Bere'shiyth (Genesis) - Chapter 22 & 23

Presented by Dr. Stephen Pidgeon

Episode Transcript

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And it happened after these things that Elohim did try
Abraham, and said to him, Abraham, And he said, Behold,
here I am. And he said, Take now your Yakid
Yitzhak, whom you love, and get into the land of Moriah and
offer him there as an ascending smoke offering upon one of the

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mountains, which I will tell youof that.
This passage, of course, presents, I think, one of the
most difficult concepts in all of Scripture, the idea that Yah
is calling Abraham to human sacrifice, and not only to human

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sacrifice, but he's calling him to the sacrifice of his beloved
son, the one that they had waited for from the promise of
Yah for years and years and years.
And suddenly he's being called to sacrifice him as an ascending
smoke offering. So we're going to deal with a
couple of words here that are important to the Sepher because

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the Sepher uses the term Yakid here to describe Yitzhak.
And we also use the phrase ascending smoke offering rather
than a burnt offering or that kind of a sacrifice.
And we're going to talk about both those words as how they
appear in the Eve read because of course they're critical to

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understanding this passage. Now when we talk about the idea
of the Yakid, we see here that in typically it is written that
take now your son, your only begotten son Yitzhak, whom you

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love, and get thee into the landof Moriah and offer him right as
a burnt offering. Well the difficulty with this
statement your only begotten sonis that Abraham had another son,
Ishmael. And when we look at this idea of

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the word begotten, this is a word that is a past tense form
of the word begat. And we see the word begat used
excessively in English texts. It no longer appears in this
effort, the word begat as we've replaced it with the word
fathered. And it's quite interesting that

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you see begat or begotten being used here, because you are
talking about Abraham's sire, ifyou will, siring of his son
Yitzhak. But the word that is founded in
the ibrid is not only begotten son, it is the word yakid.

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Now Strong's will tell us that yakid means united, IE soul or
alone by implication, beloved, also lonely as a life not to be
replaced, a darling, an only child or solitary.
Well, the solitary and the onlyness aspect of this really

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comes from this singular word that is quite close in its root,
which is the word yakkad. And yakkad is the primitive root
and it's a verb of the word yakkid.
Now when you look at the at the idea of yakkid or yakkad, this

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means to become one, to join or to unite.
Well, we can see that this is kind of a combination word in my
opinion of both the word ya yod hey and the word ekhad. 1 You
might recall this Shama Shama Yashad Yahwah Ekhad Yahad is a

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passage, is a word that we use in John chapter 17 when Mashiach
is discussing the unity of the Father with the Son and how it
is his prayer that we might be united with the Father in Yakkad
as joined or united as to becomeone.
Yakkid is the noun form of the word yakkad and you often see

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this in the Hebrew where the verb spelled yod, hey Dalit or
excuse me, yod. Dalit is going to be replaced or
transformed by the adding of a yod or a vibe into the word to
create the noun. So the noun becomes Yahid and so

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Yahid has an implication of united or joined, right?
So the implication is not ratherthat it is one or soul or alone,
but rather that it is united. So the yakid is the one closest
to the one united to the Father.And This is why the term beloved

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is a better discussion of the word yakid.
Then is the idea of only begotten because only begotten
then creates A contradiction forus when we see that Abraham had
pleaded for his son Ishmael to be the one with the blessing and
he did not. He was not the one that was

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going to be the heir of the promise.
Yitshak could be the heir of thepromise.
Ishmael is blessed but is not the heir of the promise.
OK, so important aspect about the term yakid and This is why
we use the word yakid in this passage rather than only
begotten. Now we see also when we talk

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about the only begotten Son of Yahwah in the New Testament in
reference to Mashiac. This is a reference that is
going to come back to the idea of Yachak.
And yet for the same reason we elected to use the word Yakid in
describing Mashiac in the Gospels rather than only

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begotten. And again, this idea of only
begotten would create a huge confusion inside the emerging
Church in the early centuries ofthe Church because of the
doctrine of Arianism. And the doctrine of Arianism
would be dealing with the idea that the Mashiac was begotten
and did not exist before his before being begat.

