SCRIPTURES_40_-_Parasha_Balak_-

Sunday - Day 1 before Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Numbers 22:2-to-end.

Balak:

Numbers 22:2-to-end.

2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
6 Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
8 He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as YHWH shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
9 ELOHIM came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
10 Balaam said to ELOHIM, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,
11 ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
12 ELOHIM said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.”
13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for YHWH refuses to permit me to go with you.”
14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
15 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of YHWH my ELOHIM, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what YHWH will speak to me more.”
20 ELOHIM came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Balaam, the Donkey, and the Angel. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

ELOHIM’s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of YHWH placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
23 The donkey saw the angel of YHWH standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.
24 Then the angel of YHWH stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25 The donkey saw the angel of YHWH, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
26 The angel of YHWH went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27 The donkey saw the angel of YHWH, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
28 YHWH opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
29 Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”
30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”
31 Then YHWH opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of YHWH standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
32 The angel of YHWH said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:
33 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”
34 Balaam said to the angel of YHWH, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”
35 The angel of YHWH said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that ELOHIM puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

41 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Balaam's First Prophecy. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

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Monday - Day 2 before Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Hebrews 7.

Balak (continued):

Hebrews 7.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The King of Righteousness. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of ELOHIM Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;
3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of ELOHIM), remains a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Torah, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Need for a New Priesthood. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the Torah (teaching and instructions)), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the Torah (teaching and instruction).
13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our ADONAI has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
16 who has been made, not after the Torah (teaching and instruction) of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
17 for it is testified, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
19 (for the Torah (teaching and instruction) made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to ELOHIM!

20 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Greatness of the New Priest. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath
21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “ADONAI swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’”
22 By so much, YESHUA has become the collateral of a better covenant.
23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to ELOHIM through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
28 For the Torah appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

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Tuesday - Day 3 before Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Numbers 23.

Balak (continued):

Numbers 23.

1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps YHWH will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
4 ELOHIM met Balaam: and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
5 YHWH put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse whom EL has not cursed? How shall I defy whom YHWH has not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
12 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which YHWH puts in my mouth?”

13 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Balaam's Second Prophecy. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.”
14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there.”
16 YHWH met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has YHWH spoken?”
18 He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
19 ELOHIM is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. YHWH his ELOHIM is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
22 ELOHIM brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has EL done!
24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that YHWH speaks, that I must do?’”

27 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Balaam's Third Prophecy. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please ELOHIM that you may curse me them from there.”
28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

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Wednesday - Day 4 before Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Hebrews 8.

Balak (continued):

Hebrews 8.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The New Priestly Service. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which ADONAI pitched, not man.
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah;
5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by ELOHIM when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as Torah.

7 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. A New Covenant . .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8 For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come,” says ADONAI, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says ADONAI.
10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says ADONAI; “I will put my Torah (teachings and instructions) into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their ELOHIM, and they will be my people.
11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know ADONAI,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and Torah-less deeds no more.”
13 In that he says, “A new covenant,” he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

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Thursday - Day 5 before Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Numbers 24.

Balak (continued):

Numbers 24.

1 When Balaam saw that it pleased YHWH to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of ELOHIM came on him.
3 He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
4 he says, who hears the words of EL, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
6 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which YHWH has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
7 Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.
8 ELOHIM brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
10 Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
11 Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, YHWH has kept you back from honor.”
12 Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,
13 ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of YHWH, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what YHWH says’?
14 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

15 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Balaam's Fourth Prophecy. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
16 he says, who hears the words of EL, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
17 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.
18 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
23 He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when EL does this?
24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”
25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

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Friday - Day 6 before Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Numbers 25:1-9, Hebrews 9.

Balak (continued):

Numbers 25:1-9.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Israel's Harlotry in Moab. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of YHWH was kindled against Israel.
4 YHWH said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to YHWH before the sun, that the fierce anger of YHWH may turn away from Israel.”
5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;
8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Hebrews 9.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Earthly Sanctuary . .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the menorah, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

6 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Limitations of the Earthly Service. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Heavenly Sanctuary. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But Messiah having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
14 how much more will the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to ELOHIM, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living ELOHIM?
15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

16 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Mediator's Death Necessary. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which ELOHIM has commanded you.”
21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.
22 According to the Torah, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

23 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Greatness of Messiah's Sacrifice . .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Messiah hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of ELOHIM for us;
25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
28 so Messiah also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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Saturday - Shabbat - Parasha Balak - Destroyer.

Micah 5:7-15. (JPS=Micah 5:6-14), Micah 6:1-8.

Balak (continued):

Micah 5:7-15. (JPS=Micah 5:6-14).

7 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from YHWH, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
10 “It will happen in that day,” says YHWH, “That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will destroy your chariots.
11 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.
12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.
13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.
15 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”

Micah 6:1-8.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. ELOHIM Pleads with Israel. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Listen now to what YHWH says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
2 Hear, you mountains, YHWH’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for YHWH has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of YHWH!”
6 How shall I come before YHWH, and bow myself before the exalted ELOHIM? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
7 Will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does YHWH require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your ELOHIM?

! ! End of Today’s TORAH and Related Scriptures! Praise Yah! (HNV-yet version, in the public domain.)

! ! End of Parasha Balak - Destroyer! Praise Yah! !

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