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Weekly Torah Reading
Matot
Numbers 30:2 - 32:42
Jeremiah 1:1 - 2:3
Philippians 3:12 - 16
Numbers 30:2 -
32:42
1 (30:2) Then Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of
Isra’el. He said, “Here is what ADONAI has ordered:
2 (30:3) when a man makes a vow to ADONAI or formally obligates himself by
swearing an oath, he is not to break his word but is to do everything he said he
would do.
3 (30:4) “When a woman makes a vow to ADONAI, formally obligating herself, while
she is a minor living in her father’s house;
4 (30:5) then, if her father has heard what she vowed or obligated herself to do
and holds his peace, then all her vows remain binding––every obligation she has
bound herself to will stand.
5 (30:6) But if on the day her father hears it, he expresses his disapproval,
then none of her vows or obligations she has bound herself to will stand; and
ADONAI will forgive her, because her father expressed his disapproval.
6 (30:7) “If, having made vows or rashly committed herself to an obligation, she
gets married;
7 (30:8) and her husband hears but holds his peace with her on the day he learns
of it, then her vows and obligations she has bound herself to will stand.
8 (30:9) But if her husband expresses his disapproval on the day he hears it, he
will void the vow which is on her and the obligation to which she has bound
herself; and ADONAI will forgive her.
9 (30:10) “The vow of a widow, however, or of a divorcee, including everything
to which she has obligated herself, will stand against her.
10 (30:11) “If a woman vowed in her husband’s house or obligated herself with an
oath;
11 (30:12) and her husband heard it but held his peace with her and did not
express disapproval, then all her vows and obligations will stand.
12 (30:13) But if her husband makes them null and void on the day he hears them,
then whatever she said, vows or binding obligation, will not stand; her husband
has voided them; and ADONAI will forgive her.
13 (30:14) Her husband may let every vow and every binding obligation stand, or
he may void it.
14 (30:15) But if her husband entirely holds his peace with her day after day,
then he confirms all her vows and obligations; he must let them stand, because
he held his peace with her on the day he heard them.
15 (30:16) If he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he will
bear the consequent guilt.”
16 (30:17) These are the laws which ADONAI ordered Moshe between a man and his
wife, and between a father and his daughter, if she is a minor living in her
father’s house.
Numbers 31:1- 54
1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
2 “On behalf of the people of Isra’el, take vengeance on the Midyanim. After
that, you will be gathered to your people.”
3 Moshe said to the people, “Equip men from among yourselves for war. They are
to go and fight Midyan, in order to carry out ADONAI‘ s vengeance on Midyan.
4 You are to send to the war a thousand men from every one of Isra’el’s tribes.”
5 So out of the thousands of people in Isra’el, a thousand armed men from each
tribe, 12,000 altogether, were mustered for war.
6 Moshe sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war; he sent them and
Pinchas the son of El‘azar the cohen to the war, with the holy utensils and the
trumpets for sounding the alarm in his care.
7 They fought against Midyan, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe, and killed every
male.
8 They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain––Evi,
Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil‘am the
son of B‘or with the sword.
9 The people of Isra’el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones,
and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods.
10 They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their
camps.
11 They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,
12 and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and the
community of Isra’el in the camp on the plains of Mo’av by the Yarden across
from Yericho.
13 Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them
outside the camp.
14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and
the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.
15 Moshe asked them, “You let the women live?
16 Why, these are the ones who––because of Bil‘am’s advice–– caused the people
of Isra’el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P‘or incident, so that
the plague broke out among ADONAI‘ s community!
17 Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever
slept with a man.
18 But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for
yourselves.
19 Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a
person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third
and seventh days, you and your captives.
20 Also purify every garment, whether of skin or goat’s hair, and everything
made of wood.”
21 El‘azar the cohen said to the soldiers who had gone to the front, “This is
the regulation from the Torah which ADONAI has ordered Moshe.
22 Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead
23 can all withstand fire, so that you are indeed to purify everything made of
these materials by having them pass through fire; nevertheless they must also be
purified with the water for purification. Everything that can’t withstand fire
you are to have go through the water.
24 On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after
that you may enter the camp.”
25 ADONAI said to Moshe,
26 “Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El‘azar the cohen and the
leaders of clans in the community;
27 and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who
went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community.
28 From the portion of the soldiers who went out to battle, levy a tax for
ADONAI consisting of one–five–hundredth of the persons, cattle, donkeys and
sheep;
29 take it from their half and give it to El‘azar the cohen as a portion set
apart for ADONAI.
30 From the half that goes to the people of Isra’el, you are to take
one–fiftieth of the persons, and of the cattle, donkeys and sheep, that is, of
all the livestock; and give them to the L’vi’im taking care of the tabernacle of
ADONAI.”
