March 23, 2024 | 13 Aviyv (Niycan)
PARSHAT: Shemoth (Exodus) 12:1-51
1 And Yahuah spoke to El-Mosheh and El-Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying: 2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the assembly of Yashar'el, saying: In the tenth day of this month every man shall take to themself a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: 4 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole multitude of the assembly of Yashar'el shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of its blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, in which they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and matstsah; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roasted with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahuah's Pecach. 12 For I will pass through the land of Mitsrayim this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast; and against all the elohai of Mitsrayim I will execute judgment: I am Yahuah. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a mark upon the houses in which you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Mitsrayim. 14 And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to Yahuah throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. 15 Seven days you shall eat matstsah; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats chamets from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Yashar'el. 16 And in the first day there shall be a holy assembly, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy assembly to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. 17 And you shall guard the Feast of Matstsah; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Mitsrayim: therefore you shall guard this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat matstsah, until the twenty-first day of the month at even. 19 Seven days shall there be no chamets found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is with chamets, even that soul shall be cut off from the assembly of Yashar'el, whether he is a stranger, or born in the land. 20 You shall eat nothing with chamets; in all your habitations you shall eat matstsah.
21 Then Mosheh called for all the elders of Yashar'el, and said to them: Draw out and take a lamb according to your families, and kill the Pecach. 22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23 For Yahuah will pass through to smite the Mitsriym; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Yahuah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. 24 And you shall guard this thing as an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when you come to the land which Yahuah will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall guard this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you: What do you mean by this service? 27 That you shall say: It is the sacrifice of Yahuah's Pecach, who passed over the houses of the children of Yashar'el in Mitsrayim, when he smote the Mitsriym, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped. 28 And the children of Yashar'el went away, and did as Yahuah had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight Yahuah smote all the firstborn in the land of Mitsrayim, from the firstborn of Phar`oh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Phar`oh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Mitsriym; and there was a great cry in Mitsrayim; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Mosheh and Aharon by night, and said: Rise up, and go forth from among my people, both you and the children of Yashar'el; and go, serve Yahuah, as you have said. 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also. 33 And the Mitsriym were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said: We are all dead men. 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Yashar'el did according to the word of Mosheh; and they borrowed from the Mitsriym jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36 And Yahuah gave the people favor in the sight of the Mitsriym, so that they lent to them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Mitsriym.
37 And the children of Yashar'el journeyed from Ra`amcec to Cukkoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. 38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them, and flocks, and herds, even very many cattle. 39 And they baked matstsah cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Mitsrayim, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Mitsrayim, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Yashar'el, who dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, and in the land of Kena`an, they and their fathers, was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahuah went out from the land of Mitsrayim. 42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahuah for bringing them out from the land of Mitsrayim: this is that night of Yahuah to be observed of all the children of Yashar'el in their generations.
43 And Yahuah said to Mosheh and Aharon: This is the ordinance of the Pecach: There no stranger shall eat of it: 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it. 45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth any of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. 47 All the assembly of Yashar'el shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the Pecach to Yahuah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One Torah shall be to him who is homeborn, and to the stranger who sojourns among you. 50 Thus did all the children of Yashar'el; as Yahuah commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they. 51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Yahuah did bring the children of Yashar'el out of the land of Mitsrayim by their armies.
HAFTORAH: Shemu'el Sheniy (2 Samuel) 22:1-23
1 David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3 And David went thence to Mitspah of Mo'av: and he said to the king of Mo'av: Let my father and my mother, I pray, come forth, and be with you, till I know what Elohiym will do for me. 4 And he brought them before the king of Mo'av: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
5 And the prophet Gad said to El-David: Abide not in the hold; depart and get into the land of Yahudah. Then David departed and came into the forest of Chereth.
6 When Sha'ul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Sha'ul abode in Giv`ah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;) 7 Then Sha'ul said to his servants that stood about him: Hear now, you Bin Ha-Yamiyniy; will the son of Yishai give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds; 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has cut a covenant with the son of Yishai, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
9 Then answered Do'eg the Edomiy, which was set over the servants of Sha'ul, and said, I saw the son of Yishai coming to Nov, to Achiymelek the son of Achiytuv. 10 And he inquired of Yahuah for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Golyath the Pelishtiy. 11 Then the king sent to call Achiymelek the priest, the son of Achiytuv, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nov: and they came all of them to the king. 12 And Sha'ul said: Hear now, you son of Achiytuv. And he answered: Here I am, my adoniy. 13 And Sha'ul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Yishai, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of Elohiym for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 14 Then Achiymelek answered the king, and said: And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, which is the king's son-in-law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house? 15 Did I then begin to inquire of Elohiym for him? Be it far from me: let not the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. 16 And the king said: You shall surely die, Achiymelek, you, and all your father's house.
17 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him: Turn and slay the priests of Yahuah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Yahuah. 18 And the king said to Do'eg: Turn you and fall upon the priests. And Do'eg the Edomiy turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And את Nov, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
20 And one of the sons of Achiymelek the son of Achiytuv, named Avyathar, escaped, and fled after David. 21 And Avyathar showed David that Sha'ul had slain את Yahuah's priests. 22 And David said to Avyathar, I knew it that day, when Do'eg the Edomiy was there, that he would surely tell Sha'ul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house. 23 Abide you with me, fear not: for he that seeks my life seeks your life: but with me you shall be in safeguard.
