Names of Yehovah: Rapha

Introduction

The practice of appropriating Biblical texts for one’s own use has been a normal part of many branches of ‘Christian’ religions for centuries. Just because something is practiced does not mean that it is right. Unscrupulous teachers of the Bible have likewise appropriated the names/titles of Yehovah. This present name/title is such an example.

Exodus 15:22-26

The text is given literally rendered:

Exodus 15:22 And Moshe journeyed Israel from the Ending Sea. And they went out unto the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness. And they found no water. ²³And they came to Marah. And they were not able to drink the waters from Marah, for they are bitter. Therefore he called her name ‘Marah.’ ²⁴And the people murmured upon Moshe, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵And he shouted unto Yehovah. And Yehovah taught him a tree. And he cast unto the waters. And the waters were made sweet. He put for him there a statute and a justice. And He tested him there. ²⁶And He said, “If, hearkening, thou wilt hearken to the voice of Yehovah thy Gods, and wilt do the straight in His eyes, and thou wilt ‘ear’ to His commandments, and thou wilt guard all His statutes, I will not put upon thee all the sickness that I put into Egypt. For I am Yehovah thy healer.”

The word means thy healer, thy doctor. It describes one who either takes care of wounds or brings one to good health.

Israel is thou in verse 26, and thou is singular. Yehovah commanded Israel as a unit. This was not a command (or a promise) for an individual Israeli (or for anyone else). Other texts may give promises and commands to individuals, but not this text.

Yehovah promised Israel that He will refrain from putting on Israel the diseases that He put on Egypt if Israel will hearken. He never promised that Israeli individuals will enjoy perfect health in this text. This text is a warning—that if Israel refuses to hearken to the voice of Yehovah and won’t do what is straight in His eyes, refusing to ‘ear’ to His commandments, and refusing to guard all His statutes, Yehovah will strike Israel with the same diseases that occurred in Egypt!

Yehovah is both a healer and an afflicter!

Nothing can touch Israel without first going through Him. He is the Guard of Israel, and He brings some enemies against Israel.

The waters were bitter. Yehovah knew that. Yehovah taught how Moshe could make the waters sweet in the simplest way—by the addition of a tree. The Israelis needed these waters to live, but the waters that gave life were too bitter to use. Yehovah taught Moshe to teach Israel about the tree. (The word taught is the right Hebrew word, not showed, as other translations have.)

Yehovah associated the bitter waters and the tree with His ways, His commandments and His statutes. All these elements are found in this short text. The commandments, statutes, what is straight in the eyes of Yehovah—all these things can become very bitter, though they are given for life and not for death. When the tree is thrown into the midst, however, they become sweet. And when Israel will finally turn (as a single people) unto Yehovah to do what is straight in His eyes, and will find the statute and justice of Yehovah a delight, Yehovah will keep the diseases of Egypt permanently away from Israel. Yehovah Rophekha means, “He will be, He is, He was thy Healer.”

August 25, 2010July 5, 2017

Exodus 7:8 The First Plague: Blood QA

The First Plague: Blood

With Questions and Proposed Answers Supplied

Background and Printed Text: Exodus 7:8-25

Exodus 7:8 And Yehovah said unto Draw [Moshe] and unto Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] to say, ⁹ “Because Pharaoh will speak unto you to say, ‘Give ye a wonder for yourselves,’ and thou shalt say unto Oy!-Conception! [Aharon], ‘Take thy rod! And throw to the faces of Pharaoh.’ He will become to a taneen!” ¹⁰And Draw [Moshe] came, and Oy!-Conception! [Aharon], unto Pharaoh. And they did established—just as Yehovah commanded. And Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] threw his rod to the faces of Pharaoh and to the faces of his slaves. And he became to a ‘taneen’! ¹¹And Pharaoh also called to wise-[ones] and to warlocks. And the diviners of Egypt—they also did via their flames. Established! ¹²And they threw—a man his rod! And they became to ‘taneeneem’! And the rod of Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] swallowed their rods! ¹³And the heart of Pharaoh gripped. And he did not hearken unto them, just as Yehovah spoke!

¹⁴And Yehovah said unto Draw [Moshe], “The heart of Pharaoh is heavy. He refused to send the People. ¹⁵Walk unto Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he will exit waterward. And be positioned to meet him upon the lip of the river. And thou shalt take the rod that flipped-over to a serpent in thine hand. ¹⁶And thou shalt say unto him, ‘Yehovah Gods of the Hebrews sent me unto thee to say, “Send my People! And he has served me in the desert!” And behold, thou hast not hearkened unto so!’” ¹⁷ “So said Yehovah, ‘Thou shalt know that I am Yehovah via this! Behold, I am smiting via the rod that is in my hand upon the waters that are in the river! And they shall be flipped-over to blood! ¹⁸The fish that is in the river will die, and the river shall stink! And the Egyptians will loath to drink water from the river!’”

¹⁹And Yehovah said unto Draw [Moshe], “Say unto Oy!-Conception! [Aharon], ‘Take thy rod. And stretch thine hand upon waters of Egypt, upon their rivers, upon their canals and upon their pools, and upon every gathering of their waters. And they shall be blood! And the blood shall be in all the land of Egypt, and in the trees and in the rocks!” ²⁰And Draw [Moshe] and Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] did so, just as Yehovah commanded. And he elevated via the rod. And he smote the waters that are in the canal to the eyes of Pharaoh and to the eyes of his slaves. And all the waters that are in the canal flipped-over to blood! ²¹And the fish that is in the canal died. And the canal stank. And Egyptians were not able to drink water from the canal. And the blood was in all the land of Egypt! ²²And the diviners of Egypt did so via their flames. And the heart of Pharaoh gripped. And he did not hearken unto them just as Yehovah spoke. ²³And Pharaoh turned. And he came unto his house. And he did not put his heart also to this. ²⁴And all Egyptians dug water around the canal to drink, for they were not able to drink from the waters of the canal. ²⁵And He fulfilled seven of the days after Yehovah’s smiting the canal.

I. Serpents (verses 8-13)

Yehovah gave directions to Moshe and Aharon: “Because Pharaoh will speak unto you to say, ‘Give ye a wonder for yourselves…’” He then told them what to do: “…and thou shalt say unto Aharon, ‘Take thy rod! And throw to the faces of Pharaoh.’ He will become to a taneen!” (See the questions to learn what a taneen is.)

Moshe and Aharon came unto Pharaoh. They did exactly what Yehovah commanded. Aaron threw his rod directly in front of Pharaoh and directly in front of his slaves. The rod turned into a taneen!

Pharaoh wasn’t satisfied; he also called to wise ones and to warlocks. These diviners of Egypt also certainly did via their flames! Everyone threw his rod, and they turned into taneeneem! Then something happened: Aharon’s rod swallowed their rods!

Pharaoh’s heart (his mind) gripped. Pharaoh didn’t hearken to them; that was just what Yehovah had spoken.

Questions

1. Why did Yehovah speak unto both Moshe and Aharon? They both had to hear the commands of Yehovah since they would both be obeying those commands in detail. This established to Aharon that Yehovah was truly speaking to Moshe.

2. Yehovah knew that Pharaoh would say, “Give ye a wonder for yourselves.” Why would Pharaoh do this? He was used to doing this with his diviners! They had convinced Pharaoh of their power and of their communications with the gods. Pharaoh greatly enjoyed their shows that they did for him.

