21 Ki Tisa

Torah

Sh'mot (Exodus) 30:11-34:35

^30:11The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^30:12"When you take a census of the children of Yisra'el, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them. ^30:13They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel [one-fifth of an ounce of silver] after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to the LORD. ^30:14Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD. ^30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls. ^30:16You shall take the atonement money from the children of Yisra'el, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Yisra'el before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls."

^30:17The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^30:18"You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. ^30:19Aharon and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. ^30:20When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD. ^30:21So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

^30:22Moreover the LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^30:23"Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels [12½ pounds]; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty [6¼ pounds]; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty; ^30:24and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin [gallon] of olive oil. ^30:25You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. ^30:26You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, ^30:27the table and all its articles, the menorah and its accessories, the altar of incense, ^30:28the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. ^30:29You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. ^30:30You shall anoint Aharon and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the kohen's [priest’s] office. ^30:31You shall speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. ^30:32It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you. ^30:33Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

^30:34The LORD said to Moshe, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight; ^30:35and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: ^30:36and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. ^30:37The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the LORD. ^30:38Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."

^31:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^31:2"Behold, I have called by name Betzal'el the son of Uri, the son of Chur, of the tribe of Yehudah: ^31:3and I have filled him with the Spirit of G-d, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, ^31:4to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, ^31:5and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. ^31:6I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholi'av, the son of Achisamakh, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: ^31:7the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, ^31:8the table and its vessels, the pure menorah with all its vessels, the altar of incense, ^31:9the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, ^31:10the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aharon the kohen--the garments of his sons to minister in the kohen's office, ^31:11the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

^31:12The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, ^31:13"Speak also to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'Most assuredly you shall keep my Shabbatot: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. ^31:14You shall keep the Shabbat therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ^31:15Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the day of Shabbat shall surely be put to death. ^31:16Therefore the children of Yisra'el shall keep the Shabbat, to observe the Shabbat throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. ^31:17It is a sign between me and the children of Yisra'el forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

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Sheni [2nd]

^31:18He gave to Moshe, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with G-d's finger.

^32:1When the people saw that Moshe delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aharon, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moshe, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

^32:2Aharon said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

^32:3All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon. ^32:4He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

^32:5When Aharon saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aharon made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD."

^32:6They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

^32:7The LORD spoke to Moshe, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! ^32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

^32:9The LORD said to Moshe, "I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people. ^32:10Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

^32:11Moshe begged the LORD his G-d, and said, "The LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ^32:12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. ^32:13Remember Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

^32:14The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

^32:15Moshe turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. ^32:16The tablets were the work of G-d, and the writing was the writing of G-d, engraved on the tables.

^32:17When Yehoshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moshe, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

^32:18He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear." ^32:19It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moshe’s anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. ^32:20He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Yisra'el drink of it.

^32:21Moshe said to Aharon, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

^32:22Aharon said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. ^32:23For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moshe, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' ^32:24I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

^32:25When Moshe saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aharon had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), ^32:26then Moshe stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the LORD's side, come to me!"

All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. ^32:27He said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor." ^32:28The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moshe: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ^32:29Moshe said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

^32:30It happened on the next day, that Moshe said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

^32:31Moshe returned to the LORD, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. ^32:32Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

^32:33The LORD said to Moshe, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. ^32:34Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." ^32:35The LORD struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aharon made.

^33:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' ^33:2I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Kana`ani, the Amori, and the Chittite, and the Perizzi, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi: ^33:3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

^33:4When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

^33:5The LORD said to Moshe, "Tell the children of Yisra'el, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."

^33:6The children of Yisra'el stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Chorev onward.

^33:7Now Moshe used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. ^33:8It happened that when Moshe went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moshe, until he had gone into the Tent. ^33:9It happened, when Moshe entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moshe. ^33:10All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door. ^33:11The LORD spoke to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Yehoshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

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Shlishi [3rd]

^33:12Moshe said to the LORD, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.' ^33:13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

^33:14He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

^33:15He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. ^33:16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

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R'vi'i [4th]

^33:17The LORD said to Moshe, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

^33:18He said, "Please show me your glory."

