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Weekly Scripture Reading
Torah: LEVITICUS 26-27
Prophets: ISAIAH 37
Historical Writings: JUDGES 21
New Testament: ACTS 10
Wisdom Writings: JOB 16-17
Non-Canonical: JUBILEES 44
The following translation is from The Scriptures | ISR98
Leviticus 26-27
26 | 1 ‘Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am יהוה your Elohim.
2 ‘Guard My Sabbaths and reverence My set-apart place. I am יהוה.
3 ‘If you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them,
4 then I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
5 ‘And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely.
6 ‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land.
7 ‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
8 ‘And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9 ‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.
10 ‘And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.
11 ‘And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you.
12 ‘And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people.
13 ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands,
15 and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,
16 I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 ‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 ‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 ‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 ‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins,
22 and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted.
23 ‘And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,
24 then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins.
25 ‘And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.
26 ‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 ‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.
29 ‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 ‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
31 ‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.
32 ‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33 ‘And I shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,
34 and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35 ‘As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 ‘And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies.
38 ‘And you shall perish among the gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up,
39 and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.
40 ‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness,
42 then I shall remember My covenant with Ya‛aqoḇ, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, and remember the land.
43 ‘For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws.
44 ‘And yet for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not reject them, nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them. For I am יהוה their Elohim.
45 ‘Then I shall remember for their sake the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I am יהוה.’ ”
46 These are the laws and the right-rulings and the Torota which יהוה made between Himself and the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh.
27 | 1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of lives unto יהוה,
3 when your evaluation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place.
4 ‘And if it is a female, then your evaluation shall be thirty sheqels;
5 and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be twenty sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels;
6 and if from a month old up to five years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be five sheqels of silver, and for a female your evaluation shall be three sheqels of silver;
7 and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your evaluation shall be fifteen sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels.
8 ‘But if he is too poor to pay your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him. According to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.
9 ‘And if it is a beast of which they bring an offering to יהוה, all such given to יהוה is set-apart.
10 ‘He is not to replace it or exchange it, good for spoilt or spoilt for good. And if he at all exchanges beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it is set-apart.
11 ‘And if it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring an offering to יהוה, then he shall present the beast before the priest;
12 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. According to your evaluation, O priest, so it shall be.
13 ‘But if he indeed redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth to your evaluation.
14 ‘And when a man sets his house apart, to be set-apart to יהוה, then the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. As the priest values it, so it stands.
15 ‘And if he who sets it apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.
16 ‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field he owns, then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it – a ḥomer of barley seed at fifty sheqels of silver.
17 ‘If he sets his field apart from the Year of Jubilee, according to your evaluation it stands.
18 ‘But if he sets his field apart after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation.
19 ‘And if he who sets the field apart ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.
20 ‘And if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is no longer redeemed,
21 but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, is set-apart to יהוה as a dedicated field, to be the possession of the priest.
22 ‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,
23 then the priest shall reckon to him the amount of your evaluation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your evaluation on that day, set-apart to יהוה.
24 ‘In the Year of Jubilee the field returns to him from whom he bought it, to him whose is the possession of the land.
25 ‘And all your evaluations is to be according to the sheqel of the set-apart place: twenty gĕrahs to the sheqel.
26 ‘However, a first-born of the beasts, which is first-born to יהוה, no man sets it apart – whether bull or sheep, it belongs to יהוה.
27 ‘And if among the unclean beasts, then he shall ransom it according to your evaluation, and shall add one-fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your evaluation.
28 ‘However, whatever a man lays under ban for יהוה of all that he has, man and beast, or the field of his possession, is not sold or redeemed. Whatever is laid under ban is most set-apart to יהוה.
29 ‘No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall certainly be put to death.
30 ‘And all the tithe of the land – of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree – belongs to יהוה. It is set-apart to יהוה.
31 ‘If a man indeed redeems any of his tithes, he adds one-fifth to it.
32 ‘And the entire tithe of the herd and of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth one is set-apart to יהוה.
33 ‘He does not inquire whether it is good or spoilt, nor does he exchange it. And if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it are set-apart, it is not redeemed.’ ”
34 These are the commands which יהוה commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai.
Isaiah 37
37|1 And it came to be, when Sovereign Ḥizqiyahu heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of יהוה,
2 and sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Sheḇnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amots.
3 And they said to him, “Thus said Ḥizqiyahu, ‘This day is a day of distress and rebuke and scorn, for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring forth.
