פרשת השבוע נח
Parashah Noach • Noah
Genesis 6:9-11:32

This week's commentary

Torah

B'resheet (Genesis) 6:9-11:32

^6:9This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with G-d. ^6:10Noach became the father of three sons: Shem, Cham, and Yefet. ^6:11The earth was corrupt before G-d, and the earth was filled with violence. ^6:12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

^6:13God said to Noach, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. ^6:14Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with kofer. ^6:15This is how you shall make it. The length of the teivah will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. ^6:16You shall make a roof in the teivah, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the teivah in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. ^6:17I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die. ^6:18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. ^6:19Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. ^6:20Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. ^6:21Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them." ^6:22Thus Noach did. According to all that G-d commanded him, so he did.

^7:1The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. ^7:2You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. ^7:3Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. ^7:4In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

^7:5Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.

^7:6Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. ^7:7Noach went into the teivah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood. ^7:8Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground ^7:9went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as G-d commanded Noach. ^7:10It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth. ^7:11In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened. ^7:12The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

^7:13In the same day Noach, and Shem, Cham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the teivah; ^7:14they, and every animal after its kind, all the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. ^7:15They went to Noach into the teivah, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them. ^7:16Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as G-d commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. ^7:17The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the teivah, and it was lifted up above the earth. ^7:18The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the teivah floated on the surface of the waters. ^7:19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. ^7:20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. ^7:21All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. ^7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. ^7:23Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the teivah. ^7:24The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

^8:1God remembered Noach, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the teivah; and G-d made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. ^8:2The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. ^8:3The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. ^8:4The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains. ^8:5The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

^8:6It happened at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the window of the teivah which he had made, ^8:7and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. ^8:8He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground, ^8:9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the teivah; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the teivah. ^8:10He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the teivah. ^8:11The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. ^8:12He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

^8:13It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noach removed the covering of the teivah, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. ^8:14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

^8:15God spoke to Noach, saying, ^8:16"Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. ^8:17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

^8:18Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him. ^8:19Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the teivah.

^8:20Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ^8:21The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. ^8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

^9:1God blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ^9:2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. ^9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you. ^9:4But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat. ^9:5I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. ^9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of G-d made he man. ^9:7Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

^9:8God spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying, ^9:9"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, ^9:10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the teivah, even every animal of the earth. ^9:11I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." ^9:12God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ^9:13I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ^9:14It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, ^9:15and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ^9:16The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between G-d and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." ^9:17God said to Noach, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

^9:18The sons of Noach who went forth from the teivah were Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Cham is the father of Kana`an. ^9:19These three were the sons of Noach, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

^9:20Noach began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. ^9:21He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. ^9:22Cham, the father of Kana`an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ^9:23Shem and Yefet took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness. ^9:24Noach awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. ^9:25He said,

     "Cursed be Kana`an;
          A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

^9:26He said,
     "Blessed be the LORD, the G-d of Shem;
          Let Kana`an be his servant.

 ^9:27God enlarge Yefet,
          Let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
          Let Kana`an be his servant."

^9:28Noach lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. ^9:29All the days of Noach were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

^10:1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noach and of Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the flood.

^10:2The sons of Yefet: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tuval, Meshekh, and Tiras. ^10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah. ^10:4The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ^10:5Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

^10:6The sons of Cham: Kush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an. <sup>10:7</sup>The sons of Kush: Seva, Chavilah, Savtah, Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva and Dedan. <sup>10:8</sup>Kush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. <sup>10:9</sup>He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." <sup>10:10</sup>The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar. ^10:11Out of that land he went forth into Ashshur, and built Nineveh, Rechovot-Ir, Kelach, ^10:12and Resen between Nineveh and Kelach (the same is the great city). ^10:13Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehavim, Naftuchim, ^10:14Patrusim, Kasluchim (which the Pelishtim descended from), and Kaftorim.

