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Parashat Masei

"Journeys of"

Bamidbar [Numbers] 33:1-36:13

Masei is the Hebrew y[eäs.m; which means stages, or pulling up, breaking camp, setting out, journey.  Mosheh was commanded to record each stop along the journey.  It is believed that the names of the places along their journey have prophetic significance and meaning for the life journey of everyone in covenant relationship with the Almighty.

Theme

The theme of Parashat Masei

Sedarim

The Stages of Yisrael's Journey

Directions for the Conquest of Canaan

The Boundaries of the Land

Leaders For Each Tribe to Assign Inheritances

Cities For the Lewites

Instructions Concerning Murder and Manslaughter

The Unremovability of Tribal Inheritances (Zelophehad's Daughters)

Prophetic Pictures in this Week's Torah Portion

Messiah in the Torah Parashah

Prophetic End Time Shadows in the Torah Parashah

33:1 Here are the stages in the journey of the sons of Yisrael when they came out of Mitzrayim by divisions under the leadership of Mosheh and Aharon.
2 At Yahuwah's command Mosheh recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages:

The Stages of Yisrael's Journey

3 The sons of Yisrael set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Pesach. They marched out boldly in full view of all the Mitzrayim,
4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahuwah had struck down among them; for Yahuwah had brought judgment on their gods.
5 The sons of Yisrael left Rameses and camped at Succoth.
6 They left Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.
7 They left Etham, turned back to Pi Hahiroth, to the east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol.
8 They left Pi Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert, and when they had traveled for three days in the Desert of Etham, they camped at Marah.
9 They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
10 They left Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 They left the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
12 They left the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
13 They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
14 They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15 They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.
16 They left the Desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
17 They left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
18 They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
19 They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
20 They left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
21 They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22 They left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23 They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24 They left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25 They left Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26 They left Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27 They left Tahath and camped at Terah.
28 They left Terah and camped at Mithcah.
29 They left Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah.
30 They left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
31 They left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
32 They left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad.
33 They left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34 They left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
35 They left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
36 They left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.
37 They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the border of Edom.
38 At Yahuwah's command Aharon the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the sons of Yisrael came out of Mitzrayim.
39 Aharon was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the sons of Yisrael were coming.
41 They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42 They left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43 They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
44 They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.
45 They left Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad.
46 They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.
47 They left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.
48 They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
49 There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.

Here are the 42 places along the journey:

1. Rameses ssem.[;r from ~[;r' to thunder, and perhaps sWs horse.  Does this mean "the thunder of horses"?   

2. Succoth

3. Etham

4. Migdol

5. Marah

6. Elim

7. Red Sea

8. Desert of Sin

9. Dophkah

10.Alush

11. Rephidim

12. Desert of Sinai

13. Kibroth Hattaavah

14. Hazeroth

15. Rithmah

16. Rimmon Perez.

17. Libnah.

18. Rissah

19. Kehelathah

20. Mount Shepher

21 Haradah

22. Makheloth

23. Tahath

24. Terah

25. Mithcah

26. Hashmonah

27. Moseroth

28. Bene Jaakan

29. Hor Haggidgad

30. Jotbathah

31. Abronah

32. Ezion Geber

33. Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin

34. Mount Hor, on the border of Edom

35. Zalmonah

36. Punon

37. Oboth

38. Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab

39. Dibon Gad

40. Almon Diblathaim

41. Abarim, near Nebo

42. plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.

Directions for the Conquest of Canaan

50 On the plains of Moab by the Yarden across from Jericho Yahuwah said to Mosheh,
51 "Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them: 'When you cross the Yarden into Canaan,
52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
54 Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.
55 "'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.'"

The Boundaries of the Land

34:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,
2 "Command the sons of Yisrael and say to them: 'When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance will have these boundaries:
3 "'Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern boundary will start from the end of the Salt Sea,
4 cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon,
5 where it will turn, join the Wadi of Mitzrayim and end at the Sea.
6 "'Your western boundary will be the coast of the Great Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
7 "'For your northern boundary, run a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor
8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,
9 continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
10 "'For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Kinnereth.
12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. "'This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.'"
13 Mosheh commanded the sons of Yisrael: "Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. Yahuwah has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes,
14 because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
15 These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on the east side of the Yarden of Yericho, toward the sunrise."

