Reading through the Orthodox Jewish Bible in One Year – Day One
Genesis 1-3, Matthew 1 (Orthodox Jewish Bible)
Bereshis 1: 1 In the beginning Elohim created hashomayim (the
heavens, Himel) and haaretz (the earth).
2 And the earth was tohu vavohu (without form, and void); and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Ruach Elohim was hovering upon
the face of the waters.
3 And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light
[Tehillim 33:6,9].
4 And Elohim saw the light, that it was tov (good); and Elohim
divided the ohr (light) from the choshech (darkness).
5 And Elohim called the light Yom (Day), and the darkness He
called Lailah (Night). And the erev (evening) and the boker (morning) were Yom
Echad (Day One, the First Day, Mk 16:2).
6 And Elohim said, Let there be a raki’a (expanse, dome,
firmament) in the midst of the mayim (waters), and let it divide the mayim from
the mayim.
7 And Elohim made the raki’a, and divided the waters under the
raki’a from the waters which were above the raki’a; and it was so.
8 And Elohim called the raki’a Shomayim (Heaven). And the erev
and the boker were Yom Sheni (Day Two, the Second Day).
9 And Elohim said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the yabashah (dry land) appear; and it was so.
10 And Elohim called the yabashah Eretz (Earth); and the mikveh
(gathering together of the waters) called He Seas; and Elohim saw that it was
tov.
11 And Elohim said, Let the earth bring forth vegetation, the
herb yielding zera (seed), and the fruit tree yielding pri (fruit) after its
kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth vegetation, and herb yielding
zera (seed) after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after its kind; and Elohim saw that it was tov (good).
13 And the erev and the boker were Yom Shlishi (Day Three, the
Third Day).
14 And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the raki’a of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for otot (signs), and
for mo’adim (seasons), and for yamim (days), and shanim (years);
15 And let them be for lights in the raki’a of the heaven to
give light upon the earth; and it was so.
16 And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the kokhavim (stars)
also.
17 And Elohim set them in the raki’a of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness; and Elohim saw that it was tov.
19 And the erev and the boker were Yom Revi’i (Day Four, the
Fourth Day).
20 And Elohim said, Let the waters bring forth an abundance of
living creatures, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open raki’a of
heaven.
21 And Elohim created great sea creatures, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth in abundance, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and Elohim saw that it was tov.
22 And Elohim blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the erev and the boker were Yom Chamishi (Day Five, the
Fifth Day).
24 And G-d said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its
kind; and it was so.
25 And G-d made the beast of the earth after its kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its
kind; and G-d saw that it was tov.
26 And G-d said, Let Us make man in Our tzelem, after Our demut:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon ha’aretz (the earth).
27 So G-d created humankind in His own tzelem, in the tzelem
Elohim (image of G-d) created He him; zachar (male) and nekevah (female)
created He them.
28 And G-d blessed them, and G-d said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.
29 And G-d said, Hinei, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of kol ha’aretz (all the earth), and every etz
(tree), in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be
for food.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I
have given every green herb for food; and it was so.
31 And G-d saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was
tov me’od (very good). And the erev and the boker were Yom Shishi (Day Six, the
Sixth Day).
2:1 Thus HaShomayim and Ha’Aretz were finished, and all the
tza’va of them.
2 And on Yom HaShevi’i Elohim finished His work which He had
made; and He rested on the Yom HaShevi’i from all His work which He had made.
3 Vayevarech Elohim et Yom HaShevi’i, and set it apart as
kadosh: because that in it shavat (He had rested) from all His work which bara
Elohim (G-d created) and made.
4 These are the toldot of HaShomayim and of Ha’Aretz when they
were created, in the Yom that Hashem Elohim made Eretz v’Shomayim,
5 And every plant of the sadeh was not yet in ha’aretz, and
every herb of the sadeh had not yet yitzmach (sprung up, T.N. Moshiach is
Tzemach [Zecharyah 3:8]); for Hashem Elohim had not caused it to rain upon ha’aretz,
and there was not an adam (man) la’avod (to till, to work) haadamah (the
ground).
6 But there went up a mist from ha’aretz, and watered the whole
face of the adamah.
7 And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah,
and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a
nefesh chayyah.
8 And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and
there He put the adam whom He had formed.
9 And out of the adamah made Hashem Elohim to spring up (T.N.
see verse 5) kol etz (every tree) that is pleasing to the sight, and tov for
food; the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life) also in the midst of the gan (garden),
and the Etz HaDa’as Tov v’Rah (see 3:22, i.e., representing moral autonomy;
contrast Exodus 9:20-21 where the Dvar Hashem is the guide of life, even for
Gentiles).
