Bemidbar –In (the)
wilderness
Torah: Bemidbar
1:1-4:20
Haftorah: Hoshea
1:10-2:20
Suggested
HaBerith HaChadashah Reading: Rom 9:22-33
Num
1:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of
Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they
had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, saying,
Num 1:2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the
children of Yisra’ĕl, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to
the number of names, every male, head by head,
Num 1:3 from twenty years old and above, everyone
going out to the army in Yisra’ĕl. Number them by their divisions, you and
Aharon.
Num 1:4 “And a man from every tribe should be with
you, each one the head of his father’s house.
Num 1:5 “And these are the names of the men who stand
with you. From Re’uḇĕn: Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur.
Num 1:6 “From Shimʽon: Shelumi’ĕl, son
of Tsurishaddai.
Num 1:7 “From Yehuḏah: Naḥshon,
son of Amminaḏaḇ.
Num 1:8 “From Yissasḵar: Nethanĕ’l, son
of Tsuʽar.
Num 1:9 “From Zeḇulun: Eliyaḇ,
son of Ḥĕlon.
Num 1:10 “From the sons of Yosĕph: From Ephrayim:
Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ. From Menashsheh: Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.
Num 1:11 “From Binyamin: Aḇiḏan,
son of Giḏʽoni.
Num 1:12 “From Dan: Aḥiʽezer,
son of Ammishaddai.
Num 1:13 “From Ashĕr: Paḡʽi’ĕl, son of Oḵran.
Num 1:14 “From Gaḏ: Elyasaph, son of
Deu’ĕl.
Num 1:15 “From Naphtali: Aḥira, son of Ěnan.”
Num 1:16 These are the ones called from the
congregation, leaders of their fathers’ tribes, heads of the thousands of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 1:17 And Mosheh and Aharon took these men who were
called by name,
Num 1:18 and they assembled all the congregation
together on the first day of the second month. And they declared their ancestry
by clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and above, each one head by head.
Num 1:19 As יהוה
commanded Mosheh, so he registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Num 1:20 And the children of Re’uḇĕn,
Yisra’ĕl’s first-born, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’
house, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from twenty
years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:21 those who were registered of the tribe of
Re’uḇĕn were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Num 1:22 From the children of Shimʽon,
their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, of those who were
registered, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from
twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:23 those who were registered of the tribe of
Shimʽon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Num 1:24 From the children of Gaḏ,
their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the
number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the
army,
Num 1:25 those who were registered of the tribe of Gaḏ
were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Num 1:26 From the children of Yehuḏah,
their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the
number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the
army,
Num 1:27 those who were registered of the tribe of
Yehuḏah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Num 1:28 From the children of Yissasḵar,
their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the
number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the
army,
Num 1:29 those who were registered of the tribe of
Yissasḵar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
Num 1:30 From the children of Zeḇulun,
their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the
number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the
army,
Num 1:31 those who were registered of the tribe of Zeḇulun
were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
Num 1:32 From the sons of Yosĕph, the children of
Ephrayim, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according
to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to
the army,
Num 1:33 those who were registered of the tribe of
Ephrayim were forty thousand five hundred.
Num 1:34 From the children of Menashsheh, their
genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of
names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:35 those who were registered of the tribe of
Menashsheh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Num 1:36 From the children of Binyamin, their
genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of
names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:37 those who were registered of the tribe of
Binyamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
Num 1:38 From the children of Dan, their genealogies
by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:39 those who were registered of the tribe of Dan
were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num 1:40 From the children of Ashĕr, their genealogies
by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:41 those who were registered of the tribe of
Ashĕr were forty-one thousand five hundred.
Num 1:42 From the children of Naphtali, their
genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of
names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
Num 1:43 those who were registered of the tribe of
Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Num 1:44 These were those registered, whom Mosheh and
Aharon registered, with the leaders of Yisra’ĕl, twelve men, each one for his
father’s house.
Num 1:45 And all those that were registered of the
children of Yisra’ĕl, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and
above, everyone going out to the army in Yisra’ĕl,
Num 1:46 all those that were registered were six
hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
Num 1:47 But the Lĕwites were not registered among
them by their fathers’ tribe,
Num 1:48 because יהוה had
spoken to Mosheh, saying,
Num 1:49 “Only the tribe of Lĕwi you do not register,
nor take a census of them among the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 1:50 “Instead, appoint the Lĕwites over the
Dwelling Place of the Witness, over all its furnishings, and over all that
belongs to it. They bear the Dwelling Place and all its furnishings, and they
attend to it, and camp around the Dwelling Place.
