, Swear to me this day; and he swore
to him: and he sold his bechora to Yaakov.
34 Then Yaakov gave Esav lechem and a pottage of
lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his
way: so Esav despised his bechora.
3
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first
famine that was in the days of Avraham. And Yitzchak
went to Avimelech melech of the Plishtim to Gerar.
1 Notice Rivkah was not Jewish, but an Aramean who
crossed over to be a Hebrew.
2 Yisraelite people and Edomite people.
3 In the natural, the twins vied for being the chosen
seed of promise. But in the spirit all things were
already decided. Yisrael was to be the chosen seed,
YHWH’s Son, His firstborn.
2 And vuvh appeared to him, and said, Go not down into
Mitzrayim; dwell in the land that I shall tell you about:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will
bless you; for to you, and to your zera, I will give all these
countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to
Avraham your abba;
4
4 And I will make your zera to multiply as the cochavim
of the shamayim, and will give to your zera all these
countries; and in your zera shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed;
5
5 Because Avraham obeyed My voice, and kept My
charge, My mitzvoth, My chukim, and My Torot.
6
6 And Yitzchak dwelt in Gerar:
7 And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and
he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my
wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for
Rivkah; because she was beautiful to look at.
8 And it came to pass; when he had been there a long time
that Avimelech melech of the Plishtim looked out at a
window, and saw Yitzchak playing with Rivkah his wife.
9 And Avimelech called Yitzchak, and said, See, of a
certainty she is your wife. So why did you say, She is my
sister? And Yitzchak said to him, Because, I said
otherwise I will die because of her.
10 And Avimelech said, What is this you have done to
us? One of our people might have unknowingly lain with
your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.
11 And Avimelech charged all his people, saying, He that
touches this man, or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Yitzchak sowed in that land, and received in that
same year a hundredfold return: and vuvh blessed him.
13 And the man grew great, and went forward, and grew
until he became very great:
7
14 For he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of
herds, and a great supply of avadim: and the Plishtim
envied him.
15 For all the wells that his abba's avadim had dug in the
days of Avraham his abba, the Plishtim had stopped them,
and filled them with earth.
16 And Avimelech said to Yitzchak, Go from us; for you
are much mightier than us.
17 And Yitzchak departed from there, and camped his
tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Yitzchak dug again the wells of mayim, which
they had dug in the days of Avraham his abba; for the
Plishtim had stopped them after the death of Avraham:
and he called their names by the names that his abba had
called them.
19 And Yitzchak's avadim dug in the valley, and found
there a well of running mayim.
20 And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Yitzchak's
herdsmen, saying, The mayim is ours: and he called the
4 Greater Yisrael is a massive land including many
countries of Yisraelite seed, not merely one country,
as many believe.
5 The promise of physical multiplicity renewed in Isaac.
Isaac.
6 Chosen because of his obedience to Torah, as
revealed to him in stages.
7 As promised.
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name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21 And they dug another well, and strove over that one
also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22 And he moved from there, and dug another well; and
for that one they strove not: and he called the name of it
Rehovoth; and he said, For now vuvh has made room for
us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from there to Beer-Sheva.
24 And vuvh appeared to him the same night, and said, I
am the Elohim of Avraham your abba: fear not, for I am
with you, and will bless you, and multiply your zera for
My eved Avraham's sake.
25 And he built an altar there, and called upon the Name
of vuvh
1
and pitched his tent there, and Yitzchak's
avadim dug a well.
26 Then Avimelech went to him from Gerar, and
Ahuzzath one of his chaverim, and Phichol the chief
captain of his army.
27 And Yitzchak said to them, Why do you come to me,
seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that vuvh was with
you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us,
even between us and you, and let us make a brit with you;
29 That you will do us no harm, as we have not touched
you, and as we have done to you nothing but tov, and
have sent you away in shalom: you are now the blessed of
vuvh.
30 And he made for them a feast, and they did eat and
drink.
31 And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one
to another: and Yitzchak sent them away, and they
departed from him in shalom.
32 And it came to pass the same day that Yitzchak's
avadim came, and told him concerning the well that they
had dug, and said to him, We have found mayim.
33 And he called it Shevah: therefore the name of the city
is Beer-Sheva to this day.
34 And Esav was forty years old when he took his wife
Yahudite the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath
the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which caused grief of mind to Yitzchak and to
Rivkah.
And it came to pass, that when Yitzchak was old, and
his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esav
his eldest son, and said to him, My son: and he said to
him, See, hinayni.
2 And he said, See now, I am old; I know not the day of
my death:
3 Now please take your weapons, your quiver and your
bow, and go out to the field, and find me some
venison;
2
4 And make me tasty meat, such as I love, and bring it to
me, that I may eat it; that my being may bless you before
I die.
5 And Rivkah heard when Yitzchak spoke to Esav his
son. And Esav went to the field to hunt for venison, and
to bring it.
1 Isaac knew YHWH’s Name.
2 Deer meat eaten as food.
6 And Rivkah spoke to Yaakov her son, saying, See, I
heard your abba speak to Esav your brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me tasty meat, that I may
eat, and bless you before vuvh before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that
which I command you.
9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two tov kids
of the goats; and I will make from them tasty meat for
your abba, such as he loves:
10 And you shall bring it to your abba, that he may eat,
and that he may bless you before his death.
11 And Yaakov said to Rivkah his eema, See, Esav my
brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
12 My abba will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a
deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
bracha.
13 And his eema said to him, Upon me be your curse, my
son: only obey my voice, and go get them for me.
14 And he went, and took, and brought them to his eema:
and his eema made tasty meat, such as his abba loved.
15 And Rivkah took nice clothing from her eldest son
Esav, which were with her in the bayit, and put them upon
Yaakov her younger son:
16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth parts of his neck:
17 And she gave the tasty meat and the lechem, which she
had prepared, into the hand of her son Yaakov.
18 And he came to his abba, and said, My abba: and he
said, Hinayni; who are you, my son?
19 And Yaakov said to his abba, I am Esav your bachor; I
have done accordingly as you told me: Please arise sit up
and eat of my venison, that your being may bless me.
20 And Yitzchak said to his son, How is it that you have
found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because vuvh
your Elohim brought it to me.
21 And Yitzchak said to Yaakov, Please come near so
that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my
son Esav, or not.
22 And Yaakov went near to Yitzchak his abba; and he
felt him, and said, The voice is Yaakov's voice, but the
hands are the hands of Esav.
23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were
hairy, as his brother Esav's hands: so he blessed him.
24 And he said, Are you really my son Esav? And he
said, I am.
25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my
son's venison, that my being may bless you. And he
brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him
wine, and he drank.
26 And his abba Yitzchak said to him, Come near now,
and kiss me, my son.
27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the
smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, See, the
smell of my son is as the smell of a field that vuvh has
blessed:
28 Therefore Elohim give you from the dew of the
shamayim, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn
and wine:
29 Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you:
be master over your brothers, and let your eema's sons
bow down to you: cursed be every one that curses you,
and blessed be he that blesses you.
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30 And it came to pass, as soon as Yitzchak had made an
end of making the bracha upon Yaakov, that Yaakov had
just gone out from the presence of Yitzchak his abba, and
see, Esav his brother came in from his hunting.
31 And he also had made tasty meat, and brought it to his
abba, and said to his abba, Let my abba arise, and eat of
his son's venison, that your being may bless me.
32 And Yitzchak his abba said to him, Who are you? And
he said, I am your son, your bachor Esav.
33 And Yitzchak trembled very exceedingly, and said,
Who? Where is he that has taken venison, and brought it
me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have
blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.
34 And when Esav heard the words of his abba, he cried
with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his
abba, Bless me also, O my abba.
35 And he said, Your brother came with subtlety, and has
taken away your bracha.
36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Yaakov? For he
has supplanted me these two times: he took away my
bechora; and, see, now he has taken my bracha!
1
And
Esav said, Have you not reserved a bracha for me?
37 And Yitzchak answered and said to Esav, See, I have
made him your master, and all his brothers have I given to
him for avadim; and with corn and wine have I sustained
him: and what shall I do now for you, my son?
38 And Esav said to his abba, Have you not just one
bracha, my abba? Bless me, even me also, O my abba.
And Esav lifted up his voice, and wept.
39 And Yitzchak his abba answered and said to him, See,
your dwelling shall be away from the richness of the
earth, and away from the dew of the shamayim from
above;
2
40 And by your sword shall you live, and shall serve your
brother; and it shall come to pass when you shall have the
dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your
neck.
3
41 And Esav hated Yaakov because of the bracha with
which his abba blessed him: and Esav said in his lev, The
days of mourning for my abba are at hand; then will I kill
my brother Yaakov.
42 And these words of Esav her elder son were told to
Rivkah: and she sent and called Yaakov her younger son,
and said to him, See, your brother Esav, concerning you,
does comfort himself by purposing to kill you.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee
to Lavan my brother to Charan;
44 And stay with him a few days, until your brother's
anger turns away;
1 They go together as part of the birthright, as both
were foreordained for Jacob. Both my birthright
“bachorati” and my blessing “berchati” sound the
same in Hebrew.
2 A key correction found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)
taking this statement as a withholding from Esau,
rather than as a blessing. In context, since Jacob
already had taken the blessing, only the lack of
blessing remained for Esau.
3 From about 600 CE with the rise of Islam to 1967 and
Yisrael’s recapture of Jerusalem.
45 Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he
forgets what you have done to him: then I will send, and
get you from there: why should I be deprived of both of
you in one day?
46 And Rivkah said to Yitzchak, I am weary of my
chayim because of the daughters of Cheth: if Yaakov
takes a wife from the daughters of Cheth, such as these
who are of the daughters of the land, what tov shall my
chayim be to me?
And Yitzchak called Yaakov, and blessed him, and
charged him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife of
the daughters of Kanaan.
2 Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the bayit of Bethu-El your
eema's abba; and take a wife from there from the
daughters of Lavan your eema's brother.
3 And El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you and you shall become a congregation
of nations;
4
4 And El-Shaddai give you the bracha of Avraham, to
you, and to your zera with you; that you may inherit the
land in which you are a ger, which Elohim gave to
Avraham.
5 And Yitzchak sent Yaakov away: and he went to Padan-
Aram to Lavan, son of Bethu-El the Aramean, the brother
of Rivkah, Yaakov's and Esav's eema.
6 When Esav saw that Yitzchak had blessed Yaakov, and
sent him away to Padan-Aram, to take him a wife from
there; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of
Kanaan;
7 And that Yaakov obeyed his abba and his eema, and
had gone to Padan-Aram.
8 And Esav seeing that the daughters of Kanaan did not
please Yitzchak his abba;
9 Then went Esav to Yishma-El, and took besides the
wives that he already had Mahalath the daughter of
Yishma-El Avraham's son, the sister of Nevayoth, to be
his wife.
Torah Parsha 7
Vayetze 28:10-32:3
Haftarah Hoshea 12:13-14:10
Brit Chadasha Yochanan 1:43-51
10 And Yaakov went out from Beer-Sheva, and went
toward Charan.
11 And he came upon a certain place, and stayed there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones
of that place, and used them for his pillows, and lay down
in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and see a ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached to the shamayim: and see the
heavenly malachim of Elohim ascending and descending
on it.
4 Kahal Goyim - an obvious reference to Messiah’s
congregation, which is the physical and spiritual
offspring of the redeemed remnant, from all the
Yisraelite nations. Notice not a congregation of Jews
only.
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13 And, see, vuvh stood above it, and said, I am vuvh
Elohim of Avraham your abba, and the Elohim of
Yitzchak: the land where you lie, to you will I give it, and
to your zera;
14 And your zera shall be as the dust of the earth, and you
shall break out
1
abroad to the west, and to the east, and
to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your zera
shall all the mishpachot of the earth be blessed.
15 And, see, I am with you, and will keep you in all the
places where you are going, and will bring you again into
this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done that
which I have spoken to you.
16 And Yaakov awoke out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely vuvh is in this place; and I knew it not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How awesome is this
place! This is no other place but Beit Elohim, and this is
sha-ar ha shamayim.
