JTS Torah Archive

Bo

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them, 

Tzav

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Va’et-hannan

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Comfort, oh comfort My people,
Says your God.

Pesah Day 1 & 2

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ Moses then summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, pick out lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover offering.

Vayiggash

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁸ Then Judah went up to him and said, “Please, my lord, let Your servant appeal to my lord, and do not be impatient with your servant, You who are the equal of Pharaoh. 

Bemidbar

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying:

² Take a census of the whole Israelite community by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, head by head.

Aharei Mot-Kedoshim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they drew too close to the presence of the Lord. ² The Lord said to Moses:
Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover that is upon the ark, lest he die; for I appear in the cloud over the cover. 

Rosh Hashanah Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ There was a man from Ramathaim of the Zuphites, in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

Hayyei Sarah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Sarah’s lifetime-the span of Sarah’s life-came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. 

Pinehas

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ “Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion.

Korah

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁴ Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there inaugurate the monarchy.”

Shofetim

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁸ You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice

Sukkot Day 1 & 2

Jan 1, 1980

²⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁷ When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord.

Yom Kippur

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁴ [The Lord] says:
Build up, build up a highway!
Clear the road!
Remove all obstacles
From the road of My people!

Pesah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

²⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²⁷ When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord.

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

²⁵ Thus said the Lord God: When I have gathered the House of Israel from the peoples among which they have been dispersed, and have shown Myself holy through them in the sight of the nations, they shall settle on their own soil, which I gave to My servant Jacob,

Vayikra

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ The people I formed for Myself
That they might declare my praise.

Pesah Day 1 & 2

Jan 1, 1980

This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh Day 1 Joshua 5:2 – 15; 6:1,27 Chapter 5 2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and proceed with a second circumcision of the Israelites.” 3 So Joshua had flint knives made, and the Israelites were circumcised at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 This is the reason why Joshua […]

Vayera

Jan 1, 1980

¹ A certain woman, the wife of one of the disciples of the prophets, cried out to Elisha: “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know how your servant revered the Lord. And now a creditor is coming to seize my two children as slaves.” 

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ Seek the Lord while He can be found,
Call to Him while He is near.