#12 Tribes of Israel

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In 1920, Syria Palestina was a Roman-named colony or region, not a country, (aka Palestine), stretching from Iraq to southern Syria, and of course, there was no country called Jordan. The word Palestine was 100% derived from the Hebrew name for the Philistines. There is no evidence of a written language left by the philistines and the only name that they were known by was the name given to them by the Hebrews at the time. The evolution of the word went something like this:

פלש—פלישתים—ארץ פלשת—סוריה פלסטינה/פלשתינה—פלסטין/פלשתין

PaLaSh—plishtim—the land of paleset—Syria Palestina (the name given to the land of Israel and Judea as a punishment by the Roman)—- Palestine

PaLaSh is the Hebrew root word for invade meaning we called the sea fairing invaders by their actual name, invaders

Important to know that the Arabs absolutely DENIED ANY RELEVANCE and would not ascribe and meaning re: "Palestine" for themselves.

Arab nationalists in the post-WWI period ADAMANTLY rejected the designation. Arab spokesmen continued to insist that the land was, like Lebanon, merely a fragment of Syria. On the grounds that it dismembered an ideal unitary Arab state, they fought before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and at the United Nations. The Arab historian Philip K. Hitti informed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history.”

In 1937, Awni Bey Abdul-Hadi, founder of the first Palestinian Arab political party, testified to the Peel Commission, "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Palestine is alien to us."

In May 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, who became the first head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (at a time when Jordan had annexed the "West Bank" and Egypt controlled Gaza), declared to the United Nations Security Council, “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.”

In February 1970, Prince El Hassan bin Tala of Jordan, stated to the Jordanian National Assembly that "Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is one people and one land, with one history and one and the same fate." Seven months later, the PLO attempted to take over Jordan, lost, and were unceremoniously, kicked out.

In 1977, PLO Executive Committee member Zahir Muhsein stated, "The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for our continuing struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. … In reality there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese."

One might argue that this particular group of Arabs established, sometime in the mid 1960s, a political identity as "Palestinians," when Arafat returned from strategic partnership meetings with the Soviets communists who were attempting to gain a larger foothold in the region, and advised him how to use "Palestine" identity as a cudgel against Israel.

What they are NOT is "ancient" inhabitants of the region which, under Ottoman rule, was also dubbed "Syria-Palestine." What they are NOT is any sort of distinct ETHNIC group—like the Judeans (Judea/Samaria/Israel), the Phoenicians (Lebanon), the Kurds, the Druze, or the Circassians. They are Arabs, sharing the language, culture, religion, cuisine, ethnic group, etc. of the people of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Prior to the 1960s, before the PLO was created, there were ZERO Arabs self-identifying as Palestinians. During the 19 years that Jordan controlled the so-called "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria, which had been cleansed of Jews by the Jordanians) and when Egypt controlled Gaza, there was no movement to create a "Palestinian" state.

Attached is a photo of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in 1936, which consisted of 73 jewish musicians, and conducted by none other than Arturo Toscanini (born in Parma, father was a tailor). Toscanini was the music director at La Scala, before spending spent 7 years conducting the New York Metropolitan Opera (1908-1915) and the New York Philharmonic (1926-1936). He lived out his latter years in NYC, about a 1/2 mile from where I lived for a decade from 2005-2015 in Riverdale (Bronx), which is now called Wave Hill, a non-profit cultural institution and botanical garden, located on 26 acres adjacent to the Hudson River.

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In that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God: By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin…

“Now these are the names of Israel’s sons who came into Egypt with Jacob; each man and his household came: Reuʹben, Sim’e·on, Le’vi and Judah, Is’sa·char, Zeb’u·lun and Benjamin, Dan and Naph’ta·li, Gad and Ash’er. And all the souls who issued out of Jacob’s upper thigh came to be seventy souls, but Joseph was already in Egypt. Eventually Joseph died, and also all his brothers and all that generation. And the sons of Israel became fruitful and began to swarm; and they kept on multiplying and growing mightier at a very extraordinary rate, so that the land got to be filled with them.

In time there arose over Egypt a new king who did not know Joseph. And he proceeded to say to his people: “Look! The people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we are. Come on! Let us deal shrewdly with them, for fear they may multiply, and it must turn out that, in case war should befall us, then they certainly will also be added to those who hate us and will fight against us and go up out of the country.”

