hwarapA Parasha

xWA.ti yKi - “Ki Tisa” - “When You Take”

Exodus 30:11 - 34:35

Exodus 30:

11 Then HaShem spoke to Mosheh, saying:

12 "When you take the census of the Son’s of Yisrael for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to HaShem, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.

13 "This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (wD!q4mi miq-dash “ holy thing”) (a shekel of Gold = $10; Silver: 0.65). The half_shekel shall be an offering to HaShem.

14 "Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to HaShem.

15 "The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to HaShem, to make atonement (rpaKA kaphar “To cover over””) for yourselves.

16 "And you shall take the atonement money of the Son’s of Yisrael, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting (dfeOm lh,xo ohel moed “tent of meeting at a set time), that it may be a memorial (NOrKAz9 zikaron “Memory/Remembrance”) for the Son’s of Yisrael before HaShem, to make a covering for yourselves."

17 Then HaShem spoke to Mosheh, saying:

18 "You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting at a set tine and the altar. And you shall put water in it,

19 "for Aharon and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in water from it.

20 "When they go into the tent of meeting at a set tine, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to HaShem, they shall wash with water, lest they die.

21 "So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a statute forever to them__to him and his descendants throughout their generations."

22 Moreover HaShem spoke to Mosheh, saying:

23 "Also take for yourself quality spices__five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet_smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet_smelling cane,

24 "five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

25 "And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 "With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting at a set tine and the ark (NOrx3 aron) of the Testimony (tdufe edut “Precept);

27 "the table and all its utensils, the menorah and its utensils, and the altar of incense;

28 "the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.

29 "You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them must be holy.

30 "And you shall anoint Aharon and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to Me as priests.

31 "And you shall speak to the Son’s of Yisrael, saying: `This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.

32 `It shall not be poured on man's flesh; nor shall you make any other like it, according to its composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

33 `Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on an outsider, shall be cut off from his people.'"

34 And HaShem said to Mosheh: "Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and pure frankincense with these sweet spices; there shall be equal amounts of each.

35 "You shall make of these an incense, a compound according to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.

36 "And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Precept in the tent of meeting at a set tine where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

37 "But as for the incense which you shall make, you shall not make any for yourselves, according to its composition. It shall be to you holy for HaShem.

38 "Whoever makes any like it, to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people."

Exodus 31:

1 Then HaShem spoke to Mosheh, saying:

2 "See, I have called by name Be-zal-el the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Yehudah.

3 "And I have filled him with Rucha Elohim, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

4 "to design artistic works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,

5 "in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of workmanship.

6 "And I, indeed I, have appointed with him Aho-liab the son of A-hisamak, of the tribe of Dan; and I have put wisdom in the hearts of all who are gifted artisans, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

7 "the tent of meeting, the aron of the Precept and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furniture of the tent__

8 "the table and its utensils, the pure gold menorah with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

9 "the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base__

10 "the garments of ministry, the holy garments for Aharon the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests,

11 "and the anointing oil and sweet incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

12 And HaShem spoke to Mosheh, saying,

13 "Speak also (yn2B;-lx,} to-the/My-Son’s of Yisrael, saying:

(Urmow;Ti ytatoB;wa-tx, j`xa

> ak et-shab`be`to`ta}

`Surely/certainly w/t-My-Shab`bot you shall keep/watch/guard,

( Mk,yterodol; Mk,yn2ybeU yniyBe xvhi tOx yKi

> ki ‘ot hiv be`ni u`ve`nekem le`do`ro`tekem}

for a-insignia/ sign it-is between-Me and-your-understanding for your generations,

(y!Y4 yn9xE yKi tfad1lA :Mk,w;D9q1m;

> le`da`at ki a’ni Adonai me`kad`dish`kem}

for-you-shall-perceive/know that I- am HaShem who-purifies/cleans-you.

[Note: hn!yBi/Bi`na means “Understanding, Intelligence, Comprehension.”]