3. Yehovah then said to Moshe, “Thou shalt say unto Aharon…” Didn’t Aharon hear Yehovah for himself? Yes, he did. I propose that Yehovah spoke to Moshe in Aharon’s hearing so that Aharon would later believe Moshe when Moshe will tell Aharon that Yehovah said something.

4. Yehovah told Aharon to take his rod and throw it in front of Pharaoh. How frightening would this act be? Pharaoh was a king. He sometimes commanded his slaves to kill folks who offended him just a little. Aharon was not young, but he had been a slave under Pharaoh all his life. Throwing a rod in front of Pharaoh took much boldness.

5. What is a taneen? This animal has the following features: it can be very large, dangerous, rod-like in shape like a snake; poisonous; it is drawn in pictures in Israel; folks watch (for) them; it can dwell in the sea or live on land, it can swallow a human, and it breastfeeds its young. I could not find what this animal is beyond this, nor could I guess what it was. I knew it was a frightening animal, and is not mythical. Yet, scientists don’t know of such an animal today. (It will again be present in the End Times.)

6. What are wise ones (verse 11)? They are astrologers. Astrologers read constellations to determine what will happen in the future. Since nearly all astrologers alive today don’t know how to read the constellations, they make things up (and therefore lie to folks). A true astrologer will fear Yehovah, the Gods of the Bible, and will believe the Bible literally.

7. What are warlocks? Warlock is the masculine form of witch. Both warlocks and witches make drugs—not for medicinal usage, but in order for others to obtain lusts that they have. Some like the drugs for personal highs and pleasures, for seeing weird sights, and for temporarily soothing addictions, while others like the drugs in order to manipulate others into doing what they otherwise would not do, including becoming unable to stop another from sexual advances. Folks who set up ‘meth’ labs are warlocks and witches. Drug dealers are also warlocks and witches.

8. What are diviners? They practice divination—that is, they write information obtained by occult (hidden) means, making contact with spirits (demons playing the role of dead folks, etc.). The word itself seems to combine three Hebrew words: rx, meaning hot, jjr, meaning tremble, and amj, meaning unclean. If these are correct, such a person is hot, trembling and unclean.

9. Were the diviners successful in doing the same miracle? Yes.

10. Why did Yehovah permit them to be successful in doing the same miracle? This way, readers of the Bible could realize that those who follow demons can also do miracles! Doing a miracle doesn’t prove that a person is given power by Yehovah.

11. What does “via their flames” mean? This means that they did some action that caused flames to suddenly erupt, after which the miracle had been done. This is usually done to distract an audience from a clever switch or trick, but these men truly did the same miracle.

12. What does “Established!” mean? This means that the action was certainly performed and done as described.

13. What are taneeneem? This word is the plural form of taneen.

14. How many of these diviners were able to cause their rods to become taneeneem? They all were able!

15. What happened to the rods/taneeneem of the diviners? They became meals for the taneen of Aharon! His one taneen swallowed their taneeneem!

16. What does “And the heart of Pharaoh gripped” mean, and why did this happen? Since the heart is the mind, Pharaoh’s mind gripped—it tightly held on to his earlier decision to not hearken to Aharon and Moshe. Pharaoh determined to refuse to change his mind.

Why did this happen? Pharaoh did not desire to change his mind no matter what he saw. He wanted all things to remain as they were.

17. Did Yehovah’s knowing that Pharaoh wouldn’t change his mind cause Pharaoh to not change his mind? No! Just because Yehovah knows something doesn’t mean that He causes it to occur. Yehovah knows all things that occur. If He caused all things that He knows to occur, He would be responsible for sin and evil! He isn’t responsible for sin or evil, and He will make certain that all humans are judged.

II. Blood Warning (verses 14-18)

Yehovah further said to Moshe, “The heart of Pharaoh is heavy. He refused to send the People.”

Yehovah told Moshe to meet him: “Walk unto Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he will exit waterward. And be positioned to meet him upon the lip of the river. And thou shalt take the rod that flipped-over to a serpent in thine hand. And thou shalt say unto him, ‘Yehovah Gods of the Hebrews sent me unto thee to say, “Send my People! And he has served me in the desert!”’”

Yehovah then began to threaten Pharaoh: “And behold, thou hast not hearkened unto so!” Yehovah continued, “Thou shalt know that I am Yehovah via this! Behold, I am smiting via the rod that is in my hand upon the waters that are in the river! And they shall be flipped-over to blood! The fish that is in the river will die, and the river shall stink! And the Egyptians will loath to drink water from the river!”

Questions

1. What did Yehovah mean by, “The heart of Pharaoh is heavy”? Since the heart is the mind, this tells the reader that Pharaoh’s mind was heavy—that is, that it was loaded with troubling thoughts, fears and anxieties (especially about the Israeli slaves and their desire to leave Egypt). Pharaoh feared what was occurring. He knew he had to be very careful lest the Israelis entirely revolt from Egypt’s grip. This God of Aharon and Moshe was also scaring him.

Since his mind was heavily loaded, he refused to send the Israelis.

2. Identify this People (verse 14): This People is Israel.

3. Yehovah told Moshe to walk unto Pharaoh, telling Moshe where Pharaoh will be located. Didn’t Pharaoh have bodyguards? If he did, they didn’t stop folks from approaching Pharaoh. I suspect that the fear of Pharaoh was great enough that only very brave persons approached him without an invitation.

4. What is the lip of the river? That is the shoreline, where the river waters the sand. It is like the lips of a human, being regularly watered from inside the mouth.

5. Why should Moshe take the rod that had become a serpent? Yehovah knew that Pharaoh would understand that the power that Moshe (and Aharon) had was in the rod; so Moshe must take that rod.

6. Yehovah told Moshe to say to Pharaoh, “Yehovah Gods of the Hebrews sent me unto thee to say, ‘Send my People!’” Was this a nice request? No, it wasn’t a request. It was a demand. It was an order. Yehovah had no interest in asking Pharaoh to send Yehovah’s property, the Israelis.

In many translations, the wording is something like this: “Let my people go.” This isn’t even close to what Yehovah told Moshe to say. He said, “Send my People!” That is what Yehovah meant.

7. Why didn’t Yehovah request (ask) Pharaoh to send the Israelis? Might Pharaoh have done so, had He asked nicely? Yehovah is God. He tells humans what to do, and He holds them responsible for what they do or refuse to do. Pharaoh wouldn’t have complied had Yehovah begged him to send the Israelis, and that would have lowered Yehovah’s rank!

8. Who is he in, “And he has served me in the desert”? He is Yehovah’s People (Israel). Yehovah views the People of Israel as one being. The word people in Hebrew is singular, just as a group is singular—that is, it is one thing.

9. Why would Pharaoh desire to send the Israeli people to serve Yehovah (another god) in the desert? He wouldn’t! Yehovah knew this. Yehovah will do some ‘arm twisting;’ Pharaoh will become willing.

10. Who said, “And behold, thou hast not hearkened unto so,” and to whom did he say this? Yehovah said this to Pharaoh! Pharaoh must hearken to Yehovah!

11. What was Yehovah doing when He said to Pharaoh, “Thou shalt know that I am Yehovah via this”? He was threatening Pharaoh!

12. Why did Pharaoh tolerate being addressed by to low-ranking persons—one who was still a slave, and the other who was an outsider? I propose that Pharaoh (up to this point) was entertained by them, figuring that he would have them put to death for their insolence (for their arrogant, smart-mouthed responses) very shortly.