So they set over them chiefs of forced labor for the purpose of oppressing them in their burden-bearing; and they went building cities as storage places for Phar’aoh, namely, Pi’thom and Ra·am’ses. But the more they would oppress them, the more they would multiply and the more they kept spreading abroad, so that they felt a sickening dread as a result of the sons of Israel. Consequently the Egyptians made the sons of Israel slave under tyranny. And they kept making their life bitter with hard slavery at clay mortar and bricks and with every form of slavery in the field, yes, every form of slavery of theirs in which they used them as slaves under tyranny.

Later on the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, the name of one of whom was Shiph’rah and the name of the other Pu’ah, yes, he went so far as to say: “When YOU help the Hebrew women to give birth and YOU do see them on the stool for childbirth, if it is a son, YOU must also put it to death; but if it is a daughter, it must also live.” However, the midwives feared the [true] God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them, but they would preserve the male children alive. In time the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them: “Why is it YOU have done this thing, in that YOU preserved the male children alive?” In turn the midwives said to Phar’aoh: “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. Because they are lively, they have already given birth before the midwife can come in to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people kept growing more numerous and becoming very mighty. And it came about that because the midwives had feared the [true] God he later presented them with families. Finally Phar’aoh commanded all his people, saying: “Every newborn son YOU are to throw into the river Nile, but every daughter YOU are to preserve alive.”

Meantime, a certain man of the house of Le’vi went ahead and took a daughter of Le’vi. And the woman became pregnant and brought a son to birth. When she saw how good-looking he was, she kept him concealed for three lunar months. When she was no longer able to conceal him, she then took for him an ark of papyrus and coated it with bitumen and pitch and put the child in it and put it among the reeds by the bank of the river Nile. Further, his sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would be done with him.

After a while Phar’aoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the Nile River, and her female attendants were walking by the side of the Nile River. And she caught sight of the ark in the middle of the reeds. Immediately she sent her slave girl that she might get it. When she opened it she got to see the child, and here the boy was weeping. At that she felt compassion for him, although she said: “This is one of the children of the Hebrews.” Then his sister said to Pharʹaoh’s daughter: “Shall I go and specially call for you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?” So Phar’aoh’s daughter said to her: “Go!” At once the maiden went and called the child’s mother. Phar’aoh’s daughter then said to her: “Take this child with you and nurse him for me, and I myself shall give you your wages.” Accordingly the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew up. Then she brought him to Phar’aoh’s daughter, so that he became a son to her; and she proceeded to call his name Moses and to say: “It is because I have drawn him out of the water.”

Now it came about in those days, as Moses was becoming strong, that he went out to his brothers that he might look at the burdens they were bearing; and he caught sight of a certain Egyptian striking a certain Hebrew of his brothers. So he turned this way and that and saw there was nobody in sight. Then he struck the Egyptian down and hid him in the sand.

However, he went out on the following day and here there were two Hebrew men struggling with each other. So he said to the one in the wrong: “Why should you strike your companion?” At this he said: “Who appointed you as a prince and judge over us? Are you intending to kill me just as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses now got afraid and said: “Surely the thing has become known!”

Subsequently Phar’aoh got to hear of this thing, and he attempted to kill Moses; but Moses ran away from Phar’aoh that he might dwell in the land of Mid’i·an; and he took a seat by a well. Now the priest of Mid’i·an had seven daughters, and as usual they came and drew water and filled the gutters to water their father’s flock. And as usual the shepherds came and drove them away. At this Moses got up and helped the women out and watered their flock. So when they came home to Reu’el their father he exclaimed: “How is it YOU have come home so quickly today?” To this they said: “A certain Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and, besides, he actually drew water for us that he might water the flock.” Then he said to his daughters: “But where is he? Why is it that YOU have left the man behind? Call him, that he may eat bread.” After that Moses showed willingness to dwell with the man, and he gave Zip·po’rah his daughter to Moses. Later she bore a son and he called his name Ger’shom, because, he said: “An alien resident I have come to be in a foreign land.”

And it came about during those many days that the king of Egypt finally died, but the sons of Israel continued to sigh because of the slavery and to cry out in complaint, and their cry for help kept going up to the [true] God because of the slavery. In time God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So God looked on the sons of Israel and God took notice.

