Bereshit  /  Genesis 47:28-50:26

{47:27} Yisrael lived in the land of Mizrayim, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} Ya'akov lived in the land of Mizrayim seventeen years. So the days of Ya'akov, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. {47:29} The time drew near that Yisrael must die, and he called his son Yoseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Mizrayim, {47:30} but when I sleep with my avot, you shall carry me out of Mizrayim, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said." {47:31} He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Yisrael bowed himself on the bed's head.

{48:1} It happened after these things, that one said to Yoseph, "Behold, your 'ab is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephrayim. {48:2} One told Ya'akov, and said, "Behold, your son Yoseph comes to you," and Yisrael strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. {48:3} Ya'akov said to Yoseph, "G-D Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Cana'an, and blessed me, {48:4} and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.' {48:5} Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Mizrayim before I came to you into Mizrayim, are mine; Ephrayim and Manasseh, even as Reuven and Shimon, will be mine. {48:6} Your issue, who you become the 'ab of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. {48:7} As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Cana'an in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beit-lehem)." {48:8} Yisrael saw Yoseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?" {48:9} Yoseph said to his 'ab, "They are my sons, whom G-D has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." {48:10} Now the eyes of Yisrael were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. {48:11} Yisrael said to Yoseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and, behold, G-D has let me see your seed also." {48:12} Yoseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. {48:13} Yoseph took them both, Ephrayim in his right hand toward Yisrael's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Yisrael's right hand, and brought them near to him. {48:14} Yisrael stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. {48:15} He blessed Yoseph, and said, "The G-D before whom my avot Avraham and Yitzak did walk, the G-D who has fed me all my life long to this day, {48:16} the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my avot Avraham and Yitzak. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." {48:17} When Yoseph saw that his 'ab laid his right hand on the head of Ephrayim, it displeased him. He held up his ab-'s hand, to remove it from Ephrayim's head to Manasseh's head. {48:18} Yoseph said to his 'ab, "Not so, my 'ab; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." {48:19} His 'ab refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations." {48:20} He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Yisrael bless, saying, 'G-D make you as Ephrayim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephrayim before Manasseh. {48:21} Yisrael said to Yoseph, "Behold, I am dying, but G-D will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your avot. {48:22} Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."

{49:1} Ya'akov called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. {49:2} Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Ya'akov; Listen to Yisrael, your 'ab. {49:3} "Reuven, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. {49:4} Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your ab-'s bed; Then defiled it. He went up to my couch. {49:5} "Shimon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords. {49:6} My nefesh, don't come into their council; My kavod, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox. {49:7} Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; Their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Ya'akov, Scatter them in Yisrael. {49:8} "Y'hudah, your brothers will praise you: Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; Your ab-'s sons will bow down before you. {49:9} Y'hudah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, As a lioness. Who will rouse him up? {49:10} The scepter will not depart from Y'hudah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes. To him will the obedience of the peoples be. {49:11} Binding his foal to the vine, His donkey's colt to the choice vine; He has washed his garments in wine, His robes in the blood of grapes: {49:12} His eyes will be red with wine, His teeth white with milk. {49:13} "Zevulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. {49:14} "Yissass'khar is a strong donkey, Couching down between the sheepfolds. {49:15} He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant doing forced labor. {49:16} "Dan will judge his people, As one of the tribes of Yisrael. {49:17} Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward. {49:18} I have waited for your salvation, HaSHEM. {49:19} "Gad, a troop will press on him; But he will press on their heel. {49:20} Out of Aser his bread will be fat, He will yield royal dainties. {49:21} "Naphtali is a doe set free, Who bears beautiful fawns. {49:22} "Yoseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a spring; His branches run over the wall. {49:23} The archers have sorely grieved him, Shot at him, and persecute him: {49:24} But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Ya'akov, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Yisrael), {49:25} even by the G-D of your 'ab, who will help you, By the Almighty, who will bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that couches beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. {49:26} The blessings of your 'ab Have prevailed above the blessings of the ancient mountains, Than the bounty of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Yoseph, On the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. {49:27} "Binyamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning she will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil." {49:28} All these are the twelve tribes of Yisrael, and this is what their 'ab spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing. {49:29} He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my avot in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, {49:30} in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Cana'an, which Avraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. {49:31} There they buried Avraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Yitzak and Rivkah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: {49:32} the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the Bnei Heth." {49:33} When Ya'akov made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

{50:1} Yoseph fell on his ab-'s face, wept on him, and kissed him. {50:2} Yoseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his 'ab; and the physicians embalmed Yisrael. {50:3} Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Mizrayim wept for him for seventy days. {50:4} When the days of weeping for him were past, Yoseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, {50:5} 'my 'ab made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Cana'an." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my 'ab, and I will come again.'" {50:6} Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your 'ab, just like he made you swear." {50:7} Yoseph went up to bury his 'ab; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Mizrayim, {50:8} all the house of Yoseph, his brothers, and his ab-'s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. {50:9} There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. {50:10} They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his 'ab seven days. {50:11} When the inhabitants of the land, the Cana'anites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Mizrayim." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel-mizrayim, which is beyond the Yarden. {50:12} His sons did to him just as he commanded them, {50:13} for his sons carried him into the land of Cana'an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Avraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. {50:14} Yoseph returned into Mizrayim - he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his 'ab, after he had buried his 'ab. {50:15} When Yoseph's brothers saw that their 'ab was dead, they said, "It may be that Yoseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him. {50:16} They sent a message to Yoseph, saying, "your 'ab commanded before he died, saying, {50:17} "So will you tell Yoseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the G-D of your 'ab." Yoseph wept when they spoke to him. {50:18} His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." {50:19} Yoseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of G-D? {50:20} As for you, you meant evil against me, but G-D meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. {50:21} Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. {50:22} Yoseph lived in Mizrayim, he, and his ab-'s house. Yoseph lived one hundred ten years. {50:23} Yoseph saw Ephrayim's bnei to the third generation. The bnei also of Machir, the ben Manasseh, were born on Yoseph's knees. {50:24} Yoseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but G-D will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to Yitzak, and to Ya'akov." {50:25} Yoseph took an oath of the Bnei Yisrael, saying, "G-D will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." {50:26} So Yoseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Mizrayim.

M'lachim Aleph  / 1 Kings 2:1-12

2:1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Shlomo his son, saying, 2:2 I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man; 2:3 and keep the charge of HaShem your G-d, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his mitzvot, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the Torah of Moshe, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. 2:4 That HaShem may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Yisra'el. 2:5 Moreover you know also what Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Yisra'el, to Aviner the son of Ner, and to `Amasa the son of Yeter, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in shalom, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to She'ol in shalom. 2:7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gil`adite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Avshalom your brother. 2:8 Behold, there is with you Shim`i the son of Gera, the Binyamini, of Bachurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Machanayim; but he came down to meet me at the Yarden, and I swore to him by HaShem, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword. 2:9 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to She'ol with blood. 2:10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 2:11 The days that David reigned over Yisra'el were forty years; seven years reigned he in Chevron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Yerushalayim. 2:12 Shlomo sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

Kefa Aleph / 1 Peter 1:1-9

1:1 Kefa, an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of G-d the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Yeshua the Messiah and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and shalom be multiplied. 1:3 Blessed be the G-d and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead, 1:4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, 1:5 who by the power of G-d are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1:6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, 1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah-- 1:8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory-- 1:9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

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