Parsha 34. B’midbar
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5. The Duties of the Clans of Levi (4:1-33)

a. The Kohathites (4:1-20)

(vii) 1 Then ADONAI told Moshe and Aharon, 2 “Count the descendants of K’hat from among the descendants of Levi, by their clans and families, 3 men from thirty years old and up to fifty years old, everyone who is qualified to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

4 “This is the service of the descendants of K’hat in the Tent of Meeting concerning the most holy things. 5 Whenever the camp is ready to set out, Aharon and his sons are to go in and take down the veil of the curtain and cover the Ark of the Testimony with it. 6 Then they are to put a fine leather cover over it, spread a solid blue cloth over that, then insert its carrying-poles.

7 “On the table of showbread they are to spread a blue cloth and put on it the dishes, the incense pans, the offering bowls, and the pitchers; but the perpetual bread is to be left on the table. 8 They are to cover all that with a scarlet cloth, then cover it all with a covering of fine leather and insert its carrying-poles.

9 “They are to take a blue cloth and cover the menorah of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and the jars that are used to add oil to it. 10 They are to wrap it and all its accessories within a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying-frame.

11 “On the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth, cover it with a covering of fine leather, and insert its carrying-poles.

12 “Then they are to take all the utensils for serving in the sanctuary and place them in a blue cloth, then cover them with a covering of fine leather and put them on a carrying-frame.

13 “They are to remove the greasy ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it 14 and  put on it all its vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and  basins — all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather, and insert its carrying-poles.

15 “When Aharon and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move forward, the descendants of K’hat are to come and carry them. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the descendants of K’hat, to carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.

16 “El‘azar ben Aharon the cohen is to oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything that is in it, including the holy objects and their implements.”

[TO PARSHA TOP]
 

(Maftir) 17 Then ADONAI told Moshe and Aharon, 18 “Don’t allow the clan of the families of the K’hatites to be cut off from among the L’vi’im. 19 Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aharon and his sons are go in and assign everyone his task and what he is to carry; 20 but they must not go in and look at the holy objects, not even for a moment, or they will die.”

[CONTINUE READING CHAPTER 4]

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Now that you've read Parsha B'midbar listen to
Rabbi Greg Hershberg teach from the text
 

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Haftarah

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Haftarah B’midbar is Hoshea (Hosea) 2:1(1:10)–2:22(20)[GN]
Listen to it read from the Complete Jewish Bible

1 (1:10) Yet the number of the people of Isra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ 2 (1:11) The children of Y’hudah and the people of Isra'el will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Yizre‘el.

3 (1) “Say to your brothers, ‘Ammi“My people”’

and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah“pitied” or “My loved one”’

4 (2) Contend with your mother!

Contend, for she is not my wife,

neither am I her husband;

and let her put away her prostitution from her face,

and her adulteries from between her breasts;

5 (3) lest I strip her naked,

and make her bare as in the day that she was born,

and make her like a wilderness,

and set her like a dry land,

and kill her with thirst.

6 (4) Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,

for they are children of unfaithfulness.

7 (5) For their mother has played the prostitute.

She who conceived them has done shamefully;

for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,

who give me my bread and my water,

my wool and my flax,

my oil and my drink.’

8 (6) Therefore hinneh,[GN] I will hedge up your way with thorns,

and I will build a wall against her,

that she can’t find her way.

9 (7) She will follow after her lovers,

but she won’t overtake them;

and she will seek them,

but won’t find them.

Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband,

for then it was better with me than now.’

10 (8) For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

11 (9) Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,

and my new wine in its season,

and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

12 (10) Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

13 (11) I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:

her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

14 (12) I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,

about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’

and I will make them a forest,

and the animals of the field shall eat them.

15 (13) I will visit on her the days of the Baals,

to which she burned incense

when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,

and went after her lovers

and forgot me,” says ADONAI.

16 (14) “Therefore Hinneh, I will allure her,

and bring her into the wilderness,

and speak tenderly to her.

17 (15) I will give her vineyards from there,

and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;

and she will respond there

as in the days of her youth,

and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 (16) It will be in that day,” says ADONAI,

“that you will call Me Ishi“My husband”,’

and no longer call Me Ba'alli“my master”.’

19 (17) For I will take away the names of the ba'alim[GN] out of her mouth,

and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

20 (18) In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,

and with the birds of the sky,

and with the creeping things of the ground.

I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land,

and will make them lie down safely.

21 (19) I will betroth you to me forever.

Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

22 (20) I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;

and you shall know ADONAI.

[TO PARSHA TOP]
 

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Ketuvei HaShalichim (Apostolic Writings)

Luke 2:1–7

1It was at that time [the 25th year of the reign of Caesar Agustus] that Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken of all his Empire. 2This was the first census of its kind, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria [3-2 BCE]. 3Everyone went to his home town to be registered. 4Because he was a descendant of David, YosefJoseph went up from NatzeretNazareth in the GalilGalilee to the city of David, Beit-LechemBethlehem, House of Bread, in Y'hudahJudea, 5to register himself and MyriamMary, to whom he was engaged and who was pregnant.

6While they were there, the time came for her to give birth, 7and she delivered her first child, a Son. She wrapped Him in bands of cloth, and laid Him on the food tray of the sukkahtemporary dwelling erected especnaily for the festival they were staying in, because there was no space for them in the living quarters.

[TO PARSHA TOP]
 

Kepherim (Letters, optional)

1 Corinthians 12:12–31

12 For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Messiah. 13 For in one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

פָּרָשָׁה נָשֹׂא Parsha 35: Naso “Take” or “Count!” Num. 4:21–7:89
This week’s commentary from First Fruits of Zion (Messianic) This week's commentary from Chabad.org (Rabbinical) This week’s commentary from Hebrew4Christians.com (Christian)

This Week’s Reading Schedule
Sunday   Review and meditate   on last week’s Parsha Monday   Rishon [1st]:     (S) 4:21-33     (A) 4:21-37   Sheni [2nd]:     (S)  4:32-49     (A)  4:38-49 Tuesday   Shlishi [3rd]:     (S) 5:1-6:27     (A) 5:1-10   R'vi'i [4th]:     (S) 7:1-11     (A) 5:11-6:27		Wednesday   Chamishi [5th]:     (S) 7:12-42     (A) 7:1-42   Shishi [6th]: 7:42-71 Thursday   Shvi'i [7th]: 7:7-86   Maftir [Concluding]: 7:87-89 Friday   Haftarah: (Selections)      Shof’tim (Judges) 13:2–25   Ketuvei HaShalichim   (Apostolic Writings)     Basar: The Gospel        Yochanan (John) 7:53–8:11     Kepherim: Letters (optional)         Acts 21:17–32