Tetzaveh

Tetzaveh 1st Portion (Exo 27)
20 “And you shall command the children of Isra’el, that they bring
you clear oil of crushed olives for the light, to kindle the lamps
continually. 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in
front of the Witness, Aharon and his sons shall keep it in order
before ‫יהוה‬ from evening to morning. It shall be an everlasting
regulation for their generations, from the children of Isra’el.

1 “And you bring near to yourself your brother Aharon, and his
sons with him, from among the children of Isra’el to serve me
as cohanim: Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, El‘azar and Itamar,
Aharon’s sons. 2 And you shall make set-apart garments for
your brother Aharon, for esteem and comeliness.

3 And you shall speak to all that are wise hearted, whom I have
filled with a spirit of wisdom, and they shall make Aharon’s
garments to set him apart, so that he may serve me as a
cohen. 4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a
choshen, an ephod, a robe, an embroidered shirt, a turban,
and a girdle. And they shall make set-apart garments for your
brother Aharon and his sons to serve me as cohanim.

5 And they shall take the gold, and blue, purple and scarlet
material, and fine linen.
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple and scarlet
material, and fine woven linen—the work of a skillful workman.
7 It shall have two shoulder pieces joined to its two edges, and
so it shall be joined together.

8 The skillfully embroidered band of the ephod, which is on it,
shall be of the same work, emanating from it: even of gold, of
blue, purple and scarlet material, and fine woven linen.
9 “And you shall take two shoham stones and engrave on them
the names of the sons of Isra’el. 10 Six of their names on one
stone and the other six names of the rest on the other stone,
according to their birth.

11 Similar to the work of an engraver in stone, similar to the
engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with
the names of the sons of Isra’el; you shall set them in filigree
settings of gold 12 And you shall put the two stones on the
shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for
the sons of Isra’el. And Aharon shall bear their names before
‫יהוה‬ on his two shoulders for a remembrance.

Tetzaveh 2nd Portion (Exo 28)
13 And you shall make filigree settings of gold 14 and two chains
of clean gold you will make them of twisted cordage work, and
you will fasten the corded chains to the filigree settings.
15 “And you shall make a choshen of right-ruling—the work of a
skillful workman. You shall make it like the work of the ephod:
of gold, of blue, purple and scarlet material, and of fine woven
linen shall you make it.

16 It shall be square and being folded double; its length shall be
one span and its width shall be one span. 17 And you shall put
into it stone settings, four rows of stones. The first row shall be
an odem, pitdah and bareketh; 18 the second row: nofech,
sappir and yahalom; 19 the third row: leshem, shevo and
achlamah; 20 and the fourth row: tarshish, shoham and
yashpheh. They shall be set in gold filigree in their settings.

21 And the stones shall be for the names of the sons of Isra’el
twelve, corresponding to their names; similar to the engravings
of a signet, every one according to his name shall they be, for
the twelve tribes.
22 “You shall make for the choshen chains at the edges, of
corded work, of clean gold.

23 You shall make for the choshen two gold rings, and you shall
put the two rings on the two ends of the choshen. 24 And you
shall put the two gold cords on the two rings at the ends of the
choshen, 25 and the two ends of the two cords you shall fasten
upon the two settings, and these you shall put upon the
shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front part.

26 And you shall make two gold rings and shall put them on the
two ends of the choshen on the edge of it, which is on the inner
side of the ephod. 27 And you shall make two gold rings and
put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, from below,
toward its front, adjacent to its seam above the band of the
ephod.

28 And they shall bind the choshen by its rings to the rings of the
ephod with a blue cord, so that it may be upon the band of the
ephod, and the choshen will not move off the ephod.
29 “Thus shall Aharon bear the names of the sons of Isra’el in the
choshen of right-ruling over his heart when he enters the Holy,
as a remembrance before ‫,יהוה‬ at all times.

30 You shall put the Urim and the Tumim into the choshen of
right-ruling so that they shall be over Aharon’s heart when he
comes before ‫.יהוה‬ And Aharon shall bear the right-ruling of
the children of Isra’el over his heart before ‫יהוה‬ at all times.

Tetzaveh 3rd Portion (Exo 28)
31 “And you shall make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue
cloth. 32 Its opening at the top shall be turned inward; its
opening shall have a binding around it, the work of a weaver. It
shall have an opening like the opening of a coat of armor; it will
not be torn. 33 And on its hem you shall make pomegranates
of blue, purple and scarlet material, all around on its hem, and
bells of gold between them all around.

34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, on the hem of the robe, all around. 35 It shall be
on Aharon when he performs the service, and its sound shall
be heard when he enters the Holy before ‫יהוה‬ and when he
leaves, so that he will not die.

36 “And you shall make a plate of clean gold and you shall
engrave upon it like the engraving of a signet:
SET-APARTNESS TO ‫.יהוה‬
37 And you shall put it upon a cord of blue wool and it shall go
over the turban, and it shall be opposite the front side of the
turban.