10 And a nahar (river) flowed out of Eden to water the gan
(garden); and from there it divided, and became four headwaters.
11 The shem of the first is Pishon; that is it which winds
through the kol eretz Chavilah, where there is zahav;
12 And the zahav of that land is tov; there is [the gemstone]
bedolach and the even (gemstone) hashoham [T.N.: this onyx gemstone is used in
the construction of the Kohen Gadol’s Bigdei HaKodesh].
13 And the shem of the second nahar is Gihon; the same is it
that winds through kol eretz Cush.
14 And the shem of the third nahar is Chiddekel (Tigris [see
Daniel 10:4]): that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the
fourth nahar is Euphrates.
15 And Hashem Elohim took the adam and put him in the Gan Eden
la’avod (to till, to work) it and to be shomer over it.
16 And Hashem Elohim commanded the adam, saying, Of every etz of
the gan thou mayest freely eat;
17 But of the Etz HaDa’as Tov v’Rah, thou shalt not eat of it;
for in the yom that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And Hashem Elohim said, It is not tov that the adam should be
alone; I will make him an ezer (a helper) suitable for him.
19 And out of the adamah Hashem Elohim formed every beast of the
sadeh, and every oph HaShomayim; and brought them unto the adam to see what he
would name them; and whatsoever the adam named kol nefesh chayyah, that was
shmo.
20 And the adam gave shemot to all behemah, and to the oph
HaShomayim, and to every beast of the sadeh; but for Adam there was not found
an ezer for him.
21 And Hashem Elohim caused a tardemah (deep sleep) to fall upon
the adam, and he slept; and He took from one of his tzalelot (sides, ribs), and
closed up the basar in the place thereof;
22 And the tzela (rib), which Hashem Elohim had taken from the
adam, made He an isha, and brought her unto the adam.
23 And the adam said, This is now etzem of my etzem, and basar
of my basar; she shall be called Isha, because she was taken out of Ish.
24 Therefore shall an ish leave his av and his em, and shall
cleave unto his isha: and they shall be basar echad.
25 And they were both arummim (naked ones), the adam and his
isha, and were not ashamed.
3:1 Now the Nachash was more arum (cunning, crafty, wiley) than
any beast of the sadeh which Hashem Elohim had made. And he said unto the isha,
Really? Hath Elohim said, Ye shall not eat of kol etz hagan?
2 And the isha said unto the Nachash, We may eat of the p’ri etz
hagan;
3 But of the p’ri haEtz which is in the middle of the gan
(garden), Elohim hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.
4 And the Nachash said unto the isha, Ye shall not surely die;
5 For Elohim doth know that in the yom ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be like Elohim, knowing tov and rah.
6 And when the isha saw that HaEtz was tov for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and HaEtz to be desired to make one have seichel, she
took of the p’ri thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her ish with her; and
he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were eirummim (naked ones); and they sewed aleh te’enah (fig leaves) together,
and made themselves khagorot (loin covering girdles).
8 And they heard the kol of Hashem Elohim walking in the gan in
the cool of the day; and HaAdam and his isha hid from the presence of Hashem
Elohim amongst the etz hagan.
9 And Hashem Elohim called unto HaAdam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
10 And he said, I heard Thy voice in the gan (garden), and I was
afraid, because I was eirom (naked); and so I hid.
11 And He said, Who told thee that thou wast eirom (naked)? Hast
thou eaten of HaEtz, which I commanded thee that thou not eat thereof?
12 And HaAdam said,The isha whom Thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of HaEtz, and I did eat.
13 And Hashem Elohim said unto the isha, What is this that thou
hast done? And the isha said, The Nachash beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And Hashem Elohim said unto the Nachash, Because thou hast
done this, thou art arur (cursed) above kol habehemah, and above every beast of
the sadeh; upon thy gakhon (belly) shalt thou go, and aphar shalt thou eat all
the days of thy life;
15 And I will put eivah (enmity, Midrash Rabbah 23:5) between
thee and HaIsha (see HaAlmah, Yeshayah 7:14), and between thy zera and her
Zera; it shall crush thy rosh, and thou shalt strike his akev (heel).
16 Unto HaIsha He said, I will greatly multiply thy itzavon
([labor] pain) and thy childbearing; in pain thou shalt bring forth banim; and
thy teshukah (longing, desire) shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee.