13. Right after Moshe said, “Thou shalt know that I am Yehovah via this,” he said, “Behold, I am smiting via the rod that is in my hand (referring to Moshe’s hand) upon the waters that are in the river.” Was Moshe acting as if he, Moshe, is Yehovah? Yehovah designed it this way so that Pharaoh will view Moshe as Yehovah Himself! This is what Yehovah commanded Moshe to say. Since Pharaoh is supposed to be a god, Yehovah is making Moshe into a god—into Yehovah Himself before Pharaoh!

14. What does “they shall be flipped-over to blood” mean? This means that the waters will churn, and they will become blood as they turn and churn in the river. Once they have turned over, they will be blood.

15. Why did Yehovah attack the river? Every attack that Yehovah is about to do will be against one of Egypt’s gods. The Egyptians worshipped that river as a god! That river gave Egypt life. Egypt would have dried up and died without it.

16. What does “the Egyptians will loath to drink water from the river” mean? This means that they will hate to drink from it; they will be disgusted at the thought of drinking from it; they will do whatever is necessary to avoid drinking from it.

III. The Bloody Act (verses 19-25)

Yehovah continued to command Moshe. This time, the orders were for Aharon: Take thy rod. And stretch thine hand upon waters of Egypt, upon their rivers, upon their canals and upon their pools, and upon every gathering of their waters. And they shall be blood! And the blood shall be in all the land of Egypt, and in the trees and in the rocks!”

Moshe and Aharon did exactly as Yehovah commanded them. He (Aharon) lifted over the water with his rod. He smote the waters in the canal directly in front of Pharaoh and all Pharaoh’s slaves. The waters in the canal immediately turned over, and they became blood!

This resulted in the canal’s fish dying. The smell came next: the canal stank with the smell of dead fish. The Egytians had normally drunk water from the canal, but they just couldn’t drink it; it was blood, and it stank.

The blood wasn’t only in the canal; it was in all the land of Egypt.

The diviners of Egypt obtained water that wasn’t blood, and they did the same miracle using their flames. The heart (mind) of Pharaoh gripped—that is, his mind stood firm. He didn’t hearken to Moshe and to Aharon about sending the Israelis. This was exactly what Yehovah said he would do.

Pharaoh turned from Moshe and Aharon, and he came to his house. He refused to put his heart (mind) to this miracle (as well as the other miracles).

The Egyptians dug for water around the canal in order to drink water; the canal was useless for this.

For a full seven days after Yehovah smote the canal, it was in this condition.

Questions

1. Yehovah again told Moshe to command Aharon to take up the rod and to do the miracle. Why did Yehovah desire Aharon to do this? Yehovah desired to establish Aharon as Moshe’s prophet, leaving Moshe as being God to Pharaoh! This is very important since gods normally send prophets.

2. What places where waters are found in Egypt were attacked, according to verse 19?

The rivers (plural) of Egypt
The canals (plural) of Egypt
The pools (whether made for swimming and washing, or where waters would ‘pool up’ from rivers and canals) of Egypt
Every gathering of their waters, including in their water pots and wells

3. What is the difference between water and blood? List the distinctions.

Water is clear; blood is red and not clear.
Water is runny; blood is thick.
When water dries, it evaporates (and disappears). When blood dries, it becomes brown and hard.
Water has very little smell; blood becomes very bad-smelling in large amounts when it is left in the air.
Drinking water is not harmful; drinking blood will affect the way folks think.
Drinking water will quench thirst; drinking blood will not work in the same way.
Water usually doesn’t make folks sick; having to drink blood will make many sick at the thought.
Water doesn’t stain any normal fabric (except ones like silk) if the water is clean. Blood, on the other hand, tends to stain almost everything.

4. How can blood be in the trees? Some of the trees that grow in Egypt grow in the water. Some of those trees have hollow places where water can collect. Blood will replace that water in those trees.

5. How can water be in rocks? It can collect in crevices and in craters in rocks. Some rocks are very big and are hollowed out. Those rocks that previously had water will now have blood.

6. Why did Yehovah choose blood to attack the waters (instead of something else, like bitter-tasting liquid, poison, or something of that nature)? Blood is very visual, and it represents life and death. The Egyptians were (and are) highly superstitious. This affected their minds (like seeing zombies would affect some today). The purity of water and the uncleanness of blood (as if it came from corpses) were so opposite and so terrible to the Egyptians. They prided themselves on being clean and smelling good. Blood stains clothing. It will ruin the Egyptian garments that it touches. Besides these things, Yehovah used the blood to threaten the Egyptians.

7. Who is he who elevated via the rod? Aharon elevated via the rod. Pictures showing Moshe doing this regarding the blood are wrong.

8. What does smite mean? To smite is to hit with an intensity that can potentially kill. It isn’t a slap, and it isn’t a light punch; it is with great force.

9. Why did Aharon have to smite the waters in the canal to the eyes of Pharaoh and his slaves? He had to do these miracles straight in front of these men and in their sight so that they couldn’t claim that someone else or some other god had done this.

10. Why did the fish die? The fish died because gills are not designed to obtain oxygen from blood, but rather from water. The fish couldn’t breathe.

11. What made the canal stink? The combination of the smell of rotting blood and dead fish made the canal stink.

(If you desire to see what this is like, obtain some blood from a butcher and some fish; let them sit out in the sun in a plastic bag for a few days. Then sniff.)

12. What does “the blood was in all the land of Egypt” mean? The blood was everywhere in Egypt where waters gathered. It was not in the soil where folks could dig; had blood been there, the Egyptians would have died. They were able to obtain fresh water, but they had to dig for it. (Do you dig?)

13. What does “he did not put his heart also to this” mean? It means that Pharaoh made sure to not think about this event. He avoided thinking about it, because if he thought about it, he might do as Yehovah commanded!

14. How many of the Egyptians dug water to drink? All Egyptians did this. (The very old and the very young could not dig, but they could stand there while others dug for them.) They had to have water because the climate is very hot and dry; going without water or something to drink for day or two in such a climate can dehydrate a person (cause them to become sick and even die from too little water).

15. Who is He in, “And He fulfilled seven of the days…”? I propose that this is Yehovah; He made certain that a full seven days in this water crisis occurred throughout Egypt.

16. Did the Israelis also suffer? Yes! They had to learn to fear Yehovah; they were pagans just like the Egyptians! Thus, they also had to dig for water!

17. Wasn’t the water muddy if they dug for it? I expect that it was muddy! When folks are thirsty, they will even drink muddy water. They could filter the water through cloth and get some of the mud out, but the water would still taste muddy.

August 25, 2010July 5, 2017

Exodus 7:8 The First Plague: Blood

The First Plague: Blood

Background and Printed Text: Exodus 7:8-25

I. Serpents (verses 8-13)

Moshe and Aharon came unto Pharaoh. They did exactly what Yehovah commanded. Aaron threw his rod directly in front of Pharaoh and directly in front of his slaves. The rod turned into a taneen!

Pharaoh’s heart (his mind) gripped. Pharaoh didn’t hearken to them; that was just what Yehovah had spoken.

Questions

1. Why did Yehovah speak unto both Moshe and Aharon?

2. Yehovah knew that Pharaoh would say, “Give ye a wonder for yourselves.” Why would Pharaoh do this?

3. Yehovah then said to Moshe, “Thou shalt say unto Aharon…” Didn’t Aharon hear Yehovah for himself?

4. Yehovah told Aharon to take his rod and throw it in front of Pharaoh. How frightening would this act be?

5. What is a taneen?

6. What are wise ones (verse 11)?

7. What are warlocks?

8. What are diviners?

9. Were the diviners successful in doing the same miracle?

10. Why did Yehovah permit them to be successful in doing the same miracle?

11. What does “via their flames” mean?

12. What does “Established!” mean?

13. What are taneeneem?

14. How many of these diviners were able to cause their rods to become taneeneem?

15. What happened to the rods/taneeneem of the diviners?

16. What does “And the heart of Pharaoh gripped” mean, and why did this happen?

17. Did Yehovah’s knowing that Pharaoh wouldn’t change his mind cause Pharaoh to not change his mind?

II. Blood Warning (verses 14-18)

Yehovah further said to Moshe, “The heart of Pharaoh is heavy. He refused to send the People.”

