#twenty-cubit

[coolest-capybara]

This week, the Maniculum Bestiaryposting Challenge presents the Dolthruk!

The Dolthruk is so called from the color of [redacted]. They live in the river, four-footed animals equally at home on land or in the water and more than twenty cubits long. The Dolthruk is armed with monstrous teeth and claws and has such a tough skin that however hard you throw a stone at it, you will not hurt the beast. It goes into the water at night and rests by day on the land. It lays its eggs on land, and both male and female take it in turns to hatch them. A certain kind of fish whose serrated spines tear open the soft part of their belly kills them. Alone among animals they can move their upper jaw and hold the lower one still.

This was a really fun one! It's always great to have a lot of physical characteristics and to put them together in whatever way seems most fun to draw. The first thing I considered was that if the Dolthruks' worst enemy are fish that cut their bellies open from below, they'd probably adapt to avoid this. I based the pose on a cat arching its back. The tough skin made me think of a turtle, but it would still need to be somewhat flexible to accomodate flexible movement, so the shell is composed of individual pieces. Finally, the bit about moving the upper jaw independently made me think of beaks, and combined with the four legs and laying eggs, I decided to add a bit of platypus into the mix.

[maniculum]

Bestiaryposting -- Dolthruk

As a reminder, all previous entries in this series can be found at https://maniculum.tumblr.com/bestiaryposting .

The Dolthruk is so called from the color of [redacted]. They live in the river, four-footed animals equally at home on land or in the water and more than twenty cubits long. The Dolthruk is armed with monstrous teeth and claws and has such a tough skin that however hard you throw a stone at it, you will not hurt the beast. It goes into the water at night and rests by day on the land. It lays its eggs on land, and both male and female take it in turns to hatch them. A certain kind of fish whose serrated spines tear open the soft part of their belly kills them. Alone among animals they can move their upper jaw and hold the lower one still. From their dung is made an ointment with which old women and faded whores [bestiary is judgmental today, damn] anoint their faces, and appear beautiful until their sweat washes it off.

Remember to tag posts with #Dolthruk so folks can find them.

[cheapsweets]

The Amphibious Dolthruk

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum

Pencil sketch, then lines in Pentel brush pen.

Thought process under the cut…

"The Dolthruk is so called from the color of [redacted]. They live in the river, four-footed animals equally at home on land or in the water and more than twenty cubits long. The Dolthruk is armed with monstrous teeth and claws and has such a tough skin that however hard you throw a stone at it, you will not hurt the beast. It goes into the water at night and rests by day on the land. It lays its eggs on land, and both male and female take it in turns to hatch them. A certain kind of fish whose serrated spines tear open the soft part of their belly kills them. Alone among animals they can move their upper jaw and hold the lower one still. From their dung is made an ointment with which old women and faded whores [bestiary is judgmental today, damn] anoint their faces, and appear beautiful until their sweat washes it off."

I spent an awful lot of time mulling this one over. We actually get quite a bit of description for a change, which is nice to work with too!

We also know that it's a beast, rather than a serpent or any other manner of creature. This is where it gets a little complicated, as we also know it lays eggs! My first thought was making it a monotreme; the idea of a monstrous platypus really tickled me, but I couldn't quite work out how to manage 'monstrous teeth' in what is a rather toothless clade of critters (@silverhart-makes-art came up with a solution and a brilliant rendition of this concept!), so I went down a whole rabbit hole of early mammals and mammal ancestors. The most impressive teeth (and claws) definitely belong to the therapsids, and specifically, the gorgonopsids. So, we end up with an amphibious gorgonopsid!

Incidentally, gorgonopsids are far weirder than an initial look would indicate - did you know that a lot of early therapsids had a pineal eye or light sensing organ atop their head (similar to modern tuataras), as well as very weird joints!

We have webbed feet so it can get around in the water when it is not lounging on land and taking turns to care for its eggs and young. I also gave it a shorter neck, and lowered the eye socket in the skull so that, at a glance at least, it looks more like the upper jaw can be moved while the lower jaw remains still.