4 ‘It could be that יהוה your Elohim does hear the words of the Raḇshaqĕh, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which יהוה your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”
5 So the servants of Sovereign Ḥizqiyahu came to Yeshayahu,
6 and Yeshayahu said to them, “Say this to your master, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashshur have reviled Me.
7 “See, I am putting a spirit in him, and he shall hear a report and return to his own land. And I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”
8 And the Raḇshaqĕh returned and found the sovereign of Ashshur fighting against Liḇnah, for he had heard that he had left Laḵish.
9 And he heard concerning Tirhaqah sovereign of Kush, “He has come out to fight with you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Ḥizqiyahu, saying,
10 “Speak to Ḥizqiyahu the sovereign of Yehuḏah, saying, ‘Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Yerushalayim is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.”
11 ‘See, you have heard what the sovereigns of Ashshur have done to all lands by putting them under the ban. And are you going to be delivered?
12 ‘Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Ḥaran and Retseph, and the sons of Ěḏen who were in Telassar?
13 ‘Where is the sovereign of Ḥamath, and the sovereign of Arpaḏ, and the sovereign of the city of Sepharwayim, Hĕna, and Iwwah?’ ”
14 And Ḥizqiyahu received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Ḥizqiyahu went up to the House of יהוה, and spread it before יהוה.
15 And Ḥizqiyahu prayed to יהוה, saying,
16 “O יהוה of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, the One who dwells between the keruḇim, You are Elohim, You alone, of all the reigns of the earth. You have made the heavens and earth.
17 “Incline Your ear, O יהוה, and hear. Open Your eyes, O יהוה, and see. And hear all the words of Sanḥĕriḇ, who has sent to reproach the living Elohim.
18 “Truly, יהוה, the sovereigns of Ashshur have laid waste all the lands, and their land,
19 and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. And they destroyed them.
20 “And now, O יהוה our Elohim, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are יהוה, You alone.”
21 Then Yeshayahu son of Amots sent to Ḥizqiyahu, saying, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sanḥĕriḇ sovereign of Ashshur,
22 this is the word which יהוה has spoken concerning him, “The maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!
23 “Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl!
24 “By the hand of your servants you have reproached יהוה, and said, ‘With my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Leḇanon. And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. And I enter its farthest height, its thickest forest.
25 ‘I have dug and drunk water, and with the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of defence.’
26 “Have you not heard long ago how I made it, from days of old, that I formed it? Now I have brought it about, that you should be for crushing walled cities into heaps of ruins.
27 “And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame. They were as the grass of the field and as the green plant, as the grass on the house-tops and as grain blighted before it is grown.
28 “But I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
29 “Because your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came.
30 “And this shall be the sign for you: This year you eat such as grows of itself, and the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
31 “And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehuḏah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 “For out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon – the ardour of יהוה of hosts does this.
33 “Therefore thus said יהוה concerning the sovereign of Ashshur, ‘He does not come into this city, nor does he shoot an arrow there, nor does he come before it with shield, nor does he build a siege mound against it.
34 ‘By the way that he came, by the same he turns back. And into this city he does not come,’ declares יהוה.
35 ‘And I shall defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant Dawiḏ.’ ”
36 And a messenger of יהוה went out, and killed in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose early in the morning, and saw all of them, dead bodies.
37 And Sanḥĕriḇ the sovereign of Ashshur broke camp and went away, and turned back, and remained at Ninewĕh.
38 And it came to be, as he was bowing himself in the house of Nisroḵ his mighty one, that his sons Aḏrammeleḵ and Shar’etser smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And his son Ěsarḥaddon reigned in his place.
Judges 21
21 | 1 And the men of Yisra’ĕl had sworn an oath at Mitspah, saying, “Not one of us shall give his daughter to Binyamin as a wife.”
2 So the people came to Bĕyth Ěl, and sat there until evening before Elohim, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly,
3 and said, “O יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, why has this come about in Yisra’ĕl, that today there should be one tribe missing in Yisra’ĕl?”
4 And it came to be on the morrow, that the people rose early and built an altar there, and brought burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 And the children of Yisra’ĕl said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl who did not come up with the assembly to יהוה?” For they had made a great oath concerning anyone who had not come up to יהוה at Mitspah, saying, “He shall certainly be put to death.”
6 And the children of Yisra’ĕl were sorry for Binyamin their brother, and said, “One tribe is cut off from Yisra’ĕl today.