And Moses became a shepherd of the flock of Jeth’ro, the priest of Mid’i·an, whose son-in-law he was. While he was driving the flock to the west side of the wilderness, he came at length to the mountain of the [true] God, to Ho’reb. Then Jehovah’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a thornbush. As he kept looking, why, here the thornbush was burning with the fire and yet the thornbush was not consumed. At this Moses said: “Let me just turn aside that I may inspect this great phenomenon, as to why the thornbush is not burnt up.” When Jehovah saw that he turned aside to inspect, God at once called to him out of the midst of the thornbush and said: “Moses! Moses!” to which he said: “Here I am.” Then he said: “Do not come near here. Draw your sandals from off your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

And he went on to say: “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses concealed his face, because he was afraid to look at the [true] God. And Jehovah added: “Unquestionably I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their outcry as a result of those who drive them to work; because I well know the pains they suffer. And I am proceeding to go down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a land good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the locality of the Ca’naan·ites and the Hit’tites and the Am’or·ites and the Per’iz·zites and the Hi’vites and the Jeb’u·sites. And now, look! the outcry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have seen also the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. And now come and let me send you to Phar’aoh, and you bring my people the sons of Israel out of Egypt.”

However, Moses said to the [true] God: “Who am I that I should go to Phar’aoh and that I have to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” To this he said: “Because I shall prove to be with you, and this is the sign for you that it is I who have sent you: After you have brought the people out of Egypt, YOU people will serve the [true] God on this mountain.”

Nevertheless, Moses said to the [true] God: “Suppose I am now come to the sons of Israel and I do say to them, ‘The God of YOUR forefathers has sent me to YOU,’ and they do say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What shall I say to them?” At this God said to Moses: “I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.” And he added: “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to YOU.’” Then God said once more to Moses:

“This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to YOU.’ This is my name to time indefinite, and this is the memorial of me to generation after generation. You go, and you must gather the older men of Israel, and you must say to them, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying: “I will without fail give attention to YOU and to what is being done to YOU in Egypt. And so I say, I shall bring YOU up out of affliction by the Egyptians to the land of the Ca’naan·ites and the Hit’tites and the Am’or·ites and the Per’iz·zites and the Hi’vites and the Jeb’u·sites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

“And they will certainly listen to your voice, and you must come, you and the older men of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and YOU men must say to him, ‘Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has come in touch with us, and now we want to go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we want to sacrifice to Jehovah our God.’ And I, even I, well know that the king of Egypt will not give YOU permission to go except by a strong hand. And I shall have to stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonderful acts that I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will send YOU out. And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians; and it will certainly occur that when YOU go, YOU will not go empty-handed. And each woman must ask from her neighbor and from the woman residing as an alien in her house articles of silver and articles of gold and mantles, and YOU must put them upon YOUR sons and YOUR daughters; and YOU must strip the Egyptians.”

However, Moses in answering said: “But suppose they do not believe me and do not listen to my voice, because they are going to say, ‘Jehovah did not appear to you.’” Then Jehovah said to him: “What is that in your hand?” to which he said: “A rod.” Next he said: “Throw it on the earth.” So he threw it on the earth, and it became a serpent; and Moses began to flee from it. Jehovah now said to Moses: “Thrust your hand out and grab hold of it by the tail.” So he thrust his hand out and grabbed hold of it, and it became a rod in his palm. “In order that,” to quote him, “they may believe that Jehovah the God of their forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Then Jehovah said to him once more: “Stick your hand, please, into the upper fold of your garment.” So he stuck his hand into the upper fold of his garment. When he drew it out, why, here his hand was stricken with leprosy like snow! After that he said: “Return your hand into the upper fold of your garment.” So he returned his hand into the upper fold of his garment. When he drew it out of the upper fold of his garment, why, here it was restored like the rest of his flesh! “And it must occur that,” to quote him, “if they will not believe you and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will certainly believe the voice of the later sign. Still, it must occur that, if they will not believe even these two signs and will not listen to your voice, then you will have to take some water from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry land; and the water that you will take from the Nile River will certainly become, yes, it will indeed become blood on the dry land.”

Moses now said to Jehovah: “Excuse me, Jehovah, but I am not a fluent speaker, neither since yesterday nor since before that nor since your speaking to your servant, for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.” At that Jehovah said to him: “Who appointed a mouth for man or who appoints the speechless or the deaf or the clear-sighted or the blind? Is it not I, Jehovah? So now go, and I myself shall prove to be with your mouth and I will teach you what you ought to say.” But he said: “Excuse me, Jehovah, but send, please, by the hand of the one whom you are going to send.” Then Jehovah’s anger grew hot against Moses and he said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I do know that he can really speak. And, besides, here he is on his way out to meet you. When he does see you, he will certainly rejoice in his heart. And you must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I myself shall prove to be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach YOU men what YOU are to do. And he must speak for you to the people; and it must occur that he will serve as a mouth to you, and you will serve as God to him. And this rod you will take in your hand that you may perform the signs with it.”

