8/21/2026

Parashat 13 Portion 51 Ex 4:18-6:1 ‘’Shemot’’ 2 Sam 15:7-15 + 37

Blessed are You YHVH our Elohim - Creator of the universe, whose blessings have come to mankind through Moshiach Ben David – The Tree of Life – who established the root and fruit of Your Torah on earth through which all the families of the earth are blessed forever and ever.

Please, YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our hearts and in the hearts of Your people, the family of Israel. May we and our offspring and the offspring of Your people, the house of Jacob – and all Jacob’s adopted family – know Your Name and study Your Torah, for the sake of the Torah- empowering us to sincerely love one another and to love You above all. Please uncover our eyes and open our hearts that we may carefully examine and understand the marvels and mysteries of Your Torah- Amein.

וילך משׁה  - The verse reads: "And Moses went(וילך משׁה) and returned to Jethro his father-in-law..."

Exo 4:18  Then Mosheh went (וילך משׁה) and returned to Yether his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Mitsrayim to see whether they are still alive.” And Yithro said to Mosheh, “Go in peace.” (‘’Yeter’’used only once for Moses father in law)

The Hebrew root יָתַר (yatar / yāthar, Strong’s H3498) means “to remain over,” “to be left,” “to exceed,” or “to leave a remnant.” It carries both the sense of what is left after judgment or consumption and, at times, surplus or pre-eminence.

Ex 3:1 …..And he led the flock to the back ‘’Achar’’ (אַחַר)of the wilderness….(Portion 50)

In the last days (achariet yamim) the teachings of Moses will once again return to a remnant (Yeter) of gentiles, which will inspire a coming together and restoration of the 12 tribes of Israel  - a parable, a mystery of the kingdom - Acharit ha-yamim, sod ha-malkhut.

In Exodus 4:18 the text reads that Moses returned to יֶתֶר (Yether) his father-in-law. This is the same man elsewhere called יִתְרוֹ (Yitro / Jethro). The name is formed from the same root and is commonly understood as “his abundance,” “his excellence,” or, in some readings, “his remnant.”

This links directly to the larger biblical remnant narrative - the portion that remains after Egypt’s oppression, after Babylon’s exile, and after successive world-systems that seek to destroy YHVH’s people. Moses extracts a remnant from Egypt; the prophetic hope looks to the Messiah to secure the final remnant so that exclusive honour can return to YHVH alone. The root yatar / yether supplies one of the key Hebrew terms for that surviving, called-out remnant portion.

Perhaps the scribes intentionally chose to start a new portion here to introduce the presence of an end time Hebraic gentile awakening.

Exo 4:18  Then Mosheh went and returned to Yether his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Mitsrayim to see whether they are still alive.” And Yithro said to Mosheh, “Go in peace.”  

Exo 4:19  And יהוה said to Mosheh in Miyan, “Go, return to Mitsrayim, for all the men are dead who sought your life.” 

Exo 4:20  So Mosheh took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod of Elohim in his hand. 

Exo 4:21  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “As you go back to Mitsrayim, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I am going to strengthen his heart, so that he does not let the people go. 

 Rom 9:15  For He says to Mosheh, “I shall favour whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have compassion.” Exo_33:19

Rom 9:16  So, then, it is not of him who is wishing, nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour. 

Rom 9:17  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this same purpose I have raised you up, to show My power in you, and that My Name be declared in all the earth.” Exo_9:16

Rom 9:18  So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes. 

Rom 9:19  Then you shall say to me, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?” 

Rom 9:20  But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Isa_29:16, Isa_45:9

Rom 9:21  Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value? 

Rom 9:22  And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 

Rom 9:23  and that He might make known the riches of His esteem on vessels of compassion, which He had prepared beforehand for esteem, 

Rom 9:24  even whom He called, not only us of the Yehuim, but also of the nations? 

 YHVH’s election is a very controversial and almost impossible concept to understand.

 ‘’The inability to understand is intentional. It prevents human pride, strips away self-righteousness, and forces ultimate reliance on faith. If the process could be fully mapped out by human intellect, it would cease to be an act of divine grace and become a formula.’’

 Exo 4:22  “And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Yisra’ěl is My son, My first-born, 

Exo 4:23  so I say to you, let My son go to serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, see, I am killing your son, your first-born.”’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7Ux01CWw0&t=6s

Exo 4:24  And it came to be on the way, in the lodging place, that יהוה met him and sought to kill him.

Exo 4:25  And Tsipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it at his feet, and said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!” 