31 Moshe and El‘azar the cohen did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
32 The booty, over and above the portion which the soldiers took, came to
675,000 sheep,
33 72,000 cattle,
34 61,000 donkeys,
35 and 32,000 persons in all, consisting of the women who had never slept with a
man.
36 The half which was the portion of the soldiers who went out to fight,
numbered 337,500 sheep,
37 of which ADONAI‘ s tribute was 675;
38 36,000 cattle, of which ADONAI‘ s tribute was seventy–two;
39 30,500 donkeys, of which ADONAI‘ s tribute was sixty–one;
40 and 16,000 persons, of whom ADONAI‘ s tribute was thirtytwo persons.
41 Moshe gave the tribute set apart for ADONAI to El‘azar the cohen, as ADONAI
had ordered Moshe.
42 From the half that went to people of Isra’el, which Moshe separated from that
of the men who had gone to fight––
43 now the community’s half consisted of 337,500 sheep,
44 36,000 cattle,
45 30,500 donkeys
46 and 16,000 persons––
47 from the people of Isra’el’s half, Moshe took one–fiftieth of the persons and
animals and gave them to the L’vi’im taking care of the tabernacle of ADONAI, as
ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
48 The officers in charge of the thousands who fought, the commanders of
thousands and the commanders of hundreds, approached Moshe
49 and said to him, “Your servants have counted all the soldiers under our
command, and not one of us is missing.
50 We have brought an offering for ADONAI, what every man has obtained in the
way of gold jewelry–– armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and belts–– to
make atonement for ourselves before ADONAI.”
51 Moshe and El‘azar the cohen accepted their gold, all the jewelry.
52 All the gold in this gift which the commanders of thousands and the
commanders of hundreds set apart for ADONAI weighed 420 pounds.
53 For the soldiers had taken booty, every man for himself.
54 Moshe and El‘azar the cohen took the gold from the commanders of thousands
and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a reminder for the
people of Isra’el before ADONAI.
Numbers 32:1- 42
1 The descendants of Re’uven and the descendants of Gad had vast
quantities of livestock. When they saw that the land of Ya‘zer and the land of
Gil‘ad were good for livestock,
2 the descendants of Gad and of Re’uven came and spoke to Moshe, El‘azar the
cohen and the community leaders. They said,
3 “‘Atarot, Divon, Ya‘zer, Nimrah, Heshbon, El‘aleh, S’vam, N’vo and Be‘on,
4 the country that ADONAI conquered before the community of Isra’el, is
livestock country; and your servants have livestock.
5 If you regard us favorably, ”they went on, “let this land be given to your
servants as their possession; and don’t have us cross the Yarden.”
6 Moshe answered the descendants of Gad and of Re’uven: “Are your brothers to go
to war while you stay here?
7 Besides, why are you trying to discourage the people of Isra’el from crossing
into the land ADONAI gave them?
8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh–Barnea to see the
land.
9 For when they went up to the Eshkol Valley and saw the land, they disheartened
the people of Isra’el, so that they wouldn’t enter the land ADONAI had given
them.
10 ADONAI‘ s anger blazed up on that day; and he swore,
11 ‘None of the people aged twenty or more who came out of Egypt will see the
land I swore to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov; because they haven’t followed me
unreservedly––
12 except Kalev the son of Y’funeh the K’nizi and Y’hoshua the son of Nun,
because they have followed ADONAI unreservedly.’
13 Thus ADONAI‘ s anger blazed against Isra’el, so that he made them wander here
and there in the desert forty years, until all the generation that had done evil
in the sight of ADONAI had died out.
14 Now you, another brood of sinners, have arisen in your fathers’ place to
increase still more the fierce anger of ADONAI toward Isra’el!
15 For if you turn away from him, he will leave them in the desert again, and
thus you will cause the destruction of all these people!”
16 But they came up to him and said, “Here we will build enclosures for our
livestock and cities for our little ones,
17 but we ourselves will be armed and ready for action to march at the head of
the people of Isra’el, until we have brought them to their place. Our little
ones will stay in the fortified cities here because of the people now living in
the land.
18 However, we will not return to our own homes until every man in Isra’el has
taken possession of his land for inheritance.
19 We will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Yarden,
westward; because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Yarden,
eastward.”
20 Moshe said to them, “If you will do this––if you will arm yourselves to go
before ADONAI to the war,
21 and if every one of your soldiers will cross the Yarden before ADONAI, until
he has driven out his enemies ahead of him,
22 and if the land has been conquered before ADONAI, and only after that do you
return––then you will be clear before ADONAI and before Isra’el, and this land
here will be yours to possess before ADONAI.
23 But if you will not do this, then you have sinned against ADONAI, and you
must understand that your sin will find you out.
24 Build cities for your little ones and enclosures for your sheep; then do what
you said you would do.”
25 The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Re’uven said to Moshe, “Your
servants will do as my lord orders.
26 Our little ones, wives, flocks and all our livestock will be there in the
cities of Gil‘ad;
27 but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before ADONAI to
do battle, as my lord says.”