Accordingly Moses went and returned to Jeth’ro his father-in-law and said to him: “I want to go, please, and return to my brothers who are in Egypt that I may see whether they are still alive.” So Jeth’ro said to Moses: “Go in peace.” After that Jehovah said to Moses in Mid’i·an: “Go, return to Egypt, because all the men who were hunting for your soul are dead.”

Then Moses took his wife and his sons and made them ride on an ass, and he proceeded to return to the land of Egypt. Moreover, Moses took the rod of the [true] God in his hand. And Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “After you have gone and returned to Egypt see that YOU men actually perform all the miracles that I have put in your hand before Phar’aoh. As for me, I shall let his heart become obstinate; and he will not send the people away. And you must say to Phar’aoh, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Israel is my son, my firstborn. And I say to you: Send my son away that he may serve me. But should you refuse to send him away, here I am killing your son, your firstborn.”’”

Now it came about on the road at the lodging place that Jehovah got to meet him and kept looking for a way to put him to death. Finally Zip·po’rah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and caused it to touch his feet and said: “It is because you are a bridegroom of blood to me.” Consequently he let go of him. At that time she said: “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

Then Jehovah said to Aaron: “Go to meet Moses into the wilderness.” With that he went and met him in the mountain of the [true] God and kissed him. And Moses proceeded to tell Aaron all the words of Jehovah, who had sent him, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. After that Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the older men of the sons of Israel. Then Aaron spoke all the words that Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs under the eyes of the people. At this the people believed. When they heard that Jehovah had turned his attention to the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed down and prostrated themselves.

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and proceeded to say to Phar’aoh: “This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said, ‘Send my people away that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.’” But Phar’aoh said: “Who is Jehovah, so that I should obey his voice to send Israel away? I do not know Jehovah at all and, what is more, I am not going to send Israel away.” However, they went on to say: “The God of the Hebrews has come in touch with us. We want to go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God; otherwise he may strike at us with pestilence or with sword.” At this the king of Egypt said to them: “Why is it, Moses and Aaron, that YOU cause the people to leave off from their works? Go bearing YOUR burdens!” And Phar’aoh continued: “Look! The people of the land are now many, and YOU indeed make them desist from their bearing of burdens.”

Immediately on that day Phar’aoh commanded those who drove the people to work and their officers, saying: “YOU must not gather straw to give to the people to make bricks as formerly. Let them themselves go and gather straw for themselves. Moreover, the required amount of bricks that they were making formerly, YOU will further impose upon them. YOU must not make any reduction for them, because they are relaxing. That is why they are crying out, saying, ‘We want to go, we want to sacrifice to our God!’ Let the service be heavy upon the men and let them work at it, and let them not pay attention to false words.”

So those who drove the people to work and their officers went out and said to the people: “Here is what Phar’aoh has said, ‘I am giving YOU no more straw. YOU yourselves go, get straw for yourselves wherever YOU may find it, because there is to be no reducing of YOUR services one bit.’” Consequently the people scattered about over all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. And those who drove them to work kept urging them, saying: “Finish YOUR works, each one his work, day for day, just as when straw was available.” Later on the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Phar’aoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, these saying: “Why is it YOU did not finish YOUR prescribed task in making bricks as formerly, both yesterday and today?”

Consequently the officers of the sons of Israel went in and began to cry out to Phar’aoh, saying: “Why do you deal this way with your servants? There is no straw given to your servants and yet they are saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ and here your servants are beaten, whereas your own people are at fault.” But he said: “YOU are relaxing, YOU are relaxing! That is why YOU are saying, ‘We want to go, we want to sacrifice to Jehovah.’ And now go, serve! Though no straw will be given to YOU, yet YOU are to give the fixed amount of bricks.” Then the officers of the sons of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight at the saying: “YOU must not deduct from YOUR bricks one bit of anyone’s daily rate.” After that they encountered Moses and Aaron, who were standing there to meet them as they came out from Pharʹaoh. At once they said to them: “May Jehovah look upon YOU and judge, since YOU have made us smell offensive before Phar’aoh and before his servants so as to put a sword in their hand to kill us.” Then Moses turned to Jehovah and said: “Jehovah, why have you caused evil to this people? Why is it that you have sent me? For from the time that I went in before Phar’aoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have by no means delivered your people.”

So Jehovah said to Moses: “Now you will see what I shall do to Phar’aoh, because on account of a strong hand he will send them away and on account of a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

And God went on to speak to Moses and to say to him: “I am Jehovah. And I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah I did not make myself known to them. And I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Ca’naan, the land of their alien residences in which they resided as aliens. And I, even I, have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I remember my covenant.

“Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am Jehovah, and I shall certainly bring YOU out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver YOU from their slavery, and I shall indeed reclaim YOU with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. And I shall certainly take YOU to me as a people, and I shall indeed prove to be God to YOU; and YOU will certainly know that I am Jehovah YOUR God who is bringing YOU out from under the burdens of Egypt. And I shall certainly bring YOU into the land that I raised my hand in oath to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and I shall indeed give it to YOU as something to possess. I am Jehovah.’”

Afterward Moses spoke to this effect to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses out of discouragement and for the hard slavery.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying: “Go in, speak to Phar’aoh, Egypt’s king, that he should send the sons of Israel away out of his land.” However, Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying: “Look! The sons of Israel have not listened to me; and how will Phar’aoh ever listen to me, as I am uncircumcised in lips?” But Jehovah continued to speak to Moses and Aaron and to issue the command by them to the sons of Israel and to Phar’aoh, Egypt’s king, in order to bring the sons of Israel out from the land of Egypt.

These are the heads of the house of their fathers: The sons of Reu’ben, Israel’s firstborn, were Ha’noch and Pal’lu, Hez’ron and Car’mi. These are the families of Reu’ben.

And the sons of Sim’e·on were Jem·u’el and Ja’min and O’had and Ja’chin and Zo’har and Sha’ul the son of a Ca’naan·ite woman. These are the families of Sim’e·on.

And these are the names of the sons of Le’vi, according to their family descents: Ger’shon and Ko’hath and Me·rar’i. And the years of Le’vi’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

The sons of Ger’shon were Lib’ni and Shim’e·i, according to their families.

And the sons of Ko’hath were Am’ram and Iz’har and He’bron and Uz’zi·el. And the years of Ko’hath’s life were a hundred and thirty-three years.

And the sons of Me·rar’i were Mah’li and Mu’shi. These were the families of the Levites, according to their family descents.

Now Am’ram took Joch’e·bed his father’s sister as his wife. Later she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Am’ram’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

And the sons of Iz’har were Ko’rah’and Ne’pheg and Zich’ri.

And the sons of Uz’zi·el were Mish’a·el and El·za’phan and Sith’ri.

Now Aaron took E·li’she·ba, Am·min’a·dab’s daughter, the sister of Nah’shon, as his wife. Later she bore him Na’dab and A·bi’hu, El·e·a’zar and Ith’a·mar.

And the sons of Ko’rah were As’sir and El·ka’nah and A·bi’a·saph. These were the families of the Ko’rah·ites.

And El·e·a’zar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Pu’ti·el as his wife. Later she bore him Phin’e·has. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites, according to their families.

This is the Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said: “BRING the sons of Israel out from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”

They were the ones speaking to Phar’aoh, Egypt’s king, to bring the sons of Israel out from Egypt. This is the Moses and Aaron.

And it came about on the day that Jehovah spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, that Jehovah went on to speak to Moses, saying: “I am Jehovah. Speak to Phar’aoh king of Egypt everything I am speaking to you.”

Then Moses said before Jehovah: “Look! I am uncircumcised in lips, so how will Phar’aoh ever listen to me?”

Exodus 1-6, NWT

Surging Waters: I Shall Have To Stretch Out My Hand And Strike Egypt With All My Wonderful Acts

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Oh my word!!!!

Why did God tell me this morning that Jacob was BLACK

I heard

“BLACK JACOB”

😱🤯

And right after why did I feel someone touch my hand 🤚🏾 ….. yes it was our God.

Amazinggggggggggggggggggggggg🤩

We been saying this

UPDATE:

The scriptures the LORD gave me confirms what he said to me when he said “FEAR NOT”.

✨MIRACLES✨

What’s crazy is God showed me worms 🪱 and I thought oh no 🙈 thinking he was referring to some parasite 🦠 which was true however to see the word “worm” here is double confirmation.

I am donneeeeeeeeeee

*silently screams and faints*

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OD YOZEF CHAI!! 🔥🤗📜❤️✨

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Sons and Daughters of God

1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being 22,600. 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men. 4 And…

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In the Beginning. . .

(Sunday, March 10, 2024 A.D.)

Genesis 1:1-5

Golden Text:  1)In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. - Genesis 1:1-5 

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? - II Corinthians 6:14

The Bible begins with ten powerful words: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. If you believe those ten words, as they are written, without trying to wrestle with their obvious, clear meanings, then the rest of the Bible, as it is plainly written and commonly understood, should not be difficult to understand and believe. God provides ample proof. In this plain, honest belief of the Bible, one finds: everlasting life.

