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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 […]
Read MoreBehar-Behukkotai
Jan 1, 1980
1 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: 2 Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Lord.
Read MoreRosh Hashanah Day 2
Jan 1, 1980
1 Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, “Abraham,” and he answered, “Here I am.”
Read MoreShelah Lekha
Jan 1, 1980
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one man from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.”
Read MoreTisha Be’av
Jan 1, 1980
25 When you have begotten children and children’s children and are long established in the land, should you act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, causing the Lord your God displeasure and vexation, 26 I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you that you shall soon perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you shall not long endure in it, but shall be utterly wiped out. 27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a scant few of you shall be left among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. 28 There you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, that cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
Read MoreSimhat Torah
Jan 1, 1980
1 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, bade the Israelites farewell before he died.
Read MoreShabbat Hagadol
Jan 1, 1980
1 On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel.
Read MorePesah Day 7 & 8
Jan 1, 1980
17 Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although it was nearer; for God said, “The people may have a change of heart when they see war, and return to Egypt.”
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