Monday - 10-Jan-2011;
(5-Shevat-5771). Day 2 before Shabbat - Parasha Beshalach - When He Sent.
Exodus
14.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Red Sea Crossing. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they
turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal
Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,
‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will
follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies;
and the Egyptians shall know that I am YHWH!” They did so.
5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people
had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the
people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go
from serving us?”
6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army
with him;
7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and
all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
8 YHWH hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel
went out with a high hand.
9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the
horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of
Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after
them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to YHWH!
11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no
graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you
treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in
Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it were
better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness.”
13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid.
Stand still, and see the salvation of YHWH, which he will work for you today:
for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
14 YHWH will fight for you, and you shall be
still.”
15 YHWH said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me?
Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand
over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst
of the sea on dry ground.
17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over
Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
18 The Egyptians shall know that I am YHWH,
when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his
horsemen.”
19 The angel of ELOHIM, who went before the
camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from
before them, and stood behind them.
20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the
camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by
night: and the one didn’t come near the other all the night.
21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and YHWH caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and
made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 The children of Israel went into the midst
of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right
hand, and on their left.
23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after
them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his
horsemen.
24 It happened in the morning watch, that YHWH
looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and
confused the Egyptian army.
25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they
drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of
Israel, for YHWH fights for them against the Egyptians!”
26 YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand
over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their
chariots, and on their horsemen.”
27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it. YHWH overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.
28 The waters returned, and covered the
chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into
the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked on dry
land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right
hand, and on their left.
30 Thus YHWH saved Israel that day out of the
hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
31 Israel saw the great work which YHWH did to
the Egyptians, and the people feared YHWH; and they believed in YHWH, and in
his servant Moses.
Acts
19.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Paul at Ephesus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
It happened that, while Apollos
was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus,
and found certain disciples.
2 He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy
Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that
there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 He said, “Into what then were you immersed?”
They said, “Into John’s immersion.”
4 Paul said, “John indeed immersed with the
immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the
one who would come after him, that is, in YESHUA!”
5 When they heard this, they were immersed in
the name of ADONAI YESHUA!
6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the
Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
7 They were about twelve men in all.
8 He entered into the synagogue, and spoke
boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things
concerning the Kingdom of ELOHIM!
9 But when some were hardened and disobedient,
speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and
separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
10 This continued for two years, so that all
those who lived in Asia heard the word of ADONAI YESHUA, both Jews and Greeks.
11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Miracles Glorify Messiah. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
ELOHIM worked special miracles by
the hands of Paul,
12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were
carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.
13 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists,
took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of
ADONAI YESHUA, saying, “We adjure you by YESHUA whom Paul preaches.”
14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish
chief priest, who did this.
15 The evil spirit answered, “YESHUA I know,
and Paul I know, but who are you?”
16 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped
on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled
out of that house naked and wounded.
17 This became known to all, both Jews and
Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of ADONAI
YESHUA was magnified.
18 Many also of those who had believed came,
confessing, and declaring their deeds.
19 Many of those who practiced magical arts
brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted
their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20 So the word of ADONAI was growing and
becoming mighty.
21 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Riot at Ephesus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Now after these things had ended,
Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia,
to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who
served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
23 About that time there arose no small stir
concerning the Way.
24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a
silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to
the craftsmen,
25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen
of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our
wealth.
26 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone,
but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many
people, saying that they are no idol_gods, that are made with hands.
27 Not only is there danger that this our trade
come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will
be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world
worships.”
28 When they heard this they were filled with
anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
29 The whole city was filled with confusion,
and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and
Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.
30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people,
the disciples didn’t allow him.
31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his
friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some
another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they
had come together.
33 They brought Alexander out of the multitude,
the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have
made a defense to the people.
34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew,
all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis
of the Ephesians!”
35 When the town clerk had quieted the
multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know
that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis,
and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
36 Seeing then that these things can’t be
denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.
37 For you have brought these men here, who are
neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who
are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are
proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
39 But if you seek anything about other
matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused
concerning this day’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be
able to give an account of this commotion.”
41 When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the
assembly.