28 So Moshe gave orders concerning them to El‘azar the cohen, Y’hoshua the son
of Nun and the clan leaders of the tribes of the people of Isra’el.
29 Moshe said to them, “If the descendants of Gad and of Re’uven cross over the
Yarden with you, every man armed for battle, before ADONAI; and if the land is
conquered before you, then you are to give them the land of Gil‘ad as theirs to
possess.
30 But if they do not cross with you armed, they are to possess land along with
you in Kena‘an.”
31 The descendants of Gad and of Re’uven answered, “We will do as ADONAI has
said to your servants.
32 We will cross over into the land of Kena‘an armed before ADONAI, and the land
we will possess for inheritance will be on this side of the Yarden.”
33 So Moshe gave the descendants of Gad and of Re’uven, and also to the
halftribe 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.
34 The descendants of Gad built Divon, ‘Atarot, ‘Aro‘er,
35 ‘Atrot–Shofan, Ya‘zer, Yogbehah,
36 Beit–Nimrah and Beit–Haran–– fortified cities; and also enclosures for sheep.
37 The descendants of Re’uven built Heshbon, El‘aleh, Kiryatayim,
38 N’vo, Ba‘al–M‘on (these names have been changed) and Sivmah; they renamed the
cities they built.
39 The descendants of Machir the son of M’nasheh went to Gil‘ad and conquered
it, dispossessing the Emori who were there.
40 Moshe gave Gil‘ad to Machir the son of M’nasheh, and he lived in it.
41 Ya’ir the son of M’nasheh went and captured its villages and called them
Havot–Ya’ir. (villages of Ya’ir)
42 Novach went and captured K’nat with its villages and named it Novach after
himself.
Jeremiah 1:1 - 2:3
1 These are the words of Yirmeyahu the son of Hilkiyahu, one of the
cohanim living in ‘Anatot, in the territory of Binyamin.
2 The word of ADONAI came to him during the days of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon,
king of Y’hudah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It also came during the days of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of
Y’hudah, continuing until the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu the son of Yoshiyahu,
king of Y’hudah, right up until the time Yerushalayim was carried away captive,
in the fifth month.
4 Here is the word of ADONAI that came to me:
5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I
separated you for myself. I have appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
6 I said, “Oh, ADONAI ELOHIM, I don’t even know how to speak! I’m just a child!”
7 But ADONAI said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I’m just a child.’ “For you will go to
whomever I send you, and you will speak whatever I order you.
8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you, says ADONAI, to rescue you.”
9 Then ADONAI put out his hand and touched my mouth, and ADONAI said to me,
“There! I have put my words in your mouth.
10 Today I have placed you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to tear down,
to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.”
11 The word of ADONAI came to me, asking, “Yirmeyahu, what do you see?” I
answered, “I see a branch from an almond tree. (Hebrew: shaked)
12 Then ADONAI said to me, “You have seen well, because I am watching (Hebrew:
shoked) to fulfill my word.”
13 A second time the word of ADONAI came to me, asking, “What do you see?” I
answered, “I see a caldron tilted away from the north, over a fire fanned by the
wind.”
14 Then ADONAI said to me, “From the north calamity will boil over onto everyone
living in the land,
15 because I will summon all the families in the kingdoms of the north, ”says
ADONAI, “and they will come and sit, each one, on his throne at the entrance to
the gates of Yerushalayim, opposite its walls, all the way around, and opposite
all the cities of Y’hudah.
16 I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness in
abandoning me, offering incense to other gods and worshipping what their own
hands made.
17 “But you, dress for action; stand up and tell them everything I order you to
say. When you confront them, don’t break down; or I will break you down in front
of them!
18 For today, you see, I have made you into a fortified city, a pillar of iron,
a wall of bronze against the whole land––against the kings of Y’hudah, against
its princes, against its cohanim and the people of the land.
19 They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with
you, ”says ADONAI, “to rescue you.”
1 The word of ADONAI came to me:
2 “Go and shout in the ears of Yerushalayim that this is what ADONAI says: ‘I
remember your devotion when you were young; how, as a bride, you loved me; how
you followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.
3 “‘Isra’el is set aside for ADONAI, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who
devour him will incur guilt; evil will befall them, ”says ADONAI.
Philippians 3:12 - 16
12 It is not that I have already obtained it or already reached the goal
– no, I keep pursuing it in the hope of taking hold of that for which the
Messiah Yeshua took hold of me.
13 Brothers, I, for my part, do not think of myself as having yet gotten hold of
it; but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind me and straining forward
toward what lies ahead,
14 I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward
calling in the Messiah Yeshua.
15 Therefore, as many of us as are mature, let us keep paying attention to this;
and if you are differently minded about anything, God will also reveal this to
you.
16 Only let our conduct fit the level we have already reached.
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