Week 54 Vezot 2021

Torah Portion: Week 54 (2021)

Vezot Ha’Berekah

Blessings of the Tribes, YHWH Shows Moshe the land & Moshe’s death

 

Targum: http://targum.info/pj/pjdt33-34.htm

Septuagint: https://ebible.org/eng-Brenton/DEU33.htm

 

Ch 33

33:1 – “man of Elohim” (remember, he was mocked and even hated by many in the congregation). What will you be called?  (Remember book of kings… did that which was right/evil)

• Torah begins with a blessing upon man (first for all man, 2^nd for Jacob) https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen+1%3A28&version=KJV

 

33:2-3:  10,000’s of saints

• Qodesh ones – used for:
  • People
  • Tabernacle
  • Priestly garments
  • Tabernacle utencils
  • Anointing oil
  • Offerings
  • His name
  • Convocations
  • Yah’s Habitation
  • Shabbat
  • Feasts
  • New Jerusalem
  • Heaven
  • Ruach
  • Yah himself

 

 

– Enoch 1 https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe004.htm

• Jude https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jude+1%3A14-15%2C+rev+14%3A1-4%2C+rev+19%3A11-14%2C+7-9&version=KJV

 

• Fiery law: https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+esdras+13%3A25-38&version=RSV

 

• Torah is our inheritance! ( also to pass on to our children!) https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+1%3A1-3%2C+psalm+94%3A12%2C+ps+119%3A1%2C+james+1%3A25%2C+1+pet+1%3A22%2C+ps+19%3A7-11%2C+1+john+2%3A3-6%2C+deut+6%3A25%2C+exo+6%3A8&version=KJV

 

33:6 – Reuben: Let him live (forgive his transgression against Jacob)

• Gen 49:3-4

33:7 – (Simeon missing)

• Gen 49:5-7

33:8-11 – Levi: Testament of Levi https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe273.htm

• (same as simeon)

33:12 – Benjamin – Jerusalem https://stbarnabasbible.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/12_tribes_of_israel_map.png

• Gen 49:27

33:13-17 – Joseph – USA

• Gen 49:22-26

33:18-19 Zevulon and Issikar

• Zev 49:13
• Iss 49:14-15

33:20-21 – Gad

• Gen 49:19

33:23 – Naphtali

• Gen 49:21 Fast as a hind, also (tobit)

 

33:24-25 – Asher (abundant)

• 49:20
• 8: Exo 28

 

Ch 34