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Tuesday
- 11-Jan-2011; (6-Shevat-5771). Day 3 before Shabbat - Parasha Beshalach - When
He Sent.
Exodus
15.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Song of Moses. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Then Moses and the children of
Israel sang this song to YHWH, and said,
“I will sing to YHWH, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into
the sea.
2 YHWH is my strength and song. He has become my salvation [yeshu`ah]. This is my ELOHIM, and I will praise
him; my father’s ELOHIM, and I will
exalt him.
3 YHWH is a man of war. YHWH is his name.
4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army
into the sea. His chosen captains are
sunk in the Sea of Suf.
5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
6 Your right hand, YHWH, is glorious in
power. Your right hand, YHWH, dashes
the enemy in pieces.
7 In the greatness of your excellency, you
overthrow those who rise up against you.
You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters
were piled up. The floods stood upright
as a heap. The deeps were congealed in
the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will
overtake. I will divide the spoil. My
desire shall be satisfied on them. I
will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like you, YHWH, among the
idol_gods? Who is like you, glorious in
holiness, fearful in praises, doing
wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the
people that you have redeemed. You have
guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of
Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are
melted away.
16 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as
still as a stone until your people
pass over, YHWH, until the people pass
over who you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in
the mountain of your inheritance, the
place, YHWH, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, ADONAI, which your hands have
established.
18 YHWH shall reign forever and ever.”
19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his
chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and YHWH brought back the waters
of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst
of the sea.
20 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Song of Miriam. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Miriam the prophetess, the sister
of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her
with tambourines and with dances.
21 Miriam answered them, “Sing to YHWH, for he has triumphed
gloriously. The horse and his rider he
has thrown into the sea.”
22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Bitter Waters Made Sweet. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Moses led Israel onward from the
Sea of Suf, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three
days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink
from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called
Marah.
24 The people murmured against Moses, saying,
“What shall we drink?”
25 Then he cried to YHWH! YHWH showed him a
tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he
made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
26 and he said, “If you will diligently listen
to the voice of YHWH your ELOHIM, and will do that which is right in his eyes,
and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will
put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am
YHWH who heals you.”
27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve
springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the
waters.
Acts
20.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Journeys in Greece. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
After the uproar had ceased, Paul
sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
2 When he had gone through those parts, and had
encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
3 When he had spent three months there, and a
plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he
determined to return through Macedonia.
4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater
of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy;
and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
5 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting
for us at Troas.
6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days
of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed
seven days.
7 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Ministering at Troas. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
On the first day of the week, when
the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them,
intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
8 There were many lights in the upper room
where we were gathered together.
9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the
window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed
down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.
10 Paul went down, and fell upon him, and
embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread,
and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he
departed.
12 They brought the boy in alive, and were
greatly comforted.
13 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. From Troas to Miletus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
But we who went ahead to the ship
set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so
arranged, intending himself to go by land.
14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard,
and came to Mitylene.
15 Sailing from there, we came the following
day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium,
and the day after we came to Miletus.
16 For Paul had determined to sail past
Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if
it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Shavuot.
17 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Ephesian Elders Exhorted. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus,
and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
18 When they had come to him, he said to them,
“You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was
with you all the time,
19 serving ADONAI with all humility, with many
tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
20 how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you
anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks
repentance toward ELOHIM, and faith toward our ADONAI YESHUA!
22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to
Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in
every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
24 But these things don’t count; nor do I hold
my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry
which I received from ADONAI YESHUA, to fully testify to the Good News of the
grace of ELOHIM!
25 “Now, behold, I know that you all, among
whom I went about proclaiming the Kingdom of ELOHIM, will see my face no more.
26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I
am clean from the blood of all men,
27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you
the whole counsel of ELOHIM!
28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to
all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the
assembly of ADONAI and ELOHIM which he purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know that after my departure, vicious
wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Men will arise from among your own selves,
speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a
period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with
tears.
32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to ELOHIM, and
to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the
inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
33 I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or
clothing.
34 You yourselves know that these hands served
my necessities, and those who were with me.
