ah Portion Week 7 – Vayetze “and he left”
Jacob’s dream (ladder), Jacob marries Leah and Rachel, The trials with Laban
Gen 28:10-32:3
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28:10-17 – The Ladder
Gate of Heaven Enoch 9:1-2, 10 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe012.htm
- Book of the luminaries describe 12 gates to heaven (much like N.J.)
- 104:1-6 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe108.htm
- 3 Maccabees 6 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3+maccabees+6%3A1-30&version=RSV (philopator king of the Seleucids)
Ascending/Descending(John 1:51) https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1%3A51&version=KJV
Targums 28:13-17 https://parableofthevineyard.com/wp-content/uploads/Torah-Targums-Genesis-Final.pdf
- Beneath the throne? Jerusalem is the center of the nations https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=eze+5%3A5&version=NASB
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29:12 – Reflect on 20:12 – (Look ahead to 29:15) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2020:12&version=KJV
- Jasher 9:1-3 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/9.htm
29:13 – “Told him all these things” Read Jasher 30:9-11
https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/30.htm
- Targums 29:13
29:17 – They were twins! Jasher 28:28 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/28.htm
29:20 – Value of women (not an afterthought) 1 Esdras 4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+esdras+4%3A13-41&version=RSV
29:24 – The switch; read Jasher 31:1-10
https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/31.htm
29:25-26 – Jacob didn’t refuse Leah (knew Torah)
29:29-30 – Jubilees 28:8-10 http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/jubilees/28.htm
Targum: 29:9-10, 12, 22, 31,
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30:1 – Be careful of what we speak https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen+31%3A32%2CGenesis+35%3A16-18%2C+matt+12%3A36-37%2C+pro+18%3A21%2C+&version=KJV
- Yahuah honors the words that come from the prophet’s mouth (Elijah, Noah etc..)
30:2-3 – Much like Sarah with Hagar (hasty?)
30:14-16 – Mandrake story – Issachar 1 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe281.htm
30:22 – Rachel’s womb opens – Jasher 31:19-21 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/31.htm
30:30 – Just like the USA blessed by his people (just like Egypt in times past)
30:33 – He’s chosen the speckled and spotted once again in the last days
- Speckled and spotted would be fewer in number and not as desirable
30:37 – Commentary reads that what they fixated their eyes on during copulation, their seed would bear the resemblance.
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31:29 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps+91%3A1-4&version=KJV
31:32 – Remind about words
31:35 – Why she stole the images – Jasher 31:40-44 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/31.htm
Targums: Read 4th Paragraph,
31:55 – Read Jasher 31:53- 64
Laban, grandfather of Balaam? Jasher 30:18 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/30.htm
32:2 – Mahanaim – Two camps