We also have the issue of the very tough skin. Now, as its is a beast rather than a serpent, I initially didn't want to give it armour plates. I also considered a pangolin's scales, but felt the overlapping scales would trap water and not be particularly hygienic. Now, the fearsome hippopotamus has famously thick skin, but I couldn't quite work out how to represent this. Rhinos are similar, but a little more obvious, until a solution struck me. Hence, we now have an amphibious gorgonopsid lounging near its nest with armour plates inspired by Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros…

Of course, we also have 'a certain kind of fish' in the water. Largely based on the weaver fish, a fishie native to British waters, with distinctive venomous spines! Best stay out of the water for now, Dolthruk!

[pomrania]

Here's my rendition of the dolthruk, from @maniculum's Bestiaryposting. Earlier bits in the process (doesn't feel right calling it a "progress thread" when it's two posts total) can be found here.

I'd decided to draw it as some kind of mutant oversized platypus, because that's substantially more interesting than drawing what I think it might actually be, plus I've just recently drawn a LOT of dragons for Smaugust. The phrase "so called from the color of [redacted]" implies that there's something interesting about their colouring (although it could always be the colour of their environment I suppose), so that's where the orange on the face came from; the orange on the feet is a) because I don't like a colour being only in one place, and b) probably an unconscious pull from Perry the Platypus.

The description actually gives a size, "more than twenty cubits long" which says that the creature's size is best measured by "length". Aside from that, not only do I not really know how large a cubit is, but I'm horrible at converting measurements (in any system) to actual size, it'd be just as meaningless to me if it said "twenty feet" or "twenty meters". So, I completely disregarded that for my "scale" doodle in the top right. ...and also just now realized that the tail should have been substantially longer there; ah well, maybe it just shows "body plus some of the tail".

[lostthenfoundmyself]

I have finished reading Tikkun Leil Shavuot. It's past 2 am and I have...many questions. The Rabbi at my college's Hillel is probably going to get a very long, very annoying email with all my questions sometime after Shavuot is over, unless I can get Google to answer them for me.

It is genuinely fascinating to see religious texts contradict themselves without resolving it. "A sukkah taller than twenty cubits is invalid. Rabbi Yehudah validates it." ...okay then? I'm not used to religious stuff just presenting multiple opinions and then shrugging, instead of stating that there's an obvious correct answer. Although I'm not observant, and I have issues with many of the rules, it's stuff like this that makes me really love Judaism anyway.

[sarafangirlart]

In Lucian's second-century AD Philopseudes we meet a Hecate of a form seemingly quite similar again to the lekythos image, for all its satirically exaggerated nature. Eucrates tells how he encountered Hecate one day in the woods: 'I saw a fearsome woman approaching me, almost half a stadium's length high. In her left hand she held a torch and in her right a sword twenty cubits long. Below the waist she had snake-foot; above it she resembled a Gorgon, so far as concerns the look in her eyes and her terrible appearance, I mean. Instead of hair, writhing snakes fell down in curls around her neck, and some of them coiled over her shoulders.' He goes on to explain that the goddess' dogs, by whose barking her arrival was anticipated, were 'taller than Indian elephants ... similarly black and shaggy, with dirty, matted hair'. Eucrates was able to avert the visitation with a magic ring. As he activated it, 'Hecate stamped on the ground with her snake-foot and created a huge chasm, as deep as Tartarus. Presently, she jumped into it and was gone.' Eucrates was then able to peer into the underworld before the chasm closed behind her. The detail of the single serpent-tail matches strikingly with the Hecate of the lekythos. The narrative leaves it unclear whether Hecate's dogs are attached to her, again as on the lekythos, from Daniel Ogden Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds

I just know so many ppl would still be like:

[peaches2217]

Soooooo… 🍓 for the truth or dare?

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

Ooh, origin story time! Actually, when I was a kid and first got into Pucca, I saw an AMV that struck me with inspiration that I could NOT pass up. (It was set to Home by Vanessa Carlton - I tried seeing if it was still up but alas, it looks like it's been removed...) So I spent the whole bus ride home after school one day drafting a multi-paragraph letter to send to the person who made it asking for permission to make a fic based off of it, and she was like "Lol yeah sure, you don't have to ask me." Aaaaaaand that was the beginning of the end!

