Posted by Navah on Feb 9, 2020 in Hebrew Study, The Exodus
There is a peculiar passage in the Exodus story regarding how Israel left Egypt. The Sages of old sought to find a meaningful interpretation of an obscured Hebrew word in the Book of Exodus in order to explain this passage. It is in Exo 13:18 that reads thus, But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. (Exo 13:18 JPS) King James’ version of the Bible also renders the...
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Posted by Navah on Sep 4, 2019 in The Exodus
The Salt Sea, known as the Dead Sea, was not in existence in the times of the patriarchs, Avraham, Yitschak and Ya’akov, as seen in the Genesis account. So, when did the Salt Sea come into being, because the Yarden (the Jordan River) was in existence before the Salt Sea (Dead Sea)? The Book of Genesis depicts the time before the patriarchs as time of great changes in nature. i.e. the Flood, but nothing in the narrative is said about an event in which the Yarden Valley...
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Posted by Navah on Jan 28, 2018 in The Exodus, The Messiah
When Mosheh came down to the camp to find out that Israel had already desecrated the Covenant of YHVH, commonly know as The Ten Commandments, by having broken the Second Commandment and threw the tablets and broke them before their eyes, did he not know what he did? Did he not know that the tablets were written with the finger of Elohim? Yes, Mosheh was completely aware of the consequences for his actions. When he broke the tablets of the Covenant of YHVH, he knew that they...
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Posted by Navah on Jan 21, 2018 in The Exodus
When Mosheh broke the tablets of stone, aka the Ten Commandments, what happened to the pieces? Were they left on the ground and thus they were lost forever in the desert? Or, they were stored somewhere. And if they were stored somewhere, where are they now? And why would Mosheh break something written with the finger of Elohim in the first place? These are all legitimate questions and in order to find answers to them, we need to follow the sequence of events in the first...
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Posted by Navah on Oct 9, 2017 in The Exodus
Something crucial took place at the threshold of the Promised Land. Mosheh sent twelve spies to the land. Ten spies brought an evil report and the journey from Sinai to the land took not eleven days but thirty-eight years. The generation of the Exodus became “the generation of the desert.” So, what went wrong? Israel came out of Egypt in the month of the aviv. They were led to the mountain where they entered into a wedding ceremony with YHVH and as a result of which the...
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Posted by Navah on Jul 2, 2017 in The Exiles, The Exodus
Little is known of the 38 years Israel lived in the desert of Arabia. “What was the life of Israel in Arabia?” and “Why a smaller number of people entered the Land?” are the questions we will seek answers in this study. In the article Israel’s Whoring in Egypt, we studied that the Israelites lived a comfortable life in the Egyptian exile and had they remained a moment longer there, they would have risked becoming part of it and there would have...
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Posted by Navah on Jan 22, 2017 in The Exodus
Where is the real Mount Sinai? Many people have been led to believe that Mount Sinai, where YHVH gave Israel the Ten Commandments but more properly the Covenant and where Israel wandered forty years, is located in the Sinai Peninsula in modern-day Egypt, as seen from the image below. And if this is the real Mount Sinai, we should expect to find artifacts left by the Israelites in the Sinai Peninsula. After all, it is believed they had wandered through the peninsula forty...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 6, 2016 in The Exodus
There was a righteous gentile that left Egypt together with Israel. In fact, by this act of love for Israel that person was not considered any longer a “gentile” but a part of Israel. Who was that person who left Egypt with Israel? The answer cannot be found in Exodus, nor in Torah, but in a historical book where it can be easily overlooked. We read from the Book of Chronicles thus, And his wife Yehudiyah bore Yered the father of Gedor, and Chever the father of...
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Posted by Navah on Oct 4, 2016 in Prophecy Insight, The Exodus
Yoseph (Joseph) gave the Hebrews the land of Goshen when Ya’akov (Jacob) and his family came down to Egypt. Yoseph being second in command only after Pharaoh settled them in the land of Goshen where they would live and feed their flocks. But there was also Yoseph’s a second intent to settle them in Goshen, namely, to keep them separate from the paganism of the Egyptians. At the end the Egyptian exile, when the time came for Israel to leave, Elohim passed through...
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Posted by Navah on Jul 15, 2016 in The Exodus
There is a debate as to when exactly Israel was brought out of Egypt. Let us examine the issue. We will read from King James’ version of the Bible. Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. (Deu 16:1 KJV) שָׁמֹורWatch אֶת־חֹ֣דֶשׁnew moon of הָאָבִ֔יב the Aviv וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ and to do פֶּ֔סַח Pesach לַיהוָ֖ה for Yehovah אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ your Elohim כִּ֞י because...
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