18 And Yaakov rose up early in the morning, and took the
stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Beth-El: but the
name of that city was called Luz first.
20 And Yaakov vowed a vow, saying, If the Word of
Elohim will be with me, and will keep me in this derech
that I go, and will give me lechem to eat, and clothing to
put on,
21 So that I come again to my abba's bayit in shalom;
then shall the Word of vuvh be my Elohim:
22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be
Elohim's Bayit: and of all that You shall give me I will
surely give the ma’aser to You.
Then Yaakov went on his journey, and came into the
land of the people of the east.
2 And he looked, and saw a well in the field, and, see,
there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that
well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon
the well's mouth.
3 And there were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled
the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep,
and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.
4 And Yaakov said to them, My brothers, where are you
from? And they said, From Charan are we.
5 And he said to them, Do you know Lavan the son of
Nachor? And they said, We know him,
6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is
well, and see, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep.
7 And he said, See, it is still bright, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together: give mayim to the
sheep, and go and feed them.
8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks are
gathered together, and until they roll the stone from the
well's mouth; then we may give mayim to the sheep.
9 And while he yet spoke with them, Rachel came with
her abba's sheep: for she kept them.
10 And it came to pass, when Yaakov saw Rachel the
daughter of Lavan his eema's brother, and the sheep of
Lavan his eema's brother, that Yaakov went near, and
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the
1 Uparatztah – Break forth.
flock of Lavan his eema's brother.
11 And Yaakov kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice,
and wept.
12 And Yaakov told Rachel that he was her abba's
relative, and that he was Rivkah's son: and she ran and
told her abba.
13 And it came to pass, when Lavan heard the tidings of
Yaakov his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his
bayit. And he told Lavan all these things.
14 And Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and
my flesh. And he abode with him about a month.
15 And Lavan said to Yaakov, Because you are my
relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell
me, what shall your wages be?
16 And Lavan had two daughters: the name of the elder
was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and
well favored.
18 And Yaakov loved Rachel; and said, I will serve you
seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
19 And Lavan said, It is better that I give her to you, than
that I should give her to another man: stay with me.
20 And Yaakov served seven years for Rachel; and they
seemed to him but a few days, for the ahava he had for
her.
21 And Yaakov said to Lavan, Give me my wife, for my
days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.
22 And Lavan gathered together all the men of the place,
and made a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah
his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in to
her.
24 And Lavan gave to his daughter Leah, Zilpah his maid
for a handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, see, it was
Leah: and he said to Lavan, What is this you have done to
me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have
you deceived me?
26 And Lavan said, It must not be so done in our country,
to give the younger before the bachor.
27 Fulfill her seven years, and we will give you Rachel
also for the service that you shall serve with me yet seven
more years.
28 And Yaakov did so, and fulfilled her seven years: and
he gave him Rachel his daughter for a wife also.
29 And Lavan gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his
handmaid to be her maid.
30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also
Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven
more years.
31 And when vuvh saw that Leah was hated, He opened
her womb:
2
but Rachel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called
his name Reuven: for she said, Surely vuvh has looked
upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love
me.
33 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said,
Because vuvh has heard that I was hated, he has therefore
2 Unmerited favor.
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given me this son also: and she called his name Shimeon.
34 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said,
Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I
have born him three sons: therefore was his
name called Lewi.
35 And she conceived again, and bore a son: and she said,
Now will I hallel vuvh: therefore she called his name
Yahudah; and ceased bearing.
And when Rachel saw that she bore Yaakov no
children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Yaakov,
Give me children, or else I will die.
2 And Yaakov's anger was lit against Rachel: and he said,
Am I in Elohim's place; who has withheld from you the
fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, See my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she
shall bear upon my knees that I may also have children by
her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to be his wife:
and Yaakov went in to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Yaakov a son.
6 And Rachel said, Elohim has judged me, and has also
heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore she
called his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bore
Yaakov a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great strife have I wrestled with
my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took
Zilpah her maid, and gave her to Yaakov to be his wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Yaakov a son.
11 And Leah said, A troop comes: and she called his
name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Yaakov a second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call
me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14 And Reuven went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his
eema Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Please give me
some of your son's love-apples.
1
15 And Leah said to her, Is it a small matter that you have
taken my husband? And would you take away my son's
love-apples also? And Rachel said, Therefore let him lie
with you tonight for your son's love-apples.
16 And Yaakov came out of the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in
to me; for surely I have hired you with my son's loveapples.
And he lay with her that night.
17 And Elohim listened to Leah, and she conceived, and
bore Yaakov the fifth son.
18 And Leah said, Elohim has given me my hire, because
I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called
his name Yissacher.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bore Yaakov the sixth
son.
20 And Leah said, Elohim has endued me with a tov
dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I
1 A plant and fruit used as a love, or fertility stimulant,
sought by Rachel to overcome her barren womb.
have born him six sons: and she called his name Zevulon.
21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her
name Dinah.
22 And Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim listened
to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, Elohim
has taken away my reproach:
24 And she called his name Yoseph; and said, vuvh shall
add to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Yoseph,
that Yaakov said to Lavan, Send me away, that I may go
to my own place, and to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have
served you, and let me go: for you know my service that I
have done for you.
27 And Lavan said to him, Please, if I have found favor in
yours eyes, stay: for I have learned by experience that
vuvh has blessed me for your sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give
it.
29 And he said to him, You know how I have served you,
and how your cattle were with me.
30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it is
now increased to a multitude; and vuvh has blessed you
since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my
own bayit also?
31 And he said, What shall I give you? And Yaakov said,
You shall not give me anything: if you will do this thing
for me, I will again feed and keep your flock:
32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from
there all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown
cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled
among the goats: and those shall be my hire.
33 So shall my tzedakah answer for me in time to come,
when it shall come for my hire before your face: every
one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and
brown among the sheep, that shall be counted as stolen
with me.
34 And Lavan said, See, I would it might be according to
your word.
35 And he removed that day the male goats that were ring
streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were
speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white
in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them
into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey between himself and
Yaakov: and Yaakov fed the rest of Lavan's flocks.
37 And Yaakov took rods of green poplar, and of the
hazel and chesnut eytz; and rounded white streaks in
them, and made the white appear that was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods that he had rounded before the
flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the
flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they
came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought
out cattle ring streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Yaakov did separate the lambs, and set the faces
of the flocks toward the ring streaked, and all the brown
in the flock of Lavan; and he put his own flocks by
themselves, and did not put them in Lavan's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Yaakov laid the rods before the eyes of the
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cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so
the feebler were Lavan's, and the stronger Yaakov's.
43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much
cattle, and female avadim, and male avadim, and camels,
and donkeys.
And he heard the words of Lavan's sons, saying,
Yaakov has taken away all that was our abba's; and of
that which was our abba's has he gotten all this tifereth.
2 And Yaakov beheld the face of Lavan, and, see, it was
not towards him as before.
3 And vuvh said to Yaakov, Return to the land of your
ahvot, and to your mishpacha; and I will be with you.
4 And Yaakov sent and called Rachel and Leah to the
field to his flock,
5 And said to them, I see your abba's face that it is not
toward me as before; but the Elohim of my abba has been
with me.
6 And you know that with all my power I have served
your abba.
7 And your abba has deceived me, and changed my wages
ten times; but Elohim did not allow him to hurt me.
8 When he said, The speckled cattle shall be your wages;
then all the cattle bore speckled: and when he said so, The
ring streaked shall be your hire; then all the cattle bore
ring streaked.
9 So Elohim has taken away the cattle of your abba, and
given them to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle
conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream,
and, see, the rams that leaped upon the cattle were ring
streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
11 And the Malach-Elohim spoke to me in a dream,
saying, Yaakov: And I said, Hinayni.
12 And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the
rams which leap upon the cattle are ring streaked,
speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Lavan does
to you.
13 I am the El of Beth-El, where you anointed the pillar,
and where you vowed a vow to Me: now arise, get out
from this land, and return to the land of your mishpacha.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is
there yet any portion, or inheritance for us in our abba's
bayit?
15 Are we not counted as gerim by him? For he has sold
us, and has fully devoured our money also.
16 For all the riches that Elohim has taken from our abba,
that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever
Elohim has said to you, do.
17 Then Yaakov rose up, and set his sons and his wives
upon camels.
18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his items
that he had gotten, the cattle of his labor, which he had
gotten in Padan-Aram, to go to Yitzchak his abba in the
land of Kanaan.
19 And Lavan went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had
stolen the images that were her abba's.
20 And Yaakov went away without telling Lavan the
Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and
passed over the river, and set his face toward Mount
Gilad.
22 And it was told to Lavan on the third day that Yaakov
had fled.
23 And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after
him a seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the
Mount Gilad.
24 And Elohim came to Lavan the Aramean in a dream
by night, and said to him, Take heed that you speak not to
Yaakov either tov, or bad.
25 Then Lavan overtook Yaakov. Now Yaakov had
camped his tent in the mount: and Lavan with his brothers
camped in the Mount of Gilad.
26 And Lavan said to Yaakov, What have you done, that
you have gone away without telling me, and carried away
my daughters, as captives taken with a sword?
27 Why did you flee away secretly, and deceive me; and
did not tell me, so that I could have sent you away with
simcha, and with shirim, with tabret, and with harp?
28 And you have not allowed me to kiss my sons and my
daughters? You have now done foolishly in so doing.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do you harm: but the
El of your abba’s bayit spoke to me last night, saying,
Take heed that you speak not to Yaakov either tov, or
bad.
30 And now, you have gone, because you greatly long for
your abba's bayit, but why have you stolen my elohim?
31 And Yaakov answered and said to Lavan, Because I
was afraid: for I said, Suppose you would take by force
your daughters from me.
32 With whoever you find your elohim, let him not live:
before our brothers discern what is and isn’t mine, and
take it with you. For Yaakov knew not that Rachel had
stolen them.
33 And Lavan went into Yaakov's tent, and into Leah's
tent, and into the two female avadim's tents; but he found
them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered
into Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the
camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Lavan searched
the entire tent, but found them not.
35 And she said to her abba, Let it not displease my
master that I cannot rise up before you; for the custom of
women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the
images.
36 And Yaakov was angry, and contended with Lavan:
and Yaakov answered and said to Lavan, What is my
trespass? What is my sin; that you have so hotly pursued
after me?
37 Why you have searched all my items, what have you
found from all your household items? Set it here before
my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge
between us both.
38 These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes
and your female goats have not cast their young, and the
rams of your flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not to you; I
bore the loss of it; of my hand did you require it, whether
stolen by day, or stolen by night.
40 So I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the
frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
41 Therefore have I been twenty years in your bayit; I
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served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six
years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten
times.
42 Except the Elohim of my abba, the Elohim of
Avraham, and the Fear of Yitzchak, had been with me,
surely you would have sent me away now empty. Elohim
has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and
rebuked you last night.
43 And Lavan answered and said to Yaakov, These
daughters are my daughters, and these children are my
children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you
see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my
daughters, or to their children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come, let us make a brit, you and I; and
let it be for a witness between you and me.
45 And Yaakov took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 And Yaakov said to his brothers, Gather stones; and
they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there
upon the heap.
47 And Lavan called it Yegar-Sahadutha: but Yaakov
called it Gal-Ed.
48 And Lavan said, This heap is a witness between you and
me this day. Therefore was the name of it called Gal-Ed.
49 And Mitzpah; for he said, vuvh watch between you
and me, when we are absent one from another.
50 If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take
other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see,
Elohim is witness between you and me.
51 And Lavan said to Yaakov, See this heap, and see this
pillar, which I have set between you; and me
52 This heap be a witness, and this pillar be a witness,
that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you
shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for
harm.
53 The Elohim of Avraham, and the Elohim of Nachor,
the Elohim of their abba, judge between us. And Yaakov
swore by the Fear of his abba Yitzchak.