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And so again, a little bit of sloppiness in the phraseology
and in the understanding createsconfusion in the ears of the
hearer. Now when we talk about the idea
of burnt offering that is used here in this effort, we use the
frame, the phrase ascending smoke offering where the Hebrew

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term Ola is found. Now we talk about Ola.
That's a very interesting pronunciation.
That's a Masoretic pronunciationusing the holom to signify the
iron lamid hair in the spelling.And sometimes it's also spelled
Iron Vibe Lamadhe, which gives further evidence to it being an

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Ola rather than an Ola. However, this is a very
interesting word. Typically the ion is pronounced
as either a schwa, A Allah or even an A a la like a Hood
Barack. For instance, the surname
spelled with an ion and also in the name a SU, where we see

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these ayan shin vav, a SU. It's you might say it, you could
be pronounced a SU, but no one pronounces it O SU.
But yet we see this idea of identifying this with an O.
Now part of the reason that thatis being done is because this
comes from the root Allah or in the E Greek pronunciation, Allah

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because again it having the vowel sound of awe at the end,
its pronunciation will be centered on the ultimate
syllable and not the penultimatesyllable as in Derek or Melek
but rather Allah. And this is the primitive root
of this word meaning burnt offering or as we put it in the

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sefir ascending smoke offering. Why do we call it an ascending
smoke offering? Because it literally means to
ascend the primitive route. Allah means to ascend
intransitively, to be high, or actively to mount up.
Used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary,
literally in figurative. To rise up, to cause, to ascend,

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to break the day, to bring up, to cause, to burn.
That's an implication of it. To carry up, to cast up, to
climb up. Now one of the verbs that is
found from the word Allah, this iron lamed hair is the word
aliyah, which is iron lament Yoda again creating a noun from

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the verb and in creating that noun we see the idea of
ascending. So when people would today, now
in modern the modern world, if you were to go to Israel and say
I want to become an Israeli citizen, you would be making
aliyah. That is to say you would be
ascending up to the status of anIsraeli citizen, Aliyah.

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And this has this is the primitive root of this word that
is mispronounced as Ola. And the Ola means a step or
stairs ascending usually a Holocaust.
Now this is the phrase used in Strong's to describe this burnt
offering a Holocaust. Now so this passage could read,

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you get into the land of Moriah and offer him there as a
Holocaust upon one of the mountains, which I will tell you
of. So here we see a very difficult
passage. This passage is going to be
explained, I think explained quite well in the book of Yashar
that we will deal with when we get to that, to those

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commentaries. But it is definitely a well
explained as to whose idea this was and how it came about and
its implications. But let's deal with some of the
implications a little bit more because we talked about this in
our previous discussion of the earlier chapters and Sarah's
pregnancy that we see something here that potentially could be

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the hand of Yah working. I think it is the hand of Yah
working where he has said, OK, Sarah is completely incapable of
having children and Abraham is, as they put it in the
Scriptures, dead. Yet Abraham is capable now of
getting Sarah pregnant. Well, this can only happen
because she has a miraculous ovum in her womb.

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There's a miraculous ovum in herwomb.
Now, this is going to be something that you could call
Immaculate Conception. Well, not Immaculate Conception,
but let's call it a supernaturalconception.
Let's call it a divine conception.
In other words, the ability of Sarah to have the child was
created by the miracle of Yah, who created something new in

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her. Now there's something new in
her. This oven that is created in
Sarah is something that is devoid of and has no of the
empty DNA of residual from from Eve from Hua.
So the orphan Nama for that matter.
So the whatever the sins were that were collectively

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contributing to the empty DNA ofSarah, at this point these are
going to be non existent. This is not going to be an MDA
passage from Sarah to this ovum.This ovum is miraculous.
It has a new and a fresh empty DNA that is going to be blended
with the Y DNA of Abraham. Now the YDNA of Abraham.

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Although Abraham was considered righteous because of his belief
in his obedience, this does not necessarily mean that he was
appropriate for the disposition of mankind to be the blood
offering that is going to redeemall of mankind.
And even though I think that there was a kind of a point

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where Yahwah considered it because of the miraculous nature
of the embryo in Sarah, but we get instead we get this
precursor, We get this idea of what we can see here, that the
blood sacrifice that is going tobe required to redeem falling
away man is something that is contemplated from the beginning.

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But Yah has contemplated, Yah has contemplated from the
beginning what He is contemplated that He Himself
would give Himself as a lamb. But there is a demonstration
here to Avraham and to the children of the promise of
Abraham. What kind of disposition is

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going to take place for Yah to make himself manifest in the
flesh to Tabernacle among us, only to be put to death and to
get some idea of the drama that is involved in that of the
tragedy that is involved in that, that of the, the, the epic
loss that's involved in that is going to be demonstrated in this

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push towards Abraham's obedience.
Now, in addition to that, we also see something in
disobedience that is kind of interesting as well, which is
that you see this push towards something that Yah is saying,
yeah, I'm going to push you towards this human sacrifice,
but it's going to be prevented at the last moment.