I've been writing my entire life, pretty much from the time I could hold a pencil (which led to me developing crippling carpal AND cubital tunnel in both arms by the age of twenty, yaaaaaay), but fanfiction in particular became a passion of mine from that day fifteen years ago, and it's a passion I don't see going away any time soon.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Fall of Jerusalem Recounted

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done. For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence.

And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden.

They headed toward the Arabah, but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah. Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen. But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service. The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.

As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure. Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick. The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar. Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers. Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away:

in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;

in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews.

So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison. And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life. And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death. — Jeremiah 52 | The Reader’s Bible (BRB) The Reader’s Bible © 2020 by Bible Hub and Berean.Bible. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Genesis 4:14; Genesis 40:13; Genesis 41:14; Exodus 27:3; Exodus 28:33; Numbers 13:21; Joshua 10:29; 2 Samuel 9:10; 1 Kings 7:15-16; 1 Kings 7:25; 1 Kings 7:49; 1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 25:1-4; 2 Kings 25:7-8; 2 Kings 25:10-11; 2 Kings 25:19-20; 1 Chronicles 6:14; 2 Chronicles 3:15; Isaiah 6:11; Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 39:9-10; Ezekiel 26:7

[practically-an-x-man]

ok y'know what here's the full post. here's all my gripes about this book from the perspective of a avid reader and lowkey feral writer

The grammar is a little dodgy. Not awful, not the worst I've ever read, but it doesn't flow super smoothly. Makes it hard to get lost in the book, but not bad enough to make me put it down

The character design is... strange, and maybe a little misogynistic. Each of the men has unique physical features and body types, but every woman is described with a "cute nose" and a "lithe, slender figure". none of them are above 5'6" or have any distinguishing facial features that aren't classically pretty.

On that note, genetics has also taken an exit. One woman has dark eyes with bright green around the iris (what?). Another has blonde hair with black roots - just naturally.

The same is true for the wolves. The main character starts out as a black wolf with silver streaks in his fur, and silver eyes. Another is brown with "dirty blonde" fur around her chest and legs, and golden eyes. It reads like My Immortal, the author's literally just throwing random traits at a dartboard because he thinks it looks cool

This is a book about werewolves - the full-wolf kind, not the monster kind. Yet somehow the author seems to have not researched wolf behavior at all. Every interaction is marked with either a growl or a chuff. Physical body language (which is a very significant part of wolf communication) is nowhere to be found. Where is the tail signalling? The ear movements? The posture and body movements? I'm not sure this author even owns a dog, since that would at least give him a leg up in canine body language.

Every new location is described with a long paragraph in so many levels of unnecessary, dry detail. The word I'd use to describe it is "Biblical", y'know "forty cubits by twenty cubits, and X begot Y and Y begot Z" for half a page

The dialogue just isn't how people talk??? It's the strangest attempts at slang that end up just sounding choppy and out-of-place, mixed with heavy exposition and too-formal detail (one interaction literally goes from "What the devil?" to "You can't load them down with tranquilizers. That stuff suppresses their respiratory system. Too much could kill them." The whole book is written like this.)

The main character is introduced very strangely? He starts out as a wolf, but it's literally page 9 that he transforms into a human. We don't get any sense of what he's like, what his motivations are, or any other grounds to connect with this character before it just dives right into the main part of the book. That's more of a personal gripe, not as big of an issue, but it leaves me feeling somewhat untethered to the story

Every character seems to act exactly the same. I'm only 35 pages in right now, so this might change (I'm hoping it does), but the characters don't have any distinctive speaking styles or physical mannerisms, and they all seem to act in exactly the same way. There's a minor conflict, the other characters just relent so the story can progress smoothly, and then it's just put aside. The characters don't even seem to have their own motivations, the author picks exactly two sides to each argument and it basically amounts to "yes" or "no" (i.e. there's no nuance to their perspectives)

[pistol247]

Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll. And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.” Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.” “I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts; “It shall enter the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones.” Zechariah 5:1‭-‬4 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/zec.5.1-4.NKJV https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6gmnVu9Pa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[baxtersworld]

NOAH KNEW THE FLOOD, SO ARE WE OF CHRIST’S RETURN, May 15, 2026

God gave 120 years of probationary period in the days of Noah (Genesis 6:3), which has been preached and made known to all people.

