Category Archives: Exodus/Shemoth

[First posted in 2012, part of the Exodus series.  Translation:  The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox “EF”; where text is unclear, it will be supplemented by AST/Artscroll Tanakh and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses.  The commentary are from S6K and AST and EF.–Admin1] ——————————————– Exodus/Shemoth Chapter 20 God spoke all these statements, saying: S6K: […]

Exodus/Shemoth 20: “I am YHWH”

[First posted in 2012, part of the Exodus series.  Translation:  The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox “EF”; where text is unclear, it will be supplemented by AST/Artscroll Tanakh and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses.  The commentary are from S6K and AST and EF.–Admin1] ——————————————– Exodus/Shemoth Chapter 20 God spoke all these statements, saying: S6K: […]

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Laws on stone, why not in heart and mind and lifestyle?

[First posted in 2015.  Jewry will soon be celebrating Passover and according to biblical history, what comes next?  Sinai.  Here are some thoughts about what happened there.—Admin1.]   —————- Ponder this:  what did the original tablets given to Moses look like? The Creator who made this perfect universe chooses to produce one more item made […]

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The UNchosen – My servant Caleb – a different spirit

[First posted in 2014; part of the series whose title went through 3 changes:  “the Outsiders”, then “the Other”, and finally “the UNchosen.”— ‘who they’?   Non-Israelites, Gentiles, just like us Sinaites, who were not “chosen” but who chose and embraced the God of Israel and joined the “mixed multitude” who left symbolic “Egypt” the […]

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