Questions

1. What did Yehovah mean by, “The heart of Pharaoh is heavy?

2. Identify this People (verse 14):

3. Yehovah told Moshe to walk unto Pharaoh, telling Moshe where Pharaoh will be located. Didn’t Pharaoh have bodyguards?

4. What is the lip of the river?

5. Why should Moshe take the rod that had become a serpent?

6. Yehovah told Moshe to say to Pharaoh, “Yehovah Gods of the Hebrews sent me unto thee to say, ‘Send my People!’” Was this a nice request?

7. Why didn’t Yehovah request (ask) Pharaoh to send the Israelis? Might Pharaoh have done so, had He asked nicely?

8. Who is he in, “And he has served me in the desert”?

9. Why would Pharaoh desire to send the Israeli people to serve Yehovah (another god) in the desert?

10. Who said, “And behold, thou hast not hearkened unto so,” and to whom did he say this?

11. What was Yehovah doing when He said to Pharaoh, “Thou shalt know that I am Yehovah via this”?

12. Why did Pharaoh tolerate being addressed by to low-ranking persons—one who was still a slave, and the other who was an outsider?

14. What does “they shall be flipped-over to blood” mean?

15. Why did Yehovah attack the river?

16. What does “the Egyptians will loath to drink water from the river” mean?

III. The Bloody Act (verses 19-25)

The blood wasn’t only in the canal; it was in all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh turned from Moshe and Aharon, and he came to his house. He refused to put his heart (mind) to this miracle (as well as the other miracles).

The Egyptians dug for water around the canal in order to drink water; the canal was useless for this.

For a full seven days after Yehovah smote the canal, it was in this condition.

Questions

1. Yehovah again told Moshe to command Aharon to take up the rod and to do the miracle. Why did Yehovah desire Aharon to do this?

2. What places where waters are found in Egypt were attacked, according to verse 19?

3. What is the difference between water and blood? List the distinctions.

4. How can blood be in the trees?

5. How can water be in rocks?

6. Why did Yehovah choose blood to attack the waters (instead of something else, like bitter-tasting liquid, poison, or something of that nature)?

7. Who is he who elevated via the rod?

8. What does smite mean?

9. Why did Aharon have to smite the waters in the canal to the eyes of Pharaoh and his slaves?

10. Why did the fish die?

11. What made the canal stink?

12. What does “the blood was in all the land of Egypt” mean?

13. What does “he did not put his heart also to this” mean?

14. How many of the Egyptians dug water to drink?

15. Who is He in, “And He fulfilled seven of the days…”?

16. Did the Israelis also suffer?

17. Wasn’t the water muddy if they dug for it?

August 9, 2010July 5, 2017

Exodus 6_10 Orders and Heads QA Supplied

Orders and Heads

Background and Printed Text: Exodus 6:10-7:7

Exodus 6:10 And Yehovah spoke unto Draw [Moshe] to say, ¹¹ “Come! Speak unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt! And he sent the children of Israel from his land.” ¹²And Draw [Moshe] spoke to the faces of Yehovah to say, “Behold, the children of Israel didn’t hearken unto me. And how shall Pharaoh hearken-to me? And I am foreskin lips!”

¹³And Yehovah spoke unto Draw [Moshe] and unto Oy!-Conception! [Aharon]. And He commanded them unto the children of Israel and unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt to exit the children of Israel from the land of Egypt.

¹⁴These are heads of the house of their fathers:

The sons of They-Saw-A-Son [Reuben] the firstborn of Israel:
Dedicated [Hanoch] and
Miracled [Pallu],
Trumpet-Blast/Walled [Hezron] and
My-Vineyard [Carmi].

These are the families of They-Saw-A-Son [Reuben].

¹⁵And the sons of Hearkening [Shimon]:

A-Day-And-A-Mighty-[One] [Yemuel] and
Right [Yamin] and
Attack-[or Victory]-Shout [Ohad] and
He-Will-Establish [Yachin] and
Dazzling-Heat [Zohar] and
Asked [Shaul], son of the Merchantess [Canaanitess].

These are the families of Hearkening [Shimon].

¹⁶And these are the names of the sons of My-Joined-[one] [Levi] to their childings:

Expelling [Gershon] and
Thou-Hast-Dulled [Kohath] and
My-Bitterness [Merari].

And the years of the lives of My-Joined-[one] [Levi] are seven and thirty and a hundred year.

¹⁷Sons of Expelling [Gershon]:

To-My-Son [Libni] and
Hearken-Thou [fem.] [Shimi]

to their families.

¹⁸And sons of Thou-Hast-Dulled [Kohath]:

Elevated-People [Amram] and
He-Will-Press-Oil [Izhar] and
Friendship [Hevron] and
My-Strength-Is-A-Mighty-[One] [Uzziel].

And the years of the lives of Thou-Hast-Dulled [Kohath] are three and thirty and a hundred year.

¹⁹And sons of My-Bitterness [Merari]:

My-Piercer [Mahali] and
He-Groped-Me [Mushi].

These are the families of the My-Joined-[one] [Levi] to their childings.

²⁰And Elevated-People [Amram] took Yehovah-Glorified [Yocheved] his aunt to him for a woman. And she childed Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] and Draw [Moshe] to him.

And the years of the lives of Elevated-People [Amram] are seven and thirty and a hundred year.

²¹And the sons of He-Will-Press-Oil [Izhar]:

Bald [Korah] and
Tottered-Feebled [Nepheg] and
He-Remembered-Me [Zichri].

²²And the sons of My-Strength-Is-A-Mighty-[One] [Uzziel]:

Who-Asked [Mishael] and
My-Mighty-[One]-Hid [Elzaphan] and
He-Secreted-Me [Zithri].

²³And Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] took My-Mighty-[One]-Vowed [Elisheva], daughter of My-People-Was-Generous [Amminadab], sister of Enchantment [Naashon], to him for a woman. And she childed:

He-Was-Generous [Nadav] and
He-Is-My-Father [Avihu],
A-Mighty-[One]-Helped [Eleazar] and
Where-Is-A-Palm-[Tree] [Ithamar]

to him.

²⁴And the sons of Bald [Korah]:

Prisoner [Assir] and
A-Mighty-[One]-Acquired [Elkanah] and
My-Father-Gathered [Aviasaph].

These are the families of the My-Bald-[ones] Korahites.

²⁵And A-Mighty-[One]-Helped [Eleazar] Oy!-Conception!’s [Aharon’s] son took to him from the daughters of My-Bow-Is-A-Mighty-[One] [Putiel] to him for a woman. And she childed:

My-Mouth-He-Rested-Refuge [Pinkhas]

to him.

