Ki Tisa means “when you elevate“
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Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 30
The Census Offering (2 Samuel 24:1–9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:1–6)
11 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 12 “When you take a census of the Yasharalites to number them, each man must pay 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered. 13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
14 Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. 15 In making the offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less. 16 Take the atonement money from the Yasharalites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Yasharalites before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to make atonement for your lives.”
The Bronze Basin (Exodus 38:8)
17 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 18 “You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it, 19 with which Aharon and his sons are to wash their hands and feet. 20 Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, they must wash with water so that they will not die. 21 Thus they are to wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent statute for Aharon and his descendants for the generations to come.”
The Anointing Oil
22 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 23 “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane, 24 500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil. 25 Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
26 Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony, 27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense, 28 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand. 29 You are to consecrate them so that they will be most set apart. Whatever touches them shall be set apart. 30 Anoint Aharon and his sons and consecrate them to serve Me as priests.
31 And you are to tell the Yasharalites, ‘This will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come. 32 It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is set apart, and it must be set apart to you. 33 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
The Incense
34 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 also said to Moshe, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures, 35 and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and set apart. 36 Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most set apart to you. 37 You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as set apart to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. 38 Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 30
Bezalel and Oholiab (Exodus 35:30–35)
1 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 2 “See, I have called by name Betsal’ěl son of Uri, son of Ḥur, of the tribe of Yehuḏah. 3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of Alahym, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship, 4 to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze, 5 to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.
6 Moreover, I have selected Oholiaḇ son of Aḥisamaḵ, of the tribe of Dan, as his assistant.
I have also given skill to all the craftsmen, that they may fashion all that I have commanded you: 7 the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Witness and the Lid of Atonement upon it, and all the other furnishings of the tent— 8 the table with its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, 9 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand— 10 as well as the woven garments, both the set apart garments for Aharon the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests, 11 in addition to the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Set Apart Place. They are to make them according to all that I have commanded you.”
The Sign of the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32–36)
12 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, 13 “Tell the Yasharalites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who sets you apart. 14 Keep the Sabbath, for it is set apart to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people. 15 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, set apart to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
16 The Yasharalites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come. 17 It is a sign between Me and the Yasharalites forever; for in six days 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”
Moshe Receives the Tablets
18 When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had finished speaking with Moshe on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Witness, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of Alahym.
Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 32
The Golden Calf (Deuteronomy 9:7–29 ; Acts 7:39–43)
1Now when the people saw that Moshe was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aharon and said, “Come, make us alahym who will go before us. As for this Moshe who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has happened to him!”
2 So Aharon told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
3 Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aharon. 4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Yasharal, are your alahym, who brought you up out of the land of Mitsrayim!”
5 When Aharon saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.”
6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
7 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Mitsrayim, have corrupted themselves. 8 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Yasharal, are your alahym, who brought you up out of the land of Mitsrayim.’ ”
9 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 also said to Moshe, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
11 But Moshe sought the favor of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 his Alahym, saying, “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Mitsrites declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people. 13 Remember Your servants Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yasharal, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’ ”
14 So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
15 Then Moshe turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Witness in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. 16 The tablets were the work of Alahym, and the writing was the writing of Alahym, engraved on the tablets.
17 When Yahushua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moshe, “The sound of war is in the camp.”
18 But Moshe replied:
“It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat;
I hear the sound of singing!”
19 As Moshe approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain. 20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Yasharalites to drink it.
21 “What did this people do to you,” Moshe asked Aharon, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
22 “Do not be enraged, my master,” Aharon replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil. 23 They told me, ‘Make us alahym who will go before us. As for this Moshe who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has happened to him!’
24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
25 Moshe saw that the people were out of control, for Aharon had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies. 26 So Moshe stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, come to me.”
And all the Levites gathered around him.
27 He told them, “This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the Alahym of Yasharal, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’ ”
28 The Levites did as Moshe commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.
29 Afterward, Moshe said, “Today you have been ordained for service to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, since each man went against his son and his brother; so 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has bestowed a blessing on you this day.”
30 The next day Moshe said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
31 So Moshe returned to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made alahym of gold for themselves. 32 Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin. . . . But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
33 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 replied to Moshe, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. 34 Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My Messenger shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
35 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aharon had made.
Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 33
The Command to Leave Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:1–8)
1Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Mitsrayim, and go to the land that I promised to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 2 And I will send a Messenger before you, and I will drive out the Kena‛anite and the Amorite and the Ḥittite and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite. 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
4 When the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry. 5 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had said to Moshe, “Tell the Yasharalites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’ ”
6 So the Yasharalites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
The Tent of Meeting
7 Now Moshe used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp. 8 Then, whenever Moshe went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moshe until he entered the tent. 9 As Moshe entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 would speak with Moshe. 10 When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
11 Thus 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 would speak to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moshe would return to the camp, but his young assistant Yahushua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
The Promise of Alahym’s Presence
12 Then Moshe said to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’ 13 Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
14 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 “If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moshe replied, “do not lead us up from here. 16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
17 So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
18 Then Moshe said, “Please show me Your esteem.”
19 “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 replied, “and I will proclaim My name—𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
20 But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
21 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock, 22 and when My esteem passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 33
New Stone Tablets (Deuteronomy 10:1–11)
1Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop. 3 No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
4 So Moshe chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded him.
5 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. 6 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 passed in front of Moshe and called out:
“𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahym,
is compassionate and shows favor,
slow to anger,
abounding in loving commitment and faithfulness,
7 maintaining loving commitment to a thousand generations,
forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.
Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished;
He will visit the iniquity of the fathers
on their children and grandchildren
to the third and fourth generations.”
8 Moshe immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. 9 “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Renews the Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:7–18)
10 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.
11 Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorite and the Kena‛anite and the Ḥittite and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst. 13 Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles. 14 For you must not worship any other alahym, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous Alahym.
15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their Alahyms and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their alahyms and cause your sons to do the same.
17 You shall make no molten alahym for yourselves
18 You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Aḇiḇ, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Aḇiḇ you came out of Mitsrayim.
19 The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep. 20 You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.
21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
22 And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahym, the Alahym of Yasharal. 24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
25 Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
26 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.
You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 also said to Moshe, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these
words I have made a covenant with you and with Yasharal.”
28 So Moshe was there with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
29 And when Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. 30 Aharon and all the Yasharalites looked at Moshe, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.
31 But Moshe called out to them; so Aharon and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moshe spoke to them. 32 And after this all the Yasharalites came near, and Moshe commanded them to do everything that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had told him on Mount Sinai.33 When Moshe had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34 But whenever Moshe went in before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Yasharalites what he had been commanded, 35 and the Yasharalites would see that the face of Moshe was radiant. So Moshe would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
| Melaḵim Aleph (1 Kings) 18:1-39 |
Melaḵim Aleph (1 Kings) Chapter 18
AliYahu’s Message to Aḥaḇ
1After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came to AliYahu: “Go and present yourself to Aḥaḇ, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
AliYahu’s Message to Aḥaḇ
2 So AliYahu went to present himself to Aḥaḇ. The famine was severe in Shomeron, 3 and Aḥaḇ summoned Oḇaḏyahu, who was in charge of the palace.
(Now Oḇaḏyahu greatly feared 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, 4 for when Izeḇel had slaughtered the prophets of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Oḇaḏyahu had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
5 Then Aḥaḇ said to Oḇaḏyahu, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
6 So they divided the land to explore. Aḥaḇ went one way by himself, and Oḇaḏyahu went the other way by himself.
7 Now as Oḇaḏyahu went on his way, AliYahu suddenly met him. When Oḇaḏyahu recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my master AliYahu?”
8 “It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘AliYahu is here!’ ”
9 But Oḇaḏyahu replied, “How have I sinned, that you are handing your servant over to Aḥaḇ to put me to death? 10 As surely as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you. 11 And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that AliYahu is here!’
12 I do not know where the Spirit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Aḥaḇ and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 from my youth. 13 Was it not reported to my 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 what I did when Izeḇel slaughtered the prophets of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄? I hid a hundred prophets of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water. 14 And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that AliYahu is here!’ He will kill me!”
15 Then AliYahu said, “As surely as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Aḥaḇ today.”
AliYahu on Mount Carmel
16 So Oḇaḏyahu went to inform Aḥaḇ, who went to meet AliYahu. 17 When Aḥaḇ saw AliYahu, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Yasharal?”
18 “I have not troubled Yasharal,” AliYahu replied, “but you and your father’s house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and have followed the Ba’als. 19 Now summon all Yasharal to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Ba’al and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Izeḇel’s table.”
20 So Aḥaḇ summoned all the Yasharalites and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Then AliYahu approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is Alahym, follow Him. But if Ba’al is alahym, follow him.”
But the people did not answer a word.
22 Then AliYahu said to the people, “I am the only remaining prophet of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, but Ba’al has four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Ba’al choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire. 24 Then you may call on the name of your Alahym, and I will call on the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. The alahym who answers by fire, He is Alahym.”
And all the people answered, “What you say is good.”
25 Then AliYahu said to the prophets of Ba’al, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your alahym, but do not light the fire.”
26 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Ba’al from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!”
But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.
27 At noon, AliYahu began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is an alahym! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
28 So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
29 Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.
30 Then AliYahu said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 that had been torn down.
31 And AliYahu took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Ya’acob, to whom the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had come and said, “Yasharal shall be your name.” 32 And with the stones, AliYahu built an altar in the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
33 Next, he arranged the wood, cut up the bull, placed it on the wood, 34 and said, “Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood.”
“Do it a second time,” he said, and they did it a second time.
“Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.
35 So the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
AliYahu’s Prayer
36 At the time of the evening sacrifice, AliYahu the prophet approached the altar and said, “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Alahym of Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yisra’ěl, let it be known this day that You are Alahym in Yasharal and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command. 37 Answer me, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, are Alahym, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”
38 Then the fire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench. 39 When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, He is Alahym! 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, He is Alahym!”
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Qorintiyim Bĕt (2 Corinthians) Chapter 3
Ministers of a New Covenant
1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living Alahym, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence before Alahym is ours through Messiah. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from Alahym. 6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Esteem of the New Covenant (Exodus 34:10–35)
7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such esteem that the Yasharalites could not gaze at the face of Moshe because of its fleeting esteem, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more esteemed? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation was esteemed, how much more esteem is the ministry of righteousness! 10 Indeed, what was once esteemed has no esteem now in comparison to the esteem that surpasses it. 11 For if what was fading away came with esteem, how much greater is the esteem, of that which endures!
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13 We are not like Moshe, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Yasharalites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
14 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Messiah can it be removed. 15 And even to this day when Moshe is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the veil is taken away.
17 Now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is, there is freedom. 18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the esteem of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, are being transformed into His image with intensifying esteem, which comes from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who is the Spirit.