54 Then Yaakov offered sacrifice upon the mount, and
called his brothers to eat lechem: and they did eat lechem,
and stayed all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Lavan rose up, and kissed
his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Lavan
departed, and returned to his place.
And Yaakov went on his way, and the heavenly
malachim of Elohim met him.
2 And when Yaakov saw them, he said, This is Elohim's
army: and he called the name of that place Machanayim.
Torah Parsha 8
Vayishlach 32:3-36:43
Haftarah Hoshea 11:7-12:12
Brit Chadasha Qorintiyah Alef 5:1-13
3 And Yaakov sent messengers before him to Esav his
brother to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, So shall you speak to
my master Esav; Your eved Yaakov says this, I have
sojourned with Lavan, and stayed there until now:
5 And I have oxen, and donkeys, flocks, and male
avadim, and female avadim: and I have sent to tell my
master, that I may find favor in your sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Yaakov, saying, We
came to your brother Esav, and also he comes to meet
you, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Yaakov was greatly afraid and distressed: and he
divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and
herds, and the camels, into two camps - groups;
1
8 And said, If Esav comes to the one camp, and smites it,
then the other camp that is left shall escape.
9 And Yaakov said, O Elohim of my abba Avraham, and
Elohim of my abba Yitzchak, vuvh who said to me,
Return to your country, and to your mishpacha, and I will
deal well with you:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the chesed, and of all
the emet, which You have shown to Your eved; for with
just my staff I passed over this Yarden; and now I have
become two camps of peoples.
11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from
the hand of Esav: for I fear him, lest he will come and
smite me, and the eema with the children.
2
12 And You did say, I will surely do you tov, and make
your zera as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that
which came to his hand a present for Esav his brother;
14 Two hundred female goats, and twenty male goats,
two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
15 Thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten
bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand of his avadim,
every drove by themselves; and said to his avadim, Go
ahead of me, and put a space between drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esav
my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Whose are
you? And where are you going? And whose are these
before you?
18 Then you shall say, They are your eved Yaakov's; it is
a present sent to my master Esav: and, see, also Yaakov is
behind us.
19 And so in like manner he commanded the second, and
the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this
manner shall you speak to Esav, when you find him.
20 And say also, See, your eved Yaakov is behind us. For
he said, I will appease him with the present that goes
before me, and after that I will see his face; I suppose he
will then accept me.
21 So the present went before him: and he himself lodged
that night in the company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and
his two female avadim, and his eleven sons, and passed
over the ford Yavok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and
sent over what he had.
1 Shnai Machanot - two camps. This has always been
one of the main reasons for Yisrael being divided into
two houses. For preservation from attack and
annihilation. Jacob here operates in the full mind of
YHWH.
2 Trials from Edomites always bring two-house
understanding. These events will be played out again
in the last days according to the prophet Obadiah.
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24 And Yaakov was left alone; and there wrestled a Man
with Yaakov until the breaking of the day.
1
25 And when the Man saw that He prevailed not against
him, the Man touched the hollow of Yaakov’s thigh; and
the hollow of Yaakov's thigh was out of joint, as the Man
wrestled with Yaakov.
26 And the Man said, Let Me go, for the day breaks. And
Yaakov said, I will not let You go, except You bless me.
27 And the Man said to Yaakov, What is your name? And
he answered, Yaakov.
28 And the Man said, your name shall no longer be called
Yaakov, but Yisrael:
2
for as a sar you have power with
Elohim and with men, and have prevailed.
29 And Yaakov asked Him, and said, Please tell me Your
Name. And He said, Why is it that you do ask about My
Name?
3 And He blessed him there.
30 And Yaakov called the name of the place Peni-El: for I
have seen Elohim panayim-el-panayim, and still - my
chayim has been preserved.
4
31 And as he passed over Penu-El the sun rose upon him,
and he limped on his hip.
5
32 Therefore the children of Yisrael eat not of the sinew
which shrank, that is upon the socket of the thigh, to this
day: because He touched the socket of Yaakov's thigh in
the sinew of the hip.
And Yaakov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, see,
Esav came, and with him four hundred men. And he
divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the
two handmaids.
2 And he put the handmaids and their children in the
front, and Leah and her children after them, and Rachel
and Yoseph in the back.
3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to
the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 And Esav ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell
1 A Man: Recognized later as Elohim Himself by Jacob,
a clear reference to Yahshua, since no mortal man can
see the Father and live. Here Jacob sees the same one
Abraham saw on His way to destroy Sedom and
Amorah.
2 “Overcoming believers” who wrestle with Messiah
and are established by Him and are often sealed with a
name change as a result of that regeneration
experience. Returning Yisraelites from both houses
should strongly consider a name change to a legal
Hebrew name, as an outward seal of an inner reality
and understanding concerning what Yahshua has truly
come to do.
3 In other words - I’m here to change your name and
heart, you are not here to ask questions about My
Name. That answer would be provided later in
Yahshua’s first advent.
4 The visible part of YHWH that was later to be sent as
His Son.
5 Physical marking is often a sign of one’s painful
calling by YHWH to surrender all in order to fully serve
Him. YHWH often gives Yisraelites a thorn in the flesh
to keep them humble and submissive, marked as
regenerated Yisrael.
on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
5 And Esav lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, Who are those with you? And Yaakov
said, The children that Elohim has by His unmerited favor
given to your eved.
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their
children, and they bowed themselves.
7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Yoseph near with Rachel, and
they bowed themselves.
8 And he said, What do you mean by all this company
that I met? And Yaakov said, These are to find favor in
the sight of my master.
9 And Esav said, I have enough, my brother; keep what
you have for yourself.
10 And Yaakov said, No, Please, if now I have found
favor in your sight, then receive my present from my
hand: because I see your face towards me, as though I had
seen the face of Elohim, and you were pleased with me.
11 Please take my bracha that is brought to you; because
Elohim has dealt with me through unmerited favor, and
because I have enough. And he urged him, and Esav took
it.
12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and
I will go before you.
13 And he said to him, My master knows that the children
are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with
me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the
flock will die.
14 Please let my master pass over before his eved. And I
will journey on gently, according to the pace of the cattle
that goes before me, and the pace that the children are
able to endure, until I come to my master to Seir.
15 And Esav said, Let me now leave with you some of the
folks that are with me. And Yaakov said, What need do I
have for them? Let me find favor in the sight of my
master.
16 So Esav returned that day on his derech to Seir.
17 And Yaakov journeyed to Sukkot, and built himself a
bayit, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name
of the place is called Sukkot.
18 And Yaakov came to Shalem, a city of Shechem,
which is in the land of Kanaan, when he came from
Padan-Aram; and camped his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread
his tent, at the hand of the children of Chamor, Shechem's
abba, for one hundred pieces of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohei-
Yisrael.
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to
Yaakov, went out to see the daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Chamor the Hivite, sar
of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and
defiled her.
3 And his being did cleave to Dinah the daughter of
Yaakov, and he loved the young girl, and spoke kindly to
the young girl.
4 And Shechem spoke to his abba Chamor, saying, Get
me this young girl to be my wife.
5 And Yaakov heard that he had defiled Dinah his
daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field:
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and Yaakov held his silence until they had come.
6 And Chamor the abba of Shechem went out to Yaakov
to commune with him.
7 And the sons of Yaakov came out of the field when they
heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very
angry, because he had wrought folly in Yisrael in lying
with Yaakov's daughter; which thing should not to be
done.
8 And Chamor communed with them, saying, The being
of my son Shechem longs for your daughter: Please give
her to him to be his wife.
9 And make many marriages with us, and give your
daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
10 And you shall dwell with us: and the land shall be
before you; dwell and trade in it, and get possessions in it.
11 And Shechem said to her abba and to her brothers, Let
me find favor in your eyes, and what you shall say to me I
will give.
12 Ask me much dowry and gift, and I will give it
according as you shall tell me: but give me the young girl
to be my wife.
13 And the sons of Yaakov answered Shechem and
Chamor his abba deceitfully, because he had defiled
Dinah their sister:
14 And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to
give our sister to one that has not performed brit-milah;
for that would be a reproach to us:
15 But in this request we will consent to you: If you will
be as we are, that every male of yours performs britmilah;
16 Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will
take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you,
and we will become one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us, to perform brit-milah;
then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Chamor, and Shechem
Chamor's son.
19 And the young man did not hesitate to perform britmilah,
because he delighted in Yaakov's daughter: and he
was more honorable than all in the bayit of his abba.
20 And Chamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of
their city, and communed with the men of their city,
saying,
21 These men are in shalom with us; therefore let them
dwell in the land, and trade in it; for look at the land; it is
large enough for them also; let us take their daughters to
us for our wives, and let us give them our daughters.
22 Only in this manner will the men consent to dwell with
us, to be one people, if every male among us performs
brit-milah, as they are in brit-milah.
1
23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every
beast of theirs become ours? Only let us consent to them,
and they will dwell with us.
24 And to Chamor and to Shechem his son listened all
that went out of the gate of his city; and every male
performed brit-milah including all that went out of the
1 This hasn’t changed. Any returning Efrayimite, who
refuses circumcision and believes the widespread
misinterpretations of the Scroll of Galatians, can never
reunite with Judah, for Judah will have no part of it.
gate of his city.
25 And it came to pass on the third day, when the men
were still sore, that two of the sons of Yaakov, Shimeon
and Lewi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and
came upon the city boldly, and killed all the males.
26 And they killed Chamor and Shechem his son with the
edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's
bayit, and went out.
27 The sons of Yaakov came upon the slain, and
plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their
donkeys, and that which was in the city, and that which
was in the field,
29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their
wives they took captive, and plundered even all that was
in the bayit.
30 And Yaakov said to Shimeon and Lewi, You have
troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of
the land, among the Kanaanites and the Perizzites: and I
being few in number, they shall gather themselves
together against me, and kill me; and I shall be destroyed,
I and also kol Beit Yisrael.
31 And they said to Yaakov, Should he deal with our
sister as with a harlot?
And Elohim said to Yaakov, Arise, go up to Beth-El,
and dwell there: and make there an altar to El, that
appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esav your
brother.
2 Then Yaakov said to his household, and to all that were
with him, Put away the strange elohim that are among
you, and be clean, and change your garments:
2
3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-El; and I will make
there an altar to El, who answered me in the day of my
distress, and was with me in the derech which I went.
4 And they gave to Yaakov all the strange elohim that
were in their hands, and all their earrings that were in
their ears; and Yaakov hid them under the oak which was
by Shechem.
3
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of Elohim was upon
the cities that were around them, so that they did not
pursue after the sons of Yaakov.
6 So Yaakov came to Luz, which is in the land of Kanaan,
that is, Beth-El, he and all the people that were with him.
7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-
El: because there Elohim appeared to him, when he fled
from the face of his brother.
8 But Devorah Rivkah's nurse died, and she was buried
beneath Beth-El under an oak: and the name of it was
called Allon-Bachuth.
9 And Elohim appeared to Yaakov again, when he came
out of Padan-Aram, and blessed him.
10 And Elohim said to him, Your name is Yaakov: your
name shall not be called any more Yaakov, but Yisrael
2 This calling is ongoing to all Yisraelites in all
generations, especially in the end-times, for without
repentance Yisrael will remain divided and in exile.
3 Notice Yisrael always struggled with idolatry just like
the nations and instead of destroying idols they hid
them.
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shall be your name: and He called his name Yisrael.
1
11 And Elohim said to him, I am El-Shaddai: be fruitful
and multiply; a nation-goy; and a congregation of
nations-kahal-goyim; shall come from you, and
melechim
2
shall come out of your loins;
3
4
12 And the land that I gave Avraham and Yitzchak, to you
I will give it, and to your zera after you will I give the
land.
5
13 And Elohim went up from him in the place where He
talked with him.
14 And Yaakov set up a pillar in the place where He
talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a
drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.
15 And Yaakov called the name of the place where
Elohim spoke with him, Beth-El.
16 And they journeyed from Beth-El; and there was just a
little way to go to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labor.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that
the midwife said to her, Fear not; you shall have this son
also.