Leaders For Each Tribe to Assign Inheritances

16 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,
17 "These are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Yahusha son of Nun.
18 And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land.
19 These are their names: Caleb son of Yephunneh, from the tribe of Yehudah;
20 Shemuel son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Simeon;
21 Elidad son of Kislon, from the tribe of Benjamin;
22 Bukki son of Jogli, the leader from the tribe of Dan;
23 Hanniel son of Ephod, the leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Yoseph;
24 Kemuel son of Shiphtan, the leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Yoseph;
25 Elizaphan son of Parnach, the leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
26 Paltiel son of Azzan, the leader from the tribe of Issachar;
27 Ahihud son of Shelomi, the leader from the tribe of Asher;
28 Pedahel son of Ammihud, the leader from the tribe of Naphtali."
29 These are the men Yahuwah commanded to assign the inheritance to the sons of Yisrael in the land of Canaan.

Cities For the Lewites

35:1 On the plains of Moab by the Yarden across from Yericho, Yahuwah said to Mosheh,
2 "Command the sons of Yisrael to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the sons of Yisrael will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns.
3 Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for their cattle, flocks and all their other livestock.
4 "The pasturelands around the towns that you give the Levites will extend out fifteen hundred feet from the town wall.
5 Outside the town, measure three thousand feet on the east side, three thousand on the south side, three thousand on the west and three thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.
6 "Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.
7 In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.
8 The towns you give the Levites from the land the sons of Yisrael possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few."

Instructions Concerning Murder and Manslaughter

16 "'If a man strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
17 Or if anyone has a stone in his hand that could kill, and he strikes someone so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
18 Or if anyone has a wooden object in his hand that could kill, and he hits someone so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
19 The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
20 If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies
21 or if in hostility he hits him with his fist so that he dies, that person shall be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
22 "'But if without hostility someone suddenly shoves another or throws something at him unintentionally
23 or, without seeing him, drops a stone on him that could kill him, and he dies, then since he was not his enemy and he did not intend to harm him,
24 the assembly must judge between him and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.
25 The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send him back to the city of refuge to which he fled. He must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
26 "'But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he has fled
27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.
28 The accused must stay in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may he return to his own property.
29 "'These are to be legal requirements for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.
30 "'Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
31 "'Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. He must surely be put to death.
32 "'Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow him to go back and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
33 "'Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
34 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, Yahuwah, dwell among the sons of Yisrael.'"

The Unremovability of Tribal Inheritances (Zelophehad's Daughters)

36:1 The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Yoseph, came and spoke before Mosheh and the leaders, the heads of the Yisraelite families.
2 They said, "When Yahuwah commanded my Yahuwah to give the land as an inheritance to the sons of Yisrael by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
3 Now suppose they marry men from other Yisraelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.
4 When the Year of Jubilee for the sons of Yisrael comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our forefathers."
5 Then at Yahuwah's command Mosheh gave this order to the sons of Yisrael: "What the tribe of the descendants of Yoseph is saying is right.
6 This is what Yahuwah commands for Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within the tribal clan of their father.
7 No inheritance in Yisrael is to pass from tribe to tribe, for every Yisraelite shall keep the tribal land inherited from his forefathers.
8 Every daughter who inherits land in any Yisraelite tribe must marry someone in her father's tribal clan, so that every Yisraelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe, for each Yisraelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits."
10 So Zelophehad's daughters did as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.
11 Zelophehad's daughters-- Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah-- married their cousins on their father's side.
12 They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Yoseph, and their inheritance remained in their father's clan and tribe.
13 These are the commands and regulations Yahuwah gave through Mosheh to the sons of Yisrael on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Messiah in the Torah Parashah

Prophetic End Time Shadows in the Torah Parashah