06 Tol’dot תּוֹלְדוֹת

Parasha Excerpt

Genesis 25:19–23 (CJB)

¹⁹Here is the history of Yitz’chak, Avraham’s son. Avraham fathered Yitz’chak. ²⁰Yitz’chak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of B’tu’el the Arami from Paddan-Aram and sister of Lavan the Arami, to be his wife. ²¹Yitz’chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant. ²²The children fought with each other inside her so much that she said, “If it’s going to be like this, why go on living?” So she went to inquire of Adonai, ²³who answered her, “There are two nations in your womb. From birth they will be two rival peoples. One of these peoples will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Stern, David H. Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament). 1st ed. Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998.

Sabbath Service

2:00-4:00 PM Saturday Perth Time: 68 Waverley Street, Dianella, Western Australia.

Scripture

TORAH

Genesis 25:24-34 Esau and Ya’akov
Genesis 26:1-35 Yitz’chak and Abimelech
Genesis 27:1-46 Yitz’chak Blesses Ya’akov
Genesis 28:1-5 Ya’akov sent to Laban
Genesis 28:6-9 Esau Marries Machalat Yishma’el’s daughter

PROPHETS

Malachi 1:1-5 The word of Yahweh to Israel [through] Malachi
Malachi 1:6-2:7 An Oracle Against the Temple Priesthood

B’rit Hadashah – New Testament

John 15:9–12 (CJB)

⁹“Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love. ¹⁰If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love—just as I have kept my Father’s commands and stay in his love. ¹¹I have said this to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy be complete.

¹²“This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.

GOSPEL

Matthew 10:21–38 (CJB)

²¹“A brother will betray his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death. ²²Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever holds out till the end will be preserved from harm. ²³When you are persecuted in one town, run away to another. Yes indeed; I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Isra’el before the Son of Man comes.

²⁴“A talmid is not greater than his rabbi, a slave is not greater than his master. ²⁵It is enough for a talmid that he become like his rabbi, and a slave like his master. Now if people have called the head of the house Ba‘al-Zibbul, how much more will they malign the members of his household! ²⁶So do not fear them; for there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, or hidden that will not be known. ²⁷What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.

²⁸“Do not fear those who kill the body but are powerless to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Gei-Hinnom. ²⁹Aren’t sparrows sold for next to nothing, two for an assarion? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s consent. ³⁰As for you, every hair on your head has been counted. ³¹So do not be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.

³²“Whoever acknowledges me in the presence of others I will also acknowledge in the presence of my Father in heaven. ³³But whoever disowns me before others I will disown before my Father in heaven.

³⁴“Don’t suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword! ³⁵For I have come to set

³⁶ a man against his father,

a daughter against her mother,

a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

so that a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.^w

³⁷Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me. ³⁸And anyone who does not take up his execution-stake and follow me is not worthy of me.

^w Micah 7:6