Ki Tisa, כִּי תִשָּׂא — 7/27/24

Torah: Exodus 31:18 - 33:11 (47)

Gospel: Mark 13:24 - 13:37 (14)

Passages

Torah — Exodus 31:18 - 33:11

LEB translation

31:18 And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God.
32:1 The Golden Calf And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered opposite Aaron, and they said to him, “Come, make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
32:2 And Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring it to me.”
32:3 And all the people took off the rings of gold that were on their ears and brought it to Aaron.
32:4 And he took from their hand, and he shaped it with a tool, and he made it a cast-image bull calf, and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
32:5 And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before it, and Aaron called, and he said, “A feast for Yahweh tomorrow.”
32:6 And they started early the next day, and they offered burnt offerings, and they presented fellowship offerings, and the people sat to eat and drink, and they rose up to revel.
32:7 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, go down because your people behave corruptly, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt.
32:8 They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a cast-image bull calf, and they bowed to it, and they sacrificed to it, and they said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
32:9 And Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and, indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.
32:10 And now leave me alone so that my anger may blaze against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation.”
32:11 And Moses implored Yahweh his God, and he said, “Why, Yahweh, should your anger blaze against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning the disaster for your people.
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, ‘I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.’”
32:14 And Yahweh relented concerning the disaster that he had threatened to do to his people.
32:15 And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand, tablets written on their two sides; on the front and on the back they were written.
32:16 And the tablets, they were the work of God; and the writing, it was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
32:17 And Joshua heard the sound of the people in their shouting, and he said to Moses, “A sound of war is in the camp.”
32:18 But he said, “There is not a sound of shouting of victory, and there is not a sound of shouting of defeat. I hear a sound of singing.”
32:19 And as he came near to the camp, he saw the bull calf and dancing, and Moses became angry, and he threw the tablets from his hand, and he broke them under the mountain.
32:20 And he took the bull calf that they had made, and he burned it with the fire, and he crushed it until it became fine, and he scattered it on the surface of the water, and he made the Israelites drink.
32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you brought on them such a great sin?”
32:22 And Aaron said, “Let not my lord become angry. You yourself know the people, that they are intent on evil.
32:23 And they said to me, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
32:24 And I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off.’ And they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and out came this bull calf.”
32:25 And Moses saw the people, that they were running wild because Aaron had allowed them to run wild, for a laughingstock among their enemies.
32:26 And Moses stood at the entrance of the camp, and he said, “Whoever is for Yahweh, to me.” And all the sons of Levi were gathered to him.
32:27 And he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Put each his sword on his side. Go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each his brother and each his friend and each his close relative.’”
32:28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and from the people on that day about three thousand persons fell.
32:29 And Moses said, “You are ordained today for Yahweh, because each has been against his son and against his brother and so bringing on you today a blessing.”
32:30 And the next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
32:31 And Moses returned to Yahweh, and he said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin and made for themselves gods of gold.
32:32 And now if you will forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me from your scroll that you have written.”
32:33 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot him from my scroll.
32:34 And now go, lead the people to where I spoke to you. Look, my angel will go before you, and on the day when I punish I will punish them for their sin.”
32:35 And Yahweh afflicted the people because they had made the bull calf that Aaron had made.
33:1 Command to Resume Travel And Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land that I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’
33:2 And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
33:3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way.”
33:4 And the people heard this troubling word, and they mourned, and they each did not put their ornaments on themselves.
33:5 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if one moment I were to go up among you, I would destroy you. And now take down your ornaments from on you, and I will decide what I will do to you.”
33:6 And the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.
33:7 The Tent outside the Camp And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp far from the camp, and he called it the tent of assembly, and all seeking Yahweh would go out to the tent of assembly, which was outside the camp.
33:8 And at the going out of Moses to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at the opening of his tent, and gaze after Moses until his entering the tent.
33:9 And at the entering of Moses into the tent the column of cloud would descend and stand at the opening of the tent, and he would speak with Moses.
33:10 And all the people would see the column of cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people would rise and bow in worship, each at the opening of his tent.
33:11 And Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbor. And he would return to the camp, and his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tent.

NIRV translation

Gospel — Mark 13:24 - 13:37

LEB translation

13:24 The Arrival of the Son of Man “But in those days, after that tribulation, ‘the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,
13:25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.’
13:26 And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds with great power and glory.
13:27 And then he will send out the angels, and will gather the elect together from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.
13:28 The Parable of the Fig Tree “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
13:29 So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, at the door.
13:30 Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these things take place!
13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
13:32 The Unknown Day and Hour “But concerning that day or hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven nor the Son—except the Father.
13:33 Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is!
13:34 It is like a man away on a journey, who left his house and gave his slaves authority—to each one his work—and to the doorkeeper he gave orders that he should be on the alert.
13:35 Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning—
13:36 lest he arrive suddenly and find you sleeping.
13:37 And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be on the alert!”

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