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And this tells you something about the human condition too,
that often times we're pushed towards a disposition where we
should not be going, but we stopourselves.
And in stopping ourselves, we donot sin.
All right, at least that's my take on what this representation
is in this passage. All right, let's continue.
And Abraham rose up early in themorning and saddled his ass and

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took two of his young men with him and ET, Yitzhak his son, and
claved the wood for the ascending smoke offering, and
rose up and went to the place ofwhich Elaine had told him.
OK, Now when we use the word ET here, this is the aleph tab
signifying Yitzhak, and we'll find this throughout the supper

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that this aleph tab is found in this passage, and it signifies
that the divine authority of YA is on this particular aspect of
the life of Yajak. Not all of you, Jack, because
there'll be many times that Yajak will be mentioned without
the ET, but in this case he is the divine object of the point

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of this sentence. OK then on the third day,
Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place from afar off.
So it took them three days journey to get there from where
they were three days journey. And even then he saw the place
from afar off. And Abraham said to his young
men, Abide you here with the ass, and I, and the lad will go

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Yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And Abraham took the wood of theascending smoke offering and
laid it upon Yitzhak his son. And he took the fire in his hand
and a knife, and they both went together.
And Yitzhak spoke to El Abraham his father, and said, My father.
And he said, Here I am my son. And he said, Behold the fire in
the wood, but where is the lamb for an ascending smoke offering?

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And Abraham said, my son Ellaim will provide himself a lamb for
an ascending smoke offering. Now in this particular case, we
can see that Abraham is thinking, well, Yitshak is the
lamb of Ellaim. This is what he's thinking.
And we're going to see later that in fact, when Johannen the

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Baptist, the immerser, sees Yahusha, he says, behold, the
lamb of Ellaim who takes away the sins of the world.
So the statement made by Johananthe immerser right off the bat
is telling you that Mashiach, that Yahusha is going to be a
human offering. And Abraham said, my son Ellaim

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will provide himself a lamb for an ascending smoke offering.
And so the forecast is made. So they bent, went both of them
together, and they came to the place which El Amid told him up.
And Abraham built an altar therethat would be out of unhewn
stone, and laid the wood in order and bound yet shock his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

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Now I must say that at one pointI thought we might have found
This site is in South Africa, ata place called Adam's Calendar.
There appeared to be a stone, uncut stone that was the size of
a human being with it, where youcould lay down and look out over
this valley. Maybe with this was Mount
Moriah. Maybe this was a recreation of
Mount Moriah by someone who later arrived there because of

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the magnetic properties of the stones at that place.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay
his son. And the messenger of Yahwah
called him out of the heavens and said, Abraham, Abraham.
And he said, Here I am, And he said, Lay not your hand upon the
lad, neither do you anything to him.
For now I know that you fear Ellaim, seeing you have not

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withheld your son your ya heed from me.
Now this was a messenger from heaven that had was saying this
to him, an Angel of my luck. And Abraham lifted his eyes and
looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his
horns. And Abraham went and took the
ram and offered him for an ascending smoke offering in the

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stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of
that place Yahweh year, as it issaid to this day in the mount of
Yahweh. It shall be seen.
Now when we talk about this, wasthe sacrifice of the ram
required? No, the messenger did not say,
Oh by the way, here's a ram, go ahead and sacrifice it.

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He said that your, your faith has been tested and is complete.
We know that you fear Yahwah. There is nothing more to say.
There is nothing more to do You're done.
Abraham spots a ram and says, oh, let's sacrifice that.
Now at this point what is yet shocks thinking.
He's lying on the altar being being prepared to have his

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throat slit and to be burned in a fire waiting.
And then of course we hear this message and Abraham sees this
ram and sacrifices it instead. OK And the messenger of Yahwah
called Ella Abraham out of the heavens the second time, and
said by myself, I have sworn 7 oaths, says Yahwah.

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For because you have done this thing, and have not withheld
your son your Yahid, that in blessing I will bless you, and
in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the
heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore.
And your seed at shall possess the gate of his enemies.