Thus, those who mocked the message of God’s appointed time were all devastated by the flood, while Noah and his family, who knew and believed, had prepared and were being saved (Hebrews 11:7).

MATTHEW 24:37-39

(37) But as the DAYS of NOE were, so shall also the COMING of the SON of man be.

(38) …they were eating and drinking… until the day that NOE ENTERED into the ARK,

(39) And KNEW NOT until the flood came, and TOOK THEM all away…

1 CHRONICLES 12:32 …which were men that had UNDERSTANDING of the TIMES, to KNOW WHAT Israel ought TO DO…

God placed the exact year of His return in the days of Noah, as it foretells His Second Advent.

GENESIS 6:3, 15, 10, 16, 19

12 – HUNDRED and TWENTY years (verse 3)

3 – THREE HUNDRED cubits (verse 15)

5 – FIFTY cubits (verse 15)

3 – THIRTY CUBITS (verse 15)

12 x 35 x 3 = 1260

3 – THREE sons (verse 10)

2 – SECOND (verse 16)

3 – THIRD stories (verse 16)

2 – TWO (verse 19)

3 + 2 + 3 + 2 = 10

1260 + 10 = 2260 (flipped figure of 2026)

Christ has withheld the revelation of His return to His people in the past, for He will not come in their time.

ACTS 1:6-8

(6) …Lord, wilt thou at THIS TIME RESTORE again the KINGDOM to Israel?

(7) …It is NOT FOR YOU to KNOW the TIMES or the SEASONS…

(8) But ye shall RECEIVE POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be WITNESSES unto me…

However, God assures His people that in these last days, He will now disclose the definite time of His return that has been kept secret for ages.

JOHN 16:12, 13

(12) I have yet many things to SAY unto you, but ye CANNOT BEAR them NOW.

(13) Howbeit when he, the SPIRIT of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth… and he will SHEW you THINGS to COME.

Additionally, God would not have His people ignorant of the day of His return (1 Thessalonians 4:13, 16-17), for He has aforetime appointed a day in which He will judge the world (Acts 17:30, 31).

God called His people, who were the children of light, as His friends, for He revealed unto them His appointed time, which was likewise known by the Father.

JOHN 15:15 …I have called you FRIENDS; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made KNOWN unto you.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:2, 4-5, 20-21

(2) …that the DAY of the Lord so COMETH as a THIEF in the night.

(4) But ye, brethren, are NOT in DARKNESS, that that DAY should OVERTAKE you as a THIEF.

(5) Ye are all the children of LIGHT… we are NOT of the NIGHT, NOR of DARKNESS.

(20) DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS.

(21) Prove all things; HOLD FAST that which is GOOD.

Herewith, Christ’s return will only overtake as a thief in the night to those who were in darkness being willfully ignorant, for they despise the prophesying of God’s appointed time.

The belief that Christ’s return will not be known is clearly a deceptive doctrine taught by false prophets and teachers (Matthew 24:3, 24, 26).

Moreover, those who conform to the fallacious teachings of these false teachers will likewise be delivered to a dreadful destruction similar to the fall of Jerusalem, for it will have a global destruction in these last days (Luke 19:41-44).

The scripture has plainly expounded that God surely reveals His appointed time in these last days (Amos 3:7).

LUKE 12:2 For there is NOTHING COVERED, that shall NOT be REVEALED; NEITHER HID, that shall NOT be KNOWN.

Hereby, the gospel of God’s set time is hidden from those who have been lost in their faith.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:3 But if our GOSPEL be HID, it is HID to them that are LOST:

MARK 1:15 The TIME IS FULFILLED, and the kingdom of God is at hand: REPENT ye, and BELIEVE the gospel.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

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[thejesusmaninred]

"The Pieces." Mark 8: 6-10.