Num 1:51 “And when the Dwelling Place is to go
forward, the Lĕwites take it down. And when the Dwelling Place is to be set up,
the Lĕwites set it up. And the stranger who comes near is put to death.
Num 1:52 “And the children of Yisra’ĕl shall pitch
their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own banner, according to
their divisions,
Num 1:53 but let the Lĕwites camp around the Dwelling
Place of the Witness, so that there be no wrath on the congregation of the
children of Yisra’ĕl. And the Lĕwites shall guard the duty of the Dwelling
Place of the Witness.”
Num 1:54 And the children of Yisra’ĕl did according to
all that יהוה commanded Mosheh, so they did.
Num
2:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Num 2:2 “The children of Yisra’ĕl are to camp, each
one by his own banner, beside the sign of his father’s house. Let them camp
around the Tent of Meeting at a distance.”
Num 2:3 And on the east side, towards sunrise: those
of the banner of the camp of Yehuḏah camp according
to their divisions. And the leader of the children of Yehuḏah:
Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ.
Num 2:4 And his army with their registered ones:
seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Num 2:5 And those camping next to him is the tribe of
Yissasḵar, and the leader of the children of Yissasḵar:
Nethanĕ’l, son of Tsuʽar.
Num 2:6 And his army with its registered ones:
fifty-four thousand four hundred.
Num 2:7 Then the tribe of Zeḇulun, and the
leader of the children of Zeḇulun: Eliyaḇ, son of Ḥĕlon.
Num 2:8 And his army with its registered ones:
fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
Num 2:9 All the registered ones of the camp of Yehuḏah,
according to their divisions: one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred.
These depart first.
Num 2:10 On the south side: the banner of the camp of
Re’uḇĕn according to their divisions, and the leader
of the children of Re’uḇĕn: Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur.
Num 2:11 And his army with its registered ones:
forty-six thousand five hundred.
Num 2:12 And those who camp next to him: the tribe of
Shimʽon, and the leader of the children of Shimʽon:
Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai.
Num 2:13 And his army with their registered ones:
fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Num 2:14 Then the tribe of Gaḏ, and the leader of
the children of Gaḏ: Elyasaph, son of Reʽuw’ĕl.
Num 2:15 And his army with their registered ones:
forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Num 2:16 All the registered ones of the camp of Re’uḇĕn,
according to their divisions: one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred
and fifty. And they are the second to depart.
Num 2:17 And the Tent of Meeting, the camp of the
Lĕwites, shall move out in the middle of the camps. As they camp, so they move
out, everyone in his place, by their banners.
Num 2:18 On the west side: the banner of the camp of
Ephrayim according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of
Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihuḏ.
Num 2:19 And his army with their registered ones:
forty thousand five hundred.
Num 2:20 And next to him the tribe of Menashsheh, and
the leader of the children of Menashsheh: Gamli’ĕl, son of Peḏahtsur.
Num 2:21 And his army with their registered ones:
thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Num 2:22 Then the tribe of Binyamin, and the leader of
the children of Binyamin: Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏʽoni.
Num 2:23 And his army with their registered ones:
thirty-five thousand four hundred.
Num 2:24 All the registered ones of the camp of
Ephrayim, according to their divisions: one hundred and eight thousand one
hundred. And they are the third to depart.
Num 2:25 On the north side: the banner of the camp of
Dan, according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Dan: Aḥiʽezer,
son of Ammishaddai.
Num 2:26 And his army with their registered ones:
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num 2:27 And those who camp next to him: the tribe of
Ashĕr, and the leader of the children of Ashĕr: Paḡʽi’ĕl, son of Oḵran.
Num 2:28 And his army with their registered ones:
forty-one thousand five hundred.
Num 2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali, and the leader of
the children of Naphtali: Aḥira, son of Ěnan.
Num 2:30 And his army with their registered ones:
fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Num 2:31 All the registered ones of the camp of Dan:
one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They depart last, with their
banners.
Num 2:32 These were registered ones of the children of
Yisra’ĕl by their fathers’ houses. All who were registered according to their
divisions of the camps: six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
Num 2:33 But the Lĕwites were not registered among the
children of Yisra’ĕl, as יהוה commanded Mosheh.
Num 2:34 And the children of Yisra’ĕl did according to
all that יהוה commanded Mosheh. So they camped by their banners and so they
departed, each one by his clan, according to their fathers’ houses.
Num
3:1 And these are the generations of Aharon and Mosheh when יהוה spoke with Mosheh on Mount Sinai.
Num 3:2 And these are the names of the sons of
Aharon: Naḏaḇ, the first-born,
and Aḇihu, Elʽazar, and Ithamar.
Num 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aharon,
the anointed priests, whom he ordained to act as priests.
Num 3:4 And Naḏaḇ
and Aḇihu had died before יהוה when
they brought strange fire before יהוה in the
Wilderness of Sinai. And they had no children. So Elʽazar and Ithamar
acted as priests in the presence of Aharon their father.
Num 3:5 And יהוה spoke
to Mosheh, saying,
Num 3:6 “Bring the tribe of Lĕwi near, and set them
before Aharon the priest, and they shall serve him,
Num 3:7 and shall guard his duty and the duty of all
the congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the Dwelling
Place.
Num 3:8 “And they shall guard all the furnishings of
the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to do the
service of the Dwelling Place.
Num 3:9 “And you shall give the Lĕwites to Aharon and
his sons. They are the given ones, given to him from among the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 3:10 “And appoint Aharon and his sons, and they
shall guard their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to
death.”
Num 3:11 And יהוה spoke
to Mosheh, saying,
Num 3:12 “Now look, I Myself have taken the Lĕwites
from among the children of Yisra’ĕl instead of every first-born who opens the
womb among the children of Yisra’ĕl. And the Lĕwites shall be Mine,
Num 3:13 because all the first-born are Mine. On the
day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, I set apart to
Myself all the first-born in Yisra’ĕl, both man and beast. They are Mine, I am יהוה.”
Num 3:14 And יהוה spoke
to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Num 3:15 “Register the children of Lĕwi by their
fathers’ houses, by their clans. Register every male from a month old and
above.”
Num 3:16 So Mosheh registered them according to the
word of יהוה, as he had been commanded.
Num 3:17 And these were the sons of Lĕwi by their
names: Gĕreshon, and Qehath, and Merari.
Num 3:18 And these are the names of the sons of
Gĕreshon by their clans: Liḇni and Shimʽi.
Num 3:19 And the sons of Qehath by their clans: Amram
and Yitshar, Ḥeḇron and Uzzi’ĕl.
Num 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their clans: Maḥli
and Mushi. These are the clans of the Lĕwites by their fathers’ houses.
Num 3:21 From Gĕreshon came the clan of the Liḇnites
and the clan of the Shimʽites. These were the clans of the Gĕreshonites.
Num 3:22 Their registered ones, according to the
number of all the males from a month old and above, their registered ones were
seven thousand five hundred.
Num 3:23 The clans of the Gĕreshonites were to camp
westward, behind the Dwelling Place,
Num 3:24 and the leader of the fathers’ house of the
Gĕreshonites: Elyasaph, son of La’ĕl.
Num 3:25 And the duty of the children of Gĕreshon in
the Tent of Meeting was the Dwelling Place, and the tent with its covering, and
the covering of the door of the Tent of Meeting,
Num 3:26 and the screens of the courtyard and the
covering of the door of the courtyard, which is around the Dwelling Place and
the altar, and their cords, according to all its service.
Num 3:27 And from Qehath came the clan of the
Amramites, and the clan of the Yitsharites, and the clan of the Ḥeḇronites,
and the clan of the Uzzi’ĕlites. These were the clans of the Qehathites.
Num 3:28 In number, all the males, from a month old
and above, were eight thousand six hundred, guarding the duty of the set-apart
place.
Num 3:29 The clans of the children of Qehath were to
camp on the south side of the Dwelling Place.
Num 3:30 And the leader of the fathers’ house of the
clans of the Qehathites was Elitsaphan, son of Uzzi’ĕl.
Num 3:31 And their duty was the ark, and the table,
and the lampstand, and the altars, and the utensils of the set-apart place used
in the service, and the covering, and all its service.
Num 3:32 And Elʽazar, son of Aharon
the priest, was to be chief over the leaders of the Lĕwites, with oversight of
those who guard the duty of the set-apart place.
Num 3:33 From Merari came the clan of the Maḥlites
and the clan of the Mushites. These were the clans of Merari.
Num 3:34 And the number of their registered ones, all
the males from a month old and above, were six thousand two hundred.
