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1: 47:28-48:9 (13 Verses)
2: 48:10-16 (7 Verses)
3: 48:17-22 (6 Verses)
4: 49:1-18 (18 Verses)
5: 49:19-26 (8 Verses)
6: 49:27-50:20 (27 Verses)
7: 50:21-26 (6 Verses)
1stReader:
47:28-48:9 (13 Verses)
28
Supplanter (translated Jacob in most English versions and
Ya’acov in Hebrew renderings) lived in
Double
Straits
(or
Egypt
, Mitsrayim in Hebrew) seventeen years, and the years of his life were a
hundred and forty-seven.
29
When the time drew near for Persevere as Mighty (or [Israel]
Yisrael) to die, he called for his son Eternal Has Added (Joseph or
Yowceph) and said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, put
your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and
faithfulness. Do not bury me in Double Straits,
30
but when I rest with my ancestors carry me out of Double Straits
and bury me where they are buried." In response he said "I
will do as you say."
31
"Swear tome," he said. Then Eternal Has Added openly
vowed this to him, and Persevere as Mighty bent to worshiped at the head
of his bed.
CHAPTER
48
1
Some time later Eternal Has Added was told, "Your father is
ill." So he took his two sons Amnesia (or Manasseh) and Doubly
Fruitful (or Ephraim) along with him.
2
When Supplanter was told, "Your son Eternal Has Added has
come to you,"Persevere as Mighty rallied his strength and sat up on
the bed.
3
Supplante said to Eternal Has Added, "Mighty Almighty
appeared to me at Almond Tree in the Lowlands (or
Canaan
or Kena’aniy in Hebrew), and there He blessed me
4
and said tome, 'I am going to make you fruitful and will increase
your numbers. I will make you a community of people, and I will give
this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.'
5
"Now then, your two sons born to you in Double Straits
before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Doubly Fruitful and
Amnesia will be mine, just as Behold a Son and Heard [with awareness]
(or Shim’own) are mine.
6
Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the
territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their
brothers.
7
As I was returning from High Field, to my sorrow Ewe died in the
Lowlands, while we were still on the way, a little distance from
Fruitfulness. So I buried her there beside the road to
Fruitfulness" (this is called the House of Bread or
Bethlehem
).
8
When Persevere as Mighty saw the sons of Eternal Has Added, he
asked, "Who are these?"
9
"They are the sons Mighty has given me here," Eternal
Has Added replied to his father. Then Persevere as Mighty said,
"Bring them to me so I may bless them."
2nd
Reader: 48:10-16 (7 Verses)
10
Now Persevere as Mighty's eyes were failing because of old age,
and he could hardly see. So Eternal Has Added brought his sons close to
him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
11
Persevere as Mighty said to Eternal Has Added, "I never
expected to see your face again, and now Mighty has allowed me to see
your children as well."
12
Then Eternal Has Added removed them from Persevere as Mighty's
knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.
13
And Eternal Has Added took both of them, Doubly Fruitful on his
right toward Persevere as Mighty's left hand and Amnesia on his left
toward Persevere as Mighty's right hand, and brought them close to him.
14
But Persevere as Mighty reached out his right hand and put it on
the head of Doubly Fruitful, although he was the younger, and crossing
his arms, he put his left hand on Amnesia's head, even though Amnesia
was the firstborn.
15
Then he blessed Eternal Has Added and said, "May the Mighty
before whom my fathers, Father of Nations (Father of Nations) and
Laughter (Laughter) walked, the Mighty who has been my shepherd all my
life to this day,
16
the Messenger who has delivered me from all harm may he bless
these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers
Father of Nations and Laughter, and may they increase greatly upon the
surface of the ground."
3rd
Reader:48:17-22 (6 Verses)
17
When Eternal Has Added saw his father placing his right hand on
the head of Doubly Fruitful he was displeased; so he took hold of his
father's hand to move it from the head of Doubly Fruitful to the head of
Amnesia.
18
Eternal Has Added or Yowceph said to him, "No, my father,
this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
19
But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He
too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless,
his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will
become a group of nations."