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And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,
because you have obeyed my voice.
And so Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and
went together to Bear Sheva. That is the well of the oath.
And Abraham dwelt at Bear Sheva.Now we know that Bearsheva must
have been a three, at least a three day walking journey from

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Mount Moriah where the sacrificewas going to be.
It was at least a three day journey to this mountain by by
foot, right? It was fast as the ass could
travel, but they're traveling byfoot.
And we also know here something that is very interesting in this
passage because there is an instruction here shall possess
the gate of his enemies. This is a strategy that is used

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in controlling societies are really all over the world is to
control the gates of entry. Now we see the gates of entry
controlled. For instance, in the United
States at some very critical places, human resource
departments. Those are gates.
Those are gates to employment incorporations.
Those gates are controlled a college entry requirements,

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those gates are controlled U.S. military entry requirements.
Those gates are controlled entryinto the pop culture scene.
Whether you're talking about music or you're talking about
film or you're talking about books or whatever is, you know,

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used in the pop culture, those gates are also controlled.
So by controlling those gates you can assure and ensure who is
going to enter and who is going to be forbidden entry.
And so by forbidding entry to non desirables, you can control

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the culture. So this is a very strategic
aspect of cultural control to control and possess the gate of
your enemies. And it happened after these
things that it was told to Abraham, saying, behold Milka,
she has also born children to your brother Nahor, who's his

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first born and Boos his brother,and Kimwell the father of Aram
and Kassad, and Khadzo and Pilldash and Yidlav, and
Bethiwell and Bethiwell father Rivka.
And these 8 Milka did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother and his

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concubine, whose name was Rayuma.
She bore also Tiva, Gaham, Fahash and Mahaka.
Now it's important to see here at this point that Nakor has 12
children ahead of Abraham, who only has Ishmael and Yitzhak.

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His brother already has 12 children.
And some of these names are going to be important.
You can see Aram here. And you can see Kasset here.
And Kasset may also be linked toand again the the the progenitor
of remember that Nahor and Abraham are of the House of Araf

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cassette, Araf cassette. And because they're of that
House of Araf cassette, they become known as the Casteem.
Now here is cassette named afterAraf cassette.
And this would be the progenitorof the Casteem.
The cast Deem would build Nineveh.
The cast Deem would build Babylon.

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Babylon is called the Excellencyof the cast Deem.
And we would also see that thesecast Deem would once the
migration began, which didn't really begin until we get into
the the later dates. We start to see the trance was
what we start to see motion of the casteem into the Hittite

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Empire. From the Hittite Empire they
also began to move into Central Europe and as they did, they
casting became known as the caste or the Calvi Chaldeans.
The Calvi and the Calvi became known as the Celtic or the
Celtic people who were dominant in Central Europe.

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Namely you're talking about Poland, Slovakia, Czechia,
Austria, Slovenia, Croatia. In those areas, these and
Germany, this is where a lot of the Celtic people would go.
Now, what about this last child born to the concubine Reguma,
whose name was Makah? This is going to be the father

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of the tribe that is later goingto call themselves Maccabee.
Maccabee. OK, let's continue with Chapter
23. And Sarah was 127 years old.
These were the years of the lifeof Sarah.
And Sarah died in Kiryat Arba, the same as Hebron in the land

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of Canaan. And Abraham came to more for
Sarah and to weep for her. Now you can see that the the
discussion we get in Bereshit there is a very limited
discussion. Sarah waits her whole life to
have a child. When the child gets to a certain
age, Abraham takes him away to take him out and sacrifice him.

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It doesn't say here whether or not that she knew that Abraham
had not been sacrificed. She didn't know that, but we see
that immediately after these events happen, Sarah dies.
Now the book of Jasher gives us a very elaborate discussion
about what takes place during this period, period of time and

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the visitation of Hasatan in thelife of Sarah.
You know, accusing of denouncing, of course, lying,
deceiving, and these all contributed to her death.
And we can also see that she's in Kiryat Arva, which again,
Curiata is kind of the city of Arba.
And it's called Hevron or Chevron.

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You see it spelled in the Zephyr, but it's pronounced
Hevron. And we know it in the modern
world is Hebron, and this is in the land of Canaan.
And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah.
Remember, he was at Beersheba. He was not at Chevron.
And Abraham stood up from beforehe is dead, and spoke to the
sons of ET, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with

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you. Give me a possession for a
bearing place with you, that I might bury my dead out of my
sight. And the children that had
answered Abraham saying to him, Hear us, my other and I, You are
a mighty Prince among us in the choice of our sepulchers.
Bury your dead. None of us shall withhold from
you his sepulcher, but that you may bury your dead.