18 And it came to pass, as her chayim was leaving, - for
she died - that she called his name Ben-Oni: but his abba
called him Benyamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to
Ephrath, which is Beth-Lechem.
20 And Yaakov set a pillar upon her grave: that is the
pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
21 And Yisrael journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the
tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Yisrael dwelt in that land,
that Reuven went and lay with Bilhah his abba's
concubine: and Yisrael heard of it. Now the sons of
Yaakov were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuven, Yaakov's bachor, and
Shimeon, and Lewi, and Yahudah, and Yissacher, and
Zevulon:
24 The sons of Rachel; Yoseph, and Benyamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and
Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and
Asher: these are the sons of Yaakov, who were born to
1 An overcomer with man and with YHWH.
2 Many of the royal houses of both the east and west
came from Jacob and had Yisraelite blood. This issue
has been well documented by scholars. A perfect
example is the Ethiopian royalty, as well as the royalty
of Western Europe.
3 A nation, the Jews (goy), and a company of nations,
or a congregation of nations (kahal goyim), a clear
prophesy that from Jacob’s body would come two
physical houses, one Jewish and one “gentile.”
4 Also notice that Yisrael is called a “goy,” just like
today non-Yisraelites are called goyim/gentiles. So
when one is called a goy, that does not by any means
eliminate Yisraelite DNA, for if that were true, the Jews
of today also would not be Yisraelites, as often they
are referred to as a goy, or the goyim of YHWH in
Scripture.
5 Yisrael’s homeland.
him in Padan-Aram.
27 And Yaakov came to Yitzchak his abba at Mamre, to
the city of Arbah, which is Hevron, where Avraham and
Yitzchak sojourned.
28 And the days of Yitzchak were one hundred eighty
years.
29 And Yitzchak gave up the ruach, and died, and was
gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his
sons Esav and Yaakov buried him.
Now these are the generations of Esav, who is Edom.
2 Esav took his wives of the daughters of Kanaan; Adah
the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholivamah the
daughter of Anah the daughter of Ziveon the Hivite.
3 And Bashemath Yishma-El's daughter, sister of
Nevayoth.
4 And Adah bore to Esav Elifaz; and Bashemath bore
Reuel;
5 And Aholivamah bore Yeush, and Yaalam, and Korach:
these are the sons of Esav, which were born to him in the
land of Kanaan.
6 And Esav took his wives, and his sons, and his
daughters, and all the persons of his bayit, and his cattle,
and all his beasts, and all his substance, that he had gotten
in the land of Kanaan; and went into the country away
from the face of his brother Yaakov.
7 For their riches were more than what would allow them
to dwell together; and the land in which they were gerim
6
could not bear them both because of their cattle.
8 So Esav dwelt in Mount Seir: Esav is Edom.
7
9 And these are the generations of Esav the abba of the
Edomites in Mount Seir:
10 These are the names of Esav's sons; Elifaz the son of
Adah the wife of Esav, Reuel the son of Bashemath the
wife of Esav.
11 And the sons of Elifaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and
Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Elifaz Esav's son; and
she bore to Elifaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah
Esav's wife.
13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerach,
Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath
Esav's wife.
14 And these were the sons of Aholivamah, the daughter
of Anah the daughter of Ziveon, Esav's wife: and she bore
to Esav Yeush, and Yaalam, and Korach.
15 These were chiefs of the sons of Esav: the sons of
Elifaz the bachor son of Esav; chief Teman, chief Omar,
chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
16 Chief Korach, chief Gatam, and chief Amalek: these
are the chiefs that came of Elifaz in the land of Edom;
these were the sons of Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esav's son; chief
Nahath, chief Zerach, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah:
these are the chiefs that came from Reuel in the land of
6 Interesting text. Jacob himself is called a
ger/stranger. So Hebrew gerim/strangers who settled
amongst the nations were always considered Yisrael in
Scripture’s view.
7 Not in the land of Yisrael.
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Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esav's wife.
18 And these are the sons of Aholivamah Esav's wife;
chief Yeush, chief Yaalam, chief Korach: these were the
chiefs that came from Aholivamah the daughter of Anah,
Esav's wife.
19 These are the sons of Esav, who is Edom, and these
are their chiefs.
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited
the land; Lotan, and Shoval, and Ziveon, and Anah,
21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs
of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and
Lotan's sister was Timna.
23 And the children of Shoval were these; Alvan, and
Manahath, and Eival, Shepho, and Onam.
24 And these are the children of Ziveon; both Ayah, and
Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the
wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Ziveon his abba.
25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and
Aholivamah the daughter of Anah.
26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and
Eshvan, and Ithran, and Cheran.
27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan,
and Akan.
28 The children of Dishan are these: Uz, and Aran.
29 These are the chiefs that came from the Horites; chief
Lotan, chief Shoval, chief Ziveon, chief Anah,
30 Chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are
the chiefs that came from the Horites, among their chiefs
in the land of Seir.
31 And these are the melechim that reigned in the land of
Edom, before there reigned any melech over the children
of Yisrael.
32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the
name of his city was Dinhavah.
33 And Bela died, and Yovav the son of Zerach of Bozrah
reigned in his place.
34 And Yovav died, and Husham of the land of Temani
reigned in his place.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who
smote Midyan in the field of Moav, reigned in his place:
and the name of his city was Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in
his place.
37 And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehovoth by the river
reigned in his place.
38 And Shaul died, and Ba’al-Chanan the son of Achvor
reigned in his place.
39 And Ba’al-Chanan the son of Achvor died, and Hadar
reigned in his place: and the name of his city was Pau;
and his wife's name was Mehetavel, the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Mezahav.
40 And these are the names of the chiefs that came from
Esav, according to their mishpachot, after their places, by
their names; chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Yetheth,
41 Chief Aholivamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
42 Chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mivzar,
43 Chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of
Edom, according to their dwellings in the land of their
possession: he is Esav the abba of the Edomites.
1
Torah Parsha 9
Vayeshev 37:1-40:23
Haftarah Ahmos 2:6-3:8
Brit Chadasha
Maaseh Shlichim 7:9-16
And Yaakov dwelt in the land in which his abba was
a ger, in the land of Kanaan.
2 These are the generations of Yaakov. Yoseph, being
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his
brothers; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and
with the sons of Zilpah, his abba's wives: and Yoseph
brought to his abba evil reports about them.
3 Now Yisrael loved Yoseph more than all his children,
because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a
coat of many colors.
4 And when his brothers saw that their abba loved him
more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not
speak nicely to him.
5 And Yoseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his
brothers: and they hated him even more.
6 And he said to them, Please listen to this dream that I
have dreamed:
7 For, see, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, see,
my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, see, your
sheaves stood all around, and bowed to my sheaf.
8 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign
over us? Or, shall you indeed have dominion over us?
And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his
words.
9 And he dreamed another dream, and told it his brothers,
and said, See, I have dreamed yet another dream; and,
see, the sun and the moon and the eleven cochavim
bowed down to me.
10 And he told it to his abba, and to his brothers: and his
abba rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream
that you have dreamed? Shall your eema and I and your
brothers indeed come to bow down to you to the earth?
11 And his brothers envied him; but his abba observed the
saying.
2
12 And his brothers went to feed their abba's flock in
Shechem.
13 And Yisrael said to Yoseph, Do not your brothers feed
the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.
And he said to him, Hinayni.
1 Edom’s genealogy is included in a book about Yisrael
in order to document that Arabs are not considered
native Yisraelites. Many still erroneously teach that
Edomites are part of the chosen seed emanating from
Abraham. However as these genealogies show, they
cannot be the chosen seed, since they do not proceed
from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but merely through
Abraham. Nevertheless, individuals from these
Edomite tribes can and do become Yisrael as
repentant individuals, when they place faith in
Yahshua the Messiah and His Torah.
2 Because Jacob knew the promise to Yisrael and took
the dreams in stride in a “wait and see” attitude.
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14 And he said to him, Please go and see whether things
are well with your brothers, and well with the flocks; and
bring me word again. So he sent him out of the Valley of
Hevron, and he came to Shechem.
15 And a certain man found Yoseph, as he was wandering
in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What are you
looking for?
16 And he said, I seek my brothers: Please tell me where
they feed their flocks.
17 And the man said, They have departed from here; for I
heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Yoseph went
after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him far off, even before he came
near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
1
19 And they said one to another, See, the dreamer is
coming.
20 Come now, and let us kill him, and cast him into some
pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him:
and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
21 And Reuven heard it, and he delivered him out of their
hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
22 And Reuven said to them, Shed no dahm, but cast him
into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon
him; that he might remove him out of their hands, to
deliver him to his abba again.
23 And it came to pass, when Yoseph came to his
brothers, that they stripped Yoseph of his coat of many
colors that was on him.
24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit
was empty, there was no mayim in it.
25 And they sat down to eat lechem: and they lifted up
their eyes and looked, and, see, a company of
Yishmaelites came from Gilad with their camels bearing
spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to
Mitzrayim.
26 And Yahudah said to his brothers, What profit is it if
we kill our brother, and conceal his dahm?
27 Come, and let us sell him to the Yishmaelites, and let
not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our
flesh. And his brothers were content.
2
28 Then there passed by Midyanite traders; and they drew
and lifted up Yoseph out of the pit, and sold Yoseph to
the Yishma’elym for twenty pieces of silver: and they
brought Yoseph into Mitzrayim.
29 And Reuven returned to the pit; and, see, Yoseph was
not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
30 And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is
not here; and I, where shall I go?
31 And they took Yoseph's coat, and killed a kid of the
goats, and dipped the coat in the dahm.
3
32 And they sent the coat of many colors, and they
1 Joseph and his seed have always been
misunderstood and separated from the rest of Yisrael.
2 Historically Judah has desired separation from
Joseph, not necessarily his total demise. This
continues today.
3 Today, Joseph’s gentile children become Yisrael
again, regardless of their skin color, by the blood of
salvation. The multi-colored coat represents all nations
and racial colors dipped in Yahshua’s blood.
brought it to their abba; and said, This have we found:
and we don’t know whether it be your son's coat, or not.
33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil
beast has devoured him; Yoseph is without a doubt torn in
pieces.
34 And Yaakov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon
his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to
comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said,
For I will go down to Sheol mourning my son. So his
abba wept for him.
36 And the Midyanites sold him in Mitzrayim to Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh, and captain of the guard.
And it came to pass at that time that Yahudah
departed from his brothers, and turned in to a certain
Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2 And Yahudah saw there a daughter of a certain
Kanaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and
went in to her.
3 And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his
name Er.
4 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called
his name Onan.
5 And she yet again conceived, and bore a son; and called
his name Shelach: and he was at Chezib, when she bore
him.
6 And Yahudah took a wife for Er his bachor, whose
name was Tamar.
7 And Er, Yahudah's bachor, was wicked in the sight of
vuvh; and vuvh killed him.
8 And Yahudah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's
wife, and marry her, and raise up zera for your brother.
9 And Onan knew that the zera should not be his; and it
came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that
he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give zera to his
brother.
10 And the thing that he did displeased vuvh: So He killed
him also.
4
11 Then said Yahudah to Tamar his daughter in law,
Remain a widow at your abba’s bayit, until Shelach my
son is grown: for he said, Lest suppose he die also, as his
brothers did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her abba’s
bayit.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah
Yahudah’s wife died; and Yahudah was comforted, and
went up to his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his
chaver Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And it was told Tamar, saying, See your abba-in-law
goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and
covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat
in an open entrance, which is by the way to Timnath; for
she saw that Shelach was grown, and she was not given to
him to be his wife.
4 Not a reference to masturbation but to Onan sinning
against YHWH’s plan to multiply Yisrael among the
nations, and also for breaking the Torah requirement
of refusing to raise up seed for a dead brother and
thus build his brother’s house.
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15 When Yahudah saw her, he thought she was a harlot
because she had covered her face.
1
16 And he turned to her by the way, and said, Please go
get ready and let me come in to you; - for he knew not
that she was his daughter in law. – She said, What will
you give me that you may come in to me?
17 And he said, I will send you a kid from the flock. And
she said, Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?