These are the heads of the fathers of the My-Joined-[ones] [Levites] to their families. ²⁶He is Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] and Draw [Moshe] to whom Yehovah said, “Exit-ye the children of Israel from the land of Egypt upon their armies!” ²⁷These are the speakers unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt to exit the children of Israel from Egypt. He is Draw [Moshe] and Oy!-Conception! [Aharon]. ²⁸And he was in the day Yehovah spoke unto Draw [Moshe] in the land of Egypt. ²⁹And Yehovah spoke unto Draw [Moshe] to say, “I am Yehovah! Speak thou unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt all that I say unto thee!” ³⁰And Draw [Moshe] said to the faces of Yehovah, “Behold I am foreskin lips! And how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?”

Exodus 7:1 And Yehovah said unto Draw [Moshe], “See, I gave thee, gods to Pharaoh. And Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] thy brother will be thy prophet! ²Thou—thou shalt speak all that I will command thee. And Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] thy brother will speak unto Pharaoh. And he will send the sons of Israel from his land! ³And I—I will harden the heart of Pharaoh. And I will multiply my signs and my miracles in the land of Egypt! ⁴And Pharaoh will not hearken unto you. And I will give my hand into Egypt. And I will exit my armies—my People the childrenof Israel—from the land of Egypt via big justices! ⁵And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yehovah in my stretching my hand upon Egypt. And I will exit the children of Israel from their midst!”

⁶And Draw [Moshe] did, and Oy!-Conception! [Aharon], just as Yehovah commanded them. Established, they did! ⁷And Draw [Moshe] is a son of 80 year! And Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] is a son of 3 and 80 year during their speaking unto Pharaoh!

I. Yehovah’s Orders (verses 10-12)

Yehovah had more to say to Moshe. He told Moshe to come and to speak unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Yehovah indicated to Moshe that this will result in Pharaoh sending the children of Israel from his land!

Moshe spoke face to face with Yehovah, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel didn’t hearken unto me. And how shall Pharaoh hearken-to me? And I am foreskin lips!”

Questions

1. Why did Yehovah say, “Come!” instead of, “Go!” when He told Moshe to travel to speak unto Pharaoh? Yehovah told Moshe to come because Yehovah was already there. He wasn’t sending Moshe into territory where Yehovah wasn’t located; instead, Yehovah had prepared the way for this assignment to work!

2. How could Moshe speak unto a king when kings choose who will come before them, and when Moshe is merely a poor shepherd (which is an abomination to the Egyptians)? Yehovah will make certain that Pharaoh will see Moshe.

Proverbs 21:1 The heart of a king is splittings of waters in the hand of Yehovah! He inclines him upon all that He will desire!

3. After the command to come and to speak to Pharaoh, Yehovah next states, “And he sent the children of Israel from his land.” What is that in the past tense? It is in the past tense because it will be the result of coming and speaking to Pharaoh. When a result is certain in Hebrew, the wording of the result is in the past tense as if it already happened.

4. When the Bible uses the word children, does that imply that they are young? No! It almost never implies this. The children of Israel are the offspring of Israel/Jacob. Their ages will include the old, the young, and the in-between!

5. Why does the text include, “And Moshe spoke to the faces of Yehovah”? This tells the reader that Moshe and Yehovah were speaking together as if both were humans. Moshe was looking at Yehovah, and Yehovah was physically right there for Moshe to see.

6. Was Moshe scared while speaking directly to Yehovah? Moshe had been scared at first, but now the assignment that Yehovah was giving him was what was on his mind. Another text states,

Exodus 33:11 And Yehovah will speak unto Moshe faces unto faces just-as a man will speak unto his neighbour.

7. Why didn’t the children of Israel hearken unto Moshe?

Exodus 6:9 And they didn’t hearken unto Moshe from shortness of spirit/wind and from hard slavery.

They were too out of breath from the hard work, and they were dispirited (meaning that they didn’t feel that anything would do any good; they didn’t feel like trying).

8. Why should Pharaoh hearken to Moshe if the Israelis didn’t? Yehovah can be very convincing, as a reader will see.

9. What does “I am foreskin lips” mean? A foreskin is a very thin strip of skin found on the male’s penis that hides the head of the penis. Yehovah used this strip of skin as a type—as a teaching picture of something else more important. The foreskin typifies (pictures) the lusts of the flesh—truly sinful desires that a person intends to do or does (not desires that aren’t sinful). Desires that are sinful include prostitution, rape, murder, kidnapping, idolatry (including all forms of pornography), using addictive drugs and medications without medical need for them, committing fornication (participating in sexual practices with one to whom one isn’t married or given in marriage), stealing (when there is no need to obtain food, and the person isn’t involved in war or being a spy), lying (when that isn’t being done to save lives, and the person isn’t a spy), etc. Since the foreskin pictures these lusts, Yehovah commanded Avraham and all of his male offspring to circumcise the foreskin—that is, to remove this, and especially to do this on the eighth day of the baby’s life.

The word lip in the Bible refers to a person’s accent. How one uses his or her lips is how one speaks a language—with which accent the person speaks.

If a person is described as being foreskin lips, the person’s accent is considered crude and vulgar, and not something that an educated and high-ranking person would consider a good and trustable source of information. Pharaoh and those around Pharaoh spoke a very high form of Egyptian. Moshe had been away from Egypt and Egyptian society for forty years. He spoke the language of the area where he lived and used the lip (accent) of the area where he lived. The Egyptian Pharaoh would view him as being foreskin lipped, and wouldn’t hearken to him (according to what Moshe thought).

II. Yehovah Speaks to Both (verse 13)

Yehovah spoke to both Moshe and Aharon. He commanded them unto the children of Isdrael and unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt to exit the Israelis from the land of Egypt.

Questions

1. Did Aharon also see Yehovah? The text indicates that he did, since Yehovah also spoke to him.

2. Why did Yehovah command them unto the children of Israel when they couldn’t do anything about leaving? The Israelis had to become prepared to leave. Therefore, they had to experience what Pharaoh and the Egyptians experienced so that they would believe at least enough to leave.

3. What does “commanded them unto” mean? This means that they were commanded to both go unto them and to do what Yehovah had described for them to do.

III. Heads of Houses (verses 14-30)

The next number of verses gives the heads of the houses of the sons of Jacob:

Sons of Reuben (Reuben being the firstborn of Israel): Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, Carmi.

Sons of Shimon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yachin, Zohar, Shaul (Shaul being the son of a Canaanite woman).

Sons Levi: Gershon, Kohath, Merari.

Levi lived to be 137 years old.

Grandsons of Levi, sons of Gershon: Libni, Shimi.

Grandsons of Levi, sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hevron, Uzziel.

Kohath lived to be 133.

Grandsons of Levi, sons of Marari: Mahali, Mushi.

Amram took his Aunt Yocheved for his own woman (wife). She childed Aharon and Moshe.

Amram lived for 137 years.

Great Grandsons of Levi, Grandsons of Kohath, sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, Zichri.

Great Grandsons of Levi, Grandsons of Kohath, sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, Zithri.

Aharon took Amminadab’s daughter, Elisheva (she was sister of Naashon) for a woman (wife). Elisheva childed Nadav, Avihu, Eleazar, Ithamar.

The great great grandsons of Levi, great grandsons of Kohath, grandsons of Izhar, sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, Aviasaph.

Aharon’s son Eleazar took a daughter of Putiel for a woman (wife). She childed Pinkhas to Eleazar.

This is a listing of the heads of the fathers of the Levites to their families. This lineage leads to Aharon and Moshe, the two to whom Yehovah said, “Exit-ye the children of Israel from the land of Egypt upon their armies!” These are the very same two who spoke unto Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to exit the children of Israel from Egypt! This is Moshe, along with Aharon!