20
He blessed them that day and said, "In Your name will
Persevere as Mighty pronounce this blessing: 'May Mighty make you like
Doubly Fruitful and Amnesia.'" So he put Doubly Fruitful ahead of
Amnesia.
21
Then Persevere as Mighty said to Eternal Has Added, "I am
about to die, but Mighty will be with you and take you back to the land
of your ancestors.
22
And to you, as one who is over your brothers, I give the ridge of
land I took from the Braggarts (or Amorites) with my sword and my
bow."
CHAPTER
49
4thReader:
49:1-18 (18 Verses)
1
Then Supplanter called for his sons and said: "Gather around
so I can tell you what will happen to you in the latter days.
2
"Now gather and hear with discernment, sons of Supplanter;
hear well your father, Persevere as Mighty.
3
"Behold a Son (called Reuben), you are my firstborn, my
might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in
power.
4
Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went
up onto your father's bed, onto my couch and defiled it.
5
"Hearing with awareness (or Shim’own) and Attached (or
Levi) are brothers-- their swords are weapons of violence.
6
Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly,
for they have killed men in their anger and uproot the barriers.
7
Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I
will assign them in Supplanter and disperse them in Persevere as Mighty.
8
"Praised (Judah or Yahudah), your brothers will praise you;
your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will
bow down to you.
9
You are a lion's cub, O Praised; you return from the prey, my
son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, and likened to a lioness--
who dares to rouse him?
10
His authority will not depart from Praised, nor governance from
beneath his feet, except there come tranquility, for the cleansing of
the nations.
11
He will bind his burden to the choice vine, his stability treads
the wine; he will tread his garments in the rich blood of the choice
fruit, his coverings in the blood of intoxication.
12
His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
13
"Exalted (or Zebulun) will live by the seashore and become a
haven for ships; his border will extend toward
Sidon
(that stronghold of the Phoenician masters of the sea).
14
"Recompense( called Issachar or Yissaskar) is a rawboned ass
lying down in the midst of two stalls.
15
When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is
his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced
labor.
16
"Judge (or Dan) will provide justice for his people as one
of the tribes of Persevere as Mighty (Yisrael).
17
Judge will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path
that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
18
"I look for Your deliverance, ETERNAL.
5th
Reader: 49:19-26 (8 Verses)
19
"Troop will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will
attack them at their heels.
20
"Happy's (Asher’s) food will be rich; he will provide
delicacies fit for a king.
21
" Anxious (Naphtali) is a doe set free that bears beautiful
fawns.
22
"Eternal Has Added is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near
a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.
23
With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with
hostility.
24
But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber,
because of the hand of the Mighty One of Supplanter, because of the
Shepherd, the Rock of Persevere as Mighty,
25
because of your father's Mighty, who helps you, because of the
Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings
of the deep that lies below,blessings of the breast and womb.
26
Your father's blessings are greater than the blessings of the
ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these
rest on the head of Eternal Has Added, on the brow of the prince among
his brothers.
6th
Reader: 49:27-50:20(27 Verses)
27
" Son of the Right (Binyamiyn), a wolf; in the morning he
feeds on the prey, in the evening he distribute the spoils."
28
All these are the twelve tribes of Persevere as Mighty, and this
is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the
blessing appropriate to him.
29
Then he gave them these instructions: "I am about to be
removed to my peoples. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field
of Fawn-like the Terrorist,
30
the cave in the field of the fold, near The Oak in Lowlands,
which Father of Nations bought as a burial place from Fawn-like the
Terrorist, along with the field.
31
There Father of Nations and Noblewoman, his woman, were buried,
there Laughter and his Woman, Dazes were buried, and there I buried
Weary.
32
The field and the cave in it were bought from the
Terrorists."
33
When Supplanter had finished giving instructions to his sons, he
drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his
people.
CHAPTER
50
1
Eternal Has Added threw himself upon his father and wept over him
and kissed him.
2
Then Eternal Has Added directed the physicians in his service to
embalm his father Persevere as Mighty. So the physicians embalmed him,
3
taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for
embalming. And the people of Double Straits mourned for him seventy
days.
4
When the days of mourning had passed, Eternal Has Added said to
the court of Big House, If I have found favor in your eyes, go and speak
to Big House for me. Tell him,
5
'My father made me swear an oath and said, "I am about to
die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the
Lowlands
." Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'"
6
Big House said, "Then go up and bury your father, as he made
you swear to do."