^33:19He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." ^33:20He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." ^33:21The LORD also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. ^33:22It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; ^33:23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

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Chamishi [5th]

^34:1The LORD said to Moshe, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. ^34:2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. ^34:3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

^34:4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moshe rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets. ^34:5The LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. ^34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD! the LORD, a merciful and gracious G-d, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ^34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

^34:8Moshe hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. ^34:9He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

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Shishi [6th]

^34:10He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. ^34:11Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amori, the Kana`ani, the Chittite, the Perizzi, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi. ^34:12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: ^34:13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; ^34:14for you shall worship no other G-d: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous G-d. ^34:15Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; ^34:16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods. ^34:17You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

^34:18"You shall keep the feast of matzah [unleavened bread]. Seven days you shall eat matzah, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv; for in the month Aviv you came out from Egypt. ^34:19All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ^34:20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

^34:21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ^34:22You shall observe the feast of weeks [Shavu'ot] with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the Chag-HaKatzir [Festival of Ingathering or Harvest] at the year's end. ^34:23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord G-d, the G-d of Yisra'el. ^34:24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your G-d, three times in the year.

^34:25"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Pesach be left to the morning. ^34:26You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your G-d. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

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Shvi'i [7th]

^34:27The LORD said to Moshe, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Yisra'el."

^34:28He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten mitzvot [commandments].

^34:29It happened, when Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moshe’s hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moshe didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. ^34:30When Aharon and all the children of Yisra'el saw Moshe, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. ^34:31Moshe called to them, and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moshe spoke to them. ^34:32Afterward all the children of Yisra'el came near, and he gave them all of the mitzvot that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

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Maftir [Concluding]

^34:33When Moshe was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. ^34:34But when Moshe went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Yisra'el that which he was commanded. ^34:35The children of Yisra'el saw Moshe’s face, that the skin of Moshe’s face shone: and Moshe put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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Haftarah
Melakhim Aleph [1 Kings] 18:39

^1:1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat. ^1:2Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm. ^1:3So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Yisra'el, and found Avishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. ^1:4The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately. ^1:5Then Adoniyahu the son of Chaggit exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ^1:6His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Avshalom. ^1:7He conferred with Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah, and with Avyatar the kohen [priest]: and they following Adoniyahu helped him. ^1:8But Tzadok the kohen, and Benayah the son of Yehoiada, and Natan the prophet, and Shim`i, and Re`i, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adoniyahu. ^1:9Adoniyahu killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zochelet, which is beside `En-Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Yehudah, the king's servants: ^1:10but Natan the prophet, and Benayah, and the mighty men, and Shlomo his brother, he didn't call. ^1:11Then Natan spoke to Bat-Sheva the mother of Shlomo, saying, Haven't you heard that Adoniyahu the son of Chaggit reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it? ^1:12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Shlomo. ^1:13Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adoniyahu reign? ^1:14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words. ^1:15Bat-Sheva went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Avishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king. ^1:16Bat-Sheva bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you? ^1:17She said to him, My lord, you swore by the LORD your G-d to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne. ^1:18Now, behold, Adoniyahu reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't know it: ^1:19and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Avyatar the kohen, and Yo'av the captain of the host; but he hasn't called Shlomo your servant. ^1:20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Yisra'el are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. ^1:21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Shlomo shall be counted offenders. ^1:22Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Natan the prophet came in. ^1:23They told the king, saying, Behold, Natan the prophet. When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. ^1:24Natan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adoniyahu shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? ^1:25For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Avyatar the kohen; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, Long live king Adoniyahu. ^1:26But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Tzadok the kohen, and Benayah the son of Yehoiada, and your servant Shlomo. ^1:27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? ^1:28Then king David answered, Call to me Bat-Sheva. She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. ^1:29The king swore, and said, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, ^1:30most assuredly as I swore to you by the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day. ^1:31Then Bat-Sheva bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever. ^1:32King David said, Call to me Tzadok the kohen, and Natan the prophet, and Benayah the son of Yehoiada. They came before the king. ^1:33The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Shlomo my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gichon: ^1:34and let Tzadok the kohen and Natan the prophet anoint him there king over Yisra'el; and blow you the shofar, and say, Long live king Shlomo. ^1:35Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Yisra'el and over Yehudah. ^1:36Benayah the son of Yehoiada answered the king, and said, Amein: the LORD, the G-d of my lord the king, say so too. ^1:37As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Shlomo, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David. ^1:38So Tzadok the kohen, and Natan the prophet, and Benayah the son of Yehoiada, and the Kereti and the Peleti, went down, and caused Shlomo to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gichon. ^1:39Tzadok the kohen took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Shlomo. They blew the shofar [a trumpet made from a ram’s horn]; and all the people said, Long live king Shlomo.

