Va'eira, וָאֵרָא

Passages

Torah: Exodus 6:29 - 7:7
Gospel: Mark 2:23 - 2:28

Torah — Exodus 6:29 - 7:7

6:29 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I am speaking to you.”

6:30 And Moses said before Yahweh, “Look, I am a poor speaker. And how will Pharaoh listen to me?”

7:1 Yahweh Reviews Plans for Bringing the Israelites out of Egypt And Yahweh said to Moses, “See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

7:2 You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the Israelites from his land.

7:3 And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt.

7:4 And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great punishments.

7:5 And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from their midst.”

7:6 And Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

7:7 (And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.)

6:29 He had told him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, everything I tell you.”

6:30 But Moses said to the Lord, “I don’t speak very well. So why would Pharaoh listen to me?”

7:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have made you like God to Pharaoh. And your brother Aaron will be like a prophet to you.

7:2 You must say everything I command you to say. Then your brother Aaron must tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel leave his country.

7:3 “But I will make Pharaoh’s heart stubborn. I will multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt.

7:4 In spite of that, he will not listen to you. So I will use my powerful hand against Egypt. When I judge them with mighty acts, I will bring my people Israel out like an army on the march.

7:5 “Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. I will reach out my powerful hand against Egypt. I will bring the people of Israel out of it.”

7:6 Moses and Aaron did exactly as the Lord had commanded them.

7:7 Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Gospel — Mark 2:23 - 2:28

2:23 Plucking Grain on the Sabbath And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while plucking off the heads of grain.

2:24 And the Pharisees began to say to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?”

2:25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he had need and he and those who were with him were hungry—

2:26 how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave it to those who were with him?”

2:27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was established for people, and not people for the Sabbath.

2:28 So then, the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

Passages

Torah — Exodus 6:29 - 7:7

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Gospel — Mark 2:23 - 2:28

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