18 And he said, What pledge shall I give you? And she
said, Your signet, and your bracelets, and your staff that is
in your hand. And he gave it her, and came in to her, and
she conceived by him.
19 And she arose, and went away, and removed her veil
from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
20 And Yahudah sent the kid by the hand of his chaver
the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s
hand: but he found her not.
21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is
the harlot, that was openly by the wayside? And they said,
There was no harlot in this place.
22 And he returned to Yahudah, and said, I cannot find
her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no
harlot in that place.
23 And Yahudah said, Let her take them for herself, lest
we be shamed: see, I sent this kid, and you have not found
her.
24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it
was told Yahudah, saying, Tamar your daughter in law
has played the harlot; and also, see, she is with child by
whoredom. And Yahudah said, Bring her out, and let her
be burned.
25 When she was brought out, she sent to her abba in law,
saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and
she said, Please discern, whose are these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff.
26 And Yahudah acknowledged them, and said, She has
been more tzadik than I; because that I gave her not to
Shelach my son. And he knew her again no more.
27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that
twins were in her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one
put out his hand: and the midwife took it and bound upon
his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This one came out first,
29 And it came to pass, he drew back his hand, so that his
brother came out first: and she said, How have you
broken out? This breach is upon you: therefore his name
was called Peretz.
30 And afterward came out his brother, who had the
scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called
Zerach.
And Yoseph was brought down to Mitzrayim; and
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, a
Mitzri, bought him from the hands of the Yishmaelites,
who had brought him down there.
2 And vuvh was with Yoseph, and he was a prosperous
man; and he was in the bayit of his master the Mitzri.
3 And his master saw that vuvh was with him, and that
1 Facial coverings are forbidden. Head coverings are
ordained by YHWH. The two should not be confused.
vuvh made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Yoseph found favor in his sight, and he served
him: and he made him overseer over his bayit, and all that
he had he put into Yoseph’s hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him
overseer in his bayit, and over all that he had, that vuvh
blessed the Mitzri’s bayit for Yoseph’s sake; and the
bracha of vuvh was upon all that he had in the bayit, and
in the field.
6 And he left all that he had in Yoseph’s hand; and he
knew not what he had, except the lechem that he did eat.
And Yoseph was handsome in form and appearance.
7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s
wife cast her eyes upon Yoseph; and she said, Lie with
me.
8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, See, my
master does not know what is with me in the bayit, and he
has committed all that he has to my hand;
9 There is none greater in this bayit than I; neither has he
kept back anything from me but you, because you are his
wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin
against Elohim?
10 And it came to pass, as she spoke to Yoseph day by
day, that he listened not to her, to lie with her, or to be
with her.
11 And it came to pass about this time, that Yoseph went
into the bayit to do his business; and none of the men of
the bayit were there with him.
12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with
me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled outside.
13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his
garment in her hand, and had fled,
14 That she called to the men of her bayit, and spoke to
them, saying, See, he has brought in an Ivri to us to mock
us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a
loud voice:
15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled,
and went outside.
16 And she placed his garment by her, until his master
came home.
17 And she spoke to him according to these words,
saying, The Ivri eved, who you have brought to us, came
in to me to mock me:
18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words
of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, After this
manner did your eved to me; that his anger was lit.
20 And Yoseph’s master took him, and put him into the
prison, a place where the melech’s prisoners were bound:
and he was there in the prison.
21 But vuvh was with Yoseph, and showed him
rachamim, and gave him favor in the sight of the guard of
the prison.
22 And the guardian of the prison committed to Yoseph’s
hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and
whatever they did there, it was his doing.
23 The guardian of the prison looked not at anything that
was under his authority; because vuvh was with him, and
that which he did, vuvh made it to prosper.
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And it came to pass after these things, that the butler
of the melech of Mitzrayim and his baker had offended
their master the melech of Mitzrayim.
2 And Pharaoh was angry against two of his officers,
against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of
the bakers.
3 And he put them in prison in the bayit of the captain of
the guard, into the prison, the place where
Yoseph was bound.
4 And the captain of the guard charged Yoseph with
them, and he served them: and they continued a season in
prison.
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his
dream in one night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the
melech of Mitzrayim, who were bound in the prison.
6 And Yoseph came in to them in the morning, to check
on them, and, see, they were sad.
7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in
the prison of his master’s bayit, saying, Why do you look
so sad today?
8 And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and
there is no interpreter of it. And Yoseph said to them, Do
not interpretations belong to Elohim? Please tell them to
me.
9 And the chief butler told his dream to Yoseph, and said
to him, In my dream, see, a vine was before me;
10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as
though it budded, and her blossoms shot out; and the
clusters of it brought out ripe grapes:
11 And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the
grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave
the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
12 And Yoseph said to him, This is the interpretation of
it: The three branches are three days:
13 Within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head, and
restore you to your place: and you shall deliver Pharaoh’s
cup into his hand, like in the past when you were his
butler.
14 But remember me when it shall be well with you, and
show chesed, to me, and please make mention of me to
Pharaoh, and bring me out of this bayit:
15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the
Ivrim: and here also have I done nothing that they should
put me into the dungeon.
16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was
tov, he said to Yoseph, I also was in my dream, and I had
three white baskets on my head:
17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner
of baked foods for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out
of the basket upon my head.
18 And Yoseph answered and said, This is the
interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days:
19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head
from off of you, and shall hang you on an eytz; and the
birds shall eat your flesh from off of you.
20 And it came to pass the third day, which was
Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast to all his avadim:
and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the
chief baker among his avadim.
1
21 And he restored the chief butler to his butlership again;
and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Yoseph had
interpreted to them.
23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Yoseph, but
forgot him.
Torah Parsha 10
Mikketz 41:1-44:17
Haftarah Melechim Alef 3:15-4:1
Brit Chadasha
Maaseh Shlichim 7:9-16
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that
Pharaoh dreamed: and, see, he stood by the river.
2 And, see, there came up out of the river seven wellfavored
cows; and they fed in a meadow.
3 And, see, seven other cows came up after them out of
the river, ill-favored and lean; and stood by the other
cows upon the edge of the river.
4 And the ugly and lean cows did eat up the seven wellfavored
and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, see,
seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, abundant and
tov.
6 And, see, seven thin ears blasted with the east wind
sprung up after them.
7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven abundant
and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, see, it was a
dream.
8 And it came to pass in the morning that his ruach was
troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of
Mitzrayim, and all the wise men: and Pharaoh told them
his dream; but there was none that could interpret them to
Pharaoh.
9 Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do
remember my faults this day:
10 Pharaoh was angry with his avadim, and put me in
prison in the captain of the guard's bayit, both me and the
chief baker:
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, both he and I;
we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of
his dream.
12 And there was there with us a young man, an Ivri,
2
an
eved to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he
interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his
dream he did interpret.
13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was;
me he restored to my office, and him he hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Yoseph, and they
brought him quickly out of the dungeon: and he shaved
himself, and changed his clothing, and came in to
Pharaoh.
1 Birthdays in Scripture are never portrayed in a
positive light. They are not part of Hebrew culture.
Hebrews, or Yisraelites honor the blessed memory and
the day of one’s passing. This was clearly displayed in
Yahshua’s Memorial Supper.
2 Joseph was a Hebrew not a Jew.
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15 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, I have dreamed a dream,
and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard it
said of you, that you can understand a dream to interpret
it.
16 And Yoseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not
in me:
1
Elohim shall give Pharaoh an answer with
shalom.
17 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, In my dream, see, I stood
upon the bank of the river:
18 And, see, there came up out of the river seven cows,
fat-fleshed and well-favored; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And, see, seven other cows came up after them, poor
and very ugly and lean, such as I never saw in all the land
of Mitzrayim for ugliness:
20 And the lean and the ill-favored cows did eat up the
first seven fat cows:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be
known that they had eaten them; but they were ugly, as at
the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, see; seven ears came up
in one stalk, full and tov:
23 And, see, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with
the east wind, sprung up after them:
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven tov ears: and I
told this to the magicians; but there was none that could
declare it to me.
25 And Yoseph said to Pharaoh, The dreams of Pharaoh
are echad: Elohim has shown Pharaoh what He is about to
do.
26 The seven tov cows are seven years; and the seven tov
ears are seven years: the dream is echad.
27 And the seven thin and ugly cows that came up after
them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted
with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing that I have spoken to Pharaoh: What
Elohim is about to do he shows to Pharaoh.
29 See, there comes seven years of great plenty
throughout all the land of Mitzrayim:
30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine;
and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of
Mitzrayim; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by
reason of the famine following, for it shall be very severe.
32 And because the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice;
it is because the thing is established by Elohim, and
Elohim will shortly bring it to pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh seek for a man discreet and
wise, and set him over the land of Mitzrayim.
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over
the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of
Mitzrayim in the seven plentiful years.
35 And let them gather all the food of those tov years that
come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let
them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food shall be a reserve for the land against
the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of
Mitzrayim; so that the land perishes not through the
1 An alternative translation according to the DSS and
the LXX: “Apart from me, Elohim will give no answer
concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”
famine.
37 And the thing was tov in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in
the eyes of all his avadim.
38 And Pharaoh said to his avadim, Can we find such a
one as this is, a man in whom is the Ruach of Elohim?
39 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, Seeing that Elohim has
shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as
you are:
40 You shall be over all my bayit, and according to your
word shall all my people be ruled: only in the kesay will I
be greater than you.
41 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, See, I have set you over
all the land of Mitzrayim.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it
upon Yoseph's hand, and prepared him in garments of
fine linen, and put a gold chain around his neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the second mirkavah that
he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he
made him ruler over all the land of Mitzrayim.
44 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, I am Pharaoh, and
without you shall no man lift up his hand, or foot in all
the land of Mitzrayim.
45 And Pharaoh called Yoseph's name
Zaphnath-Paaneah;
2
and he gave him as his wife Asenath
the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And Yoseph
went out over all the land of Mitzrayim.
46 And Yoseph was thirty years old when he stood before
Pharaoh melech of Mitzrayim. And Yoseph went out
from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the
land of Mitzrayim.
47 And in the seven plentiful years the earth brought out
by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food for the seven years,
which was in the land of Mitzrayim, and laid up the food
in the cities: the food of the field, which was all around
every city, he laid up the same.
49 And Yoseph gathered much corn as the sand of the
sea, until he stopped numbering; for it was without
number.
50 And to Yoseph were born two sons before the years of
famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah
priest of On bore to him.
51 And Yoseph called the name of the bachor
Menashsheh: For he said Elohim, has made me forget all
my toil, and all my past in my abba's bayit.
52 And the name of the second son he called Efrayim: For
Elohim has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my
affliction.
3
53 And the seven years of plenty that was in the land of
Mitzrayim, had ended.
54 And the seven years of scarcity began to come,
according to what Yoseph had said: and the scarcity was
2 A Hebrew heir with a gentile name and gentile
clothes, married to a heathen priestess, yet still a
biological Hebrew man later restored to Yisrael, just as
his offspring would one day be, as they would
experience the same pattern of restoration.
3 Despite being Hebrews by birth, Menashsheh and
Efrayim were assimilated into pagan society, much like
their offspring, the ten tribes of Efrayim-Yisrael.
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in all lands; but in all the land of Mitzrayim there was
lechem.
55 And when all the land of Mitzrayim was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for lechem: and Pharaoh said to
all the Mitzrim, Go to Yoseph; what he says to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and
Yoseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the
Mitzrim; and the famine grew very severe in the land of
Mitzrayim.
57 And all countries came into Mitzrayim to Yoseph to
buy corn because the famine was so severe in all the
lands.
Now when Yaakov saw that there was corn in
Mitzrayim, Yaakov said to his sons, Why do you look at
each other?
2 And he said, See, I have heard that there is corn in
Mitzrayim: go down there, and buy from there; that we
may live, and not die.
3 And Yoseph's ten brothers went down to buy corn in
Mitzrayim.
1
4 But Benyamin, Yoseph's brother, Yaakov did not send
with his brothers; for he said, Perhaps mischief may befall
him.
