Haftarah Shophtim (Judges) 11:1-33

Chukkat 19:1-22:1

Haftarah Shophtim (Judges) 11:1-33

ראשון(Rishon)

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And YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
2 This is the ordinance of the Torah which YHWHhas commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Yisrael, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which is no defect, and upon which never came a yoke:
3 And you shall give it to El-Azar the kohen, that he may bring it outside the camp, and one shall

slay it before him:
4 And El-Azar the kohen shall take of its dahm with his finger, and sprinkle of its dahm directly before the Tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; its skin, and its flesh, and its dahm, with its dung, shall he burn:
6 And the kohen shall take cedarwood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
7 Then the kohen shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in mayim, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the kohen shall be unclean until the evening.
8 And he that burns it shall wash his clothes in mayim, and bathe his body in mayim, and shall be unclean until the evening.
9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Yisrael for the mayim of separation: it is for purification from sin.
10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Yisrael, and to the ger that sojourns among them, for a law le-olam-va-ed.

11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall purify himself with mayim on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he does not purify himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever touches the body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the Tabernacle of YHWH; and that being shall be cut off from Yisrael: because the mayim of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
14 This is the Torah, of when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which has no covering fastened upon it, is unclean.
16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burned heifer of purification for sin, and running mayim shall be put into a vessel:

שני(Sheni)

18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the mayim, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in mayim, and shall be clean at evening.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that being shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the Kadosh-Place of YHWH: the mayim of separation has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual chuk to them; that he that sprinkles the mayim of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the mayim of separation shall be unclean until evening.
22 And anything the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the being that touches him shall be unclean until evening.

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Then came the children of Yisrael, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Tzin in the first month: and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miryam died there, and was buried there.
2 And there was no mayim for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon.
3 And the people contended with Moshe, and spoke, saying, Would to Elohim that we had died when our brothers died before YHWH!
4 And why have you brought up the congregation of YHWH into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die here?
5 And why have you made us to come up out of Mitzrayim, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of zera, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any mayim to drink.
6 And Moshe and Aharon went from the presence of the congregation to the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the tifereth of YHWH appeared to them.

שלישי(Shlishi)

7 And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather the congregation together, you, and Aharon your brother, and speak to the Rock before their eyes; and it shall give out its mayim, and you shall bring them mayim out of the Rock: so you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moshe took the rod from before YHWH, as He commanded him.
10 And Moshe and Aharon gathered the congregation together before the Rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you mayim out of this Rock?
11 And Moshe lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the Rock twice: and the mayim came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12And YHWH spoke to Moshe and Aharon, Because you believed Me not, to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Yisrael, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
13 This is the mayim of Merivah; because the children of Yisrael strove with YHWH, and He was made kadosh in them.

רביעי(Revi’i)

14 And Moshe sent messengers from Kadesh to the melech of Edom, This says your brother Yisrael, You know all the travail that has befallen us:
15 How our ahvot went down into Mitzrayim, and we had dwelt in Mitzrayim a long time; and the Mitzrim did evil to us, and to our ahvot:
16 And when we cried to YHWH, He heard our voice, and sent a Malach, and has brought us out of Mitzrayim: and, see, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border:
17 Let us pass, I ask you, through your country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the mayim of the wells: we will go by the melech's highway, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your borders.
18 And Edom said to him, You shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.
19 And the children of Yisrael said to him, We will go by the highway: and if my cattle and I drink of your mayim, then I will pay for it: Let me only pass through on foot without a word.
20 And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Yisrael passage through his border: therefore Yisrael turned away from him.

חמישי(Chamishi)

22 And the children of Yisrael, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came to Mount Hor.
23 And YHWH spoke to Moshe and Aharon in Mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
24 Aharon shall be gathered to his people: for he shall not enter into the land that I have given to the children of Yisrael, because you rebelled against My word at the mayim of Merivah.
25 Take Aharon and El-Azar his son, and bring them up to MountHor:
26 And strip Aharon of his garments, and put them upon El-Azar his son: and Aharon shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.
27And Moshe did as YHWH commanded: and they went up into MountHor in the sight of the entire congregation.
28And Moshe stripped Aharon of his garments, and put them upon El-Azar his son; and Aharon died there at the top of the mount: and Moshe and El-Azar came down from the mount.
29 And when the entire congregation saw that Aharon was dead, they mourned for Aharon thirty days, even kol beit Yisrael.

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And when melech Arad the Kanaanite, who dwelt in the south, heard that Yisrael came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Yisrael, and took some of them prisoners.
2 And Yisrael vowed a vow to YHWH, and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, and then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3 And YHWH listened to the voice of Yisrael, and delivered up the Kanaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from MountHor by the way of the Sea Of Reeds, to go around the land of Edom: and the beings of the people were very discouraged because of this route.
5 And the people spoke against Elohim, and against Moshe, Why have you brought us up out of Mitzrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no lechem, and neither is there any mayim, and our being hates this light lechem.
6 And YHWH sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Yisrael died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moshe, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against YHWH, and against you; ask YHWH, that He may take away the serpents from us. And Moshe made tefillah for the people.
8 And YHWH said to Moshe, Make a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it, shall live.
9And Moshe made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of brass, he lived.

ששי(Shishi)

10 And the children of Yisrael set forward, and camped in Ovoth.
11 And they journeyed from Ovoth, and camped at Iye Ha-Avarim, in the wilderness that is before Moav, towards the rising of the sun.
12 From there they moved, and camped in the Valley of Zered.
13 From there they moved, and camped on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moav, between Moav and the Amorites.
14 Therefore it is said in the Scroll of the Wars of YHWH, what He did in the Sea Of Reeds, and in the brooks of Arnon,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar, and lies upon the border of Moav.
16 And from there they went to Be-er: that is the well of which YHWH had spoken to Moshe, Gather the people together, and I will give them mayim.
17 Then Yisrael sang this shir, Spring up O well; sing to it:
18 The leaders dug the well, the nobles of the people dug it, by the direction of the Torah-Giver, with their shovels. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahali-El: and from Nahali-El to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moav, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward Yeshimon.

שביעי(Shavi’i)

21 And Yisrael sent messengers to Sichon melech of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the mayim of the well: but we will go along by the melech's highway, until we are past your borders.
23 And Sichon would not allow Yisrael to pass through his border: but Sichon gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisrael into the wilderness: and he came to Yahatz, and fought against Yisrael.
24 And Yisrael smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Yavok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25 And Yisrael took all these cities: and Yisrael dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Cheshbon, and in all the villages of it.
26 For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the melech of the Amorites, who had fought against the former melech of Moav, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in mishle say, Come into Cheshbon, let the city of Sichon be built and prepared:
28 For there is a fire gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon: it has consumed Ar of Moav, and the masters of the high places of Arnon.
29 Woe to you, Moav! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sichon melech of the Amorites.
30 We have shot at them; Cheshbon is perished even to Divon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeva.
31 So Yisrael dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moshe sent to spy out Yaatzer, and they took the villages of it, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the melech of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
34 And YHWH said to Moshe,Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sichon melech of the Amorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there were none left to him alive: and they possessed his land.

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And the children of Yisrael set forward, and camped in the plains of Moav on this side of the Yarden by Yericho.