Torah Portion Week 13 Exodus 1-6:1 Study Notes 2026-2027

Torah Portion Week 13 – Shemoth “Names” Exo 1:1 – 6:1 (26-27)

This Torah Portion including the information found within Jasher is one of the most important sections of scriptures for our time now. What has happened before has and continues to happen today. This wisdom is directly from YHWH for his End-Times remnant.

1)

Read chapter 1 (that escalated quickly, how did it happen?)


1:21 – They feared Yah, and not the decrees of men to do wickedness

  • Ps 118
  • YHWH rewarded the ‘deception’ that saved lives
  • We must balance with these NT instructions also – Verses
  • Aramaic identifies Jochebed and Miriam

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Jasher is vital to this Torah portion and the End Times – Link (Josh 10:13)

Homework, Read Jasher:

58:1-20,28

  • Israelites fruitful
  • War with the children of Esau (600 vs 800,000)

59:28, (59:1-27 repeats Gen 50 & Exo 1)

60 skip; (History of Zepho, son of Eliphaz, Angeas, king of Africa)

61:1-15 (the rest is about Janiah,clean water heals the queen)

  • Slaving to build up this nation against its enemies (we will see more in ch 65)

62:1-5, 23-24. (6-22 moab vs midian wars)

63:1-9 (9-35 Kittim vs Africa wars)

  • 63:6-8 – Afflicion for our good – Verses
  • Natsarim 4:31 (pg 49)
  • 9:33 (pg 91)
  • 9:55-57 (pg 96)
  • 63:2 (After Levi died, the priest, affliction came)

64:7-8, 40-50

65: All (Key chapter)

  • Fear based military power (employing the Israelites to build their empire)
  • Satan knows the promises given to us – Verses
  • Time to unify (yet satan is inspiring division within)
  • Wars and rumors of wars

Jasher 65:22-36

66: All

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2)

Read Exodus 2 in segments, not the Word Audio

2:1-10

Exo 2:2 – Months

Why did YHWH use a man who grew up in Egypt as opposed to within the Israelite camp?

  • Egyptians structured then as they are now? – Hos 11:1
  • What is and isn’t “coming out of her”
  • Yahusha also…
  • foreshadowing his body in the end? (coming to America)

Jasher 67: All

Jasher 68: – First read Exo 15:20

  • Miriam a prophetess? Where was this prophecy?
  •  (Verse 4, read Enoch 106 & Noah)                                                                        

Jasher 69: All (Saul 40 years just like the first ‘King’)

Jasher 70: All (The story of Moses, the crown and the test)

  • 70:29 –  Slow of speech https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Exodus-4-10/
  • Moses was great in the eyes of his people, then rejected him, just like Yahusha!
  • Interesting that the Sabbath was restored, then persecution, then Exodus!
  • Exo 5:17 “ye are idle”

Targums 2:1,

Read Exodus 2:11-15

71: All

72: Skip – Wars of Cush and Moses’ reign

73:1,28-34  – Numbers 12

  • 28-29 – 2 tim 3:8 (only mentioned by name in Jasher and Targums)
  • 2nd witness – Josephus (wiki page)

74: Skip, reign of different kings

75:– 30,000 Men from Ephraim trusted in their own strength to go into Canaan and take back their possession. They were all killed except 10.

76:1-34

77: All

2:17 – Reminds us to be men

2:25 interlinear – link

3)

Exodus 3 all

3:6 – Elohim of the living – Matt 22

3:14 – I am – John 8:57-59

3:15 – His name – Multiple verses

4)

4:10 – We learned earlier why

4:24-26 – Zipporah 

Modern paraphrase:

(Then Zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She touched the foreskin to his feet and said, “By the blood of this circumcision, my husband is restored to me.” So He released him. This is why she said, “A husband of blood,” because of the circumcision.)

Zipporah

Jasher 78:7-9 & 79:8-12

5)

5:4-5 & 5:17 – Remember Moses instituted the Sabbath

  • Rev 13 & Exo 31 “mark”

5:23 – When we do the will of YHWH, sometimes it may seem as though we are getting nowhere, nevertheless, we push forward – Is 26

Jasher 79:21-31 (this will be where we pick back up next week)

6)

Exodus 6:1