7
So Eternal Has Added went up to bury his father. All Big House's
officials accompanied him--the dignitaries of his court and all the
dignitaries of Double Straits--
8
besides all the members of Eternal Has Added's household and his
brothers and those belonging to his father's household. Only their
children and their flocks and herds were left in Seer.
9
Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large
company.
10
When they reached the threshing floor of Thorn, near the
Descender, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Eternal Has
Added observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.
11
When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the
threshing floor of Thorn Brier, they said, "The people of Double
Straits are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning." That is why
that place near the Descender is called The Meadows of Double Straits.
12
So Supplanter's sons did as he had commanded them:
13
They carried him to the
Lowlands
and buried him in the cave in the field of Portion, near great Oak,
which Father of Nations had bought as a burial place from Fawn-like, the
Terrorist, along with the field.
14
After burying his father, Eternal Has Added returned to Double
Straits, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with
him to bury his father.
15
When Eternal Has Added's brothers saw that their father was dead,
they said, "What if Eternal Has Added holds a grudge against us and
pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?"
16
So they sent word to Eternal Has Added, saying, "Your father
left these instructions before he died:
17
'This is what you are to say to Eternal Has Added: I ask you to
forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating
you so badly.' So please now forgive the sins of the servants of the
Mighty of your father." When their message came before him, Eternal
Has Added, wept.
18
His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him.
"We are your slaves," they said.
19
But Eternal Has Added said to them, "Don't be afraid. Am I a
replacement for Mighty?
20
You intended to harm me, but Mighty intended it for good to
accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
7:
50:21-26 (6 Verses)
21
So then, do not be fearful. I will provide for you and your
children." And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
22
Eternal Has Added stayed in Double Straits, along with all of his
father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years
23
and saw the third generation of the children of Doubly Fruitful.
Also the children of Seller son of Amnesia were placed at birth on
Eternal Has Added's knees.
24
Then Eternal Has Added said to his brothers, "I am about to
die. But Mighty will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this
land to the land he promised on oath to Father of Nations, Laughter and
Supplanter."
25
And Eternal Has Added made the sons of Persevere as Mighty swear
an oath and said, "Mighty will surely come to your aid, and then
you must carry my bones up from this place."
26
So Eternal Has Added died at the age of a hundred and ten. And
after they embalmed him, he was placed in an
Ark
in Double Straits.
Haftarah:
I Kings 2:1 - 2:12
CHAPTER
2
1
When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to
Solomon his son.
2
"I am about to go the way of all earthlings," he said.
"So be strong, show yourself a man,
3
and observe what the ETERNAL your Mighty requires: Walk in his
ways, and keep His decrees and commands, His laws and requirements, as
written in the Law of Moshe, so that you may prosper in all you do and
wherever you go,
4
and that the ETERNAL may keep His promise to me: 'If your
descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me
with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the
throne of Persevere as Mighty (Yisrael).'
5
"Now you yourself know what Fathered by Eternal, son of Balm
did to me-- what he did to the two commanders of Persevere as Mighty's
armies, Father of Light and son of Burden and son of Abundance. He
killed them, shedding their blood in peace time as if in battle, and
with that blood stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his
feet.
6
Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray
head go down to the grave in peace.
7
"But show kindness to the sons of Iron heart of Rocky Mound
and let them be among those who eat at your table. They stood by me when
I fled from your brother Father Is Peace.
8
"And remember, you have with you Renowned son
of Kernel, (of the tribe) of the Son of the Right from The Village of
Select, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Double
Camp. When he came down to meet me at the Descender, I swore to him by
ETERNAL: 'I will not put you to death by the sword.'
9
But do not consider him innocent now. You are a man of wisdom;
you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave
in blood."
10
Then Beloved (Daviyd) rested with his fathers and was concealed
in the protection of Beloved.
11
He had reigned forty years over Persevere as Mighty-- seven years
in
Hebron
and thirty-three in the Teachings of Peace.
12
So Solomon sat on the throne of his father, Beloved, and his rule
was firmly established.
Torah
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