Jesus travels from region to region, and each one has a different significance in the development of the Gospel Torah.

According to the Gematria a region is a 192, and is a "clasp" or a "fastener" these are mentioned in the Torah: They refer to the connection between the buildup of the Self of today and that of tomorrow, specifically how to shave a goat and turn it into a man who can dress in royal and play the part. For this we are going to need to understand the role of the Tabernacle and its virtual realities. It makes sense Jesus would want to discuss this with the people of Rome.

From Terumah:

The Tabernacle

26 “Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker. 2 All the curtains are to be the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.[g] 3 Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five. 4 Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set. 5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other. 6 Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.

=we know the Ten Curtains made of conscience, science, intellect, and integrity, woven together every day, 50 loops on one side 50 on the other all bound by 100 gold rings. 50 is a complicated number in Heeb. Here is what I found...

50 is essentially the number of men needed to create critical mass of what is good and righteous in a community. If 50 good men are married to 50 more, opposite each other, 50 today, 50 tomorrow we start building a tradition.

see: https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/50-important-number-year

If we follow the Lampstand, a prescription for Duty to the People of Israel and add 100 men, 50 from the current generation and 50 from one upcoming we have a tradition that can be taught and sustained, which believe it not means you need shave a bunch of young goats:

7 “Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether. 8 All eleven curtains are to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.[h] 9 Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent. 10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set. 11 Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit. 12 As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle. 13 The tent curtains will be a cubit[i] longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it. 14 Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.[j]

Curtains are stages of evolution. We call the bullyish curtain of a two year old a bull skin curtain, because it comes off the rod and can be replaced with ram, etc. finally we want a real man between us and the light of the sun. In the next frame of the Parable of the Four Thousand Jesus speaks not about how to hang curtains but how the curtains hang themselves.

6 He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so. 

7 They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them. 

8 The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 

9 About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away, 10 he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

The housebreaking of man is difficult work even for God. To Him, peaceful coexistence, farming the land of this lovely place, using the comforts of home we have been able to create to enjoy the time we have is the result of an elementary decision we need only make once. All we have to do next is convince the next person to make it and so forth.

Once we agree civilization is the right decision, then the hard work begins. It is not as hard as it used to be - that is for sure- even still the the cultivation of humanity is not easy. God broke successfully cultivated civilized life into Seven Days. During each stage man dons an age appropriate skein, or curtain, and grows out of it until he reaches Day 7 and self-realization takes place.

The Gospels say this process has "left-overs". Like the rest of this business it does not mean what it says at face value. Left overs are action words that remain in the Self that connect it to its evolutionary past behaviors:

"Root שאר (sha'ar II) is assumed to have existed because of the common noun שאר (she'er), meaning flesh, and the trouble most scholars appear to have with connecting flesh to a verb that means to remain. The obvious solution is that a person secretes less than he consumes for the obvious fact that some of what he eats builds up his body. A person's body is what stays behind.

Our word occurs to mean flesh for consumption (Exodus 21:10), and as symbol of physical power (Psalm 78:20). But it also occurs to indicate a blood-relation (surviving in our expression "one's own flesh and blood" - Leviticus 18:12). In Proverbs 11:17 this word is used to mean self or one's self.

Note that the noun בשר (basar), the more common word for flesh, comes from the verb בשר (basar), to bring glad tidings, even tidings of comfort and joy."

Jesus tells the Disciples to put the pieces in...a basket. This means "to offset the printing," which means the sense of the words and the words become subconscious. Black Lives Matter is a good example. If one were to basket the slogan one would expect acceptance of black culture to be the offset. Black people don't want to have to advertise their worth, they want to experience it. The basket is the experience of belonging with the rest of humanity as the Word is made flesh. Jesus "sends away" people that accept the Words, He gives them their freedom.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 6: He told them to distribute to the people. People are not persons in Torah talk until they achieve Shabbat. We have a lot to learn up until and even after Shabbat, but the working definition is a man who is free and does not enslave or delude others is a person. So the fuckchuks, who look human and say they value freedom but nonetheless dig terror tunnels and rape little kids are not human, they are filth.

