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Vayechi "And he lived"
Gen 47:28 - 50:26 , 1 Kings 2:1 - 2:12
Reader 1 (Evening Portion)
Gen 47:28 And Ya'akov lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Ya'akov was an hundred forty seven years.
Gen 47:29 And the time drew near that Yisra'el must die: and he called his son Yosef, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:
Gen 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as you have said.
Gen 47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he swore unto him. And Yisra'el bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Gen 48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Yosef, Behold, your father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Menasheh and Efrayim.
Gen 48:2 And one told Ya'akov, and said, Behold, your son Yosef comes unto you: and Yisra'el strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
Gen 48:3 And Ya'akov said unto Yosef, El Shaddai appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Kena'an, and blessed me,
Gen 48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people; and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.
(Morning Portion)
Gen 48:5 And now your two sons, Efrayim and Menasheh, which were born unto you in the land of Egypt before I came unto you into Egypt, are mine; as Re'uven and Shim'on, they shall be mine.
Gen 48:6 And your issue, which you beget after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
Gen 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Kena'an in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Efrat: and I buried her there in the way of Efrat; the same is Beit'lechem.
Gen 48:8 And Yisra'el beheld Yosef's sons, and said, Who are these?
Gen 48:9 And Yosef said unto his father, They are my sons, whom Elohim has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray you, unto me, and I will bless them.
Reader 2 (Evening Portion)
Gen 48:10 Now the eyes of Yisra'el were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Gen 48:11 And Yisra'el said unto Yosef, I had not thought to see your face: and, lo, Elohim has showed me also your seed.
(Morning Portion)
Gen 48:12 And Yosef brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Gen 48:13 And Yosef took them both, Efrayim in his right hand toward Yisra'el's left hand, and Menasheh in his left hand toward Yisra'el's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
Gen 48:14 And Yisra'el stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Efrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Menasheh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Menasheh was the firstborn.
Gen 48:15 And he blessed Yosef, and said, Elohim, before whom my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak did walk, the Elohim which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Gen 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Reader 3 (Evening Portion)
Gen 48:17 And when Yosef saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Efrayim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Efrayim's head unto Menasheh's head.
Gen 48:18 And Yosef said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand upon his head.
Gen 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Gen 48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Yisra'el bless, saying, Elohim make you as Efrayim and as Menasheh: and he set Efrayim before Menasheh.
(Morning Portion)
Gen 48:21 And Yisra'el said unto Yosef, Behold, I die: but Elohim shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Gen 48:22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amori with my sword and with my bow.
Reader 4 (Evening Portion)
Gen 49:1 And Ya'akov called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Gen 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Ya'akov; and hearken unto Yisra'el your father.
Gen 49:3 Re'uven, you art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Gen 49:4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.
Gen 49:5 Shim'on and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Gen 49:6 O my soul, come not you into their secret; unto their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Gen 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Ya'akov, and scatter them in Yisra'el.
(Morning Portion)
Gen 49:8 Yahudah, you art he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father's children shall bow down before you.
Gen 49:9 Yahudah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Gen 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Yahudah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Gen 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his donkey's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Gen 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Gen 49:13 Zevulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Tzidon.
Gen 49:14 Yissakhar is a strong donkey couching down between two burdens:
Gen 49:15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Gen 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Yisra'el.
Gen 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Gen 49:18 I have waited for your salvation, O YHWH.
Reader 5 (Evening Portion)
Gen 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Gen 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Gen 49:21 Naftali is a female deer let loose: he gives goodly words.
(Morning Portion)
Gen 49:22 Yosef is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Gen 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Gen 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty of Ya'akov; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Yisra'el:)
Gen 49:25 by the Elohim of your father, who shall help you; and by Shaddai, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
Gen 49:26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Yosef, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Reader 6 (Evening Portion)
Gen 49:27 Benyamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra'el: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
Gen 49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Efron the Chittite,
Gen 49:30 In the cave that is in the field of Makhpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Kena'an, which Avraham bought with the field of Efron the Chittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Gen 49:31 There they buried Avraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Yitzchak and Rivka his wife; and there I buried Le'ah.
Gen 49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Chet.
Gen 49:33 And when Ya'akov had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered unto his people.
Gen 50:1 And Yosef fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
Gen 50:2 And Yosef commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Yisra'el.
Gen 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Gen 50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Yosef spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Gen 50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Kena'an, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Gen 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, according as he made thee swear.
Gen 50:7 And Yosef went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Gen 50:8 And all the house of Yosef, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Gen 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Gen 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Yarden, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Gen 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kena'anim, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Avel'mitzrayim, which is beyond Yarden.
Gen 50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Gen 50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of Kena'an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Makhpelah, which Avraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Efron the Chittite, before Mamre.
Gen 50:14 And Yosef returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Gen 50:15 And when Yosef's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Yosef will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Gen 50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Yosef, saying, Your father did command before he died, saying,
Gen 50:17 So shall you say unto Yosef, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brethren, and their sin; for they did unto you evil: and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the Elohim of your father. And Yosef wept when they spoke unto him.
Gen 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be your servants.
Gen 50:19 And Yosef said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of Elohim?
Gen 50:20 But as for you, you thought evil against me; but Elohim meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Gen 50:21 Now therefore fear you not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
Reader 7 (6th Day Morning Portion)
Gen 50:22 And Yosef dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Yosef lived an hundred and ten years.
Gen 50:23 And Yosef saw Efrayim's children of the third generation: the children also of Makhir the son of Menasheh were brought up upon Yosef's knees.
Gen 50:24 And Yosef said unto his brethren, I die: and Elohim will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya'akov.
Gen 50:25 And Yosef took an oath of the children of Yisra'el, saying, Elohim will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from hence.
Gen 50:26 So Yosef died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Haftarah (Shabbat Evening Portion)
1Ki 2:1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Shlomo his son, saying,
1Ki 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
1Ki 2:3 And keep the charge of YHWH your Elohim, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moshe, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wheresoever you turn yourself:
1Ki 2:4 That YHWH may continue his word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you said he a man on the throne of Yisra'el.
1Ki 2:5 Moreover you know also what Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Yisra'el, unto Aviner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Yeter, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
1Ki 2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
1Ki 2:7 But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gil'adite, and let them be of those that eat at your table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Avshalom your brother.
1Ki 2:8 And, behold, you have with you Shim'i the son of Gera, a Benyamini of Bachurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Machanayim: but he came down to meet me at Yarden, and I sware to him by YHWH, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.
1Ki 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for you art a wise man, and know what you should to do unto him; but his hoar head bring you down to the grave with blood.
1Ki 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
1Ki 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Yisra'el were forty years: seven years reigned he in Chevron, and thirty three years reigned he in Yahrushalayim.
1Ki 2:12 Then sat Shlomo upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
(Shabbat Morning Review Summary Points)
A disciple should diligently search for the truth and humbly deny and reconsider it's possession.
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