Welcome back to my DTube Hebrew reading & language series.
The full study is now on line covering the Alef-Beyt here in my blog. This is a beginners program to teach letters, vowels, and reading. The vowels are marked in this bible and are designed to help avoid confusion on what a word is and how it is pronounced. The confusion is obvious in the hundreds of interpretations globally. In modern Hebrew, only children need a niqqud or vowel marking for each letter. Old manuscripts also usually have vowels marked.
This week - Genesis 1:30-31
This ends Genesis 1 according to the chapter and verse numbers added in the sixteenth century. Prior to that time, you would be reading on about the most important thing He did, the part he wants us to remember about creation, to rest as he rested and keep the day set apart to Him. Shabbat Shalom!
This week, the scriptures repeat that all of the fruit trees and seed bearing plants will be food. He said ha adam (man) would eat these things. This week he repeats what food will be eaten by all beasts, birds and creeping things, again, trees and plants. That is a reminder of the original intention for our diet. Meat comes later when Noah exits the ark and animals rightly start fearing man.
When the Father looked at all he had made, he said it was tov m'ode or "Very Good."
If it were not for the verse and chapter numbers, you would see that Genesis one kind of ends mid sentence.
Paraphrase
I made these creatures and determined what their food would be, I looked and it was very good at the end of the sixth day, SO all was done and I took the day off, rested, and blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
Instead of SO, someone came along about 450 years ago and placed a giant "2" there to separate things.
Definitions:
Blessed: to kneel and give a gift
To make Holy: to set apart, or differentiate
On the seventh day, YHVH gave a gift which was a new kind of day. One day of rest and reflection to remember what he had done.
Here are the links
Please click over to DTube and read the above passage with me in Hebrew.
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▶️ IPFS
If you are just starting, my lessons are all here starting at Alef, adding vowels (the dots and lines) as we go, the sofit formations and numerical values. Just go to my blog and scroll to the bottom or click here
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