Similarly if you think you can get washed in the blood and do whatevers, you are also not human. The definition is specific.

The Number is 10951, "yata, go out or you will be lost." One has to be able to see the world and compare what one is told about it and what can be known about it. The difference is called slavery in Egypt. Truly spirited persons always tell the rest how the real world works.

v. 7: They had a few small fish.

Back to Hebrew: fish are agile but they prey animals. Especially the small ones. Notice the difference in the language between the numbers:

A few: the Number is 912, טאב‎ ‎, tab, "a means to an end, a way in to the soul."

The verb ברר (barar) essentially means to clean, purify or clarify. Usually, whatever needs to be purified is first pulverized and then sorted: the useful elements are gathered and stored, and the fluff, chaff, dust and other garbage is either blown away by wind, washed away by water, burned with fire or simply scooped up and physically dumped somewhere. In the case of metal ore, the material is heated so that the good stuff flows out and separates by its nature from the bad stuff and its nature.

Obviously, in the Bible these principles are lavishly applied to the cognitive and social economies. Also note the striking similarity with the Aramaic noun בר (bar), meaning son.

Derived adjective בר (bar) means pure or clean and identical noun בר (bar) denotes a kernel of grain or corn. Noun בר (bor) denotes a kind of material that was used in the metal purification process."

Many: The Number is 471, דאז, daza, "understanding of the meaning of life."

Jesus was trying to explain through the proper implementation of learning how people transform out of an animal species into a human one. This has nothing to do with one's appearnace, though we know that is an important feature. The ability to do great things that leave behind a lasting precious memory is a gift of God and is verily only possible because of His involvement with us.

We can debate whether or not cave people felt affection for each other even though they didn't have Paris Fashion Week to look forward to but they certainly didn't share proms, wedding photos, have baby showers, or watch the same movies over and over together.

All of this began when God directed the angels to teach man how to write in Hebrew. Then:

v. 8: The people ate and they were satisfied. The Number is 7643, ז‎וד‎ג‎, a couple= do not commit adultery.

"Humanity's invention of marriage allowed for a much greater gener, ational diversity. It greatly broadened the plain of peers, and allowed males to pursue science, technology, arts and the collective bliss and prosperity of their kind. What the invention of property rights did for economy, so marriage did for society.

Hence, the Cardinal Commandment to not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14) has nothing to do with sexual purity (whatever that is), but with the stability of society, and is indeed on a par with the prohibitions of theft and murder."

v. 9-10: About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away, 10 he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

Dalmanutha= the way of the Shepherd. "He ordained them and made them into Rabbis."

The Number is 8504, חןד‎‎, "He gave them Grace."

We have been to Tyre, Sidon, Syria, and Phoenicia, and in this section we end up in Graceland. Except Elvis has left the building...

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2 Kings 14: Amaziah Becomes The King Of Judah

 In the second year of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign. 

2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. 

3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash. 

4 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

5 After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 

6 Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”

7 He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, with the challenge: “Come, let us face each other in battle.”

9 But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. 

10 You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

11 Amaziah, however, would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. 

12 Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. 

13 Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long.

14 He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.

15 As for the other events of the reign of Jehoash, what he did and his achievements, including his war against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? 

16 Jehoash rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son succeeded him as king.

17 Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. 

18 As for the other events of Amaziah’s reign, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

19 They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. 

20 He was brought back by horse and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors, in the City of David.

21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 

22 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

Jeroboam II King of Israel

23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 

24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. 

25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

26 The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them. 

27 And since the Lord had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

28 As for the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? 

29 Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.

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Bible Reading: May 31, 2024

2 Chronicles 4-6; John 12:20-50 [2 Chronicles 4:1-22 KJV] 1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. 2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 3 And under it [was]…

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OT History Last Part – 2 Chronicles 4-6

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.The Sea stood on twelve bulls,…