35 In all things I gave you an example, that so
laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of ADONAI
YESHUA, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt
down and prayed with them all.
37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck
and kissed him,
38 sorrowing most of all because of the word
which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they
accompanied him to the ship.
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Wednesday
- 12-Jan-2011; (7-Shevat-5771). Day 4 before - Parasha Beshalach - When He
Sent.
Exodus
16.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Bread from Heaven. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
They took their journey from Elim,
and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of
Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 The whole congregation of the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
3 and the children of Israel said to them, “We
wish that we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into
this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
4 Then YHWH said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain
bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s
portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my Torah (teaching
and instruction), or not.
5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that
they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as
they gather daily.”
6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of
Israel, “At evening, then you shall know that YHWH has brought you out from the
land of Egypt;
7 and in the morning, then you shall see the
glory of YHWH; because he hears your murmurings against YHWH! Who are we, that
you murmur against us?”
8 Moses said, “Now YHWH shall give you meat to
eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because YHWH hears
your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings
are not against us, but against YHWH!”
9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the
congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before YHWH, for he has
heard your murmurings.’”
10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,
and behold, the glory of YHWH appeared in the cloud.
11 YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children
of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the
morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am YHWH your
ELOHIM!’”
13 It happened at evening that quail came up
and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on
the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on
the ground.
15 When the children of Israel saw it, they
said one to another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said
to them, “It is the bread which YHWH has given you to eat.”
16 This is the thing which YHWH has commanded:
“Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to
the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in
his tent.”
17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered
some more, some less.
18 When they measured it with an omer, he who
gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They
gathered every man according to his eating.
19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it
until the morning.”
20 Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses,
but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became
foul: and Moses was angry with them.
21 They gathered it morning by morning,
everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
22 It happened that on the sixth day they
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses.
23 He said to them, “This is that which YHWH
has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to YHWH! Bake that which
you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains
over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”
24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses
asked, and it didn’t become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath
to YHWH! Today you shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the
seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”
27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of
the people went out to gather, and they found none.
28 YHWH said to Moses, “How long do you refuse
to keep my commandments and my Torah (teachings and instructions)?
29 Behold, because YHWH has given you the
Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days.
Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 The house of Israel called its name Manna,
and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with
honey.
32 Moses said, “This is the thing which YHWH
has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations,
that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I
brought you forth from the land of Egypt.’”
33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an
omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before YHWH, to be kept throughout your
generations.”
34 As YHWH commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up
before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty
years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came
to the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an efah.
Acts
21.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Warnings on the Journey to
Jerusalem. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
When it happened that we had
parted from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and
the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
2 Having found a ship crossing over to
Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving
it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship
was to unload her cargo.
4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven
days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to
Jerusalem.
5 When it happened that we had accomplished the
days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children,
brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the
beach, we prayed.
6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went
on board the ship, and they returned home again.
7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we
arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
8 On the next day, we, who were Paul’s
companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip
the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who
prophesied.
10 As we stayed there some days, a certain
prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
11 Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he
bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will
the Judeans at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him
into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
12 When we heard these things, both we and they
of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing,
weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to
die at Jerusalem for the name of ADONAI YESHUA!”
14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased,
saying, “ADONAI’s will be done.”
15 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Paul Urged to Make Peace. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
After these days we took up our
baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also
went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we
would stay.
17 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers
received us gladly.
18 The day following, Paul went in with us to
Jacob; and all the elders were present.
19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by
one the things which ELOHIM had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
20 They, when they heard it, glorified ELOHIM!
They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the
Judeans of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Torah.
21 They have been informed about you, that you
teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them
not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet,
for they will hear that you have come.
23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four
men who have taken a vow.
24 Take them, and purify yourself with them,
and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will
know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about
you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the Torah.
25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we
have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that
they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from
strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
26 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Arrested in the Temple. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Then Paul took the men, and the
next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the
fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for
every one of them.
27 When the seven days were almost completed,
the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the
multitude and laid hands on him,
28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is
the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the Torah, and
this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled
this holy place!”
29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian,
with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the
temple.
