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Study Notes on Matsah (Unleavened Bread)

Study Notes for Pesach + Matsah Topic Study Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah: Leviticus 23:4-8 Apostolic: Joshua 5:1-12 Additional: 1 Corinthians 5:1-8 Joshua 5:1-12 When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how YHWH had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the sons of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the sons of Israel. 2 At that time, YHWH said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.” 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of

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Study Notes Pesach + The Lord’s Supper

Study Notes for Pesach Topic Study Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah: Exodus 12:1-51; Exodus 13:1-20 Apostolic: Luke 22:1-20; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 Additional: Jubilees 49:1-23 Exodus 12:1–51 12:1 YHWH spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This new moon shall be to you the beginning of new moons. It shall be the first new moon of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of [the sons of](DSS)(SP)(LXX) Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this new moon, they shall take to them every man a lamb [for each household, a lamb according to the fathers’ households].(DSS) 4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat. 5 Your lamb shall

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Study Notes Week 70

Torah Study Notes for Week 70 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 20:1-26 Prophets (P): Joshua 8:30-35 Apostolic (A): Romans 13:1-14 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 1:1-29 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review Review 19:1-2 In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. 19:3-6 Moses went up to Elohim, and YHWH called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

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Study Notes Week 69

Torah Study Notes for Week 69 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 19:1-25 Prophets (P): Jeremiah 7:17-28 Apostolic (A): 1 Peter 2:1-25 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 1:1-29 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review Exodus 19:1-25 19:1-2 In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. 19:3-6 Moses went up to Elohim, and YHWH called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you

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Study Notes Week 68

Torah Study Notes for Week 68 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 18:1-26 Prophets (P): 1 Samuel 8:1-22 Apostolic (A): Acts 6:1-7 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 1:1-29 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review Review 17:1 All the congregation of the sons of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the commandment of YHWH, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test YHWH?” 17:3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our sons, and our livestock with thirst?” 17:4 Moses cried to YHWH, saying, “What shall I do

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Study Notes Week 67

Torah Study Notes for Week 67 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 17:1-16 Prophets (P): 1 Samuel 15:1-35 Apostolic (A): 1 Corinthians 10:1-12; Hebrews 3:1-19 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 50:1-5 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review 15:23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 Then he cried to YHWH. YHWH showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and a judgment for them, and there he tested them. Statute = חֹק choq (H2706) means to inscribe (write down) a decree or custom. Genesis 47:26; Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have

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Study Notes Week 66

Torah Study Notes for Week 66 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 16:1-36 Prophets (P): Nehemiah 9:13-21 Apostolic (A): John 6:26-71 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 50:1-5 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review 15:23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 Then he cried to YHWH. YHWH showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and a judgment for them, and there he tested them. Statute = חֹק choq (H2706) means to inscribe (write down) a decree or custom. Genesis 47:26; Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests

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Study Notes Week 65

Torah Study Notes for Week 65 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 15:1-27 Prophets (P): Isaiah 12:1-6 Apostolic (A): Revelation 19:1-21 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 48:12-19 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review 14:1 YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea. 3 Pharaoh will say [to] of the sons of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’ Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Exodus 14 And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, that they return back, and encamp before the Mouths of Hiratha, as they lie, created after the manner (likeness) of the children of men, male and female, and their eyes open to them: it

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Study Notes Week 64

Torah Study Notes for Week 64 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 14:1-31 Prophets (P): Nehemiah 9:1-12 Apostolic (A): Matthew 10:24-42 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 48:12-19 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review 13:11 “It shall be, when YHWH [your Elohim](DSS)(LXX) brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you, 12 that you shall cross over to YHWH all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be YHWH’s. 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons. 14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What

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Study Notes Week 63

Torah Study Notes for Week 63 of the Torah Reading Cycle Read Aloud together to hear the Word (Leviticus 23:1-3; Nehemiah 8:1-4; Luke 4:16-17) Torah (T): Shemot (Exodus) 13:1-22 Prophets (P): Nehemiah 10:28-39 Apostolic (A): Ephesians 2:1-22 Additional (ADD): Jubilees 48:12-19 Torah Summary Context and coherence (Nehemiah 8:8) Review 12:1 YHWH spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. Congregation = עֵדָה edah (H5712) is the feminine of the word עֵד ed (H5707) which means “to witness” in the sense of a person repeating or recounting their testimony of an event. When related to a group of people or a congregation, עֵדָה edah is a fixed congregation or collection of people for a common witness of an event. עֵדָה edah is not to be confused with the קָהֵל qahal (H6951) or ἐκκλησία ekklēsia (G1577) which

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