Num 3:35 And the leader of the fathers’ house of the
clans of Merari was Tsuri’ĕl, son of Aḇiḥayil.
These were to camp on the north side of the Dwelling Place.
Num 3:36 And the appointed duty of the children of
Merari was the boards of the Dwelling Place, and its bars, and its columns, and
its sockets, and its utensils, and all its service,
Num 3:37 and the columns of the courtyard all around,
with their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords.
Num 3:38 And those who were to camp before the
Dwelling Place on the east, before the Tent of Meeting, were Mosheh and Aharon,
and his sons, guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the
children of Yisra’ĕl. But the stranger who came near was to be put to death.
Num 3:39 All the registered ones of the Lĕwites, whom
Mosheh and Aharon registered at the command of יהוה, by
their clans, all the males from a month old and above, were twenty-two
thousand.
Num 3:40 And יהוה said
to Mosheh, “Register all the first-born males of the children of Yisra’ĕl from
a month old and above, and take the number of their names.
Num 3:41 “And you shall take the Lĕwites for Me – I am
יהוה – instead of all the first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl,
and the livestock of the Lĕwites instead of all the first-born among the
livestock of the children of Yisra’ĕl.”
Num 3:42 And Mosheh registered all the first-born
among the children of Yisra’ĕl as יהוה had
commanded him.
Num 3:43 And all the first-born males, by the number
of names, from one month old and above of their registered ones, were
twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
Num 3:44 And יהוה spoke
to Mosheh, saying,
Num 3:45 “Take the Lĕwites instead of all the
first-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the livestock of the Lĕwites
instead of their livestock. And the Lĕwites shall be Mine, I am יהוה.
Num 3:46 “And for the ransom of the two hundred and
seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Yisra’ĕl, who are more than
the number of the Lĕwites,
Num 3:47 you shall take five sheqels for each one,
head by head – take it by the sheqel of the set-apart place, the sheqel of
twenty gĕrahs.
Num 3:48 “And you shall give the silver, the ransom of
those who are in excess among them, to Aharon and his sons.”
Num 3:49 And Mosheh took the ransom silver from those
who were over and above those who were ransomed by the Lĕwites.
Num 3:50 From the first-born of the children of
Yisra’ĕl he took the silver, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five pieces,
according to the sheqel of the set-apart place.
Num 3:51 And Mosheh gave their ransom silver to
Aharon, and to his sons, according to the word of יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Num
4:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 4:2 “Take a census of the sons of Qehath from
among the children of Lĕwi, by their clans, by their fathers’ house,
Num 4:3 from thirty years old and above, even to
fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
Num 4:4 “This is the service of the sons of Qehath in
the Tent of Meeting, the most set-apart matters:
Num 4:5 “At the breaking of camp, Aharon and his sons
shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the
Witness with it,
Num 4:6 and shall put on it a covering of fine
leather, and spread over that an all-blue wrapper, and shall insert its poles.
Num 4:7 “And on the table of showbread they shall
spread a blue wrapper, and shall put on it the dishes, and the ladles, and the
bowls, and the jars for pouring, and the showbread on it.
Num 4:8 “And they shall spread over them a scarlet
wrapper, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather, and shall insert
its poles,
Num 4:9 and shall take a blue wrapper and cover the
lampstand of the light, with its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and
all its oil vessels, by which they serve it.
Num 4:10 “And they shall put it with all its utensils
in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a bar.
Num 4:11 “And over the golden altar they shall spread
a blue wrapper, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall insert
its poles,
Num 4:12 and shall take all the utensils of service
with which they serve in the set-apart place, and shall put them in a blue
wrapper, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a bar,
Num 4:13 and shall remove the ashes from the altar,
and spread a purple wrapper over it,
Num 4:14 and shall put on it all its utensils by which
they serve there: the fire holders, the forks, and the shovels, and the basins,
and all the utensils of the altar, and shall spread on it a covering of fine
leather, and insert its poles.
Num 4:15 “And when Aharon and his sons have finished
covering the set-apart objects and all the furnishings of the Set-apart
Place at the breaking of camp, then the sons of Qehath shall come to lift them,
but let them not touch that which is set-apart, lest they die. These matters
are the burden of the sons of Qehath in the Tent of Meeting.
Num 4:16 “And the oversight of Elʽazar,
son of Aharon the priest, is the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and
the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the
Dwelling Place and all that is in it, with the set-apart place and its
furnishings.”
