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[JLG]

10) Genesis 10

In this chapter we are told about Noah’s sons and their children.

One of the sons of Ham is Cush who becomes father to Nimrod who is the first to become a mighty one on the earth and he opposes God. He builds many cities such as Babel and Nineveh.

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Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

 

WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST 

                   ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

 

BUT 24,000 DIED!

 

              - WHAT ABOUT US?

 

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Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!

IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!

YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

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In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!

An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!

To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!

When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!

According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!

BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!

And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!

SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!

BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!

What about you?

 

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Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!

Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!

In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!

THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!

I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.

THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

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Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

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Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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[JLG]

11) Genesis 11

People used to speak only one language. And they built a big city called Babel with a big tower and they didn’t want to fill the earth. So God confused their language so they couldn’t understand each other and they left the city. In this chapter we are told about Shem’s history which leads us to Terah Abram’s father. Abram’s wife was Sarai and Terah and Abram and Lot left Ur to go to the land of Canaan.

Good.

When I read about God’s creation in Genesis, I see a program and a structure and order like everywhere in the Old Testament in relation to God. Of course, in the old Testament you find disorder everywhere because of man. And man is always looking for disorder. Even the name Old Testament is a joke because when you read this part of the Bible you see God’s order. That’s why people usually don’t understand God. So this part of the Bible is not an old testament, it’s a living one and we need to know it to understand God. Of course, every time, it is more difficult because we get more and more disorder so this world is going in the opposite direction so this world is a joke!

[JLG]

12) Genesis 12

At the beginning of this chapter God tells Abram to migrate and he will bless him and make him a great nation. So he leaves Haran when he is 75. So once again, we are told about a faithful servant of God when he is old. We don’t know anything about him before. And he moves with his family to Haran. But he has to go to Egypt because there is a famine in Canaan. As Sarai is beautiful he fears the Egyptians will kill him to get her. So he tells her to say that she is just his sister. And Sarai is brought to the house of Pharaoh who treats Abram well because of Sarai. But then God strikes Pharaoh with severe plagues because of Sarai. So Pharaoh sends Abram away.

And Abram told the truth when he said that Sarai was his sister. Such a union was still possible at this time without any consequences. And Abram was intelligent and wary. That’s what we get at this time of Abram’s history.

 

[JLG]

- First I don't teach people!

- I read the Bible and I tell people about what I learn!

- When they ask me questions, I try to answer them!

- When it is possible to have a discussion, we have a discussion!

- If you look at the titles of my threads, I speak about the books of the Bible and especially about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- When it is different, it is because many people repeat the same arguments without knowing so I have to show how it works!

- It is necessary to check!

- About John 1:1, it is necessary to check through the Gospel of John about the use of the definite article or not!

- About Jesus' siblings, it is necessary to check the vocabulary used and the context in the different Gospels!

- About the reality of translations, it is necessary to analyze them!

- Before publishing a message, I usually publish the same information connected to the usual mistakes people make!

- Or important facts which must be remembered!

 

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Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

 

WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST 

                   ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

 

BUT 24,000 DIED!

 

              - WHAT ABOUT US?

 

____________________________________________________________

 

Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!

IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!

YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

____________________________________________________________

In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!

An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!

To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!

When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!

According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!

BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!

And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!

SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!

BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!

What about you?

 

_______________________________________________________

 

Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!

Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!

In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!

THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!

I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.

THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!

They used to write differently!

They used to speak differently!

They used to think differently!

They used to act differently!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

 

Point of time (a specific day)

time period of a whole or half a day:

Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to next sunset

General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')

A year "lived a lot of days"

Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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[JLG]

13) Genesis 13

Abram leaves Egypt to go to the Negueb with his wife and Lot. He is very rich in livestock, silver and Gold. He camps from place to place. He goes to a place between Bethel and Ai where he had previously built an altar and there he calls on the name of God. The land is not sufficient for Abram and Lot because of their livestocks. So they decide to separate. Abram lives in the land of Canaan and Lot lives among the cities of the district. He finally chooses Sodom. There the men are wicked, gross sinners against God. And God promises to give Abram this land of Canaan.

