Following on the heels of yesterday’s post in which I discussed how Passover is mistakenly equated to the smearing of the lamb’s blood on the doorposts, the eating of the lamb, God killing all the Egyptian firstborns AND Israel departing Egypt. In other words, all of these events are clumped together and labelled as Passover. […]

Today we begin Numbers Chapter 33. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. “They began their journey from Ram’ses in the first month. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the morning after the Pesach, the people of Isra’el left proudly in view of all the Egyptians; […]

“The descendants of Gad built Divon, ‘Atarot, ‘Aro‘er, ‘Atrot-Shofan, Ya‘zer, Yogbehah, Beit-Nimrah and Beit-Haran — fortified cities; and also enclosures for sheep.  The descendants of Re’uven built Heshbon, El‘aleh, Kiryatayim, N’vo, Ba‘al-M‘on (these names have been changed) and Sivmah; they renamed the cities they built.”-Numbers 32:34-38 We have been discussing at length how the two […]

“So Moshe gave the descendants of Gad and of Re’uven, and also to the half-tribe of M’nasheh the son of Yosef, the kingdom of Sichon king of the Emori and the kingdom of ‘Og king of Bashan — the country and its cities within its borders, along with their surrounding towns.”-Numbers 32:33 When reading the […]

“But they came up to him and said, “Here we will build enclosures for our livestock and cities for our little ones, but we ourselves will be armed and ready for action to march at the head of the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones will stay […]