Parasha_Vayeishev

Sunday - 21-Nov-10; (14-Kislev-5771). Day 1 before Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Genesis 37.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Joseph Dreams of Greatness. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
6 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8 His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”
11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

12 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Joseph Sold by His Brothers. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13 Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
14 He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
17 The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
19 They said one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
20 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him” that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
27 Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
31 They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”
33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”
34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.
36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

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Monday - 22-Nov-10; (15-Kislev-5771). Day 2 before Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Genesis 38.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Judah and Tamar. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of YAHWEH! YAHWEH killed him.
8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.”
9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
10 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of YAHWEH, and he killed him also.
11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
13 It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
17 He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
18 He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.”
25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
29 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

John 9.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. A Man Born Blind Receives Sight. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 YESHUA answered, “Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of ELOHIM might be revealed in him.
4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”
10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered, “A man called YESHUA made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”

13 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14 It was a Sabbath when YESHUA made the mud and opened his eyes.
15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from ELOHIM, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.
17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
18 The Judeans therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
22 His parents said these things because they feared the Judeans; for the Judeans had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to ELOHIM! We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that ELOHIM has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that ELOHIM doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of ELOHIM, and does his will, he listens to him.
32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
33 If this man were not from ELOHIM, he could do nothing.”
34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.

35 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. True Vision and True Blindness. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YESHUA heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of ELOHIM?”
36 He answered, “Who is he, ADONAI, that I may believe in him?”
37 YESHUA said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
38 He said, “ADONAI, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
39 YESHUA said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41 YESHUA said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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Tuesday - 23-Nov-10; (16-Kislev-5771). Day 3 before Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Genesis 39.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Joseph a Slave in Egypt. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
2 YAHWEH was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 His master saw that YAHWEH was with him, and that YAHWEH made all that he did prosper in his hand.
4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that YAHWEH blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of YAHWEH was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
7 It happened after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
9 He isn’t greater in this house 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 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
15 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
19 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” that his wrath was kindled.
20 Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
21 But YAHWEH was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.
23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because YAHWEH was with him; and that which he did, YAHWEH made it prosper.

John 10.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA the True Shepherd. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
6 YESHUA spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

7 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA the Good Shepherd. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YESHUA therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
19 Therefore a division arose again among the Judeans because of these words.
20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Shepherd Knows His Sheep. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Jerusalem.
23 It was winter, and YESHUA was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
24 The Judeans therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
25 YESHUA answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”

31 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Renewed Efforts to Stone YESHUA. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Therefore the Judeans took up stones again to stone him.
32 YESHUA answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
33 The Judeans answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself ELOHIM!”
34 YESHUA answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are mighty ones?’
35 If he called them mighty ones, to whom the word of ELOHIM came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of ELOHIM?’
37 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

40 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Believers Beyond Jordan. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was immersing at first, and there he stayed.
41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
42 Many believed in him there.

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Wednesday - 24-Nov-10; (17-Kislev-5771). Day 4 before Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Genesis 40:1-23.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Prisoners' Dreams. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to ELOHIM? Please tell it to me.”
9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
11 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 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, 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 good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet the chief cupbearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

John 11.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Death of Lazarus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
2 It was that Mary who had anointed ADONAI with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “ADONAI, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
4 But when YESHUA heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of ELOHIM, that ELOHIM’s Son may be glorified by it.”
5 Now YESHUA loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”
8 The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Judeans were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?”
9 YESHUA answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
12 The disciples therefore said, “ADONAI, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
13 Now YESHUA had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
14 So YESHUA said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.
15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”
16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

17 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. I Am the Resurrection and the Life. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

So when YESHUA came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
19 Many of the Judeans had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console_ them concerning their brother.
20 Then when Martha heard that YESHUA was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
21 Therefore Martha said to YESHUA, “ADONAI, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
22 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of ELOHIM, ELOHIM will give you.”
23 YESHUA said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 YESHUA said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to him, “Yes, ADONAI. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, ELOHIM’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