- This chapter tells us to be careful where we go and whom we meet!

- The next chapters will enhance this reality!

- The price may be really high to pay!

[JLG]

Somebody says :

 

A bad translations tells us that God Gave Abraham all of the land that he had walk upon and seen. However, Stephen in Acts 7 states that Abraham received no portion in the Land of Canaan, even to rest his foot upon. If we correctly understand the Hebrew text, then a very different conclusion is reached as how verse Genesis 13:14-15 should be paraphrased in English.

However, if we consider the Hebrew text and correctly translate into English so that the same context is found in both, then the English translation should read in this fashion: -

Genesis 13:14-15: - 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the earth which you see, {that (entity)}, I will give to your descendants for a long period of time whose ending, which is beyond man’s comprehension, is at the vanishing point, {of this particular time period}, in the future.[1]

In Genesis 12:1-3 we find that God promised Abraham the whole earth and not a skimpy/small piece of ground.

Genesis 12:1-3: - 12:1 Now the Lord had said[1] to Abram:[2]

"Get out of your country,

From your family

And from your father's house,

To an earth that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation;

I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And through you all the families of the ground/land/fertile fields [3] shall be blessed."

How our understanding changes when we read a good/better translation.

[1] The Lord called Abram while he was in Ur (see Gen 15:7; Acts 7:2); but the sequence here makes it look like it was after the family left to migrate to Canaan (11:31-32). Genesis records the call of Abram at this place in the narrative because it is the formal beginning of the account of Abram. The record of Terah was brought to its end before the narrative of Abraham begins.
[2] The call of Abram begins with an imperative לֶךְ־ לְךָ֛ (lekh-l®kha, "go out") followed by three cohortatives (v. 2 a) indicating purpose or consequence ("that I may" or "then I will"). If Abram leaves, then God will do these three things. The second imperative (v. 2 b, literally "and be a blessing") is subordinated to the preceding cohortatives and indicates God's ultimate purpose in calling and blessing Abram. On the syntactical structure of vv. 1-2 see R. B. Chisholm, "Evidence from Genesis," A Case for Premillennialism, 37. For a similar sequence of volitive forms see Gen 45:18.
It would be hard to overestimate the value of this call and this divine plan for the theology of the Bible. Here begins God's plan to bring redemption to the world. The promises to Abram will be turned into a covenant in Gen 15 and 22 (here it is a call with conditional promises) and will then lead through the Bible to the work of the Messiah.
[3] The Hebrew Root of הָאֲדָמָֽה, H:0127, has the meaning of soil, and is akin to a fertile field/face of the land/world.
Genesis 2:7: –– 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
One could argue that what is being said here is that all of the peoples of the world that occupy God’s fertile field/ground will be blessed. The flip side of this covenant is that all of the people who do not occupy God’s fertile field/ground will be cursed.

[1] Another way of saying this verse might be: - “15 for all the earth which you see, that entity, I will give to your descendants for a long period of time where the end point of that time period, will be beyond your descendants capacity to comprehend when the possession of the described land will end.

 

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1) My answer :

- Have a look at Exodus 3:8:

I have come down

וָאֵרֵ֞ד (wā·’ê·rêḏ)

Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular

Strong's 3381:  To come or go down, descend

 

to rescue

לְהַצִּיל֣וֹ ׀ (lə·haṣ·ṣî·lōw)

Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular

Strong's 5337:  To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

 

them from

מִן־ (min-)

Preposition

Strong's 4480:  A part of, from, out of

 

the hand

מִיַּ֣ד (mî·yaḏ)

Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct

Strong's 3027:  A hand

 

of the Egyptians

מִצְרַ֗יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)

Noun - proper - feminine singular

Strong's 4713:  Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt

 

and to bring them

וּֽלְהַעֲלֹתוֹ֮ (ū·lə·ha·‘ă·lō·ṯōw)

Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular

Strong's 5927:  To ascend, in, actively

 

up out of that

הַהִוא֒ (ha·hi·w)

Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular

Strong's 1931:  He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

 

land

הָאָ֣רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)