7 “What do we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by יהוה not to give them our daughters as wives?”
8 And they said, “Which one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl did not come up to Mitspah to יהוה?” And see, no one had come to the camp from Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ to the assembly.
9 For when the people called a roll, see, not one of the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ was there.
10 And the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, saying, “Go, and you shall smite the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ with the edge of the sword, even the women and children.
11 “And this is what you do: Put under the ban every male, and every woman who has known a man by lying with him.”
12 And they found among the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ four hundred young maidens who had not known a man. And they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Kena‛an.
13 Then all the congregation sent, and spoke to the children of Binyamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
14 And Binyamin turned back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ. But even so there were not enough for them.
15 And the people were sorry for Binyamin, because יהוה had made a breach in the tribes of Yisra’ĕl.
16 And the elders of the congregation said, “What do we do for wives for those who remain, since the women have been destroyed out of Binyamin?”
17 And they said, “There is an inheritance for the survivors of Binyamin, and no tribe is to be destroyed from Yisra’ĕl.
18 “But we are unable to give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Yisra’ĕl have sworn an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the one who gives a wife to Binyamin.’ ”
19 So they said, “See, there is a yearly festival of יהוה in Shiloh, which is north of Bĕyth Ěl, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bĕyth Ěl to Sheḵem, and south of Leḇonah.”
20 And they commanded the children of Binyamin, saying, “Go, lie in wait in the vineyards,
21 “and watch. And see, when the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, then you shall come out from the vineyards, and every man catch a wife for himself from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Binyamin.
22 “And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we shall say to them, ‘Favour us with them, because we did not take a wife for any of them in battle, neither have you given them to them, making yourselves guilty of your oath.’ ”
23 And the children of Binyamin did so, and took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.
24 And the children of Yisra’ĕl went from there at that time, each one to his tribe and clan. And they went from there, each one to his inheritance.
25 In those days there was no sovereign in Yisra’ĕl – everyone did what was right in his own eyesa.
Acts 10
10 | 1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a captain of what was called the Italian Regiment,
2 dedicated, and fearing Elohim with all his household, doing many kind deeds to the people, and praying to Elohim always.
3 He clearly saw in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of Elohim coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
4 And looking intently at him, and becoming afraid, he said, “What is it, master?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your kind deeds have come up for a remembrance before Elohim.
5 “And now send men to Yapho, and send for Shim‛on who is also called Kĕpha.
6 “He is staying with Shim‛on, a leather-tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
7 And when the messenger who spoke to him went away, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a dedicated soldier from among those who waited on him continually.
8 And having explained to them all, he sent them to Yapho.
9 And on the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Kĕpha went up on the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour.
10 And he became hungry and wished to eat. But while they were preparing, he fell into a trance,
11 and he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth,
12 in which were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping creatures, and the birds of the heaven.
13 And a voice came to him, “Rise up, Kĕpha, slay and eat.”
14 But Kĕpha said, “Not at all, Master! Because I have never eaten whatever is common or unclean.”
15 And a voice came to him again the second time, “What Elohim has cleansed you do not consider common.”
16 And this took place three times, and the vessel was taken back to the heaven.
17 And while Kĕpha was doubting within himself about what the vision might mean, look, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having asked for the house of Shim‛on, stood at the gate,
18 and calling out, they enquired whether Shim‛on, also known as Kĕpha, was staying there.
19 And as Kĕpha was thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “See, three men seek you.
20 “But rise up, go down and go with them, not doubting at all, for I have sent them.”
21 So Kĕpha went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, “Look, I am the one you seek. Why have you come?”
22 And they said, “Cornelius the captain, a righteous man and one who fears Elohim and well spoken of by the entire nation of the Yehuḏim, was instructed by a set-apart messenger to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you.”
23 So inviting them in, he housed them. And on the next day Kĕpha went away with them, and some brothers from Yapho went with him.
24 And the following day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and close friends.
25 And it came to be, that when Kĕpha entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and bowed before him.
26 But Kĕpha raised him up, saying, “Stand up, I myself am also a man.”
27 And talking with him, he went in and found many who had come together.
28 And he said to them, “You know that a Yehuḏite man is not allowed to associate with, or go to one of another race. But Elohim has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.a
29 “That is why I came without hesitation when I was sent for. So I ask, why have you sent for me?”