BESORAH: Mattithyahu (Matthew) 26:26 - 27:54
26 And as they were eating, Yahusha took the bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the Talmidiym, and said: Take, eat; this is my body. 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: Drink all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the Renewed Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom. 30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives. 31 Then said Yahusha to them: All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written,
I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galiyl. 33 Kepha answered and said to him: Though all men shall be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended. 34 Yahusha said to him: Amein I say to you: That this night, before the cock crow, you shall deny me thrice. 35 Kepha said to him: Though I should die with you, yet will I not deny you. Likewise also said all the Talmidiym.
36 Then came Yahusha with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the Talmidiym: Sit here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Kepha and the two sons of Zavdiy and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then said he to them: My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death: tarry here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying:
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.
40 And he came to the Talmidiym, and found them asleep, and said to Kepha: What, could you not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the ruach indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying:
O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done.
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then came he to his Talmidiym, and said to them: Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of A'dam is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrays me.
47 And while he yet spoke, lo, Yahudah, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. 49 And forthwith he came to Yahusha, and said: Hail, Adonai; and kissed him. 50 And Yahusha said to him: Friend, wherefore are you come? Then came they, and laid hands on Yahusha, and took him. 51 And, behold, one of them which were with Yahusha stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear. 52 Then said Yahusha to him: Put up again your sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 53 Think you that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 55 In that same hour said Yahusha to the multitudes: Are you come out as against a thief with swords and staves to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the Temple, and you laid no hold on me. 56 But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the Talmidiym forsook him and fled.
57 And they that had laid hold on Yahusha led him away to Qayapha the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Kepha followed him afar off to the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Yahusha, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said: This fellow said, I am able to destroy the Temple of Elohiym, and to build it in three days. 62 And the high priest arose, and said to him: Answer you nothing? What is it which these witness against you? 63 But Yahusha held his peace. And the high priest answered and said to him: I adjure you by the living El, that you tell us whether you be Ha'Mashiach, the Son of Elohiym. 64 Yahusha said to him: You have said it. Nevertheless I say to you: Hereafter shall you see the Son of A'dam sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying: He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think you? They answered and said: He is guilty of death. 67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 68 Saying, Prophesy to us, Mashiach: Who is he who smote you?
69 Now Kepha sat without in the palace: and a damsel came to him, saying: You also were with Yahusha of Galiyl. 70 But he denied before them all, saying: I know not what you say. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said to those who were there: This fellow was also with Yahusha the Netseriy. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while they came to him those who stood by and said to Kepha: Surely you also are one of them; for your speech bewrays you. 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 75 And Kepha remembered the word of Yahusha, which said to him: Before the cock crow, you shall deny me thrice. And he went out and wept bitterly.
Chapter 27
1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Yahusha to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. 3 Then Yahudah, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said: What is that to us? You see to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the Temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. 6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said: It is not Lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Wherefore that field was called: The Field of Blood, to this day. 9 Then it was fulfilled that which was spoken by Zakaryahu the prophet, saying:
And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Yashar'el did value; 10 And gave them for the potter's field, as Yahuah commanded me.
11 And Yahusha stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying: Are you the King of the Yahudiym? And Yahusha said to him: As you say. 12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate to him: Do you not hear how many things they witness against you? 14 And he answered him to never a word; so much so that the governor marveled greatly. 15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release to the people a prisoner, את whom they would. 16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Bar Abba. 17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them: Whom do you desire that I את release to you? Bar Abba, or Yahusha which is called Mashiach? 18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his woman sent to him, saying: Have nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask את Bar Abba and destroy Yahusha. 21 The governor answered and said to them: Which of the two do you desire that I release to you? They said, את Bar Abba. 22 Pilate said to them: What shall I do then with Yahusha which is called Mashiach? They all say to him: Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said: Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just person: you see to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said: His blood be on us, and on our children. 26 Then released he את Bar Abba to them: and when he had scourged Yahusha, he delivered him to be crucified. 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Yahusha into the common hall and gathered to him את the whole band of soldiers. 28 And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Yahudiym! 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. 31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Shim`on by name, and they compelled him to bear his cross. 33 And when they were come to a place called Gulgoleth, that is to say, a place of a skull,
34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled את which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
36 And sitting down they watched him there; 37 And set up over his head his accusation written: This is Yahusha the King of the Yahudiym. 38 Then there were two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying: You that destroy the Temple, and build it in three days, save yourself. If you be the Son of Elohiym, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Yashar'el, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 43 He trusted in Elohiym; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of Elohiym. 44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land to the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Yahusha cried with a loud voice, saying: Eliy, Eliy, lama azavtaniy? That is to say, Eliy, Eliy, why have you forsaken me?
47 Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said: This man calls for Eliyahu. 48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. 49 The rest said: Let be, let us see whether Eliyahu will come to save him.
50 Yahusha, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up his ruach. 51 And, behold, the veil of the Temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the qodeshiym which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many. 54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Yahusha, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying: Truly this was the Son of Elohiym.