14 (tmAUy tOm hAyl,l;Ham; Mk,lA xvhi wd@qo yKi tBAwa.ha-tx, Mt,r4maw;U

> u`she mar`tem et-hash`shab`bat ki ko`desh hiv lekem me`chal`le`a mot yu`mat}

`And-you-shall-keep/ watch/guard with-the-Sahb`bat, for it is holy to-you. From-piercing/profaning/to-be-loose/ casual-with-it, death, you-shall-die;

(hkAxlAm; h0bA hW,fohA-lKA yKi

> ki kol-ha`o`se vah me`la’ka}

for anyone that works on-it a-service/prescribed-task,

( :hAym,0fa br@q@mi xvhiha wp,n@>ha htAr4k;n9v4

> ve`nik`re`ta han`ne`fesh ha`hiv me`ke`rev am`me`a}

and-they-shall-cut-off the-soul, that-soul from-among his-people.

15 (y!Y4la wd@qo NOtBAwa tBawa yfiybiw;>ha MOy0baU hkAxlAm; hW,fAy2 Mymiy! tw,we

> She`shet ya`mim ye`a`se me`la`ka u`va`yom hash`she`vi`i shab`bat shab`ba`ton ko`desh la`Adonai}

`Six days work/labor/preform a-service/prescribed-task, but the-seventh day is Shab`bat, a-great-Shab`bat, holy to HaShem.

(:tmAUy tOm tBAwa>ha MOyB; hkAxlAm; hW,fohA-lKA

> Kol-ha`yo`se me`la`ka be`yom hash`shab`bat mot yu`mat.}

All/everyone that-works/labors/preforms a-service/prescribed-task on-the-day of the-Shabbat, death, they-will-die.

16 (:MlAOf tyr9B; MtArodol; tBAwa.ha-tx, tOWfEla tBAwa.ha-tx, lxer!W;y9-yn2b; Urm;wAv4

> Ve`sham`ru ve`ne-Yis`ra`el et-hash`shab`bat la`a`sot et-hash`shab`bat le`doro`tem be`rit o`lam.}

`Therefore keep/watch/guard, My-Son-of-Yisrael, with-the-Shabbat, to work/labor/perform with-the-Shabbat for-your-generation a-covenant-forever.

17 (MlAfol; xvhi tOx lxer!W;y9 yn2B; Nyb;U yn9yB;

> Be`ni u`ven be`ne Yis`ra`el ‘ot hiv le`o`lam}

`Between-Me and-between My-son of-Yisrael its a-sign forever;

(:wpan!>y90v1 tbawa yfiybiw;.ha MOy0baU Cr,xAhA-tx,v4 My9mawA.ha-tx, y!Y4 hWAfA Mymiy! tw,we-yKi

> ki-she`shet ya`mim a`sa Adonai et-hash`sha`mayim ve`et-ha`a`retz u`va`yom hash`she`vi`i sha`vat va`yin`na`fash.}

for-six days worked/labored HaShem with-the-heavens and-with-the-earth, and-on-the-seventh day rested and took-a-breath.'"

18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sina, He gave Mosheh two tablets of the Precepts, tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim.

Exodus 32:

1 Now when the people saw that Mosheh delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aharon, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Mosheh, the man who brought us up out of the land of Mitzraim, we do not know what has become of him."

2 And Aharon said to them, "Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

3 "So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon.

4 And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Mitzraim!"

5 So when Aharon saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aharon made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow is a feast to HaShem."

6 Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

7 And HaShem said to Mosheh, "Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Mitzraim have corrupted themselves.

8 "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Mitzraim!'"

9 And HaShem said to Mosheh, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff_necked people!

10 "Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."

11 Then Mosheh pleaded with HaShem his Elohim, and said: "HaShem, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Mitzraim with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 "Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, `He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.

13 "Remember Avraham, Yitzak, and Yisrael, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, `I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

14 So HaShem relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

15 And Mosheh turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Precept were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

16 Now the tablets were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim engraved on the tablets.

17 And when Yehoshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Mosheh, "There is a noise of war in the camp."

18 But he said: "It is not the noise of the shout of victory, Nor the noise of the cry of defeat, But the sound of singing I hear."