30 All the city was moved, and the people ran
together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the
doors were shut.
31 As they were trying to kill him, news came
up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an
uproar.
32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions,
and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers,
stopped beating Paul.
33 Then the commanding officer came near,
arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he
was and what he had done.
34 Some shouted one thing, and some another,
among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he
commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
35 When he came to the stairs, it happened that
he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
36 for the multitude of the people followed
after, crying out, “Away with him!”
37 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Addressing the Jerusalem Mob. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
As Paul was about to be brought
into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He
said, “Do you know Greek?
38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before
these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four
thousand men of the Assassins?”
39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in
Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to
the people.”
40 When he had given him permission, Paul,
standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a
great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,
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Thursday
- 13-Jan-2011; (8-Shevat-5771). Day 5 before - Parasha Beshalach - When He
Sent.
Exodus
17:1-16.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Water from the Rock. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
All the congregation of the
children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys,
according to YHWH’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no
water for the people to drink.
2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses,
and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel
with me? Why do you test YHWH?”
3 The people were thirsty for water there; and
the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
4 Moses cried to YHWH, saying, “What shall I do
with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5 YHWH said to Moses, “Walk on before the
people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand
with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the
rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that
the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 He called the name of the place Massah, and
Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested YHWH,
saying, “Is YHWH among us, or not?”
8 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Victory over the Amalekites. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Then Amalek came and fought with
Israel in Rephidim.
9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and
go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with
ELOHIM’s rod in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and
fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that
Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a
stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady
until sunset.
13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with
the edge of the sword.
14 YHWH said to Moses, “Write this for a
memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly
blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
15 Moses built an altar, and called its name
YHWH our Banner.
16 He said, “YAH has sworn: ‘YHWH will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
Acts
22.
1 “Brothers and fathers, listen to
the defense which I now make to you.”
2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the
Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
3 “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of
Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed
according to the strict tradition of the Torah (teaching and instruction) of
our fathers, being zealous for ELOHIM, even as you all are this day.
4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding
and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5 As also the high priest and all the council
of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and
traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to
be punished.
6 It happened that, as I made my journey, and
came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great
light around me.
7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice
saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8 I answered, ‘Who are you, ADONAI?’ He said to
me, ‘I am YESHUA of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’
9 “Those who were with me indeed saw the light
and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
10 I said, ‘What shall I do, ADONAI?’ ADONAI
said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all
things which are appointed for you to do.’
11 When I couldn’t see for the glory of that
light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
12 One Hananiah, a devout man according to the
Torah, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
13 came to me, and standing by me said to me,
‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.
14 He said, ‘The ELOHIM of our fathers has
appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a
voice from his mouth.
15 For you will be a witness for him to all men
of what you have seen and heard.
16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be immersed, and
wash away your sins, calling on the name of ADONAI.’
17 “It happened that, when I had returned to
Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
18 and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out
of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me
from you.’
19 I said, ‘ADONAI, they themselves know that I
imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was
shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the
cloaks of those who killed him.’
21 “He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you
out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Paul's Roman Citizenship. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
They listened to him until he said
that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow,
for he isn’t fit to live!”
23 As they cried out, and threw off their
cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
24 the commanding officer commanded him to be
brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he
might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul
asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it legal for you to scourge a man who is
a Roman, and not found guilty?”
26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the
commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man
is a Roman!”
27 The commanding officer came and asked him,
“Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said, “Yes.”
28 The commanding officer answered, “I bought
my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
29 Immediately those who were about to examine
him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he
realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
30 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Sanhedrin Divided. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
But on the next day, desiring to
know the truth about why he was accused by the Judeans, he freed him from the
bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together,
and brought Paul down and set him before them.
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Friday
- 14-Jan-2011; (9-Shevat-5771). Day 6 before - Parasha Beshalach - When He
Sent.
Haftarah:
Judges
5:1-31.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Song of Deborah. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day,
saying,
2 “Because the leaders took the lead_ in
Israel, because the people offered themselves
willingly, be blessed, YHWH!
3 “Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I,
even I, will sing to YHWH! I will sing
praise to YHWH, the ELOHIM of Israel.
