Parasha

Sunday - 2-Jan-11; (26-Tevet-5771). Day 1 before Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Exodus 10.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Eighth Plague: Locusts. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in their midst,
2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am YHWH!”
3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what YHWH, the ELOHIM of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve YHWH, their ELOHIM! Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve YHWH your ELOHIM; but who are those who will go?”
9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to YHWH!”
10 He said to them, “YHWH be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve YHWH; for that is what you desire!” They were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and YHWH brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against YHWH your ELOHIM, and against you.
17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to YHWH your ELOHIM, that he may also take away from me this death.”
18 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to YHWH!
19 YHWH turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Sea of Suf. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
20 But YHWH hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.

21 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Ninth Plague: Darkness. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
23 They didn’t see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve YHWH! Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
25 Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to YHWH our ELOHIM!
26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve YHWH our ELOHIM; and we don’t know with what we must serve YHWH, until we come there.”
27 But YHWH hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
28 Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”
29 Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”

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Monday - 3-Jan-11; (27-Tevet-5771). Day 2 before Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Bo (continued):

Exodus 11.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Death of the Firstborn Announced. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH said to Moses, “Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”
3 YHWH gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 Moses said, “This is what YHWH says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,
5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.
6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that YHWH makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
9 YHWH said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and YHWH hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Acts 14.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. At Iconium. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the Jewish synagogue, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in ADONAI, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the emissaries.
5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
7 There they preached the Good News.

8 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Idolatry at Lystra. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The idol_gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter,” and Paul “Mercury,” because he was the chief speaker.
13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
14 But when the emissaries, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living ELOHIM, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

19 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Stoning, Escape to Derbe. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

21 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Strengthening the Converts. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of ELOHIM!
23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to ADONAI, on whom they had believed.
24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of ELOHIM for the work which they had fulfilled.
27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that ELOHIM had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

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Tuesday - 4-Jan-11; (28-Tevet-5771). Day 3 before Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Bo (continued):

Acts 15.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Conflict over Circumcision. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the emissaries and elders about this question.
3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers. (The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”)
4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the emissaries and the elders, and they reported all things that ELOHIM had done with them.
5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Torah of Moses.”

6 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Jerusalem Council. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

The emissaries and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago ELOHIM made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.
8 ELOHIM, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why do you tempt ELOHIM, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of ADONAI YESHUA, just as they are.” (TR adds “Messiah”)
12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders ELOHIM had done among the nations through them.
13 After they were silent, Jacob answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
14 Simeon has reported how ELOHIM first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
16 ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,
17 That the rest of men may seek after ADONAI; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says ADONAI, who does all these things.
18 All his works are known to ELOHIM from eternity.’
19 “Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to ELOHIM,
20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who proclaim him, being read_ in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Jerusalem Decree. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Then it seemed good to the emissaries and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judah called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. (The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”)
23 They wrote these things by their hand: “The emissaries, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the Torah,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26 men who have risked their lives_ for the name of our ADONAI YESHUA the Messiah.
27 We have sent therefore Judah and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

30 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Continuing Ministry in Syria. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
31 When they had read_ it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
32 Judah and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.
33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the emissaries.
34 (Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.)
35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming the word of ADONAI, with many others also.

36 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Division over John Mark. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of ADONAI, to see how they are doing.”
37 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
38 But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
39 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus,
40 but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of ELOHIM!
41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

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Wednesday - 5-Jan-11; (29-Tevet-5771). Day 4 before Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Exodus 12.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Passover Instituted. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is YHWH’s Passover.
12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the idol_gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am YHWH!
13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to YHWH: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23 For YHWH will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, YHWH will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which YHWH will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of YHWH’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28 The children of Israel went and did so; as YHWH had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It happened at midnight, that YHWH struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.
30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

31 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Exodus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve YHWH, as you have said!
32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
36 YHWH gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.
37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of YHWH went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed to YHWH for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of YHWH, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

43 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Passover Regulations. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry out anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49 One Torah (teaching and instruction) shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
50 All the children of Israel did so. As YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
51 It happened the same day, that YHWH brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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Thursday - 6-Jan-11; (1-Shevat-5771). Day 5 before Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Exodus 13:1-16.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Firstborn Consecrated. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

