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Parashah - Naso (Lift up)

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Torah: Numbers 4:21–7:89		Haftara: Judges 13:2–25	Brit Chadashah: Luke 1:11–20

Naso (Make an Accounting) נָשׂא
Scripture:	Numbers 4:21–7:89			Torah
		Parashat Naso ²¹Again Adonai spoke to Moses saying, ²²“Take a census also of the sons of Gershon, by their ancestral households and by their families. ²³Count all the males from 30 to 50 years of age, everyone coming to work in the service of the Tent of Meeting. ²⁴This is the task of the Gershonite families in working and carrying burdens. ²⁵They are to carry the curtains of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, its covering, the outer covering of porpoise hide, the curtains for the entrance for the Tent of Meeting, ²⁶the curtains surrounding the courtyard and the altar, the curtain for the entrance, the ropes and all the equipment used in its operations. They are to do all that needs to be done with these things. ²⁷The sons of the Gershonites are to do all their tasks, whether carrying or doing other work, according to the word of Aaron and his sons. You are to assign to them all that is their responsibility to carry. ²⁸This is the duty of the families of the sons of the Gershonites regarding the Tent of Meeting. Their duty will be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen. ²⁹Next, count the sons of Merari, according to their families and their ancestral houses, ³⁰sons 30 years old and upward to 50, everyone coming to work in the service of the Tent of Meeting. ³¹This is their task in the service of the Tent of Meeting: the frames of the Tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases, ³²as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard, plus their bases, tent pegs, ropes, and all their paraphernalia with everything related to their operation. Assign to them by name their duties and tasks. ³³This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari as they work under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen.” ³⁴So Moses, Aaron and the princes of the community counted the sons of the Kohathites according to their families and their ancestral households. ³⁵All the men who came to do the service of the Tent of Meeting, from 30 to 50 years of age, ³⁶were counted by families—2,750. ³⁷This was the total of those in the families of the Kohathites, every one serving in the Tent of Meeting—Moses and Aaron counted them according to the mouth of Adonai by Moses’s hand. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%204%3A21%E2%80%937%3A89&version=TLV
Scripture:	Judges 13:2–25			Haftarah
²Now there was a certain man from Zorah, from a Danite clan, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren and bore no children. ³Then the angel of Adonai appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold now, you are barren and have not borne children, but you will conceive and bear a son. ^[a] ⁴Now therefore be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. ⁵For behold, you will conceive and bear a son. Let no razor come upon his head, for the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb.^[b] He will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” ⁶Then the woman came and told her husband saying, “A man of God came to me and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome! But I did not ask him where he was from, nor did he tell me his name. ⁷He said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and bear a son. So, drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child will be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.” ⁸Then Manoah entreated Adonai and said, “My Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again and teach us what we will do for the boy to be born.” ⁹God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field, but her husband Manoah was not with her. ¹⁰So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, and said to him, “Look, the man that came to me the other day has appeared to me!” ¹¹So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked him, “Are you the one who spoke to the woman?” “I am,” he said. ¹²Then Manoah said, “Now may your words come about! What will be the child’s rule and his mission?” ¹³The angel of Adonai said to Manoah, “Let the woman abstain from all that I mentioned to her. ¹⁴She should not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. She must observe all that I commanded her.” ¹⁵Then Manoah said to the angel of Adonai, “Please, let us detain you so that we may prepare a young goat for you.” ¹⁶But the angel of Adonai said to Manoah, “If you could detain me, I would not eat your food. But if you present a burnt offering, then offer it to Adonai.” For Manoah did not realize that he was the angel of Adonai. ¹⁷Then Manoah asked the angel of Adonai, “What is your name, so that when your words come to pass we may honor you?” ¹⁸But the angel of Adonai said to him, “Why do you ask for my name? It is wonderful.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2013%3A2%E2%80%9325&version=TLV
Scripture:	Luke 1:11–20			Brit Chadashah
		¹¹An angel of Adonai appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. ¹²Zechariah was in turmoil when he saw the angel, and fear fell upon him. ¹³But the angel said, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will give birth to your son, and you will name him John. ¹⁴And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. ¹⁵He will be great before Adonai; and he should not drink wine and intoxicating beverage,^[a] but he will be filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh just out of his mother’s womb. ¹⁶Many of Bnei-Yisrael will turn to Adonai their God. ¹⁷And he will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to the children^[b] and the disobedient ones to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for Adonai a prepared people. ¹⁸Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? I’m an old man, and my wife is well-advanced in age.” ¹⁹And speaking to him, the angel declared, “I am Gabriel, the one standing in God’s presence. I was commissioned to tell you and proclaim to you this good news. ²⁰So look, you will be silent and powerless to speak until the day these things happen, since you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their time.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201%3A11%E2%80%9320&version=TLV
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Parashah 42 - 43 Mattot - Masei (Tribes - Journeys of)

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Hebrew Name :	Mattot - Masei	English Name :	Tribes - Journeys of
Week Nr. : 42 - 43	42 - 43
	Torah	Haftarah	Brit Chadashah
	Num. 30:2-32:42 Num. 33:1-36:13	Jer. 2:4-28, 3:4	Mat. 5:33-37 Heb. 9:11-28 James 4:1-12
Table Talk Page :	http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Parashah/Summaries/Matot/ShabbatTableTalkPageMattot.pdf http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Parashah/Summaries/Masei/ShabbatTableTalkPageMasei.pdf
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Torah Reading

Numbers 30 : 2 – 32 : 42

2 Whenever a man makes a vow to Adonai or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he is not to violate his word but do everything coming out of his mouth.[a]

3 “Suppose a woman in her youth vows to Adonai or obligates herself by a pledge in her father’s house. 4 If her father should hear her vow or her pledge with which she obligated herself and her father says nothing to her, all her vows and every pledge by which she has obligated herself will stand. 5 But if her father should forbid it on the day of his hearing it, none of her vows or pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. Adonai will forgive her because her father has forbidden her.