30 And Cornelius said, “Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and see, a man stood before me in shining garments,
31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your kind deeds were remembered before Elohim.
32 ‘Now send to Yapho and call Shim‛on here, who is also called Kĕpha. He is staying in the house of Shim‛on, a leather-tanner, by the sea. When he comes, he shall speak to you.’
33 “So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before Elohim, to hear all that you have been commanded by Elohim.”
34 And opening his mouth, Kĕpha said, “Truly I see that Elohim shows no partiality,
35 but in every nation, he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.
36 “He sent the word to the children of Yisra’ĕl, bringing the Good News: peace through יהושע Messiah! He is Master of all.
37 “You know what word came to be throughout all Yehuḏah, beginning from Galil after the immersion which Yoḥanan proclaimed:
38 how Elohim did anoint יהושע of Natsareth with the Set-apart Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for Elohim was with Him.
39 “And we are witnesses of all He did, both in the country of the Yehuḏim and in Yerushalayim, whom they even killed by hanging on a timber.
40 “Elohim raised up this One on the third day, and let Him be seen,
41 not to all the people, but to witnesses, those having been chosen before by Elohim – to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.
42 “And He commanded us to proclaim to the people, and to witness that it is He who was appointed by Elohim to be Judge of the living and the dead.a
43 “To this One all the prophets bear witness, that through His Name, everyone believing in Him does receive forgiveness of sins.”
44 While Kĕpha was still speaking these words, the Set-apart Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word.
45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Kĕpha, because the gift of the Set-apart Spirit had been poured out on the gentiles also,
46 for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and extolling Elohim. Then Kĕpha answered,
47 “Is anyone able to forbid water, that these should not be immersed who have received the Set-apart Spirit – even as also we?”
48 And he commanded them to be immersed in the Name of יהושע Messiah. Then they asked him to remain a few days.
Job 16-17
16 | 1 And Iyoḇ answered and said,
2 “I have heard many matters like these; all of you are comforters of trouble!
3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I might also speak like you, if you were in my place. I might heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
5 I might strengthen you with my mouth, and my moving lips might bring relief.
6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, does it leave me?
7 But now He has wearied me. You have stunned all my company.
8 And You have plucked me, and it is a witness. And my failure rises up against me, it bears witness to my face.
9 He has torn in His wrath, and He hates me. He has gnashed at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes upon me.
10 They open wide their mouths at me, in scorn they have smitten my cheeks, they mass themselves together against me.
11 Ěl has handed me over to the perverse, and cast me into the hands of the wrong.
12 I was at ease, but He broke me. And He took me by my neck and shattered me, and He has set me up for His target.
13 His archers surround me, He splits my kidneys in two and does not spare, He pours out my bile on the ground.
14 He made a breach in me, breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a mighty man.
15 I sewed sackcloth over my skin, and laid my horn in the dust.
16 My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 though no violence was on my hand, and my prayer sincere.
18 O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!
19 See, even now my witness is in the heavens, and my defender is on high.
20 My friends are they that scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to Eloah.
21 O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man with his neighbour!
22 When a few years are past, then I shall go the way of no return.
17 | 1 “My spirit has been broken, my days have been extinguished, graves are for me.
2 Truly, mockeries are with me, and my eye rests on their insults!
3 Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who would strike hands with me?
4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them.
5 He who denounces friends for a share, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 But He has made me a byword of the people, whereas in former times I was as a drum.
7 And from sorrow my eye has grown dim, and all my members are like shadows.
8 Upright ones are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the defiled one.
9 And the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger.
10 But please, come back again, all of you, for I do not find a wise one among you.
11 My days have passed by, my plans have been broken off – the desires of my heart.
12 They would turn night into day, saying that light is near, in the presence of darkness!
13 If I wait – the grave is my house, I shall make my bed in darkness,
14 I shall say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ – to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
15 Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?
16 Would it sink down into the grave? Would we together go down into the dust?”
Jubilees 44
(CEPHER TRANSLATION)
44 | 1 AND Yashar’el took his journey from Haran from his house on the New Moon of the third month, and he went on the way of the Well of the Oath, and he offered a sacrifice to the ELOHIYM of his father Yitschaq on the seventh of this month.
2 And Ya`aqov remembered the dream that he had seen at Beyt-EL, and he feared to go down into Mitsrayim.
3 And while he was thinking of sending word to Yoceph to come to him, and that he would not go down, he remained there seven days, if perchance he could see a vision as to whether he should remain or go down.