38 It shall be upon Aharon’s forehead, and Aharon shall bear the
guilt of the set-apart gifts that the children of Isra’el set apart,
for all their set-apart gifts. It shall be upon his forehead always
to make them favorable before ‫.יהוה‬
39 “You shall weave the long shirt of fine linen, and you shall
make a linen turban. And you shall make the girdle of woven
work.

40 For Aharon’s sons you shall make tunics and make them
girdles, and you shall make them high turbans for esteem and
comeliness. 41 With these you shall clothe Aharon your brother
and his sons along with him, and you shall anoint them and
ordain them with full authority and set them apart so that they
may serve me as cohanim.

42 “And make for them linen trousers to cover the body of their
nakedness; they shall reach from the waist down to the thighs.
43 They shall be worn by Aharon and by his sons when they
enter the tent of meeting or when they approach the altar to
attend in the Holy, so they will not bear crookedness and die.
“It shall be a lasting statute for him and for his descendants after
him.

Tetzaveh 4th Portion (Exo 29)
1 “And this is the task that you shall do for them to set them apart
to serve me as cohanim: Take one young bull and two rams,
perfect ones. 2 And matzah and matzah cakes mixed with oil,
and matzah wafers anointed with oil; you shall make them out
of fine wheat flour. 3 And you shall put them in one basket and
you shall bring them in the basket, and the bull and the two
rams.

4 Then you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the tent
of meeting and wash them with water. 5 And you shall take the
garments and dress Aharon with the tunic, with the robe of the
ephod, with the ephod, and with the choshen. And you shall
gird him with the band of the ephod. 6 You shall put the turban
upon his head and put the set-apart emblem upon the turban.

7 You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and
anoint him. 8 And you shall bring his sons near and you shall
dress them with tunics 9 and you shall gird them with girdles,
Aharon and his sons, and you shall dress them with high
turbans. And the kehunah shall be a permanent statute for
them.
And you shall invest Aharon and his sons with full authority.

10 “You shall bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and
Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the
bull. 11 You shall then slaughter the bull before ‫יהוה‬ at the
entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 And you shall take some of
the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with
your finger, and you shall pour out all the blood upon the base
of the altar.

13 You shall then take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the
appendage with the liver, also the two kidneys and the fat that
is upon them, and make them go up in smoke upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bull, its skin and its dung you shall burn
in fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
15 “And you shall take the one ram, and Aharon and his sons
shall lay their hands upon the ram’s head.

16 You shall slaughter the ram and you shall take its blood and
sprinkle it on the altar all around. 17 And you shall cut the ram
into its pieces and you shall wash its entrails and its legs, and
place them with its pieces and with its head. 18 And you shall
make the entire ram go up in smoke upon the altar. It is a burnt
offering made to ‫,יהוה‬ it is a fragrance of satisfaction, a fire
offering for ‫.יהוה‬

19 “And you shall take the second ram, and Aharon and his sons
shall lay their hands upon the ram’s head. 20 You shall
slaughter the ram, take some of its blood and put it upon the tip
of Aharon’s right ear and upon the tip of Aharon’s sons’ right
ears, upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the big
toes of their right feet. And you shall sprinkle the blood upon
the altar all around.

21 You shall then take some of the blood that is upon the altar
and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it upon Aharon and
upon his garments, upon his sons and upon the garments of
his sons with him; thus he shall become set-apart along with
his garments and his sons and their garments with him.

22 “And you shall take out of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and
the fat that covers the entrails, the appendage of the liver, the
two kidneys along with the fat that is upon them, and the right
thigh, (for it is a ram of ordination), 23 from the basket of
matzot that stands before ‫יהוה‬ take one loaf of bread, one
cake of oil bread, and one wafer.

24 And you shall put it all upon Aharon’s hands and upon his
sons’ palms and you shall wave them before ‫יהוה‬ as a waving.
25 You shall then take them from their hands and burn them on
the altar as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of satisfaction
before ‫.יהוה‬ It is an offering made to ‫יהוה‬ by fire. 26 And you
shall take the breast of the ram of ordination which is Aharon’s,
and wave it as a waving before ‫,יהוה‬ and it shall become your
portion.

27 “And you shall set apart the breast of the waving and the thigh
of the contribution, which waved and which was lifted up, of the
ram of ordination, of that which is Aharon’s and of that which is
his sons’. 28 And so it shall remain for Aharon and his sons as
the perpetual share from the children of Isra’el; for it is a
contribution. And it shall remain a contribution from the children
of Isra’el of their peace offerings; it is their contribution to ‫.יהוה‬

29 “The set-apart garments that are Aharon’s shall be for his
sons after him, to be exalted through them and invested with
full authority through them. 30 Seven days shall the one of his
sons who will be the cohen in his place wear them, the one
who is to enter the tent of meeting to attend in the Holy.
31 “You shall take the ram of ordination and cook its flesh in a
set-apart place.

32 Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the
bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of
meeting. 33 And they shall eat those offerings with which the
atonement was made, to invest them with full authority and to
set them apart. But a stranger shall not eat them, because they
are set-apart.

34 If any of the flesh of the perfection offering or of the bread is
left over until the next morning, what is left over you shall burn
in fire. It must not be eaten, because it is a set-apart thing.
35 “So shall you do to Aharon and his sons, according to all that I
have commanded you; for seven days you shall perform their
investiture.