6 “Suppose she should marry, after her vow or a rash promise of her lips by which she obligated herself. 7 Now if her husband hears about it but says nothing to her on the day he hears about it, her vows will stand and her pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. 8 But if her husband should hear about it and on the day he hears it he forbids it, he thereby nullifies her vow and her rash promise by which her lips have obligated her, and Adonai will forgive her.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Num.+30%3A2-32%3A42&version=TLV

Numbers 33 : 1 – 36 : 13

Israel’s Journeys Reviewed

33 These are the journeys of Bnei-Yisrael when they came out of Egypt by their divisions under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 Moses recorded the stages of their journeys at Adonai’s command. These then are their journeys by stages.

3 Bnei-Yisrael set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the first day after Passover. They went out with a high hand in the sight of all Egypt. [a]4 Now the Egyptians were burying those whom Adonai had struck down among them. Adonai had brought judgments on all their first-born and their gods.

5 Bnei-Yisrael left Rameses and encamped at Succoth. 6 They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. 7 They left from Etham and turned back toward Pi-Hahiroth, east of Baal-Zephon, and camped before Migdol. 8 They left from before Pi-Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the wilderness. They traveled three days journey into the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah. 9 They departed from Marah and went to Elim. There were twelve water springs and 70 palm trees in Elim, so they camped there. 10 They left Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Num.+33%3A1-36%3A13&version=TLV

Haftarah Reading

Jeremiah 2 : 4 – 28

4 Hear the word of Adonai, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel. 5 Thus says Adonai:

“What fault did your fathers find in Me
    that they strayed so far from Me?
They walked after worthless things,
    becoming worthless themselves?[a]
6 They did not ask ‘Where is Adonai,
    who brought us up from the land of Egypt
    and led us through the wilderness,
    through a land of deserts and rifts,
    through a land of drought and distress,
    through a land where no one travels,
        where no one lives?’
7 Yet I brought you into a fertile land,
        to eat of its fruit and goodness.
    When you came, you defiled My land.
    You made My heritage an abomination.
8 The kohanim did not ask,
        ‘Where is Adonai?’
    The Torah experts did not know Me.
    The shepherds rebelled against Me.
    The prophets prophesied by Baal
        and went after unprofitable things.
9 Therefore I will plead with you again!”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
    “I will contend with your children’s children.
10 Cross to the coasts of Kittim[b] and see!
    Send to Kedar, and observe carefully.
    See if there has been anything like this.
11 Has a nation changed its gods—
        even though they are not gods?
    Yet My people have exchanged their glory
    for worthless things.
12 Be appalled at this, O heavens!
    Be utterly horrified and dumbfounded.”

It is a declaration of Adonai.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer+.2%3A4%E2%80%9328&version=TLV

Jeremiah 3 : 4

4 Did you not just now call to Me:
‘Avi! You are a friend of my youth.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.+3%3A4&version=TLV

Brit Chadashah Reading

Matthew 5 : 33 – 37

33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall carry out your oaths to Adonai.’ [a] 34 But I tell you, do not swear at all—not by heaven, for it is the throne of God; 35 or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet;[b] or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. [c] 36 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. 37 But let your word ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’—anything more than this is from the evil one.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mat.+5%3A33-37&version=TLV

Hebrews 9 : 11 – 28

11 But when Messiah appeared as Kohen Gadol of the good things that have now come, passing through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands (that is to say not of this creation), 12 He entered into the Holies once for all—not by the blood of goats and calves but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls[a] and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled[b] sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Messiah—who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God—cleanse our[c] conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant,[d] in order that those called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has taken place that redeems them from violations under the first covenant. 16 For where there is a covenant, the death of the one who made it must be established. [e] 17 For a covenant is secured upon the basis of dead bodies, since it has no strength as long as the one who made it lives. 18 That is why not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people. 20 He said, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.” [f] 21 And in the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. [g] 22 And nearly everything is purified in blood according to the Torah, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.[h]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Heb+9%3A11-28&version=TLV

James 4 : 1 - 12

Resist Pride and Evil

4 Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts? 2 You crave and have not. You murder and you envy, yet you cannot get it. You fight and you wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives so you may spend it on your passions. 4 You adulteresses![a] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that in vain the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which He made to dwell in us”? 6 But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says,

“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”[b]

7 Therefore submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded! [c] 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of Adonai, and He shall lift you up. [d] 11 Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a judge. 12 There is only one lawgiver and judge[e]—the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judges your neighbor?