This occurred in the day Yehovah spoke unto Moshe in the land of Egypt. Yehovah spoke unto Moshe saying, “I am Yehovah! Speak thou unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt all that I say unto thee!”

This occurred in the day that Moshe responded to the faces of Yehovah, “Behold I am foreskin lips! And how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?”

Questions

1. If you place all the meanings of the names together, do they give information? They do, indeed! This depends on how the names are joined. Take verses 14-25, and take all the names listed. Repeat any names if they are repeated. See what you find. I have what I found listed next, and it seems to tell a story:

They saw a dedicated, miracled Son. A trumpet blast/walled my hearkening vineyard. A day—a Mighty One—Right—will establish an attack or victory shout! Dazzling heat!

Merchantess asked my joined one. Expelling, Thou hast dulled my bitterness to my Son! Hearken thou [fem.]! Thou hast dulled! An elevated people will press oil of friendship.

My strength is a Mighty One!

My piercer groped me. An elevated people took! Yehovah glorified!

Oy! Conception! Draw! Bald, tottered, feebled, He remembered me.

My strength is a Mighty One! Who asked my Mighty One? He hid, secreted me!

Oy! Conception! My Mighty One took; He vowed!

A daughter of my people was generous—sister of enchantment.

He was generous! He is my Father! A Mighty One helped!

Where is a palm tree?

Bald, a prisoner, Mighty One acquired. My Father gathered!

A Mighty One helped my bald ones!

Oy! Conception! My bow is a Mighty One!

My mouth rested; refuge!

In order for this to make sense, you need to know the following information:

The Mighty One is also known as the Mighty One of Israel. If a mighty one is the Mighty One of Israel, that is the Messiah (Yeshua).
The word Right refers to the right-hand position. The Messiah is known for being at the right of Yehovah the Father. Therefore, this also refers to the Messiah.
The events being discussed are during the Tribulation. That is why the Messiah will establish an attack shout, and will give a victory shout. He will also use dazzling heat to slaughter His enemies.
A merchantess is a female merchant.
A joined one is a person to whom another is very attached. That can be like a mother is to a baby or young child whom she greatly loves.
Israel has long had a bitterness toward Israel’s Son, the Messiah.
An elevated people is a people (a group with a common culture) that started out very low in rank, very poor, and considered worthless, that Yehovah has raised in rank and in importance before others.
I propose that pressing oil of friendship pictures working very hard (like pressing olive oil from olives) to be a friend.
I also propose that this piercer refers to an enemy. If this enemy groped the speaker, it was to feel for identification (like Isaac did with Jacob) in order to expose the read identity of the one being groped. (Being found out during the Tribulation can be deadly.)
To glorify is to demonstrate as being very important!
The expression, “Oy! Conception!” shows that this is a time when becoming pregnant is almost the worst thing that can happen, since it can hinder the woman from doing what she must do to survive.
Being bald can occur from several terrible situations besides the normal loss of hair that is genetic (normal baldness). It can show intense mourning and frustration in some cultures, and it can be the result of being starved, or being put into a concentration camp where the hair is cut off.
The question, “Who asked my Mighty One?” Shows that the speaker didn’t ask the Mighty One to do anything; yet He did do some things: He hid and He secreted the speaker.
The question, “Where is a palm tree?” Shows that the speaker is traveling in a desert. Palm trees in the desert provide food, and are located where there is some water.
If anyone’s bow is a Mighty One, and if that Mighty One is the Messiah, the arrow that the bow shoots will always go straight to the target and will never miss its mark.

If a mouth rests, it no longer is expressing fears, frustrations, callings for help, etc.

2. In verse 20, Amram took Yocheved his aunt for a woman (for a wife). Was this wrong? No, it wasn’t wrong at this time. Adam’s and Eve’s children married each other. Later, Yehovah gave commands against incest; before that time, taking close relatives in marriage wasn’t incest.

3. What does “Exit-ye the children of Israel from the land of Egypt upon their armies” mean (verse 26)? Yehovah viewed the Israelis as consisting of armies—not just one army, but more than one! That is what Israel will be during the End Times!

4. Why did Yehovah say, “These are the speakers unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt to exit the children of Israel from Egypt. He is Moshe and Aharon,” as if some readers might get Moshe and Aharon confused with another Moshe and another Aharon? There will be others named Moshe and Aharon between the time of these men and the End Times. Yehovah knew that some might get confused about them, so He specifically identified them to keep that from happening.

5. Who is he in, “And he was in the day Yehovah spoke unto Moshe in the land of Egypt”? He refers to the commandment for Moshe and Aharon to go to Pharaoh. Yehovah did not give Moshe or Aharon time to prepare anything. They were to go, and to go right away. Moshe still had to get his family, and that was fine.

6. How much of what Yehovah told Moshe was Moshe commanded to tell Pharaoh, according to verse 29? Moshe had to say all that Yehovah told him to say to Pharaoh. (Moshe didn’t tell Pharaoh that Yehovah knew Pharaoh wouldn’t hearken.)

7. Why did Yehovah repeat Moshe’s declaration that Moshe is “foreskin lips”? Yehovah desired for readers to know that Moshe thought Pharaoh would never hearken to him. He therefore repeated it so that future persons to whom Yehovah will give assignments that are impossible will remember this, and will have faith in Yehovah to do the impossible assignments.

8. Why did Yehovah mention that Shaul was the son of a Canaanite woman (verse 15)? Why was this so important? Yehovah will later command the annihilation of the Canaanites. At this time, they can still obtain Truth directly from the Israelis. They won’t take Truth, however, as a people.

9. The males in the lineage are normally the only ones mentioned. Why are the females normally ignored, and why was Yocheved (verse 20) specially mentioned? The main purpose of lineages in the Bible include the following:

One lineage tells the genealogy from Adam to Yeshua.
Other genealogies tell how other important groups came into being.
Genealogies have names; those names have meanings; they give information when they are put together.

Just because males are mentioned in genealogies doesn’t mean that they are important in themselves. Only a few were righteous. When females are mentioned, they are important!

Yocheved was mentioned because this is the place where Moshe’s and Aharon’s mother is named! If it weren’t for this text and Numbers 26:59, readers wouldn’t know the name of this brave woman!

IV. Yehovah’s Plans (chapter 7, verses 1-5)

Yehovah next told what He had done to make these things work. Yehovah said to Moshe, “See, I gave thee, gods to Pharaoh.”

Yehovah continued, “And Aharon thy brother will be thy prophet!”

Yehovah commanded Moshe, “Thou—thou shalt speak all that I will command thee.”

He also stated, “And Aharon thy brother will speak unto Pharaoh.”

Yehovah then gave the results: “And he will send the sons of Israel from his land!”

Yet, Yehovah had plans before that exit (exodus) from the land: “And I—I will harden the heart of Pharaoh. And I will multiply my signs and my miracles in the land of Egypt! And Pharaoh will not hearken unto you.”

Yehovah’s response to Pharaoh’s not hearkening will be this: “And I will give my hand into Egypt.” After He has done this for quite a while, Yehovah will do the next step: “And I will exit my armies—my People the children of Israel—from the land of Egypt via big justices!”

How will the Egyptians respond and react? “And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yehovah in my stretching my hand upon Egypt.”

Finally, Yehovah will “exit the children of Israel from their midst!”

Questions

1. What does “See, I gave thee, gods to Pharaoh” mean? This means that Yehovah caused Pharaoh to see Moshe as gods—as Elohim! That is why Pharaoh didn’t try to kill Moshe. He didn’t hearken to Moshe, but he feared him.

