Exodus 12:43-49 – (Passover Regulations – Gen. 17:9–14; Ex. 12:1–13) 43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it. 44 But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 A sojourner and …
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57. Let’s talk more about טוב
From the last entry: Here are those three verses: Genesis 11:6 6 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה הֵ֣ן עַ֤ם אֶחָד֙ וְשָׂפָ֤ה אַחַת֙ לְכֻלָּ֔ם וְזֶ֖ה הַחִלָּ֣ם לַעֲשֹׂ֑ות וְעַתָּה֙ לֹֽא־יִבָּצֵ֣ר מֵהֶ֔ם כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָזְמ֖וּלַֽעֲשֹֽׂות׃ Genesis 11:6 6 And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Psalms 16:5 5 יְֽהוָ֗ה מְנָת־חֶלְקִ֥י וְכוֹסִ֑י אַ֝תָּ֗ה תּוֹמִ֥יךְ גּוֹרָלִֽי׃ Psalms 16:5 …
55. Answers, continued
If there is anyone out there that I have not yet offended, read here. I will surely offend you today. Again, simply trying to share a few of thousands of connected threads in the Hebrew. Your choice to hear or not. Let’s return to this image: This discussion is purposely a continuation of the previous …
54. Answers
In life are many blessings. They come in many forms. Ofttimes we don’t recognize the blessings, thinking they may be curses. It all goes back to our inability to really comprehend what is consumed from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God knows. We try our best to understand, but God’s perspective …
53. Jerusalem-City of Jebus
I began a project to take another look at “All Those Nations” we discussed in Post #43, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, Jebusites, by using some of the newer tools we have been working with recently. I began with the last on the list, the Jebusites. You will see that this is a study …
51. Look for the Name
Many of the tribe of Judah call God by the name of HaShem, meaning “the name,” השם. First, I did a search of the word השם in the Hebrew Scriptures without prefixes or suffixes. It seems we always get some surprises with these searches. AlHaTorah השם no prefixes and no suffixes https://library.alhatorah.org/Search?mode=basic&p=0&c=1&s=0&t=השם&distance=10&inorder=0&en=1¬es=1&tree=shallow Tanakh (9 results) 1. Bereshit 6:4 (Mikraot Gedolot) הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם וְגַם אַחֲרֵי כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם הֵמָּההַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם. Genesis 6:4 …
50. “Book of Remembrance”
Apologies that there are very few apparent connections among the past couple of entries and this one. There are so very many connections to be made and so much background information in Oder for the connections to make sense. So, here we are going to be introducing a very important concept about “to remember,” which …