5 And the sons of Yisrael came to buy corn among those
that came: for the famine was in the land of Kanaan.
6 And Yoseph was the governor over the land, and it was
he that sold to all the people of the land: and Yoseph's
brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him
with their faces to the earth.
7 And Yoseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but
made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them;
and he said to them, Where do you come from? And they
said, From the land of Kanaan to buy food.
8 And Yoseph knew his brothers, but they knew him not.
2
9 And Yoseph remembered the dreams that he dreamed
about them, and said to them, You are spies; You have
come only to see the secrets and operations of the land.
10 And they said to him, No, my master, but to buy food
have your avadim come.
11 We are all one man's sons; we are upright men; your
avadim are not spies.
12 And he said to them, No, but to see the operations of
the land you have come.
13 And they said, Your avadim are twelve brothers, the
sons of one man in the land of Kanaan; and, see, the
youngest is this day with our abba, and one is not.
14 And Yoseph said to them, That is it what I spoke to
you, saying, You are spies:
15 Hereby you shall be proven: By the chayim of Pharaoh
you shall not go out from here, except your youngest
brother come here.
1 A picture of the ten tribes in spiritual starvation in
their exile.
2 The same exact situation exists today. Efrayimites, or
Joseph’s seed can easily recognize Judah and their
Jewish brothers. However his Jewish brothers often
cannot recognize Joseph, because of their strange
gentile names, clean-shaven faces, clothing, foods,
holidays and lifestyles.
16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you
shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proven,
whether there be any emet in you: or else by the chayim
of Pharaoh surely you are spies.
17 And he put them all into the prison for three days.
18 And Yoseph said to them the third day, This do, and
live; for I fear Elohim:
19 If you are upright men, let one of your brothers be
bound in the bayit of your prison: but go, carry corn for
the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your
words be verified, and you shall not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
being, when he begged us, and we would not listen;
therefore is this distress come upon us.
3
22 And Reuven answered them, saying, Did not I warn
you not to sin against the child; and you would not listen?
Therefore, see, now his dahm is required.
23 And they knew not that Yoseph understood them, for
he spoke to them by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself around from them, and wept;
and returned to them again, and communed with them,
and took from them Shimeon, and bound him before their
eyes.
25 Then Yoseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn,
and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to
give them provision for the way: and this he did for them.
26 And they loaded their donkeys with the corn, and
departed there.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey
fodder in the inn, he saw his money; for, see, it was in his
sack's mouth.
28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored;
and, see, it is even in my sack: and their levim failed
them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is
this that Elohim has done to us?
29 And they came to Yaakov their abba to the land of
Kanaan, and told him all that happened to them; saying,
30 The man, who is master of the land, spoke roughly to
us, and saw us as spies of his country.
31 And we said to him, We are upright men; we are not
spies:
32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our abba; one is not,
and the youngest is this day with our abba in the land of
Kanaan.
33 And the man, the master of the country, said to us,
Hereby shall I know that you are upright men; leave one
of your brothers here with me, and take food for the
famine of your households, and go:
34 And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I
know that you are not spies, but that you are upright men:
so I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall move
around freely in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that,
see, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and
when both they and their abba saw the bundles of money,
they were afraid.
3 The inevitable cry of latter-day repentance among
Yisrael.
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36 And Yaakov their abba said to them, All of you have
bereaved me of my children: Yoseph is not, and Shimeon
is not, and now you will take Benyamin away: all these
things are done against me.
37 And Reuven spoke to his abba, saying, Slay my two
sons, if I bring him not back to you: deliver him into my
hand, and I will bring him to you again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for
his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befalls
him by the derech in which you go, then shall you bring
down my old age with sorrow to Sheol.
And the famine was severe in the land.
2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn
which they had brought out of Mitzrayim, their abba said
to them, Go again, buy us a little more food.
3 And Yahudah spoke to him, saying, The man did
solemnly warn us, saying, You shall not see my face,
except your brother is with you.
4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down
and buy you food:
5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for
the man said to us, You shall not see my face, except your
brother is with you.
6 And Yisrael said, Why did you deal so badly with me,
so as to tell the man whether you had another brother?
7 And they said, The man asked us persistently of our
state, and of our mishpacha, saying, Is your abba yet
alive? Have you another brother? And we answered him
according to these words: how could we have known that
he would say, Bring your brother down?
8 And Yahudah said to Yisrael his abba, Send the lad
with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and
not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shall you require
him: if I bring him not to you, and set him again before
you, then let me bear the blame le-olam-va-ed:
10 For if we had not lingered, surely by now we would
have returned this second time.
11 And their abba Yisrael said to them, If it must be so
now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your
vessels, and carry down a present to the man, a little
balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and
almonds:
12 And take double money in your hand; and the money
that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it
again in your hand; It could have been a mistake.
13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man:
14 And El-Shaddai give you rachamim before the man,
that he may send away your other brother, and Benyamin.
If I will be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
15 And the men took that present, and they took double
money in their hand, and Benyamin; and rose up, and
went down to Mitzrayim, and stood before Yoseph.
16 And when Yoseph saw Benyamin with them, he said
to the ruler of his bayit, Bring these men home, and make
a slaughtering, and make ready; for these men shall dine
with me at noon.
17 And the man did as Yoseph asked; and the man
brought the men into Yoseph's bayit.
18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought
into Yoseph's bayit; and they said, Because of the money
that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we
brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall
upon us, and take us for avadim, and our donkeys.
19 And they came near to the steward of Yoseph's bayit,
and they communed with him at the door of the bayit,
20 And said, O sir, we indeed came down the first time to
buy food:
21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we
opened our sacks, and, see, every man's money was in the
mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have
brought it again in our hand.
22 And other money have we brought down in our hands
to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our
sacks.
23 And he said, Shalom be to you, fear not: your Elohim,
and the Elohim of your abba, has given you treasure in
your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Shimeon
out to them.
24 And the man brought the men into Yoseph's bayit, and
gave them mayim, and they washed their feet; and he
gave their donkeys fodder.
25 And they made ready the present for Yoseph’s coming
at noon: for they heard that they should eat lechem there.
26 And when Yoseph came home, they brought him the
present that was in their hand into the bayit, and bowed
themselves to him to the earth.
27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your
abba well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet
alive?
28 And they answered, Your eved our abba is in tov
health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads,
and made obeisance.
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother
Benyamin, his eema's son, and said, Is this your younger
brother, about whom you spoke to me? And he said,
Elohim give you unmerited favor, my son.
30 And Yoseph hurried; for his emotions did yearn for his
brother: and he sought somewhere to weep; and he
entered into his room, and wept there.
31 And he washed his face, and went out and restrained
himself, and said, Serve the food.
32 And they set the shulchan for him by himself, and for
them by themselves, and for the Mitzrim by themselves,
because the Mitzrim do not eat lechem with the Ivrim, for
that is an abomination to the Mitzrim.
1
33 And they sat before him, the bachor according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and
the men marveled at one another.
34 And he took and sent portions to them from before
him: but Benyamin's portion was five times as much as
any of theirs. And they drank, and had simcha with him.
And he commanded the steward of his bayit, saying,
Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of
1 Actually it is the other way around. Yisraelites ought
not to share unclean food with heathen at heathen
tables of fellowship. If worldly people in Egypt
understand this why don’t Yisraelites?
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the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according
to the word that Yoseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent
away, they and their donkeys.
4 And when they had gone out of the city, not that far off,
Yoseph said to his steward, Rise up, follow the men; and
when you do overtake them, say to them, Why have you
rewarded evil for tov?
5 Is not this cup the one from which my master drinks,
and by which he divines? You have done evil in so doing.
6 And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same
words.
7 And they said to him, Why says my master these
words? Elohim forbid that your avadim should do
according to this thing:
8 See, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths,
we brought again to you out of the land of Kanaan: why
then should we steal out of your master's bayit his silver,
or gold?
9 With whoever of your avadim it is found, let him die,
and we also will be my master's avadim.
10 And he said, Now also let it be according to your
words; he with whom it is found shall be my eved; and
you shall be blameless.
11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to
the ground, and opened every man his sack.
12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and stopped
at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benyamin's
sack.
13 Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his
donkey and returned to the city.
14 And Yahudah and his brothers came to Yoseph's bayit;
for he was still there: and they fell before him to the
ground.
15 And Yoseph said to them, What deed is this that you
have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can
certainly divine?
16 And Yahudah said, What shall we say to my master?
What shall we speak? Or, how shall we clear ourselves?
Elohim has found out the iniquity of your avadim: see, we
are my master's avadim, both we, and he also with whom
the cup is found.
17 And he said, Elohim forbid that I should do so: but the
man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my eved;
and as for the rest of you, go in shalom to your abba.
Torah Parsha 11
Vayigash 44:18-47:27
Haftarah Yehchezkel 37:15-28
Brit Chadasha Yochanan 10:11-19
18 Then Yahudah came near to him, and said, Oh my
master; please let your eved speak a word in my master's
ears, and let not your anger burn against your eved: for
you are even as Pharaoh.
19 My master asked his avadim, saying, Have you an
abba, or a brother?
20 And we said to my master, We have an abba, an old
man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his
brother is dead, and he alone is left of his eema, and his
abba loves him.
21 And you did say to your avadim, Bring him down to
me, that I may set my eyes upon him.
22 And we said to my master, The lad cannot leave his
abba: for if he should leave his abba, his abba would die.
23 And you did say to your avadim, Except your youngest
brother comes down with you, you shall see my
face no more.
24 And it came to pass when we came up to your eved my
abba, we told him the words of my master.
25 And our abba said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest
brother will be with us, then will we go down: for we may
not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother be
with us.
27 And your eved my abba said to us, You know that my
wife bore me two sons:
28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is
torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
29 And if you take this one also from me, and mischief
befall him, you shall bring down my old age with sorrow
to Sheol.
30 Now therefore when I come to your eved my abba, and
the lad is not with us; seeing that his chayim is bound up
in the lad's chayim;
31 It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not
with us, that he will die: and your avadim shall bring
down the old age of your eved our abba with sorrow to
Sheol.
32 For I, your eved became surety for the lad to my abba,
saying, If I bring him not again to you, then I shall bear
the blame to my abba le-olam-va-ed.
33 Now therefore, please, let your eved stay instead of the
lad as an eved to my master; and let the lad go up with his
brothers.
1
34 For how shall I go up to my abba, and the lad be not
with me? For then I will see the evil that would come on
my abba.
2
Then Yoseph could not restrain himself before all
them that stood by him; and he cried, Make every man to
go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while
Yoseph made himself known to his brothers.
3
2 And he wept aloud: and the Mitzrim and the bayit of
Pharaoh heard.
3 And Yoseph said to his brothers, I am Yoseph;
4
does
my abba still live? And his brothers could not answer
1 Judah seeks leadership in the family as guardian.
2 Actually the Scriptures only give a shortened version
of the full exchange here between Judah and Joseph,
In the Scroll of Jasher the exchange is long, drawn out,
threatening and downright hostile. Judah is recorded
as threatening Joseph and all of Egypt with
destruction, in much the same way they came upon
and destroyed the city of Shechem. In light of the
future struggle between Judah and Joseph in the two
house wars, this is a mere preview of that age-old
conflict.
3 Declaring yourself to your Jewish brethren as Joseph
returning and revealed is a painful and trying
experience for many.
4 The cry of restoration.
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him; for they were trembling at his presence.
4 And Yoseph said to his brothers, Come near to me
please. And they came near. And he said, I am Yoseph
your brother, whom you sold into Mitzrayim.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with
yourselves that you sold me here: for Elohim did send me
before you to preserve chayim.
1
6 For these two years have the famine been in the land:
and yet there are still five more years, in which there shall
be neither plowing nor harvest.
7 And Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a
remnant
2
in the earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
8 So now it was not you that sent me here, but Elohim:
and He has made me an abba to Pharaoh, and master of
all his bayit, and a ruler throughout all the land of
Mitzrayim.
