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. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of
the Torah. Ameyn.)
Gen 18:1 And יהוה appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, while he was
sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
“Va Yerah” is a Niphal verb ie a passive verb, meaning that
YHVH allowed Himself to be seen by Avraham.
Heb 1:1 Elohim, having of old spoken in many
portions and many ways to the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 has in these last days spoken to us
by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the
ages,a Footnote: aSee Joh_1:3.
Heb 1:3 who being the brightness of the esteem and
the exact representation of His substance, and sustaining all by the word of
His power, having made a cleansing of our sins through Himself, sat down at
the right hand Psa_110:1 of the Greatness on high,
Heb 1:4 having become so much better than the
messengers, as He has inherited a more excellent Name than them.
Heb 1:13 And to which of the messengers did He ever
say, “Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your
feet”? Psa_110:1.
Heb 1:14 Are they not all serving spirits sent out
to attend those who are about to inherit deliverance?
Gen
18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked,
and saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the
tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
Gen
18:3 and said, “יהוה,
if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do not pass Your servant by.
Gen
18:4 “Please let a little water be
brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Gen
18:5 “And let me bring a piece of bread
and refresh your hearts, and then go on, for this is why you have come to your
servant.” And they said, “Do as you have said.”
Gen
18:6 So Aḇraham ran into the tent to
Sarah and said, “Hurry, make ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and
make cakes.”
Gen
18:7 And Aḇraham ran to the herd, took
a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hurried to prepare it.
Gen
18:8 And he took curds and milk and the
calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and he stood by them under
the tree as they ate. (Ex 23:19)
Gen
18:9 And they said to him, “Where is
Sarah your wife?” And he said, “See, in the tent.”
ט וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו, אַיֵּה שָׂרָה
אִשְׁתֶּךָ; וַיֹּאמֶר, הִנֵּה בָאֹהֶל.
Over the word “elaiv”
are three “yuds’ over the letter “aleph”; “yud” and “vav” these three letters
spell “eiyav” meaning “where is he.” Is this possibly a veiled question as to the
future coming of Messiah?
Gen
18:10 And He said, “I shall certainly
return to you according to the time of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to
have a son!” And Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.
Gen
18:11 Now Aḇraham and Sarah were old,
well advanced in age, and Sarah was past the way of women.
Gen
18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old
too?” (meaning sexual pleasure)
Gen
18:13 And יהוה said
to Aḇraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I truly have a child, since I
am old?’
Gen
18:14 “Is any matter too hard for יהוה? At the appointed time I am going to return to you, according
to the time of life, and Sarah is to have a son.”
Gen
18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I
did not laugh,” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
Gen
18:16 And the men rose up from there and
looked toward Seḏom, and Aḇraham went with them to send them away.
Gen
18:17 And יהוה
said, “Shall I hide from Aḇraham what I am doing,
Gen 18:18 since Aḇraham is certainly going to become a
great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him?
Gen
18:19 “For I have known him, so that he
commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה brings to Aḇraham what He has spoken to him.”
Gen
18:20 And יהוה
said, “Because the outcry against Seḏom and Amorah is great, and because their
sin is very heavy,
Gen
18:21 “I am going down now to see
whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has
come to Me, and if not, I know.”
Gen
18:22 So the men turned away from there
and went toward Seḏom, but יהוה still stood before Aḇraham.
Gen
18:23 And Aḇraham drew near and said,
“Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?
Gen
18:24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous
within the city, would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the
fifty righteous that were in it?
Gen
18:25 “Far be it from You to act in this
way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as
the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”