As we look in we find Joseph is in bondage where he will be falsely accused of infidelity with the wife of Potiphar. Joseph could have been summarily executed, but Joseph is placed in another prison where Joseph rises to prominence. At that time Joseph is told of two dreams. Then both the baker of Pharaoh and the butler (wine taster) of Pharaoh received dreams. Both of those dreams are interpreted by God for Joseph. Both were correct. The wine tasting butler and the baker received restoration as God had revealed to Joseph. The other man was executed.

Joseph was supposed to be recommended to Pharaoh as one that God would use to properly interpret dreams. However he was forgotten until the Pharaoh had dreams that none of the magicians of Pharaoh could discern. The butler now remembered this Hebrew young man that could interpret dreams, and he was called before Pharaoh.

At that point in time, because of his proper interpretation of the dream of pharaoh, Joseph was appointed second in command of all Egypt as far as the famine was concerned that was coming.

This chapter 38 has to do with a woman named Tamar and her father-in-law the son of Jacob the son of Israel named Judah and it is placed here historically. The story of Tamar and the sin of Judah shows us the need for Judah to be removing this family out of Canaan and sending it down to Egypt, according to commentator Pastor David Guzik.

What this means is simple, that during the time when Joseph had been sold into Egypt, Judah had to be examined. Chapter 38 is one more example of the theme that God’s people should not be marrying the heathen. (Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Amos 3:3)

In the meantime, Judah had gone down from his brethren and found and married a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. Wikipedia says:

 “The connection between Judah and Adullam and its surroundings was actually already established in the patriarchal period, when Judah "went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah" (Genesis 38:1). Earlier when Saul was king David, fleeing from Saul, sought refuge in the cave of Adullam and made it a place of reconnoitering and organization, both, for him and his men (1 Samuel 22:1–2)”

Message Text: Genesis Chapter 38: 1 - 30

1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Adam Clarke tells us

 “the very earliest of the transactions here recorded must have occurred long before the selling of Joseph... For Joseph was born six years before Jacob left Laban and came into Canaan; Genesis 30:25, and Genesis 31:41. Joseph was seventeen years old when he was sold into Egypt, Genesis 37:2; Genesis 37:25; Joseph was thirty years old when he interpreted Pharaoh's dream, Genesis 41:46. And nine years after, when there had been seven years of plenty and two years of famine, did Jacob with his family go down into Egypt, Genesis 41:53-54, and Genesis 45:6; Genesis 45:11. And at their going down thither, Pharez, the son of Judah, whose birth is set down at the end of this chapter, had two sons, Hezron and Hamul, Genesis 46:8;Genesis 46:12. Seeing then from the selling of Joseph unto Israel's going down into Egypt there cannot be above twenty-three years... The time therefore here spoken of seems to have been soon after Jacob's coming to Shechem, Genesis 33:18, before the history of Dinah... Judah was about forty-seven years old when Jacob's family settled in Egypt. He could not therefore have been above fifteen at the birth of his eldest son Er; nor Er more than fifteen at his marriage with Tamar; nor could it have been more than two years after Er's death till the birth of Judah's twin sons by his daughter-in-law Tamar...”

While in the area of Adullam, Judah saw there a Canaanite woman named Shuah and he took her to be his wife. According to Adam Clarke, an Adullamite was “An inhabitant of Adullam, a city of Canaan, afterwards given for a possession to the sons of Judah, Joshua 15:1; Joshua 15:35. It appears as if this Adullamite had kept a kind of lodging house...As the woman was a Canaanite, Judah had the example of his fathers to prove at least the impropriety of such a connection.”

Wikipedia says:

 “In the King James Version, Genesis 38:2 reads "And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah ..." This is ambiguous as to who is named Shuah, the Canaanite or his daughter. This has led some to say that Shuah was Judah's wife”

3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. 4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. 6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

What is important is the fact that Judah was the father of Er his firstborn. Adam Clarke says,

 “Er, the firstborn was to marry Tamar and raise up children. And he was at Chezib when she bare him. — This town is supposed to be the same with Achzib, which fell to the tribe of Judah”

7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

The Bible tells us Er was wicked and God slew him. Adam Clarke says, “Er-was wicked in the sight of the Lord-- What this wickedness consisted in we are not told; but the phrase sight of the Lord being added, proves that it was some very great evil.”

8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

Judah had told Onan to go into his brother’s wife and raise up seed to his brother.

9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore He slew him also.