9 Hurry, and go up to my abba, and say to him, This says
your son Yoseph, Elohim has made me master of all
Mitzrayim: come down to me, do not delay:
10 And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you
shall be near to me, you, and your children, and your
children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and
all that you have:
11 And there will I nourish you; for there are still five
years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that
you have, come to poverty.
12 And, look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benyamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
13 And you shall tell my abba of all my tifereth in
Mitzrayim, and of all that you have seen; and you shall
hurry and bring my abba down here.
14 And he fell upon his brother Benyamin's neck, and
wept; and Benyamin wept upon his neck.
15 Moreover he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon
them: and after that his brothers talked with him.
3
16 And the report was heard in Pharaoh's bayit, saying,
Yoseph's brothers have come: and it pleased Pharaoh
well, and his avadim.
17 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, Say to your brothers,
This do; load your beasts, and go, into the land of
Kanaan;
18 And take your abba and your households, and come to
me: and I will give you the tov of the land of Mitzrayim,
and you shall eat the fat of the land.
19 Now you are commanded, this do; take wagons out of
the land of Mitzrayim for your little ones, and for your
wives, and bring your abba, and come.
20 Also do not worry about your items; for the tov of all
the land of Mitzrayim is now yours.
21 And the children of Yisrael did so: and Yoseph gave
them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh,
1 Like their father Joseph, YHWH sent Efrayim to
preserve life in the world as dispersed Yisrael in order
to preserve and proclaim eternal life through the Good
News of Messiah’s kingdom.
2 Only a remnant from both houses of physical Yisrael
will be saved before entering the kingdom.
3 Dialogue as equal heirs along with repentance will
lead to reconciliation and restoration.
and gave them provision for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing;
but to Benyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver,
and five changes of clothing.
23 And to his abba he sent the following; ten donkeys
loaded with the tov things of Mitzrayim, and ten female
donkeys loaded with corn and lechem and food for his
abba by the way.
24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed: and
he said to them, See that you don’t quarrel on the way.
25 And they went up out of Mitzrayim, and came into the
land of Kanaan to Yaakov their abba,
26 And told him, saying, Yoseph is still alive, and he is
governor over all the land of Mitzrayim. And Yaakov's
lev fainted, for he believed them not.
27 And they told him all the words of Yoseph that he had
said to them: and when he saw the wagons that Yoseph
had sent to carry him, the ruach of Yaakov their abba
revived:
4
28 And Yisrael said, It is enough; Yoseph my son is still
alive: I will go and see him before I die.
And Yisrael took his journey with all that he had, and
came to Beer-Sheva, and offered sacrifices to the Elohim
of his abba Yitzchak.
2 And Elohim spoke to Yisrael in the visions of the night,
and said, Yaakov, Yaakov. And he said, Hinayni.
3 And He said, I am El, the El of your abba: fear not to
go down into Mitzrayim; for I will there make of you a
great nation – a goy
5
gadol:
6
4 I will go down with you into Mitzrayim; and I will also
surely bring you up again: and Yoseph shall put his hand
upon your eyes.
5 And Yaakov rose up from Beer-Sheva: and the sons of
Yisrael carried Yaakov their abba, and their little ones,
and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to
carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their items, which they
had gotten in the land of Kanaan, and came into
Mitzrayim, Yaakov, and all his zera with him:
7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and
his sons' daughters, and all his zera he brought with him
into Mitzrayim.
8 And these are the names of the children of Yisrael, who
came into Mitzrayim, Yaakov and his sons: Reuven,
Yaakov's bachor.
9 And the sons of Reuven; Hanoch, and Phallu, and
Hetzron, and Carmi.
10 And the sons of Shimeon; Yemu-El, and Yamin, and
Ohad, and Yachin, and Tzoar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman.
11 And the sons of Lewi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Yahudah; Er, and Onan, and Shelach,
and Peretz, and Zerach: but Er and Onan died in the land
4 Jospeh’s revelation of himself will bring revival to
Yisrael.
5 Yisrael called YHWH’s goy/nation.
6 There (in spite of famine) physical multiplication will
begin in earnest.
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of Kanaan.
1
And the sons of Peretz were Hetzron and
Hamul.
13 And the sons of Yissacher; Tola, and Phuvah, and
Iyov, and Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zevulon; Sered, and Elon,
and Yahle-El.
15 These are the sons of Leah, which she bore to Yaakov
in Padan-Aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the beings of
his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and
Ezvon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher; Yimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui,
and Beriyah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of
Beriyah; Hever, and Malchi-El.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Lavan gave to
Leah his daughter, and these she bore to Yaakov, even
sixteen beings.
19 The sons of Rachel Yaakov's wife; Yoseph, and
Benyamin.
20 And to Yoseph in the land of Mitzrayim were born
Menashsheh and Efrayim, who Asenath the daughter of
Poti-Pherah priest of On bore to him.
21 And the sons of Benyamin were Belah, and Becher,
and Ashvel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim,
and Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to
Yaakov: all the beings were fourteen.
23 And the son of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Yahze-El, and Guni, and
Yezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, who Lavan gave to
Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Yaakov: all the
beings were seven.
26 All the beings that came with Yaakov into Mitzrayim,
who came out of his loins, besides Yaakov's sons' wives,
all the beings were sixty-six.
27 And the sons of Yoseph, who were born to him in
Mitzrayim, were two beings: all the beings of Beit
Yaakov, who came into Mitzrayim, were seventy-five.
2
28 And he sent Yahudah before him to Yoseph, to direct
his face to Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen.
3
29 And Yoseph made ready his mirkavah, and went up to
meet Yisrael his abba, in Goshen, and presented himself
before him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck
a long while.
30 And Yisrael said to Yoseph, Now let me die, since I
have seen your face, because you are still alive.
31 And Yoseph said to his brothers, and to his abba's
bayit, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say to him, My
brothers, and my abba's bayit, who were in the land of
Kanaan, have come to me;
32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade has been to
feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their
1 For violating the Torah principle of physical
multiplicity.
2 According to the LXX, Dead Sea Scrolls and the
Renewed Covenant.
3 Judah will lead the way in the restoration, when they
behold two-house truth and Yahshua in all its fullness.
herds, and all that they have.
33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you,
and shall say, What is your occupation?
34 That you shall say, Your avadim’s trade has been with
cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our
ahvot: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every
shepherd is an abomination to the Mitzrim.
4
Then Yoseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My
abba and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have, came out of the land of Kanaan;
and, see, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 And he took some of his brothers, even five men, and
presented them to Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your
occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your avadim are
shepherds, both we, and also our ahvot.
4 They said moreover to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land
we have come; for your avadim have no pasture for their
flocks; for the famine is severe in the land of Kanaan:
therefore we ask you, let your avadim dwell in the land
of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spoke to Yoseph, saying, Your abba and
your brothers have come to you:
6 The land of Mitzrayim is before you; in the best of the
land make your abba and brothers to dwell; in the land of
Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any able men
among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
7 And Yoseph brought in Yaakov his abba, and set him
before Pharaoh: and Yaakov blessed Pharaoh.
8 And Pharaoh said to Yaakov, How old are you?
9 And Yaakov said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of
my pilgrimage
5
are a hundred thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my chayim been, and I have
not attained to the days of the years of the chayim of my
ahvot in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 And Yaakov blessed Pharaoh, and went out from
before Pharaoh.
11 And Yoseph placed his abba and his brothers, and
gave them a possession in the land of Mitzrayim, in the
best of the land, in the land of Raamses, as Pharaoh had
commanded.
12 And Yoseph nourished his abba, and his brothers, and
his abba’s entire household, with lechem, according to
their mishpachot.
13 And there was no lechem in all the land; for the famine
was very sore, so that the land of Mitzrayim and all the
land of Kanaan grew weak because of the famine.
14 And Yoseph gathered up all the money that was found
in the land of Mitzrayim, and in the land of Kanaan, for
the corn which they bought: and Yoseph brought the
money into Pharaoh's bayit.
15 And when money failed in the land of Mitzrayim, and
in the land of Kanaan, all the Mitzrim came to Yoseph,
4 Restored Yisrael is to be a nation of shepherds of
truth and love in the midst of a pagan culture.
5 Note the correct attitude of a born again Yisraelite.
The earth is not our home in this age, but in the age to
come, when the heavens and earth will become one,
even as the two houses are becoming one.
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and said, Give us lechem: for why should we die in your
presence? For the money is gone.
16 And Yoseph said, Give me your cattle; and I will give
you food for your cattle, if the money is gone.
17 And they brought their cattle to Yoseph: and Yoseph
gave them lechem in exchange for horses, and for the
flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys:
and he fed them with lechem for all their cattle for that
year.
18 When that year ended, they came to him the second
year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my master,
how that our money is spent; my master also has our
herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my
master, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Why shall we die before your eyes, both our land and
us? Buy us and our land for lechem, and we will be
avadim to Pharaoh: and give us zera, that we may live,
and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20 And Yoseph bought all the land of Mitzrayim for
Pharaoh; for the Mitzrim sold every man his field,
because the famine prevailed over them: so the land
became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
one end of the borders of Mitzrayim even to the other end
of it.
22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the
priests had a portion assigned to them by Pharaoh, and did
eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: That is why
they did not sell their lands.
23 Then Yoseph said to the people, See, I have bought
you this day and your land for Pharaoh: look, here is zera
for you, and you shall sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that you shall
give the fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your
own, for zera of the field, and for your food, and for those
of your households, and for food for your little ones.
25 And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find
favor in the sight of my master, and we will be Pharaoh's
avadim.
26 And Yoseph made it a law over the land of Mitzrayim
to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except
the land of the priests, which did not become Pharaoh's.
27 And Yisrael dwelt in the land of Mitzrayim, in the
country of Goshen; and they had possessions in it, and
grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Torah Parsha 12
Vayechi 47:28-50:26
Haftarah Melechim Alef 2:1-12
Brit Chadasha Ivrim 11:21-22
Kepha Alef 2:11-17
28 And Yaakov lived in the land of Mitzrayim seventeen
years: so the full age of Yaakov was a hundred forty
seven years.
29 And the time drew near that Yisrael must die: and he
called his son Yoseph, and said to him, If now I have
found favor in your sight, Please put your hand under my
thigh for the oath, and deal in chesed and emet with me.
Please do not bury me in Mitzrayim:
30 But I will lie with my ahvot, and you shall carry me
out of Mitzrayim, and bury me in their burial-place. And
he said, I will do as you have said.
31 And he said, Swear to me. And he swore to him. And
Yisrael bowed himself upon the bed's head.
And it came to pass after these things, that one told
Yoseph, See, your abba is sick: and he took with him his
two sons, Menashsheh and Efrayim.
2 And one told Yaakov, and said, See, your son Yoseph
comes to you: and Yisrael strengthened himself, and sat
upon the bed.
3 And Yaakov said to Yoseph, El-Shaddai appeared to me
at Luz in the land of Kanaan, and blessed me,
4 And said to me, See, I will make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and I will make you into a congregation of
nations – kahal amim;
1
and will give this land to your
zera after you for an everlasting possession.
5 And now your two sons, Efrayim and Menashsheh, who
were born to you in the land of Mitzrayim before I came
to you in Mitzrayim, are mine; as Reuven and Shimeon,
they shall be mine.
2
6 And your issue, which you beget after them, shall be
yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers
in their inheritance.
3
7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died
next to me in the land of Kanaan on the way, when yet
there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and I buried
her there in the derech of Ephrath; the same is Beth-
Lechem.
8 And Yisrael beheld Yoseph's sons, and said, Who are
these?
4
9 And Yoseph said to his abba, They are my sons, whom
Elohim has given me in this place. And he said, Please
bring them to me, and I will bless them.
10 Now the eyes of Yisrael were dim for age, so that he
could not see. And he brought them near to him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And Yisrael said to Yoseph, I had not thought to see
your face ever again: and, see, Elohim has shown me also
your zera.