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And Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, even
to the children of Het. And he communicated with them,
saying, If it is your mind that I should bury my dead out of my
sight, hear me and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
that he may give me The Cave of Machpelah which he has, which is
in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth.

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He shall give it to me for a possession of a bearing place
amongst you. And Ephron dwelt among the
children of Het. And Ephron the Hitti, answered
Abraham in the audience of the children of Het, even of all
that went in at the gates of thecity.
OK. Now here you see that the
children of Het are called Hitti, and these are the

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progenitors of what would becomethe Hittite Empire.
Now the Hittite Empire has been identified by modern
archaeologists, for whatever this is worth, as having a
capital near Ankara in Turkey called Hattusa.
Hattusa and there is evidence ofthis empire and until they found
Hattusa this empire was considered mythological.

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And the Hittite Empire, not onlydid they find of course this
Hattusa, but they also found evidence of an alphabet that
appears to be a Phoenician alphabet.
Now what I mean by that is a paleo Ebrite based alphabet like
the Etruscan alphabet and like the Colburn alphabet found in

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Wales and that this was an earlyalphabet that they that they
assigned to the Phoenicians. But the Phoenicians were really
the northern Kingdom of Yashareland they were the seafaring
Kingdom of the Yasharel. Although I do believe that there
were other tribes that were on the ships belonging to the House
of Dan, in addition to Asher, Ephraim, Zebulun, Yashakar who

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were also on those ships, I think there was also Canaanites
that may have been on those ships as well.
And so when we see some of the tribal dispensation in the Great
Lakes that we see, many of the House of Yasharel were on the
Great Lakes. Particularly the Iroquois
nations were almost all from theHouse of Yasharel.
But there were other nations that were in the Great Lakes as

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well that may have been Canaanite nations that had
traveled with the so-called Phoenicians.
This alphabet would then become these Greek cerrillic alphabet
almost in the direct derivative as compared to the Aramaic
influences that would take over the Hebrew language in the
Levant. OK, Anyway, Efron, well, even

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all that went into the gate of the city saying, name I Adonai,
verse 11, name I Adonai, hear me.
I give the field to you, and TheCave that is there in I give it
to you in the presence of the sons of my people, give I it to
you, Bury your dead. And Abraham bowed down himself

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before the people of the land, and he spoke to Efron in the
audience of the people of the land, saying, But if you will
give it, I pray hear me. I will give you money for the
field, and take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.
And Efron answered Abraham, saying to him, I, Adonai, hear
me, the land is worth 400 shekels of silver.
But what is that between me and you?

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Bury, therefore those of yours who are dead.
And Abraham listened to Efron. And Abraham weighed the silver
to Efron, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Het
400 shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
All right. Now, this is an extremely
important passage because we're seeing here again something that

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is affirmative in the life of Abraham.
We saw it expressed when he met Melekid Siddiq.
And meeting Melekid Siddiq and saying, I'm not going to keep
any of these spoils that I took from these kings and defeating
him, I'm going to return them. And I'm except for what my men
are going to keep from the spoils of war.

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But I don't want anything. I don't want any of these things
to belong to me at all. So you see, Abraham
distinguishes himself and maintains his fierce
independence from the people around him by making sure that
the transactions are distant. And in this case, he says, you
name the value, even surreptitiously name the value

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of this property. And then Abraham pays him the
value without bartering, withoutbickering, without trying to
bring the price down. He said 400 shekels of silver,
and Abraham gives him 400 shekels of silver.
Now, in addition to that, you can also see that the value of
the shekels or the value of realestate is quite high.

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And the field of Ephron, which was in Macapita, which was
before mammary, and the field inThe Cave, which was therein, and
all the trees that were in the field that we and all the
borders around it were made sure.
OK, this is interesting because what you're talking about here
is when you buy the real estate,you buy the land underneath the
real estate, IE The Cave. You buy everything that's on the

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real estate, IE the trees, and arguably you get the air above
it. OK so so all of this The Cave
which was there in all the treesthat were in the field and all
the borders around it were made sure to Abraham for a possession
in the presence of the children of het before all that went in
at the gate of the city. And after this Abraham buried

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Sarah his woman in The Cave of the field of Machpelah before
Mamre, the same as Hebron in theland of Canaan.
And the field in The Cave that is there in were made sure to
Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the sons of
het. OK, so that concludes our
reading today of Genesis Chapter22 and Chapter 23.