28 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA and Death, the Last Enemy. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Rabbi is here, and is calling you.”
29 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
30 Now YESHUA had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
31 Then the Judeans who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32 Therefore when Mary came to where YESHUA was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “ADONAI, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
33 When YESHUA therefore saw her weeping, and the Judeans weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “ADONAI, come and see.”
35 YESHUA wept.
36 The Judeans therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

38 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Lazarus Raised from the Dead. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YESHUA therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39 YESHUA said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “ADONAI, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
40 YESHUA said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see ELOHIM’s glory?”
41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. YESHUA lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. YESHUA said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

45 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Plot to Kill YESHUA. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Therefore many of the Judeans, who came to Mary and saw what YESHUA did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which YESHUA had done.
47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that YESHUA would die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of ELOHIM who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54 YESHUA therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover in Judea was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56 Then they sought for YESHUA and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

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Thursday - 25-Nov-10; (18-Kislev-5771). Day 5 before Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Haftarah:

Amos 2:6-to-end,3:1-8.

6 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Judgment on Israel. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Thus says YAHWEH: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their ELOHIM they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says YAHWEH!
12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
14 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
15 neither shall he stand who handles the bow_; and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says YAHWEH!

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Authority of the Prophet's Message. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Hear this word that YAHWEH has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2 “You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
3 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?
6 Does the shofar alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and YAHWEH hasn’t done it?
7 Surely ADONAI YAHWEH will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? ADONAI YAHWEH has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

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Friday - 26-Nov-10; (19-Kislev-5771). Day 6 before Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Vayeishev (continued):

John 12.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Anointing at Bethany. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Then six days before the Passover, YESHUA came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of YESHUA, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4 Then Judah Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
7 But YESHUA said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

9 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Plot to Kill Lazarus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

A large crowd therefore of the Judeans learned that he was there, and they came, not for YESHUA’s sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
11 because on account of him many of the Judeans went away and believed in YESHUA!

12 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Triumphal Entry. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that YESHUA was coming to Jerusalem,
13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hoshia'na! Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI, the King of Israel!”
14 YESHUA, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
16 His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when YESHUA was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.
18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

20 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Fruitful Grain of Wheat. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see YESHUA!”
22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told YESHUA!
23 YESHUA answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

27 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA Predicts His Death on the Tree. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
28 Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
30 YESHUA answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the Torah (teaching and instruction) that the Messiah remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
35 YESHUA therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” YESHUA said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

37 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Who Has Believed Our Report?. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “ADONAI, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of ADONAI been revealed?”
39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
40 “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

42 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Walk in the Light. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
43 for they loved men’s praise more than ELOHIM’s praise.
44 YESHUA cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

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Saturday - 27-Nov-10; (20-Kislev-5771); Shabbat - Parasha Vayeishev - And He Settled.

Vayeishev (continued):

John 13.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA Washes the Disciples' Feet. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now before the feast of the Passover, YESHUA, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judah Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
3 YESHUA, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from ELOHIM, and was going to ELOHIM,
4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “ADONAI, do you wash my feet?”
7 YESHUA answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” YESHUA answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”
9 Simon Peter said to him, “ADONAI, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
10 YESHUA said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”
11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”
12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
13 You call me, ‘Rabbi’ and ‘ADONAI.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.
14 If I then, ADONAI and the Rabbi, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

18 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA Identifies His Betrayer. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.
20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
21 When YESHUA had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
23 One of his disciples, whom YESHUA loved, was at the table, leaning against YESHUA’s breast.
24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
25 He, leaning back, as he was, on YESHUA’s breast, asked him, “ADONAI, who is it?”
26 YESHUA therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judah, the son of Simon Iscariot.
27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then YESHUA said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
28 Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
29 For some thought, because Judah had the money box, that YESHUA said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
30 Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

31 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The New Commandment. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

When he had gone out, YESHUA said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and ELOHIM has been glorified in him.
32 If ELOHIM has been glorified in him, ELOHIM will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Judeans, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

36 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. YESHUA Predicts Peter's Denial. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Simon Peter said to him, “ADONAI, where are you going?” YESHUA answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
37 Peter said to him, “ADONAI, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 YESHUA answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

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