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. Amein.
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)
Yasher Chapter 33 1. And in some time after Jacob went away from the borders of the land, and he came to the land of Shalem, that is the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, and he rested in front of the city. 2. And he bought a parcel of the field which was there, from the children of Hamor the people of the land, for five shekels. 3. And Jacob there built himself a house, and he pitched his tent there, and he made booths for his cattle, therefore he called the name of that place Succoth. 4. And Jacob remained in Succoth a year and six months.
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. (Assimilation for YHVH’s people will always bring great harm and destruction.)
Yasher 33:5. At that time some of the women of the inhabitants of the land went to the city of Shechem to dance and rejoice with the daughters of the people of the city, and when they went forth then Rachel and Leah the wives of Jacob with their families also went to behold the rejoicing of the daughters of the city. 6. And Dinah the daughter of Jacob also went along with them and saw the daughters of the city, and they remained there before these daughters whilst all the people of the city were standing by them to behold their rejoicings, and all the great people of the cit
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. (Deut
7:1)
Gen 34:3 And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of
Yaʽaqoḇ, and he loved the girl and spoke kindly to the girl - וַיְדַבֵּר, עַל-לֵב הַנַּעֲרָ.
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. (“Yakov’s sheep”
should NOT assimilate with anyone outside the flock of Yakov.)
2Co 6:14 Do not become unevenly
yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and
lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
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 false 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.” (Hamor had evil intentions)
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.
Gen 34:25 And it came to be on the third day, when they
were in pain, that two of the sons of Yaʽaqoḇ, Shimʽon and Lĕwi, Dinah’s
brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the
males.
Chamor and Shechem were
acting deceitfully as well:
34:15. Now do not say, nor imagine in your hearts that on account of the love of the Hebrews we did this thing that our ancestors did not command us. 16. But because we saw that it was not their intention and desire to accede to our wishes concerning their daughter as to our taking her, except on this condition, so we hearkened to their voices and did this act which you saw, in order to obtain our desire from them. 17. And when we shall have obtained our request from them, we will then return to them and do unto them that which you say unto us. 18. We beseech you then to wait and tarry until our flesh shall be healed and we again become strong, and we will then go together against them, and do unto them that which is in your hearts and in ours. 19. And Dinah the daughter of Jacob heard all these words which Chiddekem and his brothers had spoken, and what Hamor and his son Shechem and the people of their city had answered them 20. And she hastened and sent one of her maidens, that her father had sent to take care of her in the house of Shechem, to Jacob her father and to her brethren, saying: 21. Thus did Chiddekem and his brothers advise concerning you, and thus did Hamor and Shechem and the people of the city answer them. 22. And when Jacob heard these words he was filled with wrath, and he was indignant at them, and his anger was kindled against them.
Gen 34:26 And they killed Ḥamor and Sheḵem his son
with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Sheḵem’s house, and went out.
Gen 34:27 The sons of Yaʽaqoḇ came upon the slain, and
plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Gen 34:28 They took their flocks and their herds, and
their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field,
Gen 34:29 and all their wealth. And all their little
ones and their wives they took captive, and they plundered all that was in the
houses.
Gen 34:30 And Yaʽaqoḇ said to Shimʽon and Lĕwi, “You
have troubled me by making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among
the Kenaʽanites and the Perizzites. And I am few in number, they shall gather
themselves against me and shall smite me, and I shall be destroyed, my
household and I.”
Gen 34:31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a whore?” (Gen 49:4-6)
Yasher 33: 52 And they
circumcised Shechem and Hamor his father, and the five brothers of Shechem, and
then every one rose up and went home, for this thing was from YHVH against the
city of Shechem, and from YHVH was Simeon's counsel in this matter, in order
that YHVH might deliver the city of Shechem into the hands of Jacob's two sons.
CHAPTER 34:1 And the
number of all the males that were circumcised, were six hundred and forty-five
men, and two hundred and forty-six children.