4 “YHWH, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of
Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also
dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
5 The mountains quaked at the presence of
YHWH, even Sinai, at the presence of
YHWH, the ELOHIM of Israel.
6 “In the days of Shamgar the son of
Anath, in the days of Jael, the
highways were unoccupied. The travelers
walked through byways.
7 The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new idol_gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty
thousand in Israel?
9 My heart is toward the governors of
Israel, who offered themselves
willingly among the people. Bless YHWH!
10 “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.
11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places
of drawing water, there they will
rehearse the righteous acts of YHWH,
the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then the people of YHWH went down to the gates.
12 ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives,
you son of Abinoam.’
13 “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people
came down. YHWH came down for me
against the mighty.
14 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of
Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among
your peoples. Governors come down out
of Machir. Those who handle the
marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.
15 The princes of Issachar were with
Deborah. As was Issachar, so was
Barak. They rushed into the valley at
his feet. By the watercourses of
Reuben, there were great resolves of
heart.
16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the
sea, and lived by his creeks.
18 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their
lives_
to the deaths; Naphtali also, on the
high places of the field.
19 “The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach
by the waters of Megiddo. They took no
plunder of silver.
20 From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against
Sisera.
21 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
22 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the
prancings, the prancings of their
strong ones.
23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of YHWH! ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help YHWH, to help YHWH against the mighty.’
24 “Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the
tent.
25 He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a noble dish.
26 She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s
hammer. With the hammer she struck
Sisera. She struck through his
head. Yes, she pierced and struck
through his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28 “Through the window she looked out, and
cried: Sisera’s mother looked through
the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so
long in coming? Why do the wheels of
his chariots wait?’
29 Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
30 ‘Have they not found, have they not divided
the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every
man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed
garments, a spoil of dyed garments
embroidered, of dyed garments
embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?’
31 “So let all your enemies perish, YHWH, but let those who love him be as the sun
when it rises forth in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
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Saturday
- 15-Jan-2011; (10-Shevat-5771); Shabbat - Parasha Beshalach - When He Sent.
Acts
23.
1 Paul, looking steadfastly at the
council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before ELOHIM in all good conscience
until this day.”
2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who
stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
3 Then Paul said to him, “ELOHIM will strike
you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the Torah, and
command me to be struck contrary to the Torah?”
4 Those who stood by said, “Do you malign
ELOHIM’s high priest?”
5 Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he
was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of
your people.’”
6 But when Paul perceived that the one part
were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and
brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and
resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
7 When he had said this, an argument arose
between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
8 For the Sadducees say that there is no
resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes
of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this
man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against
ELOHIM!”
10 When a great argument arose, the commanding
officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the
soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into
the barracks.
11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Plot Against Paul . .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
The following night, ADONAI stood
by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at
Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
12 When it was day, some of the Judeans banded
together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither
eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
13 There were more than forty people who had
made this conspiracy.
14 They came to the chief priests and the
elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste
nothing until we have killed Paul.
15 Now therefore, you with the council inform
the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though
you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before
he comes near.”
16 But Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying
in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and
said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to
tell him.”
18 So he took him, and brought him to the
commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to
bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you.”
19 The commanding officer took him by the hand,
and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
20 He said, “The Judeans have agreed to ask you
to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire
somewhat more accurately concerning him.
21 Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than
forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither
to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for
the promise from you.”
22 So the commanding officer let the young man
go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
23 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Sent to Felix . .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
He called to himself two of the
centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea,
with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour
of the night.”
24 He asked them to provide animals, that they
might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
25 He wrote a letter like this:
26 “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent
governor Felix: Greetings.
27 “This man was seized by the Judeans, and was
about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him,
having learned that he was a Roman.
28 Desiring to know the cause why they accused
him, I brought him down to their council.
29 I found him to be accused about questions of
their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of
imprisonment.
30 When I was told that the Judeans lay in wait
for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring
their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders,
took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
32 But on the next day they left the horsemen
to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
33 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the
letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
34 When the governor had read_ it, he
asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia,
he said,
35 “I will hear you fully when your accusers
also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
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