Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Shavu'ot / Pentecost - Festival of Weeks - this week's Torah reading


Prophecy 89,136,150;
Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17;
Numbers 28:26-31;
Habakkuk 3:1-19;
Acts 2:1-47;
 



Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17;


22 Tithing you shall tithe all the increase of your seed that the field yields year by year.
23 And you shall eat before YAHUVEH your Elohim in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there (Jerusalem), the tithe of your grain, of your wine4, and of your oil, and the first-lings of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear YAHUVEH your Elohim all your days.
24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you cannot carry it, because the place is too far from you which YAHUVEH your Elohim shall choose to set His name there, when YAHUVEH your Elohim shall bless you;
25 Then you shall give it for silver, and bind up the silver in your hand. And you shall go to the place which YAHUVEH your Elohim shall choose (Jerusalem).
26 And you shall pay the silver for whatever your soul rightly desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for fermented drink, or for whatever your soul desires. And you shall eat there before YAHUVEH your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27 And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28 At the end of three years, even the same year, you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase, and shall lay it up within your gates.
29 And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the alien, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come and shall eat and be satisfied; so that YAHUVEH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do. (Gal 2:9-10, Gal 6:10)

*~ Deuteronomy Chapter 15 ~*


1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. (Lev 25;1-7)
2 And this is the manner of the release: Everyone who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because a release has been proclaimed for YAHUVEH.(Deu 31:10)
3 You may exact it from a foreigner, but your hand shall release whatever is yours with your brother,
4 only that there shall be no one in need among you. For YAHUVEH will greatly bless you in the land that YAHUVEH your Elohim is giving you for an inheritance, to possess it,
5 only if carefully you will listen to the voice of YAHUVEH your Elohim, to take heed to do all this command ments, which I am commanding you today.
6 For YAHUVEH your Elohim will bless you as He promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
7 If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which YAHUVEH your Elohim is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother.
8 But you shall open your hand wide to him, and surely you shall lend him enough for his need in that which he lacks. (2 Cor 9:6-8)
9 Beware that there is no evil thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release draws near; and your eye be evil against your needy brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to YAHUVEH against you and it be sin to you.
10 Surely, you shall give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because YAHUVEH your Elohim will bless you for this thing, in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. (2 Cor 9:7)
11 For the needy will never cease from the midst of the land. On account of this I command you, saying, Opening you shall open your hand to your poor and needy brother in your land.
12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. (Jer 34:14)
13 And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.
14 You shall richly adorn him from your flock, and from your threshing floor, and from your winepress, with that which YAHUVEH your Elohim has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YAHUVEH your Elohim redeemed you. On account of this I command you this thing today. (Ex 13:3, Deut 24:18)
16 And it shall be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you, because he loves you and your house, because it was good for him with you;
17 then you shall take an awl, and shall put it through his ear, and through the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And you shall do so to your slave-girl also. (Ex 21:1-6)
18 It shall not seem hard in your eyes when you send him away free from you. For to the double of the hire of a hireling he has served you six years. And YAHUVEH your Elohim will bless you in all that you do.
19 The firstling males that are born of your herd and of your flock, you shall sanctify to YAHUVEH your Elohim. You shall do no work with the firstling of your ox, nor shear the firstling of your flock. (Ex 13:2)
20 You shall eat it before YAHUVEH your Elohim year by year in the place which YAHUVEH shall choose, you and your household. (Deut 12:5-7, 17,18)
21 And if there is any blemish in it, lameness, or blindness, or any evil blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to YAHUVEH your Elohim.
22 You shall eat it inside your gates; the unclean one and the clean one alike, as the gazelle and as the hart.
23 Only, you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water. (Lev 17:10-12)

*~ Deuteronomy Chapter 16 ~*


1 Observe the month Aviv, and perform the Passover to YAHUVEH your Elohim. For in the month of Aviv, YAHUVEH your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night. (Num 33:3)
2 And you shall sacrifice a Passover to YAHUVEH your Elohim of the flock, and of the herd, in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there (Jerusalem).
3 You shall eat with it no leaven. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days3, even the bread of affliction. For you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day that you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 And there shall be no leaven seen with you in your borders seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrificed the first day at evening remain all night until the morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover offering inside any of your gates, which YAHUVEH your Elohim gives you.
6 But at the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there (Jerusalem), you shall sacrifice the Passover offering at evening, at the going of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt. (Ex 12:42, Is 18:7)
7 And you shall cook and eat in the place which YAHUVEH your Elohim shall choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go into your tents. (Ex 12:8-9)
8 You shall eat unleavened things six days, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to YAHUVEH your Elohim. You shall do no work.
9 You shall number to yourself seven weeks. When the sickle begins to reap in the standing grain, you shall begin to number seven weeks.
10 And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to YAHUVEH your Elohim according to the measure of the freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give according as YAHUVEH your Elohim blesses you.
11 And you shall rejoice before YAHUVEH your Elohim, you and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave-girl, and the Levite that is inside your gates, and the alien, and the fatherless, and the widow that are among you, in the place which YAHUVEH your Elohim shall choose to cause His name to dwell there.
12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall take heed to do these statutes.
13 You shall perform the Feast of Tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in from your grain-floor, and from your winepress.
14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave-girl, and the Levite, and the alien, and the fatherless, and the widow that are inside your gates.
15 You shall keep a solemn feast seven days to YAHUVEH your Elohim in the place which YAHUVEH shall choose (Jerusalem); for YAHUVEH your Elohim shall bless you in all your produce, and in every work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before YAHUVEH your Elohim in the place which He shall choose (Jerusalem): In the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks and in the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before YAHUVEH empty, (2 Chron 6:6, Is 33:20, Ps 122:3-4)
17 but each with his gift of his hand, according to the blessing of YAHUVEH your Elohim, which He has given you.

Numbers 28:26-31


26 And in the day of the first-fruits, as you offer a new food offering to YAHUVEH in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service;
27 and you shall offer a burnt offering for a soothing fragrance to YAHUVEH: two bulls, sons of the herd, one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year
28 and their food offering, flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts to the one bull, two tenth parts to the one ram,
29 one tenth part to the one lamb, for the seven lambs;
30 one kid of the goats to atone for you.
31 You shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering and drink offerings; they shall be ones without blemish for you.