Special
Sabbath - Shabbat Parah - Sabbath of the Red Heifer.
Numbers
19:1-22, Ezekiel 36:16-38.
Shabbat
Parah:
Numbers
19:1-22.
1 . Teaching and Instructions
of Purification. .
YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
2 “This is the statute of the Torah (teaching
and instruction) which YHWH has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel,
that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and
which was never yoked.
3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and
he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his
face:
4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her
blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of
Meeting seven times.
5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her
skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
6 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and
hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and
he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp,
and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in
water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes
of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it
shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for
impurity: it is a sin offering.
10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the
children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them,
for a statute forever.
11 “He who touches the dead body of any man
shall be unclean seven days:
12 the same shall purify himself with water on
the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn’t
purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a
man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of YHWH;
and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was
not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.
14 “This is the Torah-instruction when a man
dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the
tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 Every open vessel, which has no covering
bound on it, is unclean.
16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who
is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be
unclean seven days.
17 “For the unclean they shall take of the
ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put
thereto in a vessel:
18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and
dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and
on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain,
or the dead, or the grave:
19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the
unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he
shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and shall be clean at evening.
20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall
not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly,
because he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH: the water for impurity has not
been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and
he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who
touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall
be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
Ezekiel
36:16-38.
16 . The Renewal of Israel. .
Moreover the word of YHWH came to
me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived
in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way
before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for
the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled
it with their idols;
19 and I scattered them among the nations, and
they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them.
20 When they came to the nations, where they
went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the
people of YHWH, and are gone forth out of his land.
21 But I had respect for my holy name, which
the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.
22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus
says ADONAI YHWH: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my
holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
23 I will sanctify my great name, which has
been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and
the nations shall know that I am YHWH, says ADONAI YHWH, when I shall be
sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the nations,
and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I
cleanse you.
26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will
put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause
you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to
your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your ELOHIM!
29 I will save you from all your uncleanness:
and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and
the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine
among the nations.
31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and
your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
32 Nor for your sake do I this, says ADONAI
YHWH, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of
Israel.
33 Thus says ADONAI YHWH: In the day that I
cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited,
and the waste places shall be built.
34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled,
whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
35 They shall say, This land that was desolate
has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities
are fortified and inhabited.
36 Then the nations that are left around you
shall know that I, YHWH, have built the ruined places, and planted that which
was desolate: I, YHWH, have spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus says ADONAI YHWH: For this, moreover,
will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will
increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of
Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men; and they shall know that I am YHWH!
END
of Shabbat Parah!
! ! End of Today’s Special TORAH Related Scriptures! Praise Yah! (HNV-yet version, in the public domain.)
Shabbat Parah
("Sabbath [of the] red heifer" שבת פרה)
takes place on the Shabbat before Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for
Passover. Numbers 19:1-22 describes the parah adumah ("red heifer")
in the Jewish temple as part of the manner in which the kohanim and the Jewish
people purified themselves so that they would be ready ("pure") to
sacrifice the korban Pesach.
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