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B'rit Chadasha
2 Corinthians 3:18

^3:1Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? ^3:2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; ^3:3being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living G-d; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. ^3:4Such confidence we have through Messiah toward G-d; ^3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from G-d; ^3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. ^3:7But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Yisra'el could not look steadfastly on the face of Moshe for the glory of his face; which was passing away: ^3:8won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory? ^3:9For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. ^3:10For most assuredly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses. ^3:11For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

^3:12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, ^3:13and not as Moshe, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Yisra'el wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away. ^3:14But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Messiah it passes away. ^3:15But to this day, when Moshe is read, a veil lies on their heart. ^3:16But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ^3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ^3:18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Additional B'rit Chadasha readings:

Lukas 11:14-20

^11:14He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled. ^11:15But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul, the prince of the demons." ^11:16Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven. ^11:17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. ^11:18If Hasatan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul. ^11:19But if I cast out demons by Ba`al-Zibbul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges. ^11:20But if I by the finger of G-d cast out demons, then the Kingdom of G-d has come to you.

Acts 7:35-8:1

^7:35"This Moshe, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ^7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Sea of Suf, and in the wilderness for forty years. ^7:37This is that Moshe, who said to the children of Yisra'el, 'The Lord our G-d will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.' ^7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us, ^7:39to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, ^7:40saying to Aharon, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moshe, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' ^7:41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. ^7:42But G-d turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,

'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Yisra'el?

^7:43You took up the tent of Molekh,
The star of your G-d Reifan,

The figures which you made to worship.
I will carry you away beyond Bavel.'

^7:44"Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moshe commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen; ^7:45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Yehoshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom G-d drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, ^7:46who found favor in the sight of G-d, and asked to find a habitation for the G-d of Ya`akov. ^7:47But Shlomo built him a house. ^7:48However, Ha`Elyon doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

^7:49'heaven is my throne,
And the earth a footstool for my feet.

What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord;
'Or what is the place of my rest?

^7:50Didn't my hand make all these things?'

^7:51"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. ^7:52Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. ^7:53You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"

^7:54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. ^7:55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of G-d, and Yeshua standing on the right hand of G-d, ^7:56and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of G-d!"

^7:57But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord. ^7:58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Sha'ul. ^7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Yeshua, receive my Spirit!" ^7:60He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

^8:1Sha'ul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Yerushalayim in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Yehudah and Shomron, except for the emissaries.

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

^10:1Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ^10:2and were all immersed into Moshe in the cloud and in the sea; ^10:3and all ate the same spiritual food; ^10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Messiah. ^10:5However with most of them, G-d was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ^10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. ^10:7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." ^10:8Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. ^10:9Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. ^10:10Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. ^10:11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. ^10:12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

^10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. G-d is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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