^10:15Kana`an became the father of Tzidon (his firstborn), Chet, <sup>10:16</sup>the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi, <sup>10:17</sup>the Chivvi, the `Arki, the Sini, ^10:18the Arvadi, the Tzemari, and the Chamati. Afterward the families of the Kana`anim were spread abroad. <sup>10:19</sup>The border of the Kana`anim was from Tzidon, as you go toward Gerar, to `Aza; as you go toward Sedom, `Amorah, Admah, and Tzevoyim, to Lasha. ^10:20These are the sons of Cham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

^10:21To Shem, the father of all the children of `Ever, the elder brother of Yefet, to him also were children born. <sup>10:22</sup>The sons of Shem: `Elam, Ashshur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram. ^10:23The sons of Aram: `Utz, Chul, Geter, and Mash. <sup>10:24</sup>Arpakhshad became the father of Shelach. Shelach became the father of `Ever. ^10:25To `Ever were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Yoktan. <sup>10:26</sup>Yoktan became the father of Almodad, Shelef, Chatzarmavat, Yerach, <sup>10:27</sup>Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, <sup>10:28</sup>`Oval, Avima'el, Sheva, ^10:29Ofir, Chavilah, and Yovav. All these were the sons of Yoktan. ^10:30Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sefar, the mountain of the east. ^10:31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

^10:32These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

^11:1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. ^11:2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shin`ar; and they lived there. ^11:3They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. ^11:4They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

^11:5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. ^11:6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. ^11:7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." ^11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. ^11:9Therefore the name of it was called Bavel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

^11:10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpakhshad two years after the flood. ^11:11Shem lived after he became the father of Arpakhshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:12Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelach. ^11:13Arpakhshad lived after he became the father of Shelach four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:14Shelach lived thirty years, and became the father of `Ever: <sup>11:15</sup>and Shelach lived after he became the father of `Ever four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:16`Ever lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. <sup>11:17</sup>`Ever lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Re`u. <sup>11:19</sup>Peleg lived after he became the father of Re`u two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:20Re`u lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. <sup>11:21</sup>Re`u lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nachor. ^11:23Serug lived after he became the father of Nachor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:24Nachor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terach. ^11:25Nachor lived after he became the father of Terach one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

^11:26Terach lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Charan.

^11:27Now this is the history of the generations of Terach. Terach became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Charan. Charan became the father of Lot. ^11:28Charan died before his father Terach in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Kasdim. ^11:29Avram and Nachor took wives. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife, Milkah, the daughter of Charan who was also the father of Yiskah. ^11:30Sarai was barren. She had no child. ^11:31Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Charan, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Kasdim, to go into the land of Kana`an. They came to Charan, and lived there. ^11:32The days of Terach were two hundred five years. Terach died in Charan.

The Blessing After Torah
Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai, eh-lo-hay-noo meh-lech ha-oh­lahm, ah-sher na-tahn la-noo toe-raht eh-met, v’cha-yaye oh-lahm na-ta b’toe-chay-noo. Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai,  no-tain ha-torah. Blessed are you, O Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who has given us a Torah of truth, and has planted eternal life in our midst. Blessed are You, O Lord, Giver of the Torah.	Click here to listen to this sung by Cantor Kenneth B. Cohen of Temple Sholom, Greenwich, CT

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Haftarah

The Blessing of the Haftarah

Ba-rooch, ah-ta Adonai, eh-lo-hay-noo, meh-lech ha-oh­lahm, ah-sher ba-char been-vee-eem toe-veem, v’ra-tza b’deev­ray-hem, ha-neh-eh-ma-reem, beh-eh-meht. Ba-rooch ah-ta, Adonai, ha-bo-char ba-torah, oo-v’Mo-sheh ahv-doe, oo-v'yees­ra-ale ah-mo, oo-veen-vee-aye ha-eh-met, va-tzeh-dek. Blessed are you, O Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who selected good prophets, and was pleased with their words which were spoken truthfully. Blessed are You, O Lord, Who chooses the Torah, Your servant Moses, Your people Israel, and prophets of truth and righteousness.

