...Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
Genesis 47:31c

...And the king [David] bowed himself on the bed.
1 Kings 1:47d

This bowing on the bed is more than just sinking back down in exhaustion. I believe it is also symbolically recognizing the passing of authority and responsibility to the next generation. Interestingly, without vowel points that were added to the text thousands of years later, the Hebrew word for "bed" (mitah) is spelled exactly like the word for "tribe" (matah). If read as tribe instead of bed, the statement at the end of Genesis 47:31 would say "Israel bowed himself before the head of the tribe."

December 11, 2021
TORAH PORTION: "AND HE DRAW NEAR"
PARASHAH: “VAYIGASH” ויגש
Genesis 44:18 -- 47:27
HAFTORAH PORTION
Ezekiel 37:15-2
BRIT HADASHAH PORTION
Luke 6:12-16

Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, image courtesy of: https://newcastlebeach.org/ima....ges/joseph-and-his-b

Bless the Lord everyday

In #genesis 47:29-30, Jacob asked Joseph to promise that he would not bury him in Egypt, but carry his remains back to Canaan and bury him with Abraham. While he meant this literally, he also did not want his descendants to stay in Egypt forever either. He prayed to Joseph to carry his bones back to his fathers and simultaneously prayed to Messiah, represented in the person of Joseph, to carry his children back to the Promised Land also.

On another level of midrash, there is a lesson here for us too. When you have died to your old, sinful self, you shouldn't remain in spiritual Egypt. Your environment needs to change: friends, hobbies, job, church, city, etc... One or more will probably have to go.

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So thankful for Corner Fringe, and for Daniels teaching. So very thorough and life changing!

#readmethebiblegarth now includes a new recording of Ezekiel 1-36 in Hebrew with translation, and in the Lawful Literal Version, here:

Does doing as YHWH commanded mean 'trusting ones own righteousness'?! Not so at all! The Ezekiel 33 LLV132 for 2022 recording includes a special message about what it means to 'trust ones own righteousness' rather than to walk by faith/faithfulness -by which faith/faithfulness YHWH has always saved people: the faithfulness that keeps hearing and keeps doing what He has commanded, which doesn't put righteousness on pause.

Covering cherub?! The 'Ezekiel 28 Hebrew for 2022' reading explains the differences between the Masoretic and (the earlier) Greek witnesses to the early Hebrew text in Ezekiel 28:12-19, a passage which many Christians are taught to assume is about the history of a 'Lucifer' they think is also referred to in Isaiah 14:12. The uncertain foundations of this 'Lucifer the Covering Cherub' myth are thus exposed. The passages literally denounce human kings. Ezekiel 28:12-19 denounces the king of Tyre, who is therein likened to the priest-like Adam who (because of iniquity found in him) was cast out of the set-apart place of God's garden in Eden.

The Hebrew for 2022 recordings demonstrate the Grenache tonal reading method for the Hebrew text which brings out the meaningful divisions of verses, according to semantic meaning of the cantillation marks found in the Masoretic text.