12 And Yoseph brought them out from between his
knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13 And Yoseph took them both, Efrayim in his right hand
toward Yisrael's left hand, and Menashsheh in his left
hand toward Yisrael's right hand, and brought them near
1 Le kahal amim, or congregation of nations as fulfilled
by Messiah the Restorer of our nation, who has
assembled a congregation from out of all the scattered
Yisraelite nations.
2 A profound event and declaration. They are Jacob’s
physical grandchildren, and as such they are already
physical Yisrael. But here he equates them to a status
of his sons, not merely his grandsons, and officially
places them into the tribal equation.
3 Jacob demands that Efrayim and Manasseh be
considered and verbally called Yisrael/Yisraelites
along with all their children for all future generations.
4 Perhaps Jacob/Yisrael is testing Joseph to see if he
grasped the prior declarations. Of course his sight is
diminishing as well.
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to him.
1
14 And Yisrael stretched out his right hand, and laid it
upon Efrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left
hand upon Menashsheh’s head, guiding his hands
knowingly; for Menashsheh was the bachor.
2
15 And he blessed Yoseph, and said, Elohim, before
whom my ahvot Avraham and Yitzchak did have their
halacha, the Elohim who fed me all my chayim long to
this day,
16 The Malach who redeemed me from all evil,
3
bless
the lads; and let my name-Yisrael be named on them,
4
and the name of my ahvot Avraham and Yitzchak; and let
them grow into a multitude like fish –vayi-dag-oo
lerov
5
in the midst of the earth.
17 And when Yoseph saw that his abba laid his right hand
upon the head of Efrayim, it displeased him: and he held
up his abba's hand, to remove it from Efrayim's head to
Menashsheh’s head.
18 And Yoseph said to his abba, Not so, my abba: for this
is the bachor; put your right hand upon his head.
6
19 And his abba refused, and said, I know it, my son, I
know it:
7
he also shall become a people,
8
and he also
shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be
greater than him, and his zera shall become the fullness of
the gentile nations – melo ha-goyim.
9
1 The right hand is the one of imparted favor and
blessing. Reserved for the firstborn.
2 This is no mistake. Notice the term “knowingly.”
YHWH was taking the next step to bring about
Yisrael’s growth, division and end-time regathering.
3 The Angel of His Presence, or Yahshua, called the
Guardian, or Metatron who alone can redeem from
sin’s wages.
4 His name was Yisrael, and he declares again that
Efrayim and Manasseh’s descendants are physical
Yisrael carrying that very literal name.
5 Vayidagoo lerov, may they grow into a multitude of
fish in the midst of the olam, or earth. This is an
amazing prophecy, whereby YHWH through the dying
man Yisrael, pinpoints that the offspring of the people
of Efrayim and Manasseh, known later on as the 10
tribes (not two), would literally fill the globe with
Yisraelites. We see the ingathering officially begin later
in Mattityahu/Matthew 4:19, where the disciples are
sent to fish for the men of Yisrael and are called to be
Yahshua’s fishermen, sent to catch the wandering and
floating fish of Yisrael in the midst of all the earth.
6 Man’s ways are not YHWH’s ways.
7 Jacob knew what he was doing in the Spirit. Do you?
8 Could this be a specific nation?
9 Melo ha-goyim, or the “fullness of the gentiles.”
Efrayim’s seed later collected in the ten tribes of the
northern kingdom would produce the “fullness of the
gentiles.” This is a marvelous revelation that most socalled
gentiles are in fact Yisrael’s physical children.
Of course, they still need blood-atonement-salvation to
become true redeemed remnant Yisrael. Paul confirms
this clear understanding in Romans 11:25-26, when he
speaks of the “fullness of the gentiles” as those who
20 And he blessed them that day,
10
saying, In you shall
Yisrael bless, saying, Elohim make you as Efrayim and
as Menashsheh:
11
and he set Efrayim before
Menashsheh.
12
21 And Yisrael said to Yoseph, See, I die: but Elohim
shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your
ahvot.
13
22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your
brothers that I took out of the hand of the Amorite with
my sword and with my bow.
14
And Yaakov called to his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together,
15
that I may tell you that which shall
befall you in the last days.
16
2 Gather yourselves together,
17
and listen, you sons of
Yaakov, and listen to Yisrael your abba.
3 Reuven, you are my bachor, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and
the excellency of power:
4 Unstable as mayim, you shall not excel; because you
went up to your abba's bed; then you defiled it: he went
up to my couch.
18
5 Shimeon and Lewi are brothers; instruments of cruelty
are in their dwellings.
6 O my being, come not into their secret; let not my
honor, be united to their congregation:
19
for in their
will come in as believing returning Yisrael in the last of
the last days.
10 He sealed the revelation through prayer and the
laying on of hands, a Yisraelite custom.
11 This sealing of Yisrael’s non-Jewish peoples is still
found in the Jewish Daily Prayer book - the siddur.
12 For Yahshua’s assembly is greater than any
individual physical nation. Yahshua's nation is both
physical and spiritual Yisrael, as opposed to a mere
physical nation.
13 Joseph is once again declaring this truth. Efrayim, or
the ten tribes are even now returning to the land of
Yisrael.
14 The wealth of the gentile heathen Amorites are laid
up for redeemed Yisrael. Yisrael is the head and never
the tail. Do not let anyone steal your birthright as the
firstborn.
15 All twelve tribes will be gathered in the last days.
That is why this message is in the forefront of YHWH’s
agenda at this point in man’s history.
16 This bedside meeting is a plain foreshadow of
Yisrael’s sons gathered to hear YHWH’s word in the
latter-days.
17 The second time this phrase is used in these verses,
signifying YHWH’s desire for both houses to be active
in the ingathering of the two houses into one restored
nation in the latter-days.
18 Firstborn status transferred to Efrayim.
19 A type of an assembly, or religious institution that
destroys those who teach Renewed Covenant
circumcision as did these sons in the incident in
Shechem (chapter 34), destroying newly circumcised
covenant keeping men desiring to join Yisrael. Let
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anger they killed a man, and in their displeasure and selfwill
they hamstrung an ox in pleasure.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their anger,
for it was cruel: I will divide them in Yaakov, and scatter
them in Yisrael.
8 Yahudah, you are he whom your brothers shall hallel:
your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your
abba's children shall bow down before you.
9 Yahudah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you
have gone up: he stooped down; he couched as a lion, and
as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Yahudah nor a
lawgiver from between His feet, until Shiloh comes; to
Him shall the gathering of the nations be.
1
11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey's colt to
the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his
clothes in the dahm of grapes:
2
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white
with milk.
13 Zevulon shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he
shall be for a haven of ships; and his border shall be to
Tzidon.
14 Yissacher is a strong donkey couching down between two
burdens:
3
15 And he saw that rest was tov, and the land that it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became an
eved to tribute.
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Yisrael.
17 Dan shall be a serpent in the Way,
4
an adder in the path
that bites the horse’s heels, so that its Rider shall fall
backward.
5
18 I have waited for Your Yahshua, O vuvh.
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at the end.
20 Out of Asher his lechem shall be fat, and he shall yield
royal dainties.
21 Naphtali is a deer let loose: he gives beautiful words.
22 Yoseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a
well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 The archers have severely grieved him, and shot at
him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his
hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty
Yisrael heed Jacob’s warning not to be joined to such
foolishness, or such a ministry.
1 The end-time Yisraelite nations gathered into one,
along with all other non-biological Yisraelite believing
peoples, who have joined as friends through Messiah’s
blood. See notes on Ezekiel, chapter 37:16-28.
2 His (Messiah’s) blood likened unto grapes of red.
3 Many who love and long for Yisrael’s two-house
restoration can be found carrying burdens and love for
both houses, and are from Issachar. Primarily the
Swiss.
4 Early Torah keeping believers were called the “Way.”
5 Dan will be primary in promoting much of Yisrael’s
future idolatry and will bite the people of YHWH, those
who follow the coming Messiah, the Rider on the white
horse.
Elohim of Yaakov; (from there comes the Shepherd, the
Stone of Yisrael)
25 Even by the El of your abba, who shall help you; and
by the Almighty, who shall bless you with brachot of the
shamayim above, brachot of the deep that lies beneath,
brachot of the breasts, and of the womb:
6
26 The brachot of your abba have prevailed above the
brachot of my ancestors to the utmost border of the
everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Yoseph, and
on the keter of the head of him that was separate
from his brothers.
7
27 Benyamin shall tear as a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the plunder.
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Yisrael: and this is
what their abba spoke to them, and blessed them; every
one according to their bracha, he blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be
gathered to my people: bury me with my ahvot in the cave
that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is
before Mamre, in the land of Kanaan, that Avraham
bought along with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a
possession for a burial-place.
31 There they buried Avraham and Sarah his wife; there
they buried Yitzchak and Rivkah his wife; and there I
buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is there
was from the children of Cheth.
33 And when Yaakov had made an end of commanding
his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded
up the ruach, and was gathered to his people.
And Yoseph fell upon his abba's face, and wept upon
him, and kissed him.
2 And Yoseph commanded his avadim the physicians to
embalm his abba: and the physicians embalmed Yisrael.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are
fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed: and the
Mitzrim mourned for him seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Yoseph
spoke to the bayit of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found
favor in your eyes, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
5 My abba made me swear, saying, See, I desire to die in
my grave that I have dug for myself in the land of
Kanaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go
up, please, and bury my abba, and I will return again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your abba, even as
he made you swear.
7 And Yoseph went up to bury his abba: and with him
went up all the avadim of Pharaoh, the shamashim of his
bayit, and all the shamashim of the land of Mitzrayim,
8 And all of Beit Yoseph, and his brothers, and his abba's
bayit: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their
herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both mirkavot and
horsemen: and it was a very great company.
8
6 The promise of physical multiplicity through Joseph.
7 Remains true today.
8 The Book of Jashar provides much detail on this
funeral procession. Amazingly it states that all 12 sons
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10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is
beyond the Yarden River, and there they mourned with a
great and very severe lamentation: and he mourned for his
abba sheva yamim.
1
11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kanaanites,
saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a
severe mourning for the Mitzrim: Therefore the name of it
was called Havel-Mitzrayim, which is beyond the Yarden.
12 And his sons did to him according to all he
commanded them:
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Kanaan, and
buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, that
Avraham bought along with the field as a possession for a
burial-place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 And Yoseph returned into Mitzrayim, he, and his
brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his abba,
after he had buried his abba.
15 And when Yoseph's brothers saw that their abba was
dead, they said, Yoseph maybe will hate us, and will
certainly repay us all the evil that we did to him.
16 And they sent a messenger to Yoseph, saying, Your
abba did command before he died, saying,
17 So shall you say to Yoseph, Please forgive the trespass
of your brothers, for their sin; for they did to you evil: and
now, we beg you, forgive the trespass of the avadim of
the Elohim of your abba. And Yoseph wept when they
spoke to him.
18 And his brothers also went and fell down before his
face; and they said, See, we will be your avadim.
19 And Yoseph said to them, Fear not: for am I in the
place of Elohim?
20 But as for you, you thought evil against me; but
Elohim meant it for tov, to bring to pass, as it is this day,
to save many people alive.
21 Now therefore fear not: I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to
them.
22 And Yoseph dwelt in Mitzrayim, he, and his abba's
bayit: and Yoseph lived one hundred ten years.
that carried the coffin were placed in the identical
order in which the 12 tribes would later encamp
around the wilderness Tabernacle.
1 This is the origin of the Yisraelite custom of sitting
shiva, or sitting for seven days of mourning for the
dead.

23 And Yoseph saw Efrayim's children until the third
generation: the children also of Machir, the son
Menashsheh, were brought up upon Yoseph's knees.
24 And Yoseph said to his brothers, I will
soon die: and Elohim will surely visit you, and bring you
out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to
Yitzchak, and to Yaakov.
25 And Yoseph took an oath from the children of Yisrael,
saying, Elohim will surely visit you, and you shall carry
up my bones from here.
26 So Yoseph died, being one hundred ten years old:
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in
Mitzrayim. ,
Chazak Chazak VeNitchazak
Be Strong Be Strong!
And May We Be Strengthened!