But Onan refused and was wicked. Onan disobeyed his father’s command to raise up seed with Tamar and this seed was to be considered to be from his brother. This act of defiance apparently occurred when while having intercourse with Tamar, he removed his penis and spilled the seed of copulation upon the ground. The Bible tells us that when he went into his brothers wife he spilled his seed (semen) upon the ground. The Bible tells us these acts of defiance by the brothers displeased the LORD and God slew them both.

Adam Clarke says:

“Onan knew that the seed should not be his -- That is, that the child begotten of his brother's widow should be reckoned as the child of his deceased brother...his crime was his refusal to raise up seed to his brother, and rather than do it, by the act mentioned above, he rendered himself incapable of it. We find from this history that long be fore the Mosaic law it was an established custom, probably founded on a Divine precept, that if a man died childless his brother was to take his wife, and the children produced by this second marriage were considered as the children of the first husband...”

11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

Apparently it was the custom of those days for an unmarried daughter to return to her father’s house. And she did.

12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

At about the same time, Judah’s wife died and he was without a wife. He decided to go to Timnath. When he arrived at Timnath, was it his express intent to become sexually involved with a women of that era who appeared to be a prostitute?

13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

It was in fact his daughter in law acting as if she were a prostitute. She felt righteous because he had withheld his last son from her.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. 16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? 17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? 18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

Judah asks permission to have intercourse with one he believes to be an harlot who is really his daughter in law in the role of a harolt.

His daughter in law playing the role of the harlot becomes pregnant. Before she becomes pregnant she asks for a sign that he would keep his promise to her.  He promises to send her a kid of the goats form the flock. When asked for proof he gives her his signet and bracelet and staff. She becomes pregnant.

Adam Clarke says a harlot...

 “signifies generally a person who prostitutes herself to the public for hire ... It appears that in very ancient times there were public persons of this description; and they generally veiled themselves, sat in public places by the highway side, and received certain hire. Though adultery was reputed a very flagrant crime, yet this public prostitution was not.”

Adam Clarke describes a pledge as:

“a part of the price agreed for between a buyer and seller, by giving and receiving of which the bargain was ratified; or a deposit, which was to be restored when the thing promised should be given ... He who has the earnest of the Spirit then in his heart shall not only be saved from death, but have that eternal life of which it is the pledge and the evidence.”

19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

The next thing we read is that she has gone to her father in law’s home to answer for her whoredom.

20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. 21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place. 22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place. 23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

She has gone home to be with her father in law where she is found to be pregnant three months later. Her father in law is upset because of her pregnancy. Then he discovers he is the father of the children.

According to Adam Clarke, “In Genesis 38:15, Tamar is called a harlot, zonah, which, as we have already seen, signifies a person who prostitutes herself for money. ... it appears ... that impure rites and public prostitution prevailed in the worship of the Canaanite in the time of Judah.”

Adam Clarke also tells us:

 “Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. — As he had ordered Tamar to live as a widow in her own father's house till his son Shelah should be marriageable, he considers her therefore as the wife of his son; and as Shelah was not yet given to her, and she is found with child, she is reputed by him as an adulteress, and burning, it seems, was anciently the punishment of this crime. Judah, being a patriarch or head of a family, had, according to the custom of those times, the supreme magisterial authority over all the branches of his own family; therefore he only acts here in his juridical capacity.”

Adam Clarke says: 

 “She hath been more righteous than I — It is probable that Tamar was influenced by no other motive than that which was common to all the Israelite women, the desire to have children who might be heirs of the promise made to Abraham, &c. “

27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. 29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. 30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

Pharez and Zarah - Pharez means “a breach.” He was the twin son with Zarah of Judah by Tamar and ancestor of two families of Judah, the Hezronites and Hamulites; from the Hezronites came the royal line of David and Christ.

More words of wisdom from Adam Clarke:

 “THERE are several subjects in this chapter on which it may not be unprofitable to spend a few additional moments. ... The insertion of this chapter is a farther proof of the impartiality of the sacred writer. The facts detailed, considered in themselves, can reflect no credit on the patriarchal history; but Judah, Tamar, Zarah, and Pharez, were progenitors of the Messiah, and therefore their birth must be recorded; and as the birth, so also the circumstances of that birth, which, even had they not a higher end in view, would be valuable as casting light upon some very ancient customs, which it is interesting to understand.”

God will have His way and apparently will use those who sin and will forgive their sin and give us the righteousness if Christ.

We admit that these were sinful acts by Judah and Tamar, but the result is the line through Judah will continue as we learn about our new Great High Priest.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for forgiving our sin and making Heaven our home, only through the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Lord, please keep us mindful of the company we keep, that we do not become dragged down into the ways of this world. Help us to be the salt and light that brings glory to Your precious Name.