2. Why would Yehovah cause one person to see another as gods if He commanded against idols? Yehovah even gave parents to babies as gods. If Yehovah does this, it is right and good. If persons make their own gods and goddesses, that is very bad, and it leads to death!

3. If Aharon will be Moshe’s prophet, whose words will Aharon speak as a prophet? Aharon will infallibly speak the words of Moshe! (Those, of course, will be the words of Yehovah, since Moshe is Yehovah’s prophet!)

4. Wasn’t Aharon sent along because of Moshe’s inability to speak right? He was! Yet, Yehovah will command Moshe to speak, along with Aharon! Thus, Yehovah will make certain that Moshe can speak.

5. Yehovah said in verse 2, “And he will send the sons of Israel from his land.” Will he do this right away? No! At first, Pharaoh will refuse to send the sons of Israel from his land. Yehovah often declares what will occur without indicating when it will occur. When readers of the Bible assume that what He says will happen right away, or will happen in their lifetimes, they almost always assume what isn’t true. If Yehovah tells when He will do something, He will do it at that time.

6. Why would Yehovah harden the heart of Pharaoh (verse 3) so that Pharaoh will not hearken unto Moshe and Aharon (verse 4)? Isn’t that forcing Pharaoh to do wrong? No; it isn’t forcing Pharaoh to do anything. Hardening the heart (mind) of a person helps the person to become absolutely firm (resolute) in whatever the person has decided to do! If the person desires to do right, hardening the person’s heart (mind) will give the person more determination to do right! If the person desires to do wrong, hardening the person’s heart (mind) will give the person more determination in that direction. This hardening forces a person only in one way: to decide and to act. It doesn’t determine what to decide or which way to act. The person is responsible for that.

7. What is the benefit of multiplying signs and miracles in the land of Egypt? Signs and miracles will give both the Egyptians and the Israelis more reason to think and to consider the following:

Who is doing this?
Why is he doing this?
What kind of power does he have?
How will I respond to him? What should I do?

Yehovah gave them opportunity to think.

8. Why won’t Pharaoh hearken to Moshe and Aharon? It isn’t because Yehovah hardened his heart; it is because Pharaoh didn’t want to hearken. The reasons will be shown later in the text.

9. What does “I will give my hand into Egypt” mean? Yehovah’s hand is His power, just as the hand of any human is the power of that human. Yehovah will directly and personally cause things to occur in Egypt.

10. What are big justices? If justice is rendering a right decision based on all available facts, big justices are rendering (carrying out) big decisions, and thus doing big things that are right to do.

Yehovah will do very big miracles that will cause His People, the children of Israel, to leave Egypt.

11. Who are God’s people, according to this text? The children of Israel (Jacob) are God’s people. A people is a group of individuals with a common culture (and thus, a common way of speaking to each other, as well as conducting business and relationships). Saints throughout the world don’t have a common culture; they are not a people.

12. How will the Egyptians come to know that He is Yehovah, according to verse 5? Does this mean that the Egyptians will believe? They will come to know this during Yehovah’s stretching His hand upon Egypt! It means that the Egyptians will believe that Yehovah is doing all of this, but it doesn’t mean that they will believe—as in, putting their faith in Yehovah. Miracles never produce faith that lasts. Faith that lasts must come from hearkening (hearing and obeying), and hearkening must come from a speech of someone trusted.

13. What does stretching His hand upon anything mean? This normally means wrath. Egypt has taken possession of Yehovah’s property, dealing with them in slavery. Yehovah desires to have His property back. If Egypt doesn’t comply, Yehovah will hurt Egypt until Egypt does comply.

14. Who will ‘exit’ the children of Israel from the midst of the Egyptians, according to this text? Yehovah will do this!

V. Obedience and Age (verses 6-7)

Moshe didn’t ask more questions. He did just as Yehovah commanded, and Aharon did the same. They were firmly established in their goal; they now knew what would happen, and why.

Moshe is 80 years old at the time of speaking unto Pharaoh, and Aharon is 83 years old!

Questions

1. The text states that they did. What did they do? They did what Yehovah commanded them! They went to Pharaoh, and they both spoke what Yehovah told them to speak.

2. Why does the text add, “Established, they did”? This lets readers know that they did every detail that Yehovah commanded no matter how they felt about this mission.

3. What is so significant about Moshe being 80 and Aharon being 83 when they went on this mission?

They were two old men!
They were sent on an impossible mission!
They were sent to tell a very strong king what to do!
They were totally powerless as two old men.
They had Yehovah behind them to give them power!
They had no country backing them.
They were sent as two old men to rescue very muscular Israeli slaves from very well-armed Egyptian soldiers!
No person is too old to be very valuable for the work of Yehovah. No person is too young to be very valuable for the work of Yehovah.

August 9, 2010July 5, 2017

Exodus 6_10 Orders and Heads

Orders and Heads

Background and Printed Text: Exodus 6:10-7:7

¹⁴These are heads of the house of their fathers:

The sons of They-Saw-A-Son [Reuben] the firstborn of Israel:
Dedicated [Hanoch] and
Miracled [Pallu],
Trumpet-Blast/Walled [Hezron] and
My-Vineyard [Carmi].

These are the families of They-Saw-A-Son [Reuben].

¹⁵And the sons of Hearkening [Shimon]:

A-Day-And-A-Mighty-[One] [Yemuel] and
Right [Yamin] and
Attack-[or Victory]-Shout [Ohad] and
He-Will-Establish [Yachin] and
Dazzling-Heat [Zohar] and
Asked [Shaul], son of the Merchantess [Canaanitess].

These are the families of Hearkening [Shimon].

¹⁶And these are the names of the sons of My-Joined-[one] [Levi] to their childings:

Expelling [Gershon] and
Thou-Hast-Dulled [Kohath] and
My-Bitterness [Merari].

And the years of the lives of My-Joined-[one] [Levi] are seven and thirty and a hundred year.

¹⁷Sons of Expelling [Gershon]:

To-My-Son [Libni] and
Hearken-Thou [fem.] [Shimi]

to their families.

¹⁸And sons of Thou-Hast-Dulled [Kohath]:

Elevated-People [Amram] and
He-Will-Press-Oil [Izhar] and
Friendship [Hevron] and
My-Strength-Is-A-Mighty-[One] [Uzziel].

And the years of the lives of Thou-Hast-Dulled [Kohath] are three and thirty and a hundred year.

¹⁹And sons of My-Bitterness [Merari]:

My-Piercer [Mahali] and
He-Groped-Me [Mushi].

These are the families of the My-Joined-[one] [Levi] to their childings.

²⁰And Elevated-People [Amram] took Yehovah-Glorified [Yocheved] his aunt to him for a woman. And she childed Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] and Draw [Moshe] to him.

And the years of the lives of Elevated-People [Amram] are seven and thirty and a hundred year.

²¹And the sons of He-Will-Press-Oil [Izhar]:

Bald [Korah] and
Tottered-Feebled [Nepheg] and
He-Remembered-Me [Zichri].

²²And the sons of My-Strength-Is-A-Mighty-[One] [Uzziel]:

Who-Asked [Mishael] and
My-Mighty-[One]-Hid [Elzaphan] and
He-Secreted-Me [Zithri].

²³And Oy!-Conception! [Aharon] took My-Mighty-[One]-Vowed [Elisheva], daughter of My-People-Was-Generous [Amminadab], sister of Enchantment [Naashon], to him for a woman. And she childed:

He-Was-Generous [Nadav] and
He-Is-My-Father [Avihu],
A-Mighty-[One]-Helped [Eleazar] and
Where-Is-A-Palm-[Tree] [Ithamar]

to him.