4 And he celebrated the Harvest Feast of the Firstfruits with old grain, for in all the land of Kena`an there was not a handful of seed in the land, for the famine was over all the beasts and cattle and birds, and also over man.
5 And on the sixteenth YAHUAH appeared unto him, and said unto him: Ya`aqov, Ya`aqov; and he said: Here am I. And he said unto him: I am the ELOHIYM of your fathers, the ELOHIYM of Avraham and Yitschaq; fear not to go down into Mitsrayim, for I will there make of you a great nation I will go down with you, and I will bring you up again, and in this land shall you be buried, and Yoceph shall put his hands upon your eyes.
6 Fear not; go down into Mitsrayim.’
7 And his sons rose up, and his sons’ sons, and they placed their father and their possessions upon wagons.
8 And Yashar’el rose up from the Well of the Oath on the sixteenth of this third month, and he went to the land of Mitsrayim.
9 And Yashar’el sent Yahudah before him to his son Yoceph to examine the land of Goshen, for Yoceph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell there that they might be near him.
10 And this was the goodliest land in the land of Mitsrayim, and near to him, for all of them and also for the cattle.
11 And these are the names of the sons of Ya`aqov who went into Mitsrayim with Ya`aqov their father Re’uven, the firstborn of Yashar’el;
12 And these are the names of his sons Chanok, and Pallu, and Chetsron and Karmiy, five.
13 Shim`on and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Yemu’el, and Yamiyn, and Ohad, and Yakiyn, and Tsochar, and Sha’ul, the son of the Tsephathiy woman, seven.
14 Leviy and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Gershon, and Qohath, and Merariy, four. Yahudah and his sons; and these are the names of his sons:
15 Shelach, and Perets, and Zerach, four. Yisshakar and his sons; and these are the names of his sons:
16 Tola, and Pu’ah, and Yov, and Shimron, five.
17 Zevulun and his sons; and these are the names of his sons: Cered, and Eylon, and Yachle’el, four.
18 And these are the sons of Ya`aqov and their sons whom Le’ah bore to Ya`aqov in Aram Naharayim, six, and their one sister, Diynah and all the souls of the sons of Le’ah, and their sons, who went with Ya`aqov their father into Mitsrayim, were twenty nine, and Ya`aqov their father being with them, they were thirty.
19 And the sons of Zilpah, Le’ah’s handmaid, the woman of Ya`aqov, who bore unto Ya`aqov Gad and Asher.
20 And there are the names of their sons who went with him into Mitsrayim. The sons of Gad: Tsiphyon, and Chaggiy, and Shuniy, and Etsbon, and Eriy, and Ar’eliy, and Arvadiy, eight.
21 And the sons of Asher: Yimnah, and Yishvah, and Yishviy, and Beriy`ah, and Serach, their one sister, six.
22 All the souls were fourteen, and all those of Le’ah were forty four.
23 And the sons of Rachel, the woman of Ya`aqov: Yoceph and Binyamiyn.
24 And there were born to Yoceph in Mitsrayim before his father came into Mitsrayim, those whom Acenath, daughter of Potiyphar priest of On bore unto him, Menashsheh, and Ephrayim, three.
25 And the sons of Binyamiyn: Bela and Beker and Ashbel, Gera, and Na`aman, and Echiy, and Ro’sh, and Muppiym, and Chuppiym, and Ard, eleven.
26 And all the souls of Rachel were fourteen.
27 And the sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, the woman of Ya`aqov, whom she bore to Ya`aqov, were Dan and Naphtaliy.
28 And these are the names of their sons who went with them into Mitsrayim. And the sons of Dan were Chushiym, and Samon, and Asudi, and Iyaka, and Salomon, six.
29 And they died the year in which they entered into Mitsrayim, and there was left to Dan Chushiym alone.
30 And these are the names of the sons of Naphtaliy Yachtse’el, and Guniy and Yetser, and Shallum, and Iv.
31 And Iv, who was born after the years of famine, died in Mitsrayim. And all the souls of Rachel were twenty six.
32 And all the souls of Ya`aqov which went into Mitsrayim were seventy souls.
33 These are his children and his children’s children, in all seventy, but five died in Mitsrayim before Yoceph, and had no children.
34 And in the land of Kena`an two sons of Yahudah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children, and the children of Yashar’el buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy nations of the goyiym.
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