Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 (iii)Adonaisaid to Moshe, 2 “Order the people of Isra’el to expel from the camp everyone withtzara‘at, everyone with a discharge and whoever is unclean because of touching a corpse. 3 Both male and female you must expel; put them outside the camp; so that they won’t defile their camp, where I live among you.” […]

1 Adonaisaid to Moshe, 2 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘When either a man or a woman makes a special kind of vow, the vow of anazir, consecrating himself toAdonai; 3 he is to abstain from wine and other intoxicating liquor, he is not to drink vinegar from either source, he is not to drink […]

1 (A: v, S: iv)On the day Moshe finished putting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it, all its furnishings, and the altar with its utensils. After anointing and consecrating them, 2 the leaders of Isra’el, who were heads of their father’s clans, made an offering. These were the tribal leaders in charge of […]

Parashah 36: B’ha‘alotkha (When you set up) 8:1–12:16 1 Adonaisaid to Moshe, 2 “Tell Aharon, ‘When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to cast their light forward, in front of themenorah.’” 3 Aharon did this: he lit its lamps so as to give light in front of themenorah, asAdonaihad ordered Moshe. 4 […]

1 (iii)Adonaispoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert in the first month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt; he said, 2 “Let the people of Isra’el observePesachat its designated time. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, you are to observe it — at its designated […]

1 Adonaisaid to Moshe, 2 “Make two trumpets; make them of hammered silver. Use them for summoning the community and for sounding the call to break camp and move on. 3 When they are sounded, the entire community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 4 If only one […]

1 But the people began complaining about their hardships toAdonai. WhenAdonaiheard it, his anger flared up, so that fire fromAdonaibroke out against them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. 2 Then the people cried to Moshe, Moshe prayed toAdonai, and the fire abated. 3 That place was called Tav‘erah [burning] becauseAdonai’s fire broke out […]

1 Miryam and Aharon began criticizing Moshe on account of the Ethiopian woman he had married, for he had in fact married an Ethiopian woman. 2 They said, “Is it true thatAdonaihas spoken only with Moshe? Hasn’t he spoken with us too?”Adonaiheard them. 3 Now this man Moshe was very humble, more so than anyone […]

Parashah 37: Shlach L’kha (Send on your behalf) 13:1–15:41 1 Adonaisaid to Moshe, 2 “Send men on your behalf to reconnoiter the land of Kena‘an, which I am giving to the people of Isra’el. From each ancestral tribe send someone who is a leader in his tribe.” 3 Moshe dispatched them from the Pa’ran Desert […]

1 At this all the people of Isra’el cried out in dismay and wept all night long. 2 Moreover, all the people of Isra’el began grumbling against Moshe and Aharon; the whole community told them, “We wish we had died in the land of Egypt! or that we had died here in the desert! 3 […]