²⁴And the sons of Bald [Korah]:

Prisoner [Assir] and
A-Mighty-[One]-Acquired [Elkanah] and
My-Father-Gathered [Aviasaph].

These are the families of the My-Bald-[ones] Korahites.

²⁵And A-Mighty-[One]-Helped [Eleazar] Oy!-Conception!’s [Aharon’s] son took to him from the daughters of My-Bow-Is-A-Mighty-[One] [Putiel] to him for a woman. And she childed:

My-Mouth-He-Rested-Refuge [Pinkhas]

to him.

I. Yehovah’s Orders (verses 10-12)

Moshe spoke face to face with Yehovah, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel didn’t hearken unto me. And how shall Pharaoh hearken-to me? And I am foreskin lips!”

Questions

1. Why did Yehovah say, “Come!” instead of, “Go!” when He told Moshe to travel to speak unto Pharaoh?

2. How could Moshe speak unto a king when kings choose who will come before them, and when Moshe is merely a poor shepherd (which is an abomination to the Egyptians)?

3. After the command to come and to speak to Pharaoh, Yehovah next states, “And he sent the children of Israel from his land.” What is that in the past tense?

4. When the Bible uses the word children, does that imply that they are young?

5. Why does the text include, “And Moshe spoke to the faces of Yehovah”?

6. Was Moshe scared while speaking directly to Yehovah?

7. Why didn’t the children of Israel hearken unto Moshe?

8. Why should Pharaoh hearken to Moshe if the Israelis didn’t?

9. What does “I am foreskin lips” mean?

II. Yehovah Speaks to Both (verse 13)

Yehovah spoke to both Moshe and Aharon. He commanded them unto the children of Isdrael and unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt to exit the Israelis from the land of Egypt.

Questions

1. Did Aharon also see Yehovah?

2. Why did Yehovah command them unto the children of Israel when they couldn’t do anything about leaving?

3. What does “commanded them unto” mean?

III. Heads of Houses (verses 14-30)

The next number of verses gives the heads of the houses of the sons of Jacob:

Sons of Reuben (Reuben being the firstborn of Israel): Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, Carmi.

Sons of Shimon: Yemuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yachin, Zohar, Shaul (Shaul being the son of a Canaanite woman).

Sons Levi: Gershon, Kohath, Merari.

Levi lived to be 137 years old.

Grandsons of Levi, sons of Gershon: Libni, Shimi.

Grandsons of Levi, sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hevron, Uzziel.

Kohath lived to be 133.

Grandsons of Levi, sons of Marari: Mahali, Mushi.

Amram took his Aunt Yocheved for his own woman (wife). She childed Aharon and Moshe.

Amram lived for 137 years.

Great Grandsons of Levi, Grandsons of Kohath, sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, Zichri.

Great Grandsons of Levi, Grandsons of Kohath, sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, Zithri.

Aharon took Amminadab’s daughter, Elisheva (she was sister of Naashon) for a woman (wife). Elisheva childed Nadav, Avihu, Eleazar, Ithamar.

The great great grandsons of Levi, great grandsons of Kohath, grandsons of Izhar, sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, Aviasaph.

Aharon’s son Eleazar took a daughter of Putiel for a woman (wife). She childed Pinkhas to Eleazar.

This occurred in the day Yehovah spoke unto Moshe in the land of Egypt. Yehovah spoke unto Moshe saying, “I am Yehovah! Speak thou unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt all that I say unto thee!”

This occurred in the day that Moshe responded to the faces of Yehovah, “Behold I am foreskin lips! And how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?”

Questions

1. If you place all the meanings of the names together, do they give information?

2. In verse 20, Amram took Yocheved his aunt for a woman (for a wife). Was this wrong?

3. What does “Exit-ye the children of Israel from the land of Egypt upon their armies” mean (verse 26)?

5. Who is he in, “And he was in the day Yehovah spoke unto Moshe in the land of Egypt”?

6. How much of what Yehovah told Moshe was Moshe commanded to tell Pharaoh, according to verse 29?

7. Why did Yehovah repeat Moshe’s declaration that Moshe is “foreskin lips”?

8. Why did Yehovah mention that Shaul was the son of a Canaanite woman (verse 15)? Why was this so important?

9. The males in the lineage are normally the only ones mentioned. Why are the females normally ignored, and why was Yocheved (verse 20) specially mentioned?

IV. Yehovah’s Plans (chapter 7, verses 1-5)

Yehovah next told what He had done to make these things work. Yehovah said to Moshe, “See, I gave thee, gods to Pharaoh.”

Yehovah continued, “And Aharon thy brother will be thy prophet!”

Yehovah commanded Moshe, “Thou—thou shalt speak all that I will command thee.”

He also stated, “And Aharon thy brother will speak unto Pharaoh.”

Yehovah then gave the results: “And he will send the sons of Israel from his land!”

How will the Egyptians respond and react? “And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yehovah in my stretching my hand upon Egypt.”

Finally, Yehovah will “exit the children of Israel from their midst!”

Questions

1. What does “See, I gave thee, gods to Pharaoh” mean?

2. Why would Yehovah cause one person to see another as gods if He commanded against idols?

3. If Aharon will be Moshe’s prophet, whose words will Aharon speak as a prophet?

4. Wasn’t Aharon sent along because of Moshe’s inability to speak right?

5. Yehovah said in verse 2, “And he will send the sons of Israel from his land.” Will he do this right away?

6. Why would Yehovah harden the heart of Pharaoh (verse 3) so that Pharaoh will not hearken unto Moshe and Aharon (verse 4)? Isn’t that forcing Pharaoh to do wrong?

7. What is the benefit of multiplying signs and miracles in the land of Egypt?

8. Why won’t Pharaoh hearken to Moshe and Aharon?

9. What does “I will give my hand into Egypt” mean?

10. What are big justices?

11. Who are God’s people, according to this text?

12. How will the Egyptians come to know that He is Yehovah, according to verse 5? Does this mean that the Egyptians will believe?

13. What does stretching His hand upon anything mean?

14. Who will ‘exit’ the children of Israel from the midst of the Egyptians, according to this text?

V. Obedience and Age (verses 6-7)

Moshe didn’t ask more questions. He did just as Yehovah commanded, and Aharon did the same. They were firmly established in their goal; they now knew what would happen, and why.

Moshe is 80 years old at the time of speaking unto Pharaoh, and Aharon is 83 years old!

Questions

1. The text states that they did. What did they do?

2. Why does the text add, “Established, they did”?

3. What is so significant about Moshe being 80 and Aharon being 83 when they went on this mission?

July 26, 2010July 7, 2017

And His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful

This article was written by Arthur Glass in 1946. Mr. Glass was born into a poor and very Orthodox Jewish family late in his parents’ life in Poland. His sister took him to Canada before the Holocaust. He was always a student of Jewish Scriptures. He later became a strong advocate for Israel’s Messiah.

Please note: if you are unfamiliar with the strange pagination of this document, it is designed to be printed out on both sides in landscape form (11″ by 8 1/2″), then folded and stapled. This way, the booklet is a half-page in size, and the page numbers will be right. Trying to read this booklet without doing this first will be rather difficult!

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This article is an exploration of Hebrew words pertaining to the names and titles of Messiah in Isaiah. It also has footnotes added by his grandson. The title Sabba is used, meaning grandfather, since his grandson addresses issues to his article throughout the booklet.

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