34 B’midbar בְּמִדְבַּר

Parasha Excerpt

Numbers 1:1–3 (CJB)

¹ Adonai spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said, ² “Take a census of the entire assembly of the people of Isra’el, by clans and families. Record the names of all the men ³ twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra’el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.

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.

Scripture

Luke 2:1–7 (CJB)

¹ Around this time, Emperor Augustus issued an order for a census to be taken throughout the Empire. ² This registration, the first of its kind, took place when Quirinius was governing in Syria. ³ Everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. ⁴ So Yosef, because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret in the Galil to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem, in Y’hudah, ⁵ to be registered, with Miryam, to whom he was engaged, and who was pregnant. ⁶ While they were there, the time came for her to give birth; ⁷ and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.

Matthew 24:29–36 (CJB)
²⁹ “But immediately following the trouble of those times,
the sun will grow dark,
the moon will stop shining,ⁱ
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers in heaven will be shaken.^j
30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, all the tribes of the Land will mourn,^k and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with tremendous power and glory.^{l 31} He will send out his angels with a great shofar;^m and they will gather together his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
³² “Now let the fig tree teach you its lesson: when its branches begin to sprout and leaves appear, you know that summer is approaching. ³³ In the same way, when you see all these things, you are to know that the time is near, right at the door. ³⁴ Yes! I tell you that this people will certainly not pass away before all these things happen. ³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
³⁶ “But when that day and hour will come, no one knows—not the angels in heaven, not the Son, only the Father.

ⁱ  Isaiah 13:10; Ezekiel 32:7; Joel 2:10; 3:4(2:31); 4:15(3:15)
^j  Isaiah 34:4; Haggai 2:6, 21
^k  Zechariah 12:10–14
^l  Daniel 7:13–14
^m  Isaiah 27:13

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.