36 And a bull as a sin offering you shall offer up every day for the
atonements. And you shall cleanse the altar by making
atonement upon it, and you shall anoint it, in order to set it
apart. 37 For seven days you shall make atonement upon the
altar and set it apart. Henceforth, the altar shall be a holy of
holies. Whatever touches the altar will be set-apart.

38 “And this is what you shall prepare upon the altar: lambs in
their first year, two a day, continually. 39 The one lamb you
shall offer up in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer
up in the afternoon. 40 And one tenth of fine flour, thoroughly
mixed with a quarter of a hin of pressed olive oil, and a libation
of one quarter of a hin of wine, for the one lamb.

41 And the other lamb you shall offer up in the afternoon; you
shall offer it up like the grain offering of the morning and its
libation—as a fragrance of satisfaction, a fire offering to ‫.יהוה‬
42 “It shall be a continual burnt offering for your generations, at
the entrance of the tent of meeting before ‫,יהוה‬ where I shall
arrange meetings with you, to speak to you there.

43 There I shall arrange meetings with the children of Isra’el, and
it shall be set apart by my esteem.
44 “I shall set apart the tent of meeting and the altar and I shall
set apart Aharon and his sons to serve me as cohanim. 45 I
shall dwell in the midst of the children of Isra’el and I shall be
their Elohim.

46 They shall know that I, ‫,יהוה‬ am their Elohim, who brought
them out of the land of Mitsrayim in order that I may dwell in
their midst. I am ‫,יהוה‬ their Elohim.

1 “You shall make an altar for bringing incense up in smoke; you
shall make it out of acacia wood. 2 It shall be one cubit long
and one cubit wide, a square, and two cubits high—its horns
shall be one piece with it. 3 You shall overlay it with clean gold,
its top, its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make
for it a gold moulding all around.

4 You shall make two gold rings for it underneath its moulding on
its two sides, you shall make them on its two sides, so that it
should serve as holders for poles with which to lift it. 5 You
shall make the poles out of acacia wood and overlay them with
gold. 6 And you shall put it in front of the dividing veil, which is
upon the ark of the witness—in front of the atonement lid,
which is upon the witness, where I will arrange to meet with
you.

Tetzaveh 7th Portion-Maftir (Exo 30)
7 “And Aharon shall burn sweet incense on it every morning
when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. 8 And
when Aharon lights the lamps in the afternoon, he shall burn
incense on it. There shall be continual incense before ‫יהוה‬
throughout your generations. 9 You shall not offer strange
incense on it or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you
shall not pour a drink offering on it.

Tetzaveh Maftir (Exo 30)
10 And Aharon shall make atonement upon its horns once a year
with the blood of the sin offering of atonement, once a year he
shall effect atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is
most set-apart to ‫”.יהוה‬

Tetzaveh Haftarah (1Sa 15)
2 Thus says ‫-יהוה‬Tzva’ot: ‘I remember that which ‘Amalek did to
Isra’el, how he laid wait against him on the way as he came up
from Mitsrayim. 3 Now go and smite ‘Amalek and totally
destroy all that they have, and do not spare them; but put to
death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep,
camel and donkey.’ ”

4 And Sha’ul summoned the people together, and mustered them
at T’la’im—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten
thousand men from Y’hudah. 5 Sha’ul came to a city of
‘Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

6 And Sha’ul said to the Keni, “Go, leave, come down from
among the ‘Amaleki so that I do not destroy you with them; for
you showed kindness to all the children of Isra’el when they
came up out of Mitsrayim.” So the Keni moved away from
amidst the ‘Amaleki.
7 And Sha’ul smote the ‘Amaleki, from Havilah until you come to
Shur, which is east of Mitsrayim.

8 He caught Agag the sovereign of the 'Amaleki alive, and he
totally destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9
But Sha’ul and the people spared Agag and the best of the
sheep and the cattle, the fatlings, and the lambs—and all that
was good, and they were not willing to destroy them
completely, but everything that was despised and worthless,
that they totally destroyed.

10 Then the word of ‫יהוה‬ came to Sh’mu’el, saying: 11 “I regret
that I have set up Sha’ul to be sovereign, for he has turned
back from following me and has not carried out my words.” And
Sh’mu’el was displeased, and he cried out to ‫יהוה‬ all night.

Tetzaveh Brit Chadashah (Heb 13)
9 Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings. For it
is good for the heart to be established by favour, not by foods
which have not profited them that have been so occupied with
them. 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the
Mishkan have no right to eat.

11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the
Set-apart Place by the cohen hagadol as an offering for sin,
are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore ‫יהושע‬ also, that he
might set apart the people through his own blood, suffered
outside the gate. 13 Let us go out to him outside the camp,
bearing his reproach. 14 For here we do not have a lasting city,
but we seek the city which is to come.

15 Through him, therefore, let us continually offer a slaughter
offering of praise to Elohim—that is, the fruit of our lips that
give thanks to his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and
to share, for with such slaughter offerings Elohim is pleased.
17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch
over your lives as those who must give an account. Let them
do this with joy, and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for
you.

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