Exo 4:26  So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision. (because of Covenant)

 Moses was allowing his wife Tzipporah to prevent him from obeying the covenant obligation of circumcision. In the Eyes of YHVH this was a very serious violation of the covenant – worthy of death – Gen 17

Tzipporah was in fact stating that she could not be in covenant with a man a man who condoned the bloody mutilation of an infant’s foreskin – for the sake of YHVH’s covenant - so she throws the infants foreskin most probably on Moses genitals (Heb euphemism for feet)

YHVH was stating that He could not allow a man to lead His people out of bondage while the leader himself was violating the covenant – the perfect law of freedom – James 1:25

 This is a serious warning: those who are sent to dismantle a corrupt system cannot harbour the seed of that system's lawlessness within their own home – see Rev 2:20 – Yahshua rebukes the leader of the assembly of Thyatira for allowing his wife to introduce pagan ideas contrary to the Torah into the assembly.

 "And Moses sent her away’’- Ex 18:2 – (‘’shillûach’’ - "After the dismissal of her.”) This signals to the reader that the "sending away" was Moses putting his domestic house in order before challenging the world system.

 This proves that spiritual authority is not based on human charisma, eloquence, or political power, but on total covenant alignment. YHVH will not allow Moses to demand obedience from Pharaoh or Israel while Moses himself is yielding to his wife's objections over the sign of the covenant (Genesis 17)

 Exo 4:27  And יהוה said to Aharon, “Go to meet Mosheh in the wilderness.” And he went and met him on the mountain of Elohim and kissed him. (divine teleportation or being "Spirit-ported.")

 Exo 4:28  Mosheh then told Aharon all the words of יהוה who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. 

Exo 4:29  And Mosheh went (Vayelech (וַיֵּלֶךְ)) with Aharon and gathered together all the elders of the children of Yisra’ěl. 

Exo 4:30  And Aharon spoke all the words which יהוה had spoken to Mosheh. Then he did the signs before the eyes of the people. 

Exo 4:31  And the people believed. And they heard that יהוה had visited the children of Yisra’ěl and that He had looked on their affliction, and they bowed their heads and did obeisance. 

 Making Bricks Without Straw

Exo 5:1  And afterwards Mosheh and Aharon went in and said to Pharaoh, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ěl, ‘Let My people go, so that they celebrate a festival to Me in the wilderness.’” 

 The "wilderness" represents a clean, unpolluted space free from Egyptian idolatry, where the people can re-learn how to serve YHVH.

This confrontation perfectly mirrors Moses' personal life. Just as Moses had to enact shillûach (sending away) on his own family to cut away internal compromise (Exodus 18:2), he is now demanding that Pharaoh enact shillûach on the entire nation.

Moses knows that halfway measures will not work. If Israel remains inside the proximity and economic system of Egypt, they will never truly be free to "respect and honour YHVH". They must step out completely.

 Wasn’t Moses being deceitful with his three day request if he never intended to return to Egypt?

 Many readers look at this and ask exactly the same question: Did Moses (and by extension, YHVH) use deliberate deception to break out of Egypt?

 ‘’Was it deceitful? The Egyptian world system was an illegal, oppressive regime holding YHVH's firstborn son hostage. YHVH knew that Pharoah would refuse’’ YHVH knew that for ‘’three days’’ this world system would keep humanity in bondage.

 Paul interprets this same principal in 2 Cor 2:6-8

 1Co 2:6  Yet we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, and not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that are being brought to naught. 

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of Elohim, which was hidden in a secret, and which Elohim ordained before the ages for our esteem, 

1Co 2:8  which no one of the rulers of this age knew, for if they had known, they would not have impaled the Master of esteem. 

 Both scripts prove that the Egyptian/Babylonian world system always acts as its own executioner. It uses human manipulation, political strength, and legal pressure to corner YHVH’s people, completely unaware that it is merely marching itself into the exact grave YHVH prepared for it before time began. YHVH’s enemies set themselves up for total failure and destruction.

Rev 17:16  “And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the whore, and lay her waste and naked, and eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 

 ‘’The text describes a shocking, internal betrayal within the world system: the global political/military powers (the Beast and the ten horns) will suddenly turn on, destroy, and cannibalize the global false religious/economic system (the Harlot, Babylon)

This verse reveals a critical law of cosmic justice: the Egyptian/Babylonian world system is inherently self-destructive and acts as its own executioner.

The profound irony of this text is explained in the very next verse (Revelation 17:17), which states that YHVH put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose.’’

 These tyrants are justifying a very, very long prison sentence in sheol.

 ‘’Sheol is the dark, silent realm of the dead where the souls of the deceased await final judgment.

Isaiah 14 explicitly depicts the King of Babylon descending into Sheol, where the ghosts of former tyrants rise up to mock his sudden powerlessness, saying, "You also have become weak, as we are!" (Isaiah 14:10).

Galatians 6:7 states that YHVH is not mocked; whatever a person sows, they will reap. Tyrants who impose wrongful sentences on earth are spiritually drafting their own divine sentence. They believe they are untouchable.

However, scriptural truth emphasizes that their earthly authority is completely temporary. The moment they enter Sheol, their political immunity vanishes instantly. They stand naked before the Creator, where the sheer volume of their unrepentant crimes legally seals their long, inescapable judgment.’’