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Yesha'yahu (Isaiah) 54:1-55:5 (A)
Yesha'yahu (Isaiah) 54:1-10 (S)

^54:1Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD. ^54:2Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. ^54:3For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. ^54:4Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you remember no more. ^54:5For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of Hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Yisra'el is your Redeemer; the G-d of the whole earth shall he be called. ^54:6For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your G-d. ^54:7For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. ^54:8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer. ^54:9For this is as the waters of Noach to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noach shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. ^54:10For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of shalom be removed, says the LORD who has mercy on you. ^54:11you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. ^54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of emeralds, and all your border of precious stones. ^54:13All your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the shalom of your children. ^54:14In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. ^54:15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you. ^54:16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. ^54:17No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness which is of me, says the LORD.

^55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. ^55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. ^55:3Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. ^55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. ^55:5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your G-d, and for the Holy One of Yisra'el; for he has glorified you.

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B'rit Hadashah

The Blessing of the B'rit Chadasha
Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai, Eh-lo-hay-noo meh-lech ha-oh­lahm, ah-shehr na-tahn la-noo ma-she-ahch Yeshua, v’ha-deeb­rote shell Ha-breet Ha-cha-da-sha, ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai, no­tain Ha-breet Ha-cha-da-shah. Blessed are You, O Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who has given us Messiah Yeshua and the commandments of the New Covenant. Blessed are You, O Lord, Giver of the New Covenant.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 24:36-44

^24:36But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

^24:37"As the days of Noach were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ^24:38For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noach entered into the teivah, ^24:39and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ^24:40Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left; ^24:41two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left. ^24:42Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes. ^24:43But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ^24:44Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

Loukas 17:26-37

^17:22He said to the talmidim, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ^17:23They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them, ^17:24for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. ^17:25But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ^17:26As it happened in the days of Noach, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. ^17:27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noach entered into the teivah, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ^17:28Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ^17:29but in the day that Lot went out from Sedom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. ^17:30It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ^17:31In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. ^17:32Remember Lot's wife! ^17:33Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. ^17:34I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. ^17:35There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left." ^17:36

^17:37They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?"

He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

Acts 2:1-16

^2:1Now when the day of Shavu`ot had come, they were all with one accord in one place. <sup>2:2</sup>Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. <sup>2:3</sup>Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. <sup>2:4</sup>They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. <sup>2:5</sup>Now there were dwelling in Yerushalayim Yehudim, devout men, from every nation under the sky. <sup>2:6</sup>When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. <sup>2:7</sup>They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak from the Galil? <sup>2:8</sup>How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? <sup>2:9</sup>Parthians, Madai, Elamites, and people from Aram-Naharayim, Yehudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, <sup>2:10</sup>Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Yehudim and proselytes, <sup>2:11</sup>Cretans and `Aravi'im: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of G-d!" ^2:12They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?" ^2:13Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."

^2:14But Kefa, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Yehudah, and all you who dwell at Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen to my words. ^2:15For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day. ^2:16But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Yo'el:

Kefa Aleph (1 Peter) 3:18-22

^3:18Because Messiah also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to G-d; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; ^3:19in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, ^3:20who before were disobedient, when G-d waited patiently in the days of Noach, while the teivah was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. ^3:21This is a symbol of immersion, which now saves you-- not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward G-d, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, ^3:22who is at the right hand of G-d, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

Kefa Bet (Second Peter) 2:5

^2:4For if G-d didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; ^2:5and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noach with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; ^2:6and turning the cities of Sedom and `Amorah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; ^2:7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked ^2:8(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): ^2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the G-dly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

The Blessing of the Messiah
Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai Eh-lo-hay-noo, meh-lekh ha-oh-lahm, ah-sher keed-sha-noo beed-va-reh-kha v'na-tahn la-noo et Yeshua M'shee-khay-noo, v'tzee-va-noo l'he-oat oar la-oh-lahm. O-mein. Blessed are You, O Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us in Your Word, and given us us Yeshua, our Messiah, and commanded us to be a light to the world. Amen.

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