Torah Portion Week 3 (22-23)
Lech-Lecha (Go / Leave)
Gen 12:1 – 17:27
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Before reading: Seed of Abraham
12:4 – Read Jasher 12:1-13:5
Would you just get up and go at the command of Yahuah?
This story was told hundreds of years later! Jasher 67:16-30 or further if led to. https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/67.htm
12:20 – Writings of Abraham 60-75 (61-76) https://parableofthevineyard.com/wp-content/uploads/Order-of-The-Ancients.pdf
Genesis Apocryphon https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/enoch/esp_enoch_7a.htm
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13:1 – In the Septuagint reads into the wilderness. (many of us had/having a wilderness experience) https://ebible.org/eng-Brenton/GEN13.htm
13:2 – He came out rich, just like the Israelites did https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exo+12%3A35-38&version=KJV
13:10 – Sodom used to be like the Garden of Eden (Septuagint Gen 13:10 – Targums say the same) – The land was plenteous and this is what happened: Ezekiel 16:49-50
13:12 – Lot separating – Writings of Abraham 80 (81)
13:13 – Sins of Sodom: Jasher 18:11-15
13:14 – Sometimes division is from Yah https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+15%3A36-41&version=NASB
13:15 – That land IS the land of inheritance; I believe N.Jerusalem will rest there. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=zech+12%3A1-6%2C+gen+17%3A8&version=KJV
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14:16 – Just think about the kind of Power YHWH gave Abraham and his men; just like Levi and Simeon with Sheckem… and other instances – Can he do the same with us? Of course, he never changes.
14:18 – Melchizedek – Jasher 16:1-12 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/16.htm
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=heb+7%3A1-3&version=KJV
- Writings of Abraham 2 (3), 97-100 (98-101)
- Abraham studied and stayed with Noah and Shem Jasher 9:5-6
- Targums 14:18
14:24 – Abraham was tested in this way: Jubilees 17:15-18
The father of faith. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+10%3A34-39&version=KJV
- He left all he had to serve Yahuah, are we willing?
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15:1 – WORD of Yahuah visited him – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1%3A1%2C14%2CJohn+8%3A56-58&version=KJV – Writings of Abraham 143
15:5 – Identity of the Stars Enoch 43 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe046.htm
15:6 – Many will isolate this verse and make entire doctrines out of it, when Gen 26:5 is also true. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=heb+11%3A8-19%2C+gen+26%3A5&version=KJV
15:8 – Show borders – pretty close to the space needed for New Jerusalem!
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16:6 – Writings of Abraham 107
=Jasher 16:23-33
16:13 – Targums
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17:1 – Be perfect: Matt 5:43-48 https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+5%3A+43-48&version=KJV
17:2 – Targums
17:14 – Circumcision of the heart and physical https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut+10%3A16%2C+1+cor+7%3A18-20%2C+acts+16%3A1-4%2C+2+peter+3%3A14-17%2C+deut+8%3A2%2C+eze+44%3A9&version=KJV
17:15 – Just as Abram was given a new name, Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, we will receive a new name as well: Rev 2:17