Num 4:17 And יהוה spoke
to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 4:18 “Do not cut off the tribe of the clans of the
Qehathites from among the Lĕwites,
Num 4:19 but do this to them, and they shall live and
not die when they approach the most set-apart objects: Aharon and his
sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his burden.
Num 4:20 “They are
not, however, to go in to watch while the set-apart objects are being
covered, lest they die.”
Haftorah: Hoshea
1:10-2:20
Hos
1:10 “Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be as the sand of the
sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be in the place where it
was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they shall be called, ‘You are the
sons of the living Ěl.’
Hos
1:11 “And the children of Yehuḏah and the children
of Yisra’ĕl shall be gathered together, and appoint for themselves one head,
and shall come up out of the earth, for great is the day of Yizreʽĕl!
Hos
2:1 “Say to your brothers, ‘O my people,’ and to your sisters, ‘O,
compassioned one.’
Hos
2:2 “Strive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her
Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from
between her breasts,
Hos
2:3 lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born,
and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and
shall put her to death with thirst.
Hos
2:4 “And I shall not have compassion on her children, for they are the
children of whorings.
Hos
2:5 “For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted
shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my
water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’
Hos
2:6 “Therefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall
her in, so that she does not find her paths.
Hos
2:7 “And she shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and shall seek
them but not find them. Then she shall say, ‘Let me go and return to my first
husband, for then it was better for me than now.’
Hos
2:8 “And she did not acknowledge that I gave her grain, and new wine, and
oil, and increased her silver and gold which they prepared for Baʽal.
Hos 2:9 “Therefore I shall turn back and shall take
my grain in its time and My new wine in its season, and I shall take away My
wool and My linen covering her nakedness.
Hos 2:10 “And now I shall uncover her shame before the
eyes of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her from My hand.
Hos 2:11 “And I shall cause all her rejoicing, her
festivals, her New Moons, and her Sabbaths, even all her appointed times, to
cease,
Hos 2:12 and lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of
which she has said, ‘these are my rewards that my lovers have given me.’ And I
shall make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hos 2:13 “And I shall punish her for the days of the
Baʽals to which she burned incense and adorned
herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me,” declares
יהוה.
Hos 2:14 “Therefore, see, I am alluring her, and shall
lead her into the wilderness, and shall speak to her heart,
Hos 2:15 and give to her vineyards from there, and the
Valley of Aḵor as a door of expectation. And there she shall
respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the
land of Mitsrayim.
Hos 2:16 “And it shall be, in that day,” declares יהוה, “that you call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Baʽal.’
Hos 2:17 “And I shall remove the names of the Baʽals
from her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Hos 2:18 “And in that day I shall make a covenant for
them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with
the creeping creatures of the ground, when bow, and sword, and battle I break
from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in safety.
Hos 2:19 “And I shall take you as a bride unto Me
forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in right-ruling,
and kindness and compassion.
Hos 2:20 “And I
shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know יהוה.
Suggested
HaBerith HaChadashah Reading: Rom 9:22-33
Rom
9:22 And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with
much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Rom
9:23 and that He might make known the riches of His esteem on vessels of
compassion, which He had prepared beforehand for esteem,
Rom
9:24 even whom He called, not only us of the Yehuḏim, but also of the
gentiles?
Rom 9:25 As He says in Hoshĕa too, “I shall call them
My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.”
Rom 9:26 “And it shall be in the place where it was
said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the
living Elohim.”
Rom 9:27 And Yeshayahu cries out on behalf of Yisra’ĕl,
“Though the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl be as the sand of the sea, the
remnant shall be saved.
Rom 9:28 For He is bringing a matter to an end, and is
cutting it short in righteousness, because יהוה shall
cut short a matter on the earth.”
Rom 9:29 And as Yeshayahu said before, “If יהוה of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Seḏom,
and we would have been made like Amorah.”
Rom 9:30 What shall we say then? That gentiles not
following after righteousness, have obtained righteousness, even the
righteousness of belief,
Rom 9:31 but Yisra’ĕl following after the Torah of
righteousness, has not arrived at the Torah of righteousness.
Rom 9:32 Why? Because it was not of belief, but
as by works of Torah. For they stumbled at the Stone of stumbling.
Rom 9:33 As it has been written, “See, I lay in Tsiyon
a Stone of stumbling and a Rock that makes for falling, and everyone who is
believing on Him shall not be put to shame.”
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