 ‘’Tyrants love cages. They build empires out of prisons, labor camps, brick quotas, and restrictive control systems designed to box in humanity. Because they choose to live by the law of the cage, YHVH ultimately sentences them to the ultimate cage. The very system they used to oppress others becomes the exact shape of their eternal reality in Sheol.

YHVH is now legally and fully justified in passing long term prison sentences on these tyrants – some may be set free others will remain in prison and torment eternally.’’

 This should cause every sincere believer to reflect on their own lives and ask the question: am I in any way shape or form assisting this evil agenda that opposes YHVH’s elect remnant.

 Heb 10:31  It is fearsome to fall into the hands of the living Elohim. 

 Exo 5:2  And Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should obey His voice to let Yisra’ěl go? I do not know יהוה, nor am I going to let Yisra’ěl go.” 

 And YHVH says ‘’I will now introduce Myself to you and your corrupt religious world system”

 Exo 5:3  And they said, “The Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness and slaughter to יהוה our Elohim, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” 

 Instead of releasing the Israelites – Pharoah now taunts YHVH and dares YHVH to try and stop him. This is the insanity of arrogant tyrants – they will regret forever.

 What was the ‘’straw that finally broke the camel’s back’’

There never was nor ever will be - with YHVH, there is no such thing as a "straw that broke the camel's back" because He never acts out of sudden loss of control, emotional exhaustion, or human frustration.

 The concept of a "last straw" is entirely human. It describes a fragile creature who reaches their absolute limit and snaps. In the biblical narrative—and across all cosmic history—YHVH's actions are driven by something completely different

 The Measure of Iniquity is a Full Cup, not a Broken Back

 Scripture uses a very different metaphor for judgment. Instead of a camel's back breaking under weight, it speaks of a cup filling up to its legal brim.

 In Genesis 15:16, YHVH tells Abraham that his descendants cannot take the Promised Land yet because "the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."

 YHVH allows systems and individuals an exact, sovereign boundary of time to exhaust their options, reveal their true unrepentant hearts, and choose their destiny.

 When judgment hits, it happens because the legal measure of sin has reached 100% capacity. It is a YHVH conclusion, not an emotional breakdown.

  To suggest a "last straw" implies that the world system has the power to stress, weary, or destabilize the Creator.

     Exo 5:4  But the sovereign of Mitsrayim said to them, “Mosheh and Aharon, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens.” 

Exo 5:5  And Pharaoh said, “See, the people of the land are many now, and you make them cease from their burdens!” (Pharoah thinks he is in control)

Exo 5:6  And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying, 

Exo 5:7  “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 

Exo 5:8  “And lay on them the required amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.’ 

Exo 5:9  “Let more work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and not pay attention to words of falsehood.” 

Exo 5:10  And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you straw. 

Exo 5:11  ‘Go, take straw for yourselves, where ever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ” 

Exo 5:12  And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw. 

Exo 5:13  And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Fulfill your actions, your daily matters, as when there was straw.” (straw was used to bind clay bricks)

Exo 5:14  Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ěl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over them, were struck and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your law in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?” (no longer a state supply of straw)

Exo 5:15  And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ěl came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way? 

Exo 5:16  “There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And see, your servants are struck, but your own people are at fault.” 

Exo 5:17  But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and slaughter to יהוה.’ 

Exo 5:18  “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.” 

Exo 5:19  And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ěl saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.” 

Exo 5:20  And when they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and Aharon who stood there to meet them. 

Exo 5:21  And they said to them, “Let יהוה look on you and judge, because you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh (of the anti christ and his system) and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.” 

Exo 5:22  And Mosheh returned to יהוה and said, “יהוה, why have You done evil to this people? Why did You send me? 

Exo 5:23  “For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done evil to this people. And You have not delivered Your people at all.” 

Exo 6:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Now see what I do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he is going to let them go, and with a strong hand he is going to drive them out of his land.” 

 Despite the bondage of the Egyptian system – most of the Hebrew slaves choose bondage over freedom. In the last days many will choose enslavement to a system that requires their  absolute loyalty – even, most of those who choose and pay the price for freedom will perish in the wilderness (great tribulation) because they will grumble in the wilderness (great tribulation) wanting to return to Egypt – the land of milk and honey – Numbers 16:13.

 "Who is sufficient for these things?" 2 Cor 2:15-16

 Paul goes on to answer his question in 2 Cor 3 – this can only happen when the Torah has been renewed and internalized in your heart – Jer 31:31

  1Co 10:11  And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come, 

1Co 10:12  so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall. 

 2Co 6:17  Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you. Isa_52:11

By using this phrase, Paul establishes that the command to exit the world system is not a new prophetic idea; it is a foundational rule of Covenant keeping, a deep uncompromising commitment to covenant living.

 Jas 1:25  But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah.

 Heb 4:1  Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 

Heb 4:2  For indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who heard it. 

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.