Torah Portion Week 12 – Vayechi (25-26)
Gen 47:28-50:26
Last week: joseph rises to power, the 10 go to Egypt to buy food, joseph tests them, then places the cup in benjamin’s sack – they return to egypt
47 Week 12
Should we swear? – Verses
48)
48:5 – Joseph’s sons become Jacob’s (double portion) – 1 Chron 5
48:15 – Matt 6:33
48:16 – Angel who redeems – Many verses
- (verse 15-16 are interconnected – Angel/Elohim)
48:19 – Meloha Goyim – Fullness of the gentiles – Rom 11:25
Second Born Inheriting
- Abel over Cain
- Shem over Japheth & Ham
- Isaac over Ishmael
- Jacob over Esau
- Joseph over others
- Ephraim over Manasseh
- Rom 9 & Gal 4
Though the firsborn inheritance is their right, YHWH is showing sovereignty to select those worthy over birthrights (think spiritually)
- “Born again”
48:22 – Jasher 34:49-50
49)
Reuben – Targums 49:3-4
Simeon & Levi
- Simeon – Josh 19 & 1 Chron 4
- Levi was scattered throughout the land of inheritance
Judah
- Judah didn’t have the greatest start (but finished well).
- YHWH selected him to be king even with his faults
- Jasher 56:8-9 (cross reference with 2 Sam 1:18)
- Nazarite? – Verses
49:9 – Old Lion – Nahum 2
49:11 – Washing in the blood of grapes (prosperity & judgement) – Verses
Zebulon
Issachar
Dan – Samson (49:16) and warfare tactics (49:17)?
Asher
Naphtali
Joseph
- Testament of Joseph 1:5-17
- Isaiah 28 (Ephraim today) – Verses
Benjamin
“Benjamin I will liken him to a ravening wolf. In his limits will the
sanctuary be built, and in his inheritance the glory of the Presence of Yahuah
will dwell. In the morning will the priests offer the continual lamb and
its oblations, and at the going down of the sun will the priests offer the
continual lamb and its oblations, and at evening divide the offerings of the
sons of Yashar’El” – Aramaic
End, read Jasher 56:10-14
– Entering into one of the 12 gates of N.J. (we are one of the tribes!)
50)
50:21 – Forgiveness – Matt 6
50:24 – Words the Israelite’s hung on to for generations
Read Jasher 58:1-13 & 30, 59:20-end
(Jasher 57 wars between Esau and Jacob in Egypt – Setting the stage for the future)
Culminating Genesis: This is our true origins and history lessons. Where we came from and how the world was created – sin, the flood, idolatry, wickedness and the consequences thereof.