3 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Feast of Unleavened Bread. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand YHWH brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
4 This day you go out in the month Abib.
5 It shall be, when YHWH shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to YHWH!
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders.
8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which YHWH did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the Torah (teaching and instruction) of YHWH may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand YHWH has brought you out of Egypt.
10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Teaching and Instruction of the Firstborn. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

“It shall be, when YHWH shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,
12 that you shall set apart to YHWH all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be YHWH’s.
13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand YHWH brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that YHWH killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to YHWH all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’
16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand YHWH brought us out of Egypt.”

Acts 16.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Timothy Joins Paul and Silas. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.
2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the emissaries and elders who were at Jerusalem.
5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

6 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Macedonian Call. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.
8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that ADONAI had called us to proclaim the Good News to them.

11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Lydia Immersed at Philippi. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
13 On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped ELOHIM, heard us; whose heart ADONAI opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
15 When she and her household were immersed, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to ADONAI, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.

16 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Paul and Silas Imprisoned. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High ELOHIM, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
18 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of YESHUA the Messiah to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.
19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
21 and set forth customs which it is not legal for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

25 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Philippian Jailer Saved. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to ELOHIM, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
30 and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 They said, “Believe in ADONAI YESHUA the Messiah, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
32 They spoke the word of ADONAI to him, and to all who were in his house.
33 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately immersed, he and all his household.
34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in ELOHIM!

35 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Paul Refuses to Depart Secretly. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”
36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace.”
37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”
38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

New Moon:

Numbers 28:1-15.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Daily Offerings. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season.’
3 You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to YHWH: male lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening;
5 with the tenth part of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH!
7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to YHWH in the holy place.
8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH!

9 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Sabbath Offerings. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

“‘On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it:
10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.

11 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Monthly Offerings. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

“‘In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to YHWH: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
12 and three tenth parts of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;
13 and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH!
14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
15 One male goat for a sin offering to YHWH; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.

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Friday - 7-Jan-11; (2-Shevat-5771). Day 6 before Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Haftarah:

Jeremiah 46:13-28.

13 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Babylonia Will Strike Egypt. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

The word that YHWH spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
14 Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.
15 Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t stand, because YHWH pushed them.
16 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.
18 As I live, says the King, whose name is YHWH of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
20 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come, it has come.
21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn’t stand: for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
23 They shall cut down her forest, says YHWH, though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 YHWH of Hosts, the ELOHIM of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her idol_gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:
26 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives_, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says YHWH!

27 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. ELOHIM Will Preserve Israel. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says YHWH; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.

Acts 17.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Preaching Messiah at Thessalonica. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3 explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This YESHUA, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah.”
4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

5 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Assault on Jason's House. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, YESHUA!”
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

10 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Ministering at Berea. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of ELOHIM was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

16 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Philosophers at Athens. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached YESHUA and the resurrection.
19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

22 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Addressing the Areopagus. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN MIGHTY ONE!’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
24 The ELOHIM who made the world and all things in it, he, being ADONAI of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,
25 neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
27 that they should seek ADONAI, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28 ‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
29 Being then the offspring of ELOHIM, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
30 The times of ignorance therefore ELOHIM overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
34 But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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Saturday - 8-Jan-11; (3-Shevat-5771); Shabbat - Parasha Bo - Come.

Acts 18.

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Ministering at Corinth. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that YESHUA was the Messiah.
6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
7 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped ELOHIM, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in ADONAI with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were immersed.
9 ADONAI said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of ELOHIM among them.
12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship ELOHIM contrary to the Torah (teaching and instruction).”
14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
16 He drove them from the judgment seat.
17 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

18 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Paul Returns to Antioch. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if ELOHIM wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.
22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
23 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

24 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Ministry of Apollos. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
25 This man had been instructed in the way of ADONAI; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning YESHUA, although he knew only the immersion of John.
26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of ELOHIM more accurately.
27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that YESHUA was the Messiah.

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