17 And unto Adam He said, Because thou paid heed unto the voice
of thy isha, and hast eaten of HaEtz, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it, arurah (cursed) is haadamah because of thee; in itzavon
(pain, suffering, see verse 16) shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Kotz also and dardar shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the esev of the sadeh;
19 In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat lechem, till thou
return unto haadamah; for out of it wast thou taken; for aphar thou art, and
unto aphar shalt thou return.
20 And HaAdam called the shem of his isha Chavah (Eve); because
she was the Em kol chai.
21 Unto Adam also and to his isha did Hashem Elohim make kesonos
ohr, and clothed them.
22 And Hashem Elohim said, See, HaAdam is become like one of Us,
knowing tov v’rah; and now, lest he put forth his yad, and take also of HaEtz
HaChayyim, and eat, and chai l’olam (live forever);
23 Therefore Hashem Elohim sent him forth from the Gan Eden, to
work haadamah from which place he was taken.
24 So He drove out HaAdam; and He placed miKedem (at the east)
of the Gan Eden HaKeruvim, and a flaming cherev which was ever-turning, to be
shomer over the Derech Etz HaChayyim (the Way of the Tree of Life, see Yn 14:6
on Derech).
Mattityahu 1: 1 This is the sefer toldot of Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach Yehoshua Ben Dovid, Ben Avraham.
2 Avraham, then Yitzchak, Yaakov, Yehudah and his brothers;
3 then, through Yehudah, Peretz and Zerach by Tamar; then
Chetzron, Ram;
4 then Amminadav, Nachshon, Salmon;
5 then Boaz by Rachav; then Oved by Ruth, then Yishai;
6 then Yishai fathered Dovid HaMelech; then Shlomo by the wife
of Uriyah;
7 then Rechavam, Aviyah, Asa,
8 then Yehoshafat, Yoram, Uziyahu;
9 then Yotam, Achaz, Chizkiyahu,
10 then Mnasheh, Amon, Yoshiyahu,
11 then Ykhanyahu and his achim from the days of the Golus in
Babylon.
12 After Ykhanyahu, then Shaltiel, then Zrubavel,
13 then Avichud, then Elyakim, then Azur;
14 then Tzadok, then Yakhin, then Elichud;
15 then Elazar, then Mattan, then Yaakov.
16 Yaakov fathered Yosef, the baal (husband) of Miryam, from
whom was born Yehoshua, who is called Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. [Yochanan 1:49]
17 So then, there were arbaa asar (fourteen) dorot (generations)
from Avraham to Dovid [T.N. Dovid= DVD in Hebrew = [d = 4, v = 6, d = 4] = (4 +
6 + 4 = 14)], and there were arbaa asar dorot from Dovid to the Golus in
Babylon, and there were arbaa asar dorot from the Golus in Babylon to Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach.
18 The huledet (birth) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was as
follows. When Moshiach’s Em, Miryam, had been given in erusin to Yosef [ben
Dovid], but before they came together, she was found with child through the
Ruach Hakodesh.
19 Her shidduch, Yosef [ben Dovid], being a tzaddik and not
wanting to humiliate her publicly, planned to deal with the get (divorce) in a
private arrangement.
20 Now just when Yosef [ben Dovid] had thought through to this
tachlis (purpose) hinei! A malach Hashem appeared to him in a chalom, and said,
Yosef ben Dovid, do not shrink from taking Miryam in nisuim (marriage) as your
[basherte (destined mate) aishes chayil (virtuous woman)] kallah (bride),
because what has been conceived in her is through the Ruach Hakodesh.
21 And she shall bear BEN (Son) and you will call SHMO (his
name, Zech 6:12) YEHOSHUA (Zech 6:11-12) because he will bring his people
yeshuah (rescue, salvation, deliverance) from their peyshaim (rebellions).
22 Now all this occurred so that which was spoken by Hashem
through the Navi might be fulfilled,
23 HINEI, HAALMAH HARAH VYOLEDET BEN VKARAT SHMO IMMANU-EL
(Behold, the Virgin will be with child and will bear Son and will call his name
Immanu-El—Isa 7:14; cf page vii), which translated means G-d is with us.
24 Then Yosef [ben Dovid], rising up from sleep, did as the
malach Hashem commanded him and he took his kallah.
25 And Yosef [ben Dovid] did not know her until she bore BEN and
Yosef [Ben Dovid] called him by name of Yehoshua [Ben Dovid][See Baba Bathra
8:6].
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