Lord, we see Your mercy, in that You allowed a child born out of a sinful situation - Perez - to be part of the line to Messiah. Help us to have that same attitude of mercy to others. To realize your forgiveness and You will help us to be forgiven and used. Please come into our hearts and lives in a bigger way than You have before, assuring us You are in control. We will give You all the praise, all the honor and all the glory - in Mighty Name of Jesus we pray - Amen!

May God bless you in all that you do for Him, Brother J.R. Soul winner, Bible teacher, Defender of the Faith

[disease]

THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL: "REUBEN" SALVADOR DALÍ // 1972 [etching in colours on paper | 50 × 37 cm.]

[kelluinox]

Listening to westerners is becoming increasingly like listening to vatniks and it's frightening and depressing

[owlbelly]

jaw-dropping choices being made with the illustration on this Yetzer Hora card

you know shit is bleak when you can't even avoid antisemitic stereotypes in Jewish children's games

[sefarad-haami]

Print of Humphreys enthroned after defeat of Jewish boxer Mendoza

"The Triumph, January 1788" es un grabado de Thomas Harmar que muestra una procesión celebrando la victoria del boxeador Richard Humphreys sobre Daniel Mendoza, un boxeador judío, en una pelea en Inglaterra. Mendoza quedó gravemente herido en esta pelea, lo que permitió a Humphreys y sus seguidores presumir de haber derrotado a un boxeador judío muy popular. Aunque perdió esta primera pelea, Mendoza ganó las siguientes dos en 1789 y 1790. Mendoza, conocido como "Mendoza el Judío", fue el primer boxeador judío en convertirse en campeón de Inglaterra, manteniendo el título entre 1792 y 1795. A pesar de ser más bajo y más liviano que otros boxeadores, Mendoza usaba velocidad, agilidad y técnica para ganar sus peleas, cambiando la manera en que se boxeaba y creando lo que se conoció como el "estilo Mendoza". El grabado es parte de una colección de más de 900 objetos que muestran artefactos y material visual con temas antisemitas. El legado de Mendoza fue importante para la comunidad judía, que históricamente había sido marginada, y su éxito ayudó a mejorar la aceptación de los judíos en la sociedad británica.

[marie85]

As I'm on my journey with Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit has been cleaning me up from the inside and out. I've been experiencing some strange dreams and visions lately, and the first thing I do is pray about them and ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding concerning them. I then go on Google and search what the Bible says about whatever it is I'm inquiring about and once I see the scripture about it I begin to read, and it's like I begin to get deeper into the word and you know the Holy Spirit does its thing and revelations begin to pour out and I gain understanding, wisdom, and knowledge concerning the dreams or visions.

Now please understand clearly, when you ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding about something, DO NOT assume you got the full-blown revelation concerning it because you truly got a small piece of it or maybe half because trust and believe if we got the whole revelation about it at one time our poor brains would be so messed up and of course, like the humans that we are we would run with it and act a certain way.

Now you're asking yourself what do these pictures have to do with anything I'm saying. Well, I Love video games, and Assassin's Creed happens to be a game series that I love. I honestly haven't played Valhalla as yet ( I know I'm slacking) but I will and this is where my question comes from.

I had a dream or vision about snakes. I won't get descriptive about the vision or dream but I've prayed about it, and I began to do some research through the Bible and videos. With what I've read and watched so far, this is a question that has been on my mind for a couple weeks now. I've already asked the Holy Spirit this question but I don't think I've gotten an answer as yet or maybe I have I don't know.

THE QUESTION IS THIS!!

IS IT SAFE TO SAY THAT THIS VIDEO GAME COULD POSSIBLY BE ABOUT THE TRIBE OF DAN, ONE OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL? Look at the detail of the ship and also check out the video attached, then you'll get an understanding of why I ask what I'm asking.

Read Genesis chapters 29-30, Genesis 35:23-26, Genesis 49:16-18

I haven't finished studying about the Tribe of Dan yet but this question is honestly plaguing me in so many ways. Tell me what you think. I would like to read your thoughts on this. And PLEASE, if you're going to answer with rudeness, you will be blocked. This post is to tickle the mind, and just for people to have decent conversations and share their insight PEACEFULLY, Thanks.

[torais-life]

Parashat Hashavua: Miketz by Rabino Natan Menashe en YouTube

Machon Ora(midrasha) video in Spanish about the weekly Parshah.

[kdmiller55]

Zealous for God

1 After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.” 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 4 “Take a census of the people, from…