19 So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Mosheh' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

20 Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the Son’s of Yisrael drink it.

21 ¶ And Mosheh said to Aharon, "What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?"

22 So Aharon said, "Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

23 "For they said to me, `Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Mosheh, the man who brought us out of the land of Mitzraim, we do not know what has become of him.'

24 "And I said to them, `Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out."

25 Now when Mosheh saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aharon had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies),

26 then Mosheh stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on HaShem's side__come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

27 And he said to them, "Thus says HaShem Elohey Yisrael: `Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

28 So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Mosheh. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

29 Then Mosheh said, "Consecrate yourselves today to HaShem, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother."

30 Now it came to pass on the next day that Mosheh said to the people, "You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to HaShem; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin" (Mk,t;xFa0ha dfaB; hr!P;kax3 yl1Ux “maybe cover over your mistake”)

31 Then Mosheh returned to HaShem and said, "Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold!

32 "Yet now, if You will forgive their sin (MtAxFA0Ha mistakes)__but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written."

33 And HaShem said to Mosheh, "Whoever has sinned against Me (yl9-xFAHA chata-li faulted me), I will blot him out of My book.

34 "Now therefore, 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 visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin"(MtAxFA0Ha chat-ta-tam)

35 So HaShem plagued (JGoy90v1 vay-yig-gop hit them with death) the people because of what they did with the calf which Aharon made.

Exodus 33:

1 Then HaShem said to Mosheh, "Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Mitzraim, to the land of which I swore to Avraham, Yitzak, and Yaacov, saying, `To your descendants I will give it.'

2 "And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaan (merchant) and the Amori (elevated) and the Chitti (terror) and the Perizzi (Villager) and the Chivvi (belonging to a village) and the Yevus (trodden down).

3 "Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff_necked people."(Jr@fo-hweq4-Mfa am-qe-sheh-orep “a hard necked/stubborn people”).

4 And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments (Oyd4f, wyxi ish edyo “man’s age”). [tUdfe “precept”; lxeydif3 Gs ornament]

5 For HaShem had said to Mosheh, "Say to the Son’s of Yisrael, `You are a stiff_necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you (j~t79yli0kiv4 ve-kilitika “and finish you - end it, finish it”). Now therefore, take off your ornaments (j~y4d4f, dr2Oh hored ed-yeka “take/bring down your stuff”??), that I may know what to do to you.'"

6 So the Son’s of Yisrael stripped themselves of their ornaments (My!d4f,-tx, *et-ed-yam “their aged things”?) by Mount Horev (mountain in the desert). (*Gesenius Lexicon thinks yd9f3 has something to do with the mouth?? Maybe something they had on for a long time??)

7 Mosheh took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tent of meeting for a set time (dfeOm lh,xo ohel moed). And it came to pass that everyone who sought HaShem went out to the tent of meeting at a set time which was outside the camp.

8 So it was, whenever Mosheh went out to the tent, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Mosheh until he had gone into the tent.

9 And it came to pass, when Mosheh entered the tent, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tent, and HaShem talked with Mosheh.

10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tent door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door.

11 So HaShem spoke to Mosheh face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Yehoshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

12 Then Mosheh said to HaShem, "See, You say to me, `Bring up this people.' But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, `I know you by name, and you have also found grace (NHe “favor”) in My sight.'

13 "Now therefore, I pray, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find favor in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people."

14 And He said, "My Presence (yn1PA “my face”) will go with you, and I will give you rest."

15 Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

16 "For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate (hl!PA), Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth."

17 So HaShem said to Mosheh, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name."

18 And he said, "Please, show me Your glory" (dObKA “Splender/majesty/honor”)

19 Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of HaShem before you. I will show favor to whom I will show favor, and I will have compassion (Mhar! “Soft/tender/affection”) on whom I will have compassion."

20 But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live."

21 And HaShem said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.

22 "So it shall be, while My glory (ydiboK4 “My Splender/majesty/honor”) passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock (rUcZha ), and will cover you with My hand (yPiKA-tX, ) while I pass by.

23 "Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back (yr!Hox3-tx,); but My face shall not be seen."

