Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Eloheinu
melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch
atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the
blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah.)
Gen
33:18 And Yaʽaqoḇ came
safely(Heb “Shalam”) to the city of Sheḵem, which is in the land of
Kenaʽan, when he came from Paddan Aram. And he pitched his tent before the
city. Gen 33:19 And he bought the
portion of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Ḥamor,
Sheḵem’s father, for one hundred qesitah – (value unknown) Gen 33:20 And he set up an altar there and called it Ěl
Elohĕ Yisra’ĕl. (The Mighty El of Yisrael) Gen 34:1 And Dinah, the daughter of Lĕ’ah, whom she
had borne to Yaʽaqoḇ, went out to see the
daughters of the land. (Big mistake! Assimilation is more dangerous than death.)
Gen 34:2
And Sheḵem, son of Ḥamor the Ḥiwwite, prince of the
land, saw her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
Gen 34:3
And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Yaʽaqoḇ, and he loved the
girl and spoke kindly to the girl. Gen 34:4
And Sheḵem spoke to his father
Ḥamor, saying, “Take
this girl for me for a wife.” Gen 34:5
And Yaʽaqoḇ heard that he had
defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field,
so Yaʽaqoḇ kept silent until
they came. Gen 34:6 And Ḥamor, the father of
Sheḵem, went out to Yaʽaqoḇ to speak with him. Gen
34:7 And the sons of Yaʽaqoḇ came in from the
field when they heard it. And the men were grieved and very wroth, because he
had done a senseless deed in Yisra’ĕl by lying with Yaʽaqoḇ’s daughter, which
should not be done. Gen 34:8 But Ḥamor spoke with them,
saying, “My son Sheḵem’s being longs for
your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.
Gen 34:9
“And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters
for yourselves, Gen 34:10 and dwell with
us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have
possessions in it.” Gen 34:11 And Sheḵem said to her father
and her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me
I give. Gen 34:12 “Ask of me a bride
price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but
give me the girl for a wife.” Gen 34:13
But the sons of Yaʽaqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father, and
spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
Gen 34:14
And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our
sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us. Gen
34:15 “Only on this condition
would we agree to you: If you become as we are, to have every male of you
circumcised, Gen 34:16 then we shall
give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us. And we shall dwell
with you, and shall become one people. Gen 34:17 “But if you do not listen to us and be
circumcised, we shall take our daughter and go.” Gen 34:18 And their words pleased Ḥamor and Sheḵem, Ḥamor’s son. Gen
34:19 And the young man did not delay to
do this because he delighted in Yaʽaqoḇ’s daughter. Now he
was more respected than all the household of his father. Gen 34:20 And Ḥamor
and Sheḵem his son came to the
gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying,
Gen 34:21 “These men are at peace with us, so let them
dwell in the land and move about in it. And see, the land is large enough for
them. Let us take their daughters for us for wives and let us give them our
daughters. (Big mistake – “Yakov’s sheep” should NOT assimilate with anyone
outside the flock of Yakov.)
Gen 34:22
“Only on this condition would the men agree to dwell with us, to
be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. (this infers a kind of conversion to the
Elohim of Yisrael). Gen 34:23 “Their
herds and their possessions, and all their beasts, should they not be ours?
Only let us agree with them, and let them dwell with us.”
Gen 34:24
And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son; every male
was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
2Co 6:14
Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have
righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
Many modern day
believers frown on such radicalism. Listen to Yochanan on this issue.
2Jn 1:9
Everyone who is transgressing(wilfully and arrogantly disregards Torah)
and not staying in the teaching of Messiah does not possess Elohim.1
The one who stays in the teaching of Messiah possesses both the Father and the
Son.2 Footnotes: 11 Tim. 6:3. 2See 1 John 1:3,
1 John 2:22, 1 John 5:20.
2Jn 1:10
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive
him into your house nor greet him,
2Jn 1:11
for he who greets him shares in his wicked works.