Gen 35:1 And
Elohim said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “Arise, go up to Bĕyth Ěl and dwell there. And make an
altar there to Ěl who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Ěsaw your
brother.”
Gen 35:2 And Yaʽaqoḇ said to his household and to all
who were with him, “Put away the foreign mighty ones that are among you, and
cleanse yourselves, and change your garments.
Gen 35:3 “And let us arise and go up to Bĕyth Ěl, and
let me make there an altar to Ěl, who answered me in the day of my distress,
and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”
Gen 35:4 So they gave Yaʽaqoḇ all the foreign mighty
ones which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in their
ears. And Yaʽaqoḇ hid them under the terebinth tree which was near Sheḵem.
Gen 35:5 And they departed, and the fear of Elohim was
upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of
Yaʽaqoḇ.
Gen 35:6 And Yaʽaqoḇ came to Luz, that is Bĕyth Ěl,
which is in the land of Kenaʽan, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen 35:7 And he built there an altar and called the
place El Bĕyth Ěl, because there Elohim appeared to him when he fled from the
face of his brother.
Gen 35:8 And Deḇorah, Riḇqah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bĕyth Ěl under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Baḵuth – “Alon Bachut” the oak of lamentation.
Devorah had either been sent by Rivkah to take
care of her daughters-in-law and grandsons, or had gone of her own accord into Yaqov's household after the death of her mistress. The mourning at her
death, and the perpetuation of her memory, are proofs that she must have been a
faithful and highly esteemed servant in Yaqov's house.
Midrash
on assimilation:
assimilation refers to the process
through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic
habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture.
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. 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.
Midrash –
Did Yakov’s sons act in a righteous manner?
Yosef’s
brothers were treacherous, some remain treacherous to this day. It is a known
fact that descendants of Levi are the inventors of weapons of mass destruction –
Samuel T Cohen invented the neutron bomb – a nuclear weapon of choice in
planning modern nuclear warfare.
We see that
Yosef’s brothers wanted to kill him but decided instead to sell him as a slave
near Schechem. The descendants of these brothers persuaded Pilate to execute
the Messiah.
Gen 37:12 And his brothers went to
feed their father’s flock in Sheḵem.
Gen 37:13 And Yisra’ěl said to
Yosěph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Sheḵem? Come, I send
you to them.” So he said to him, “Here I am.”
Job 2:9 And his wife said to him, Do you still hold to your integrity? Curse YHVH and die! Job 2:10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of YHVH, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
James (Yakov)1:2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations, Jas 1:3 knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
1Pe 4:1 Therefore, since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,[a] Footnote: a Rom_6:2-22, 1Pe_2:25.
Act 14:22 strengthening the beings of
the taught ones, encouraging them to continue in the belief, and that through
many pressures we have to enter the reign of Elohim
Joh 16:33 “These words I have
spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you have pressure,
but take courage, I have overcome the world.”
Heb 5:8 though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered. Heb 5:9 And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,
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Nah 1:7 יהוה is good, as a stronghold in the day of distress. And He knows
those who take refuge in Him.
Nah 1:12 Thus said יהוה, “Though they are strong and many, even so, they shall be cut
off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I afflict you no more.
YHVH
cares deeply about His people and will not let their oppressors go unpunished.
Nahum
means “comforter".
נַחֲמוּ
נַחֲמוּ, עַמִּי--יֹאמַר, אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
Last
days calling and ministry from Yakov’s flock to Yakov’s flock.
Is40:1-2 “Comfort, oh comfort
my people, says your Elohim. “Speak softly and tenderly to Jerusalem,
but also make it very clear That she has served her
sentence,
that her sin is taken care of—forgiven! She’s been
punished enough and more than enough,
and now it’s over and done with.”
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheinu, Melech
ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chai-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch
atah YHVH, notein ha-Torah. Amein.
Blessed are you YHVH, our Elohim, King of
the Universe, you have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted
everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah –
Amein.