Exodus 34:

1 And HaShem said to Mosheh, "Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.

2 "So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinay, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.

3 "And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Mosheh rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinay, as HaShem had commanded (hU!ci “set up/appointed”) him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

5 Now HaShem descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of HaShem.

6 And HaShem passed before him and proclaimed, "lxe hvhy | hvhy, merciful (MOHr1) and gracious (NUn0Ha), slow to anger (MyiPaxa j`r@x, ), and abounding in goodness (ds,H, “zeal/desire/love/kindness”) and truth (tm,x< “firmness/stability/faithfulness”),

7 "Observing kindness (ds,H, rce)n ) for thousands, taking away iniquity and transgression and sin (hq20n1v4 hxAFA0Hav4 fwap,v! NOofA xWe)n nose aon va-pesha ve-cht-ta-ah ve-naq-qeh “taking away perversity and defection/rebellion and slip-ups”), by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."

[MyfiBer9-lfav44 MywiLe.wi-lfa MynibA MyniBA-lfa tObxA nOf3 | dqePo hq,0n1y4 xlo “not going to purify fathers perversity on sons cause (of neglect) of sons of third generation and to fourth generation”(lo ye-naq-qeh poqer | aon avot al-banim ve-al-bene vanim al-shil-leshim ve-al-ribe-im]

8 So Mosheh made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9 Then he said, "If now I have found favor in Your sight, my Lord (yn!dox3), let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff_necked/stubborn people; and pardon our iniquity (Unn2Of3la “perversity”) and our slip-ups, and take us as Your possession"(lHan!).

10 And He said: "Behold, I make a covenant/agreement (tyr9B; treKo yki(nxA “I’m cutting a cut”). Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of HaShem. For it is an awesome (xr!On-yKi “fearful”) thing that I will do with you.

11 "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amori (elevated) and the Canaan (merchant) and the Chitti (terror) and the Perizzi (Villager) and the Chivvi (belonging to a village) and the Yevus (trodden down) .

12 "Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant/agreement with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

13 "But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images

14 `(for you shall worship no other god, for HaShem, whose name is Jealous (xn!0q1), is a jealous God (xn!0qa lxe),

15 "lest you make a covenant/agreement with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,

16 "and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

17 "You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

18 "The Feast of Unleavened Bread (tOcZma0ha gHa-tx,) you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat mozzot, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Aviv; for in the month of Aviv you came out from Mitzraim.

19 "All that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep.

20 "But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty_handed.

21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. [tBow;Ti yfibiw;ha MOy0baU uvay-yom ha-she-vii tish-bot]

22 "And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks (tfobuwA gHa), of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering (JysixAhA gHa ) at the year's end.

23 "Three times in the year all your men shall appear before HaAdon, HaShem Elohim ye-Yisrael.

24 "For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before HaShem your God three times in the year.

25 "You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover (HsaPAha gHa Chag Hap-Pasach) be left until morning.

26 "The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of HaShem your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

27 Then HaShem said to Mosheh, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant/agreement with you and with Yisrael."

28 So he was there with HaShem forty days and forty nights; he neither ate lechem nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments

(Myr9bAD4ha tr@W,f3 tyriB;ha yr2b;D9 txe et divere ha-berit aseret had-devarim “words of the tenth part of the established words).

29 Now it was so, when Mosheh came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Precept were in Mosheh' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Mosheh did not know that the skin of his face shone (vyn!PA rOf Nr1q! YKi ki qarar or panayv “like a horn/radiate/emanate skin his face) while he talked with Him.

30 So when Aharon and all the Son’s of Yisrael saw Mosheh, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

31 Then Mosheh called to them, and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Mosheh talked with them.

32 Afterward all the Son’s of Yisrael came near, and he commanded them all that HaShem had spoken with him on Mount Sinay.

33 And when Mosheh had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

34 But whenever Mosheh went in before HaShem to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the Son’s of Yisrael whatever he had been commanded.

35 And whenever the Son’s of Yisrael saw the face of Mosheh, that the skin of Mosheh's face shone, then Mosheh would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.