Article | Noun - feminine singular

Strong's 776:  Earth, land

 

to

אֶל־ (’el-)

Preposition

Strong's 413:  Near, with, among, to

 

a good

טוֹבָה֙ (ṭō·w·ḇāh)

Adjective - feminine singular

Strong's 2896:  Pleasant, agreeable, good

 

and spacious

וּרְחָבָ֔ה (ū·rə·ḥā·ḇāh)

Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine singular

Strong's 7342:  Wide, broad

 

land,

אֶ֤רֶץ (’e·reṣ)

Noun - feminine singular

Strong's 776:  Earth, land

 

a land

אֶ֛רֶץ (’e·reṣ)

Noun - feminine singular

Strong's 776:  Earth, land

 

flowing

זָבַ֥ת (zā·ḇaṯ)

Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct

Strong's 2100:  To flow freely, to have a, flux, to waste away, to overflow

 

with milk

חָלָ֖ב (ḥā·lāḇ)

Noun - masculine singular

Strong's 2461:  Milk

 

and honey—

וּדְבָ֑שׁ (ū·ḏə·ḇāš)

Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular

Strong's 1706:  Honey, syrup

 

the home

מְק֤וֹם (mə·qō·wm)

Noun - masculine singular construct

Strong's 4725:  A standing, a spot, a condition

 

of the Canaanites,

הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ (hak·kə·na·‘ă·nî)

Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 3669:  Canaanite -- inhabitant of Canaan

 

Hittites,

וְהַ֣חִתִּ֔י (wə·ha·ḥit·tî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 2850:  Hittite -- a Chittite

 

Amorites,

וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ (wə·hā·’ĕ·mō·rî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 567:  Amorites -- perhaps 'mountain dwellers', a Canaanite tribe

 

Perizzites,

וְהַפְּרִזִּ֔י (wə·hap·pə·riz·zî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 6522:  Perizzite -- a people in the land of Canaan

 

Hivites,

וְהַחִוִּ֖י (wə·ha·ḥiw·wî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 2340:  Hivite -- a Chivvite

 

and Jebusites.

וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ (wə·hay·ḇū·sî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 2983:  Jebusite -- inhabitant of Jebus

 

- If you have a look at the definition of the word, it can mean both the Earth or a land!

- This is the same word for the land of Egypt

- It is spoken as a good and spacious land !

- A land flowing with milk and honey !

- But above all, it is the land of the canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites !

- So it is definitely a precise place !

- This is an essential chapter because there Yah.weh explains the meaning of his personal name which is the tetragram !

- And the fact he has no other name !

- And it means the God of the promise or of the promises, the one that always keeps his promises !

[JLG]

2)

- Now we can go to Exodus 6:3 where Yah.weh says :

I appeared
וָאֵרָ֗א (wā·’ê·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Abraham,
אַבְרָהָ֛ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Isaac,
יִצְחָ֥ק (yiṣ·ḥāq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3327: Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah

and to
וְאֶֽל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Jacob
יַעֲקֹ֖ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

as God
בְּאֵ֣ל (bə·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

Almighty,
שַׁדָּ֑י (šad·dāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7706: The Almighty

but I did not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

reveal Myself
נוֹדַ֖עְתִּי (nō·w·ḏa‘·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3045: To know

to them
לָהֶֽם׃ (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

by My name,
וּשְׁמִ֣י (ū·šə·mî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8034: A name

‘the LORD.’
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

- There he says he appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty !

- But he didn’t reveal himself to them by His name Yah.weh !

[JLG]

3)

- In Exodus 6:4 he stipulates the land of Canaan where they lived as foreigners !

I also
וְגַ֨ם (wə·ḡam)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

established
הֲקִמֹ֤תִי (hă·qi·mō·ṯî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

My covenant
בְּרִיתִי֙ (bə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

with
אִתָּ֔ם (’it·tām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

them to give
לָתֵ֥ת (lā·ṯêṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

them the land
אֶ֣רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Canaan,
כְּנָ֑עַן (kə·nā·‘an)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan

the land where
אֶ֥רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

they lived as foreigners.
גָּ֥רוּ (gā·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1481: To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility