When we read throughout the Old Testament we come across 2 words consistently when its mentioned of redemption and these two words are 'gaal' and 'padah' and we will see each of these words closely in relation to the redemption Yahuah promises Yasharal and shows evidence from scriptures that he is the redeemer.
The first word we will see with pictographic evidence and scriptural evidence the usage of this word in relation to Yahuah being the redeemer.
1) Gaal גָּאַל H1350
Gamal alaph lamed
There are two main root words in this word 'gaal' and they are ''gal'' which means ''roll/round'' and ''al'' which is a short form for 'Álahym'
''Gal'' which means roll is a root word in Magalah H4039 & H4040 which means scroll/roll. The scroll is rolled and the word roll is ''gal'' in the scroll/magalah
מְגִלָּה M-GY-LH) - Scroll: The leather or papyrus sheets of written text that are rolled up. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [freq. 22] |kjv: roll, volume| {str: 4039, 4040}
The letter ' גָּ (gamal)' means to 'walk' and the picture is of 'Al'(Alahym) walking/gamal in coming to save as written in the roll/gal of the scroll/magalah.
Ex 6:6 Say, therefore, to the sons of Yisra’El, I am Yahuah and I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I shall deliver you from their bondage. I shall also redeem you/galatay with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
Lev 25:25 If your brother has become poor he has sold part of his property, then his redeemer/gaalu, the one near to him, shall come and redeem/gaal what his brother has sold.
The commandment was that the closest relative will act as a 'gaal' to the poor brother who sold part of his property due to his poverty and redeem it for him. While the Turah is still binding in the physical because it displays the love of Yahuah in the commandment and also because the Brit Chadashah teaches us how shall we love Yahuah whom we have not seen and don't love our brother whom we can see.
1Joh 4:20 If someone says, I love the Elohim, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love the Elohim whom he has not seen.
1Jn 3:17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?
1Jn 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
1Jn 3:19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall set our hearts at rest before Him,
The act of kindness that we would show to our brother in obeying Yahuah's command ''Love your neigbour as yourself'' we see Yahuah actually walking through the commandment (roll/gal of the scroll/magalah) in redeeming the poor brother from his debts.
How many of us obey Yahuah's commands and feel the brother's pain as our own pain?
If the poor brother had now the means to redeem the property himself we see the mercy of Yahuah more deeply in giving a full recompense to the seller to whom the property was sold, the price of the property was to be calculated as per the market price of its sale currently and the balance was to be given to the man when taking back his property.
Lev 25:26 Or if a man has no redeemer to himself, his own hand can afford it, so that he finds sufficient means for its redemption,
Lev 25:27 then he shall calculate the years of its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it to him, and shall return to his property.
The redemption of the house within a walled city and outside a walled city:
Lev25:29 Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption/gaalatu remains valid until the end of year from its sale; his redemption/gaalatu shall be (a year of) days.
Lev25:30 But if it is not redeemed for him until its full year has come to end, then the house that is in the walled city shall belong permanently to the one buying it.It is not released in the Jubilee.
Lev 25:31 ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Jubilee.
The house sold in a walled city its redemption was valid till a year and if not redeemed within a year it would be never be redeemed but the house in a village not in the walled city was to be released in the jubilee year (each jubilee was 50 years) back to the one who sold it if a close relative was not able to redeem it for the poor brother.
Redemption of houses law for Leuites:
Lev 25:32 As for cities of the Levites, redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession shall be eternal for the Levites.
Lev 25:33 And that which is redeemed from the Levites and a house sale in the city of his possession shall go out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Yisrael.
The houses of Leuites be it in the walled city or country side would go back to them in the jubilee if there was no close relative to redeem it for him before the 50 years.
Such were the commands given to Yasharal by Yahuah which display love for the brethren.
And if a brother became poor and though he be a stranger or a sojouner the elect brother was to take him and cause him to live with him and not take any interest or increase from him and the elect brother was to feed him expecting nothing from him. Such were the laws of compassion to the brethren which were to be obeyed and mercy and compassion is never done away with it.
Lev 25:35 And when your brother becomes poor and his hand fail with you, then you make him steadfast, though he be a stranger or a sojourner, that he shall live with you.
Lev 25:36 Do not take interest nor increase from him, but shall fear your El, that your brother may live with you.
Lev 25:37 You shall not give him your silver with interest, nor give your food for gain
Lev 25:38 I am Yahuah your El, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to become to you as Elohim.
The key to be understood is that Yahuah is the 'gaal' who walked/gamal through the commandment in the roll/gal of the scroll/magalah to the poor brother to redeem him. If the brother fails in obeying Yahuah's commands then Yahuah still sees and hears the cry of his elect who cry out to him day and night and will never give increase to those who withold bowels of compassion from their brethren.
There are many laws where the word 'gaal' is used in relation to the redemption of a brother sold as a slave etc which shows the same thing...Yahuah walking through the commandment in redeeming his child as written in the roll of the scroll.
The ancient patriarch Job complained that no one came to redeem him! His faith is seen reaching out and proclaiming that Yahuah will provide His GAAL!
Job 19:25 "As for me, I know that my redeemer (kinsman) lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth"
Job's hope looked to the coming Messiah. He affirmed his faith that his redeemer will come to the earth.
One of the most beautiful passages where the word Gaal is found is in the life of Naomi in the scroll of Ruth. The scroll of Ruth is a story aboYasharal. Because of the death of her husband and two sons, she and her daughter-in-laws lost all income and their home. Naomi was living in a foreign land and sensed the loss of her homeland and relatives. The secret of all her daughter-in-law Ruth had was in union with Boaz. The nearer kinsman had the first right to the property and Boaz came next after him. If Ruth's closer relative would not redeem or purchase it, Boaz was prepared to do so. The man who was nearest of kin agreed to redeem the piece of land until he found out there was a young widow involved. He graciously backed out! That left Boaz as the rightful nearest of kin who had the privilege of redeeming her land and her with it. The Moabitess and the Jew became one. Boaz was nearest of kin to her deceased husband (Ruth 2:1).
Rth 2:1 And Naʽomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of great wealth, of the clan of Elimeleḵ, and his name was Boʽaz.
Rth 4:1 And Boʽaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And see, the redeemer/gaal of whom Boʽaz had spoken came by. And Boʽaz said, “Turn aside, So-and-so, sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.
Rth 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.
Rth 4:3 He then said to the redeemer/gaal, “Naʽomi, who has come back from the fields of Mo’aḇ, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimeleḵ.
Rth 4:4 “And I thought that I should disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you do redeem/gaal it, redeem/gaal it. But if you do not redeem/gaal it, inform me, so that I know. For there is no one but you to redeem/gaal it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said, “I redeem/gaal it.”
Rth 4:5 And Boʽaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naʽomi, you shall also acquire Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”
Yahuah is called ''Goel/Gaal Israel''. The kinsman redeemer who through the roll of the scroll would come to redeem the wife of the dead man to raise a seed unto her and give his name to her. And that 'Gaal Yasharal' is none other than Yahusha or Savior.
The laws we discussed above were the laws of the kinsman redeemer showing how Yahusha comes through the roll of the scroll as it was written about him.
Heb 10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me;
Heb 10:6 in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have taken no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the roll/magalat of the scroll/saphar it is written of Me) to do your will, O my El.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you would not, neither have You taken pleasure in them (which are offered according to the Law),
Heb10:9 then He said, Behold, I have come to do Your will. He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
Many people mistranslate the above passages to teach the Turah is abolished, the Turah is not abolished but the sacrifices, burnt offerings, incense offering etc was taken away to establish the second who is Mashiyach himself who fulfilled all these sacrifices in his body offering once and for all. He is the kinsman redeemer who came walking through the commandments redeeming us and he still walks through the commandments in coming as a 'gaal' to us through the acts of kindness that brethren show towards each other.
Math 25: 34 “Then the Sovereign shall say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the reign prepared for you from the foundation of the world –
35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
36 was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.’
37 “Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, ‘Master, when did we see You hungry and we fed You, or thirsty and gave You to drink?
38 And when did we see You a stranger and took You in, or naked and clothed You?
39 And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and we came to You?’
40 “And the Sovereign shall answer and say to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, in so far as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.
Many people look at the above passages as physical and they give lacs of dollars and rupees to charities. But these passages speak of dealing with the elect. Nakedness is a picture of shame, without Mashiyach but when we share the basarah and lead souls to Mashiyach we are clothing nakedness. Also when we see an elect brother or sister in distress and shut up our bowels of compassion we are void of love and disobeying the second command ''Love your neighbour as yourself'' and are not making a way to the 'Gaal' through our disobedience to walk through the roll of the scroll to reach out to the poor brother in need, the 'Gaal' cannot be stopped as he opens other brothers hearts/means to reach out to his elect in need just as Naomi's closest relative had the means to redeem her household and her daughter in law Ruth but he refused and made way for Boaz who redeemed her in giving her a seed attributed to her dead husband. This was the perfect will of Yahuah and the closest relative missed bringing forth the promised seed Yahusha ha Mashiyach and Boaz and Ruth's name is mentioned in the genealogy.
Mat 1:1 The book of the genealogy of יהושע Messiah, Son of Dawiḏ, Son of Aḇraham: '
Mat 1:5 And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz by Raḥaḇ, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ by Ruth, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai.
Mat 1:6 And Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ the sovereign, and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife........
No one can stop the 'Gaal' as he comes through the roll of the scroll to redeem his elect who cry out to him day and night.
Shaul admonishes in Heb 13:1 stating ''Let brotherly love continue'' and then goes on to speak of receiving strangers...these strangers spoken of are the elect brethren as stated in the Turah and as discussed above in this study for unaware they entertained angels and were blessed. What a wonderful 'Gaal' we have.
Heb 13:1 Let the brotherly love continue.
Heb 13:2 Do not forget to receive strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained messengers.
Now let's look at the second word used for 'redeem' in scripture
2) 'Padah' פָּדָה H6299 ransom; generally to release, preserve, deliver, redeem, rescue
Psalms 25:22 Redeem/padah Yisra’ĕl, O Elohim, Out of all his distresses!
Pay/mouth dalet/doorway hey/behold
The mouth is the doorway to the heart. The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Rom 10:9 That if you confess with your MOUTH the Master יהושע and believe in your HEART that Elohim has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.
Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life.
24 Turn away from you a crooked mouth, And put perverse lips far from you.
The heart is the doorway from where come the sources of life through the mouth.
That's what we see in the word padah-mouth heart behold
The root word in padah is pad
If you add an alaph to pad you get apad/ephod אֵפֹד H646
Ephod /apad is the garment worn by the high priest. It was also used to enquire from Yahuah by kings of Yasharal when they were facing enemies
The pad/redeem is in apad/ephod
Aph means nose/anger: The flaring of nostrils in anger
Moses song and the song of the Lamb is the same
Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvellous are Your works, יהוה Ěl Shaddai! Righteous and true are Your ways, O Sovereign of the set-apart ones!
This is a portion from the song of Moses/Masha....
Exo 15:8 “And with the blast of Your nostrils/Aph the waters were heaped up, the floods stood like a wall, the depths became stiff in the heart of the sea.
2 Sam 22:7 “In my distress I called upon יהוה, And to my Elohim I cried. And from His Hĕḵal He heard my voice, And my cry was in His ears.
8 “And the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of the heavens were troubled, Because He was wroth.
9 “Smoke went up from His nostrils/Aph, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it.
10 “And He bowed the heavens and came down, And thick darkness was under His feet.
11 “And He rode upon a keruḇ, and flew, And was seen upon the wings of the wind.
This is how Yahuah redeems/padah his people with a blast from his nostrils/aph. This redemption/padah shows judgment.
The Ephod/Apad shows that deliverance because the Apad had the Urim and the Tummim.
Exo 28:30 “And into the breastplate of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Tummim, and they shall be on the heart of Aharon when he goes in before יהוה. And Aharon shall bear the judgment of the children of Yisra’ĕl on his heart before יהוה, continually.
Exo 28:31 “And you shall make the robe of the shoulder/apad garment all of blue/takalat.
Blue: תְּכֵלֶת H8504 'Takalat' has the root word kal which means whole/complete
The mark of the covenant which makes whole/complete
Urim:
Urim has the root word aur which means light and ram means height/elevation
The light from the heights, that's what Urim shows.
Tummim/Tamyam:
Tamyam means whole
These stones were in the breast plate of judgement on the ephod/apad of the kahan ha gadul /high priest and he bore it on himself when he went in the presence of Yahuah. Our kahan ha gadul/high priest is Yahusha ha Mashiyach who is the LIGHT from HIGH and who makes us WHOLE bearing our judgment on himself just as these two stones were on the breastplate of judgment of the high priest fastened on the apad/ephod. What a wonderful redemption /padah.
The apad/ephod has the root word apah אֵפָה /aypah אֵיפָה
Ay means ''Where'' .....Ay/where pay/mouth ha/behold is
The mouth speaks what the heart is full of. That's the measure /apah or aypah (ephah).
Luke 6:45 “The good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.
Exo 13:13 “But every first-born of a donkey you are to ransom`/padah with a lamb. And if you do not ransom/padah it, then you shall break its neck/arpah H6202. And every first-born of man/adam among your sons you are to ransom/padah.
Every first-born of a donkey (a beast of burden) and Yahusha rode on a donkey to Yerushalam and we are that donkey whom the Master wants to ride and hence Turah stated that every first-born of a donkey was to be ransomed/padah with a lamb and if its not redeemed/padah then you shall break its neck. The words 'break it's neck' is 'arpah עָרַף H6202.
The verse Exo 13:13 goes on to say that every first-born of man/Adam among your sons you are to redeem/padah.
The word ''arpah עָרַף H6202'' is the same spelling for Orpah who was the other daughter-in-law of Naomi who went back to her people Moab and didn't cling to Naomi as Ruth told her ''Your people are my people and your Alahym is my Alahym''
Rth 1:16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim
Orpah עָרְפָּה H6204 is related to עֹרֶף H6203 which means 'back of the neck' and עָרַף H6202 which means 'break the neck'
In a spiritual comparison we see a beautiful picture of padah/redeeming the first-born of a donkey who is a beast of burden and if it cannot be redeemed 'break it's neck/arpah'. It's rendered useless as it's not of Yah but is pagan just as Orpah/Arpah who went back to her people when she had the opportunity to cling to Yahuah and his people.
If the sons of Yasharal would ask their fathers the significance of this padah/redeeming, they were to tell them as stated below.....
Exo 13:14 “And it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘By strength of hand יהוה brought us out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 13:15 ‘And it came to be, when Pharaoh was too hardened to let us go, that יהוה killed every first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both the first-born of man and the first-born of beast. Therefore I am slaughtering to יהוה every male that open the womb, but every first-born of my sons I ransom/padah.’
Thus 'padah' shows a witness confessed with the mouth, believed in the heart, seen by all
Exo 21:7 “And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant/amah H519, she does not go out as the male servants do.
Exo 21:8 “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed/padah. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.
Ex 21:9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters
Ex 21:10 If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Ex 21:11 If he shall not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.
The master who is engaged to his maidservant who was sold to him had no right to sell her to a foreign people and had to let her be redeemed/padah. If betrothed to his son then he would have to deal with her according to the custom of daughters and if he takes himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, clothing or her marital rights. If he can't do these 3 things for her he shall let her go without money and set her free. This again shows a command which was a witness in Yasharal to be openly declared concerning a maidservant.
The word for maidservant is H519 אָמָה amah which has the am/mother aum/tribe embedded in the word and 'mah' waters. Amah was also a linear standard of measure equal to the length of the forearm called 'çubit' H521.
Gen 21:10 So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant/amah H519 and her son, for the son of this female servant/amah H519 shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.”
Gen 21:11 And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Aḇraham because of his son.
Gen 21:12 But Elohim said to Aḇraham, “Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy and because of your female servant. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitsḥaq your seed is called.
Gen 21:13 “And of the son of the female servant/amah H519 I also make a nation, because he is your seed.”
While it may seem that Hagar and Ishmael went away empty with just some bread and bottle of water but Gen 25:5-6 shows us that Abraham didn't send the sons of his concubines empty but sent them with gifts, this included Hagar and Ishmael as the phrase says '.....while he/Abraham was still living...Gen 25:6.
Gen 16:3 And Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, took Haḡar her female servant, the Mitsrite, and gave her to her husband Aḇram to be his wife, after Aḇram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kenaʽan.
Gen 21:14 And Aḇraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be’ĕrsheḇa.
Gen 25:5 Now Aḇraham gave all that he had to Yitsḥaq,
Gen 25:6 but to the sons of the concubines whom Aḇraham had, Aḇraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Yitsḥaq, eastward, to the land of the east.
What did Ishmael do which put off Sarah to cast him and his mother out?
Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrite, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking/matskhaq מצָחַק H6711.
The word matskhaq is translated as 'mocking' but they list only the word צָחַק/tskhaq which means by implication to sport: - laugh, mock, play, make sport. Strong's doesn't list the word 'matskhaq' but just 'tskhaq' and the definitions above are above for this word צָחַק/tskhaq . There are lot of variations to this word, let's see a few of them
Yatskhaq ...laughed
Gen 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed/yatskhaq, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is a daughter of ninety years old, bear a child?
Tatskhaq...laughed
Gen 18:12 Sarah laughed/tatskhaq to herself, saying, After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old also?
tskhaq..laugh
Gen 18:13 And Yahuah said to Abraham, Why at this did Sarah laugh/tskhaq, saying, Shall I indeed truly bear, even when I am so old?
matskhaq/latshaq...to play sport (sexual pleasure or fornication in idolatory)
Gen 19:14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place, for Yahuah shall destroy the city. But he appeared as one that sported/matskhaq in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
This word 'matskhaq' is used when immorality is mentioned. Lot's son in laws were immoral and thought Lot was like one of them who was sexually immoral but Lot was qodesh and righteous.
Gen 21:9 Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking/matskhaq
Since we have yet to expose Gen 21:9 in the light of the usage of the word 'matskhaq/latskhaq' lets move on and come back to touch base this passage after we have seen the usage of this word in other passages.
Ex 32:6 So they rose early on the morrow and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play/latskhaq.
The Yasharali's offered burnt offering and peace offerings to the golden calf and ROSE UP TO PLAY (latskhaq) indicating fornication through idolatry.
Gen 39:14 she called to the men of her house and said to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us to make sport of me/latskhaq; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a great voice.
Gen 39:17 Then she spoke to him with these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me/latskhaq;
The above verses are an accusation from Potiphar's wife towards Yoseph who was innocent and who ran away from her as she was the one who wanted to lie down with him in adultery. The same word is used showing a sexual sin.
Jud 16:25 It came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he shall sport /yashakhaq for us. So they called for Samson from the prison house, and he sported /yatskhaq before them. And they made him stand between the pillars.
Whatever this sport was before the Philistines it was definitely to humble Samson after all his eyes were put out and he had lost all his strength. The scriptures are not clear what kind of sport they made him do to entertain themselves but it was definitely an act humiliating him. Moreover there are two different words used in the same passage above which are translated as 'sport' ...one is yashakhaq יָשָׂחַק which means to 'scorn/mock/laugh' and the other word is what we saw Abraham and Sarah do before Yahuah, they laughed, Abraham in belief and Sarah in unbelief and the word used is the same word here 'yatskhaq'
The verse should correctly be translated as Jud 16:25 It came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he shall be laughed /yashakhaq for us. So they called for Samson from the prison house, and he was being laughed/yatskhaq before them. And they made him stand between the pillars.
The other usage of the words with the mem and the lamed before the 'tskhaq' are used in context of sexual sin or idolatry which is a sin equivalent to fornication. Paul reveals what Ishmael's matskhaq/sporting meant. Ishmael pursued Yitshaq into fleshly things which Paul says ...''so it is now also'' Gal 4:29. This shows pursuing fleshly things is fornication just like the children of Yasharal rose up to play/matskhaq and is equaled to sexual sin.
Gal 4:29 But as then he who was born according to the flesh padah/pursued him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.
1Co 10:7 And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play/latskhaq.”
1Co 10:8 Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,
1Cor 7:2 But because of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
Re 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Yasharal, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
So we see the sin of fornication is equivalent to idolatry/fleshly things.
Coming back to the amah/maid servant being cast out Paul likens the maid servant/bondwoman Hagar to earthly Yerushalam which is in bondage with her children into fleshly things
Gal 4:22 For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.
Gal 4:23 But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise.
Gal 4:24 This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar,
Gal 4:25 for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
Gal 4:26 But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.
The bondwoman/amah sits as the outward measurements cubits/amah in the temple and Abraham gave gifts to all his concubines and his fleshly children and sent them away but he gave everything to Yitshaq. We in Mashiyach are whole/complete and are like Yitshaq the promised seed.
Gal 4:28 And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.
All the dimensions find its fulfillment in Mashiyach. The redemption/padah comes through the confession of the mouth/pay and belief in the heart/dalet having the revelation/hey of who Mashiyach is.
Abraham couldn't do one of the three things for Hagar ...giving her marital rights as his wife for if he did, his inheritance would go to Ishmael as he was the eldest son of Abraham and he was asked to be cast away along with his mother and he sent her away free of cost without charging money which he spent for her purchase, Turah came written later but followed by dabar by Abraham, he ransomed/padah her and we see the ''padah/pay dalet hey'' in the revelation of who Hagar and Ishmael is and their significance of being put away and we confess and believe in our heart we are like Yitshaq the promised seed and not the children of flesh being in Mashiyach who alone redeems/padah us from flesh to ruach.
Exo 21: 10...he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Ex 21:11 If he shall not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free of cost, without money.
But as seen in Gen 25:6 Abraham gave all his concubines and their sons gifts and sent them away from his son Yitshaq.
Num 18:15 Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, of man and of animal, which they offer to Yahuah, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem/padah, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem/padah.
The firstborn of man and unclean animals were to be redeemed/padah which show that mankind is unclean
Num 18:17 But the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem/padah; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as a fire offering, for a soothing aroma to Yahuah.
The firstborn of an ox/sheep/goat were not to be redeemed/padah and were holy/qodesh as they point out to Mashiyach. This shows the promised seed was Mashiyach and had no part in Hagar the bondwoman and her seed which we were part of once and he padah/redeemed us from the flesh to the ruach.
Deu 7:8 but because of יהוה loving you, and because of Him guarding the oath which He swore to your fathers, יהוה has brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed/padah you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim.
Deu 13:5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה your Elohim – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed/padah you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deu 24:18 “But you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and that יהוה your Elohim redeemed/padah you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word.
The Psalmist here in Psalms 49: 6-9 is speaking of the rich brother trusting in his great wealth not able to redeem/padah anyone at all, (though he may 'gaal' his brother when in poverty sold his piece of land) because 'padah' can only be done by Alahym
Psa 49:6 Those who are trusting in their riches And who are boasting in their great wealth?
Psa 49:7 A brother does not redeem/padah anyone at all, Neither give to Elohim a ransom/kapar for him;
Psa 49:8 For the redemption/padyan (from padah) of their lives is costly, And it shall cease forever;
Psa 49:9 That he should still live forever, And not see the Pit.
Speaking of redeeming/padah Abraham Yahuah says the house of Yaaqob will not be ashamed for he sees his children the work of my hands in his midst, they shall set apart my name and set apart the set apart one of Yaaqob and fear Alahym of Yasharal.
Isa 29:22 Therefore thus said יהוה, who ransomed/padah Aḇraham, concerning the house of Yaʽaqoḇ, “Yaʽaqoḇ is no longer put to shame, no longer does his face grow pale.
Isa 29:23 “For when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall set apart My Name, and set apart the Set-apart One of Yaʽaqoḇ, and fear the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
Isa 35:10 And the ransomed/padah of יהוה shall return and enter Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
So we see the unique usage of the words 'gaal' and 'padah' which point out to the redemption we receive through the love of Mashiyach displayed through the commandment where his elect encounter the commandment and see the ruach in the letter and acknowledge ''Yahuah Gaal'' (Yahuah my kinsman redeemer) and ''Yahuah yapad'' (Yahuah's hand redeemed).
The first word we will see with pictographic evidence and scriptural evidence the usage of this word in relation to Yahuah being the redeemer.
1) Gaal גָּאַל H1350
Gamal alaph lamed
There are two main root words in this word 'gaal' and they are ''gal'' which means ''roll/round'' and ''al'' which is a short form for 'Álahym'
''Gal'' which means roll is a root word in Magalah H4039 & H4040 which means scroll/roll. The scroll is rolled and the word roll is ''gal'' in the scroll/magalah
מְגִלָּה M-GY-LH) - Scroll: The leather or papyrus sheets of written text that are rolled up. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [freq. 22] |kjv: roll, volume| {str: 4039, 4040}
The letter ' גָּ (gamal)' means to 'walk' and the picture is of 'Al'(Alahym) walking/gamal in coming to save as written in the roll/gal of the scroll/magalah.
Ex 6:6 Say, therefore, to the sons of Yisra’El, I am Yahuah and I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I shall deliver you from their bondage. I shall also redeem you/galatay with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
Lev 25:25 If your brother has become poor he has sold part of his property, then his redeemer/gaalu, the one near to him, shall come and redeem/gaal what his brother has sold.
The commandment was that the closest relative will act as a 'gaal' to the poor brother who sold part of his property due to his poverty and redeem it for him. While the Turah is still binding in the physical because it displays the love of Yahuah in the commandment and also because the Brit Chadashah teaches us how shall we love Yahuah whom we have not seen and don't love our brother whom we can see.
1Joh 4:20 If someone says, I love the Elohim, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love the Elohim whom he has not seen.
1Jn 3:17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?
1Jn 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
1Jn 3:19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall set our hearts at rest before Him,
The act of kindness that we would show to our brother in obeying Yahuah's command ''Love your neigbour as yourself'' we see Yahuah actually walking through the commandment (roll/gal of the scroll/magalah) in redeeming the poor brother from his debts.
How many of us obey Yahuah's commands and feel the brother's pain as our own pain?
If the poor brother had now the means to redeem the property himself we see the mercy of Yahuah more deeply in giving a full recompense to the seller to whom the property was sold, the price of the property was to be calculated as per the market price of its sale currently and the balance was to be given to the man when taking back his property.
Lev 25:26 Or if a man has no redeemer to himself, his own hand can afford it, so that he finds sufficient means for its redemption,
Lev 25:27 then he shall calculate the years of its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it to him, and shall return to his property.
The redemption of the house within a walled city and outside a walled city:
Lev25:29 Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption/gaalatu remains valid until the end of year from its sale; his redemption/gaalatu shall be (a year of) days.
Lev25:30 But if it is not redeemed for him until its full year has come to end, then the house that is in the walled city shall belong permanently to the one buying it.It is not released in the Jubilee.
Lev 25:31 ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Jubilee.
The house sold in a walled city its redemption was valid till a year and if not redeemed within a year it would be never be redeemed but the house in a village not in the walled city was to be released in the jubilee year (each jubilee was 50 years) back to the one who sold it if a close relative was not able to redeem it for the poor brother.
Redemption of houses law for Leuites:
Lev 25:32 As for cities of the Levites, redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession shall be eternal for the Levites.
Lev 25:33 And that which is redeemed from the Levites and a house sale in the city of his possession shall go out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Yisrael.
The houses of Leuites be it in the walled city or country side would go back to them in the jubilee if there was no close relative to redeem it for him before the 50 years.
Such were the commands given to Yasharal by Yahuah which display love for the brethren.
And if a brother became poor and though he be a stranger or a sojouner the elect brother was to take him and cause him to live with him and not take any interest or increase from him and the elect brother was to feed him expecting nothing from him. Such were the laws of compassion to the brethren which were to be obeyed and mercy and compassion is never done away with it.
Lev 25:35 And when your brother becomes poor and his hand fail with you, then you make him steadfast, though he be a stranger or a sojourner, that he shall live with you.
Lev 25:36 Do not take interest nor increase from him, but shall fear your El, that your brother may live with you.
Lev 25:37 You shall not give him your silver with interest, nor give your food for gain
Lev 25:38 I am Yahuah your El, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to become to you as Elohim.
The key to be understood is that Yahuah is the 'gaal' who walked/gamal through the commandment in the roll/gal of the scroll/magalah to the poor brother to redeem him. If the brother fails in obeying Yahuah's commands then Yahuah still sees and hears the cry of his elect who cry out to him day and night and will never give increase to those who withold bowels of compassion from their brethren.
There are many laws where the word 'gaal' is used in relation to the redemption of a brother sold as a slave etc which shows the same thing...Yahuah walking through the commandment in redeeming his child as written in the roll of the scroll.
The ancient patriarch Job complained that no one came to redeem him! His faith is seen reaching out and proclaiming that Yahuah will provide His GAAL!
Job 19:25 "As for me, I know that my redeemer (kinsman) lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth"
Job's hope looked to the coming Messiah. He affirmed his faith that his redeemer will come to the earth.
One of the most beautiful passages where the word Gaal is found is in the life of Naomi in the scroll of Ruth. The scroll of Ruth is a story aboYasharal. Because of the death of her husband and two sons, she and her daughter-in-laws lost all income and their home. Naomi was living in a foreign land and sensed the loss of her homeland and relatives. The secret of all her daughter-in-law Ruth had was in union with Boaz. The nearer kinsman had the first right to the property and Boaz came next after him. If Ruth's closer relative would not redeem or purchase it, Boaz was prepared to do so. The man who was nearest of kin agreed to redeem the piece of land until he found out there was a young widow involved. He graciously backed out! That left Boaz as the rightful nearest of kin who had the privilege of redeeming her land and her with it. The Moabitess and the Jew became one. Boaz was nearest of kin to her deceased husband (Ruth 2:1).
Rth 2:1 And Naʽomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of great wealth, of the clan of Elimeleḵ, and his name was Boʽaz.
Rth 4:1 And Boʽaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And see, the redeemer/gaal of whom Boʽaz had spoken came by. And Boʽaz said, “Turn aside, So-and-so, sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.
Rth 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.
Rth 4:3 He then said to the redeemer/gaal, “Naʽomi, who has come back from the fields of Mo’aḇ, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimeleḵ.
Rth 4:4 “And I thought that I should disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you do redeem/gaal it, redeem/gaal it. But if you do not redeem/gaal it, inform me, so that I know. For there is no one but you to redeem/gaal it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said, “I redeem/gaal it.”
Rth 4:5 And Boʽaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naʽomi, you shall also acquire Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”
Yahuah is called ''Goel/Gaal Israel''. The kinsman redeemer who through the roll of the scroll would come to redeem the wife of the dead man to raise a seed unto her and give his name to her. And that 'Gaal Yasharal' is none other than Yahusha or Savior.
The laws we discussed above were the laws of the kinsman redeemer showing how Yahusha comes through the roll of the scroll as it was written about him.
Heb 10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me;
Heb 10:6 in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have taken no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the roll/magalat of the scroll/saphar it is written of Me) to do your will, O my El.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you would not, neither have You taken pleasure in them (which are offered according to the Law),
Heb10:9 then He said, Behold, I have come to do Your will. He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
Many people mistranslate the above passages to teach the Turah is abolished, the Turah is not abolished but the sacrifices, burnt offerings, incense offering etc was taken away to establish the second who is Mashiyach himself who fulfilled all these sacrifices in his body offering once and for all. He is the kinsman redeemer who came walking through the commandments redeeming us and he still walks through the commandments in coming as a 'gaal' to us through the acts of kindness that brethren show towards each other.
Math 25: 34 “Then the Sovereign shall say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the reign prepared for you from the foundation of the world –
35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
36 was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.’
37 “Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, ‘Master, when did we see You hungry and we fed You, or thirsty and gave You to drink?
38 And when did we see You a stranger and took You in, or naked and clothed You?
39 And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and we came to You?’
40 “And the Sovereign shall answer and say to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, in so far as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.
Many people look at the above passages as physical and they give lacs of dollars and rupees to charities. But these passages speak of dealing with the elect. Nakedness is a picture of shame, without Mashiyach but when we share the basarah and lead souls to Mashiyach we are clothing nakedness. Also when we see an elect brother or sister in distress and shut up our bowels of compassion we are void of love and disobeying the second command ''Love your neighbour as yourself'' and are not making a way to the 'Gaal' through our disobedience to walk through the roll of the scroll to reach out to the poor brother in need, the 'Gaal' cannot be stopped as he opens other brothers hearts/means to reach out to his elect in need just as Naomi's closest relative had the means to redeem her household and her daughter in law Ruth but he refused and made way for Boaz who redeemed her in giving her a seed attributed to her dead husband. This was the perfect will of Yahuah and the closest relative missed bringing forth the promised seed Yahusha ha Mashiyach and Boaz and Ruth's name is mentioned in the genealogy.
Mat 1:1 The book of the genealogy of יהושע Messiah, Son of Dawiḏ, Son of Aḇraham: '
Mat 1:5 And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz by Raḥaḇ, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ by Ruth, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai.
Mat 1:6 And Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ the sovereign, and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife........
No one can stop the 'Gaal' as he comes through the roll of the scroll to redeem his elect who cry out to him day and night.
Shaul admonishes in Heb 13:1 stating ''Let brotherly love continue'' and then goes on to speak of receiving strangers...these strangers spoken of are the elect brethren as stated in the Turah and as discussed above in this study for unaware they entertained angels and were blessed. What a wonderful 'Gaal' we have.
Heb 13:1 Let the brotherly love continue.
Heb 13:2 Do not forget to receive strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained messengers.
Now let's look at the second word used for 'redeem' in scripture
2) 'Padah' פָּדָה H6299 ransom; generally to release, preserve, deliver, redeem, rescue
Psalms 25:22 Redeem/padah Yisra’ĕl, O Elohim, Out of all his distresses!
Pay/mouth dalet/doorway hey/behold
The mouth is the doorway to the heart. The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Rom 10:9 That if you confess with your MOUTH the Master יהושע and believe in your HEART that Elohim has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.
Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life.
24 Turn away from you a crooked mouth, And put perverse lips far from you.
The heart is the doorway from where come the sources of life through the mouth.
That's what we see in the word padah-mouth heart behold
The root word in padah is pad
If you add an alaph to pad you get apad/ephod אֵפֹד H646
Ephod /apad is the garment worn by the high priest. It was also used to enquire from Yahuah by kings of Yasharal when they were facing enemies
The pad/redeem is in apad/ephod
Aph means nose/anger: The flaring of nostrils in anger
Moses song and the song of the Lamb is the same
Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvellous are Your works, יהוה Ěl Shaddai! Righteous and true are Your ways, O Sovereign of the set-apart ones!
This is a portion from the song of Moses/Masha....
Exo 15:8 “And with the blast of Your nostrils/Aph the waters were heaped up, the floods stood like a wall, the depths became stiff in the heart of the sea.
2 Sam 22:7 “In my distress I called upon יהוה, And to my Elohim I cried. And from His Hĕḵal He heard my voice, And my cry was in His ears.
8 “And the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of the heavens were troubled, Because He was wroth.
9 “Smoke went up from His nostrils/Aph, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it.
10 “And He bowed the heavens and came down, And thick darkness was under His feet.
11 “And He rode upon a keruḇ, and flew, And was seen upon the wings of the wind.
This is how Yahuah redeems/padah his people with a blast from his nostrils/aph. This redemption/padah shows judgment.
The Ephod/Apad shows that deliverance because the Apad had the Urim and the Tummim.
Exo 28:30 “And into the breastplate of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Tummim, and they shall be on the heart of Aharon when he goes in before יהוה. And Aharon shall bear the judgment of the children of Yisra’ĕl on his heart before יהוה, continually.
Exo 28:31 “And you shall make the robe of the shoulder/apad garment all of blue/takalat.
Blue: תְּכֵלֶת H8504 'Takalat' has the root word kal which means whole/complete
The mark of the covenant which makes whole/complete
Urim:
Urim has the root word aur which means light and ram means height/elevation
The light from the heights, that's what Urim shows.
Tummim/Tamyam:
Tamyam means whole
These stones were in the breast plate of judgement on the ephod/apad of the kahan ha gadul /high priest and he bore it on himself when he went in the presence of Yahuah. Our kahan ha gadul/high priest is Yahusha ha Mashiyach who is the LIGHT from HIGH and who makes us WHOLE bearing our judgment on himself just as these two stones were on the breastplate of judgment of the high priest fastened on the apad/ephod. What a wonderful redemption /padah.
The apad/ephod has the root word apah אֵפָה /aypah אֵיפָה
Ay means ''Where'' .....Ay/where pay/mouth ha/behold is
The mouth speaks what the heart is full of. That's the measure /apah or aypah (ephah).
Luke 6:45 “The good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.
Exo 13:13 “But every first-born of a donkey you are to ransom`/padah with a lamb. And if you do not ransom/padah it, then you shall break its neck/arpah H6202. And every first-born of man/adam among your sons you are to ransom/padah.
Every first-born of a donkey (a beast of burden) and Yahusha rode on a donkey to Yerushalam and we are that donkey whom the Master wants to ride and hence Turah stated that every first-born of a donkey was to be ransomed/padah with a lamb and if its not redeemed/padah then you shall break its neck. The words 'break it's neck' is 'arpah עָרַף H6202.
The verse Exo 13:13 goes on to say that every first-born of man/Adam among your sons you are to redeem/padah.
The word ''arpah עָרַף H6202'' is the same spelling for Orpah who was the other daughter-in-law of Naomi who went back to her people Moab and didn't cling to Naomi as Ruth told her ''Your people are my people and your Alahym is my Alahym''
Rth 1:16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim
Orpah עָרְפָּה H6204 is related to עֹרֶף H6203 which means 'back of the neck' and עָרַף H6202 which means 'break the neck'
In a spiritual comparison we see a beautiful picture of padah/redeeming the first-born of a donkey who is a beast of burden and if it cannot be redeemed 'break it's neck/arpah'. It's rendered useless as it's not of Yah but is pagan just as Orpah/Arpah who went back to her people when she had the opportunity to cling to Yahuah and his people.
If the sons of Yasharal would ask their fathers the significance of this padah/redeeming, they were to tell them as stated below.....
Exo 13:14 “And it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘By strength of hand יהוה brought us out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 13:15 ‘And it came to be, when Pharaoh was too hardened to let us go, that יהוה killed every first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both the first-born of man and the first-born of beast. Therefore I am slaughtering to יהוה every male that open the womb, but every first-born of my sons I ransom/padah.’
Thus 'padah' shows a witness confessed with the mouth, believed in the heart, seen by all
Exo 21:7 “And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant/amah H519, she does not go out as the male servants do.
Exo 21:8 “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed/padah. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.
Ex 21:9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters
Ex 21:10 If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Ex 21:11 If he shall not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.
The master who is engaged to his maidservant who was sold to him had no right to sell her to a foreign people and had to let her be redeemed/padah. If betrothed to his son then he would have to deal with her according to the custom of daughters and if he takes himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, clothing or her marital rights. If he can't do these 3 things for her he shall let her go without money and set her free. This again shows a command which was a witness in Yasharal to be openly declared concerning a maidservant.
The word for maidservant is H519 אָמָה amah which has the am/mother aum/tribe embedded in the word and 'mah' waters. Amah was also a linear standard of measure equal to the length of the forearm called 'çubit' H521.
Gen 21:10 So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant/amah H519 and her son, for the son of this female servant/amah H519 shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.”
Gen 21:11 And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Aḇraham because of his son.
Gen 21:12 But Elohim said to Aḇraham, “Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy and because of your female servant. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitsḥaq your seed is called.
Gen 21:13 “And of the son of the female servant/amah H519 I also make a nation, because he is your seed.”
While it may seem that Hagar and Ishmael went away empty with just some bread and bottle of water but Gen 25:5-6 shows us that Abraham didn't send the sons of his concubines empty but sent them with gifts, this included Hagar and Ishmael as the phrase says '.....while he/Abraham was still living...Gen 25:6.
Gen 16:3 And Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, took Haḡar her female servant, the Mitsrite, and gave her to her husband Aḇram to be his wife, after Aḇram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kenaʽan.
Gen 21:14 And Aḇraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be’ĕrsheḇa.
Gen 25:5 Now Aḇraham gave all that he had to Yitsḥaq,
Gen 25:6 but to the sons of the concubines whom Aḇraham had, Aḇraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Yitsḥaq, eastward, to the land of the east.
What did Ishmael do which put off Sarah to cast him and his mother out?
Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrite, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking/matskhaq מצָחַק H6711.
The word matskhaq is translated as 'mocking' but they list only the word צָחַק/tskhaq which means by implication to sport: - laugh, mock, play, make sport. Strong's doesn't list the word 'matskhaq' but just 'tskhaq' and the definitions above are above for this word צָחַק/tskhaq . There are lot of variations to this word, let's see a few of them
Yatskhaq ...laughed
Gen 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed/yatskhaq, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is a daughter of ninety years old, bear a child?
Tatskhaq...laughed
Gen 18:12 Sarah laughed/tatskhaq to herself, saying, After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old also?
tskhaq..laugh
Gen 18:13 And Yahuah said to Abraham, Why at this did Sarah laugh/tskhaq, saying, Shall I indeed truly bear, even when I am so old?
matskhaq/latshaq...to play sport (sexual pleasure or fornication in idolatory)
Gen 19:14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place, for Yahuah shall destroy the city. But he appeared as one that sported/matskhaq in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
This word 'matskhaq' is used when immorality is mentioned. Lot's son in laws were immoral and thought Lot was like one of them who was sexually immoral but Lot was qodesh and righteous.
Gen 21:9 Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking/matskhaq
Since we have yet to expose Gen 21:9 in the light of the usage of the word 'matskhaq/latskhaq' lets move on and come back to touch base this passage after we have seen the usage of this word in other passages.
Ex 32:6 So they rose early on the morrow and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play/latskhaq.
The Yasharali's offered burnt offering and peace offerings to the golden calf and ROSE UP TO PLAY (latskhaq) indicating fornication through idolatry.
Gen 39:14 she called to the men of her house and said to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us to make sport of me/latskhaq; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a great voice.
Gen 39:17 Then she spoke to him with these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me/latskhaq;
The above verses are an accusation from Potiphar's wife towards Yoseph who was innocent and who ran away from her as she was the one who wanted to lie down with him in adultery. The same word is used showing a sexual sin.
Jud 16:25 It came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he shall sport /yashakhaq for us. So they called for Samson from the prison house, and he sported /yatskhaq before them. And they made him stand between the pillars.
Whatever this sport was before the Philistines it was definitely to humble Samson after all his eyes were put out and he had lost all his strength. The scriptures are not clear what kind of sport they made him do to entertain themselves but it was definitely an act humiliating him. Moreover there are two different words used in the same passage above which are translated as 'sport' ...one is yashakhaq יָשָׂחַק which means to 'scorn/mock/laugh' and the other word is what we saw Abraham and Sarah do before Yahuah, they laughed, Abraham in belief and Sarah in unbelief and the word used is the same word here 'yatskhaq'
The verse should correctly be translated as Jud 16:25 It came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he shall be laughed /yashakhaq for us. So they called for Samson from the prison house, and he was being laughed/yatskhaq before them. And they made him stand between the pillars.
The other usage of the words with the mem and the lamed before the 'tskhaq' are used in context of sexual sin or idolatry which is a sin equivalent to fornication. Paul reveals what Ishmael's matskhaq/sporting meant. Ishmael pursued Yitshaq into fleshly things which Paul says ...''so it is now also'' Gal 4:29. This shows pursuing fleshly things is fornication just like the children of Yasharal rose up to play/matskhaq and is equaled to sexual sin.
Gal 4:29 But as then he who was born according to the flesh padah/pursued him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.
1Co 10:7 And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play/latskhaq.”
1Co 10:8 Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,
1Cor 7:2 But because of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
Re 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Yasharal, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
So we see the sin of fornication is equivalent to idolatry/fleshly things.
Coming back to the amah/maid servant being cast out Paul likens the maid servant/bondwoman Hagar to earthly Yerushalam which is in bondage with her children into fleshly things
Gal 4:22 For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.
Gal 4:23 But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise.
Gal 4:24 This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar,
Gal 4:25 for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
Gal 4:26 But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.
The bondwoman/amah sits as the outward measurements cubits/amah in the temple and Abraham gave gifts to all his concubines and his fleshly children and sent them away but he gave everything to Yitshaq. We in Mashiyach are whole/complete and are like Yitshaq the promised seed.
Gal 4:28 And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.
All the dimensions find its fulfillment in Mashiyach. The redemption/padah comes through the confession of the mouth/pay and belief in the heart/dalet having the revelation/hey of who Mashiyach is.
Abraham couldn't do one of the three things for Hagar ...giving her marital rights as his wife for if he did, his inheritance would go to Ishmael as he was the eldest son of Abraham and he was asked to be cast away along with his mother and he sent her away free of cost without charging money which he spent for her purchase, Turah came written later but followed by dabar by Abraham, he ransomed/padah her and we see the ''padah/pay dalet hey'' in the revelation of who Hagar and Ishmael is and their significance of being put away and we confess and believe in our heart we are like Yitshaq the promised seed and not the children of flesh being in Mashiyach who alone redeems/padah us from flesh to ruach.
Exo 21: 10...he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Ex 21:11 If he shall not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free of cost, without money.
But as seen in Gen 25:6 Abraham gave all his concubines and their sons gifts and sent them away from his son Yitshaq.
Num 18:15 Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, of man and of animal, which they offer to Yahuah, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem/padah, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem/padah.
The firstborn of man and unclean animals were to be redeemed/padah which show that mankind is unclean
Num 18:17 But the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem/padah; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as a fire offering, for a soothing aroma to Yahuah.
The firstborn of an ox/sheep/goat were not to be redeemed/padah and were holy/qodesh as they point out to Mashiyach. This shows the promised seed was Mashiyach and had no part in Hagar the bondwoman and her seed which we were part of once and he padah/redeemed us from the flesh to the ruach.
Deu 7:8 but because of יהוה loving you, and because of Him guarding the oath which He swore to your fathers, יהוה has brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed/padah you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim.
Deu 13:5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה your Elohim – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed/padah you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deu 24:18 “But you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and that יהוה your Elohim redeemed/padah you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word.
The Psalmist here in Psalms 49: 6-9 is speaking of the rich brother trusting in his great wealth not able to redeem/padah anyone at all, (though he may 'gaal' his brother when in poverty sold his piece of land) because 'padah' can only be done by Alahym
Psa 49:6 Those who are trusting in their riches And who are boasting in their great wealth?
Psa 49:7 A brother does not redeem/padah anyone at all, Neither give to Elohim a ransom/kapar for him;
Psa 49:8 For the redemption/padyan (from padah) of their lives is costly, And it shall cease forever;
Psa 49:9 That he should still live forever, And not see the Pit.
Speaking of redeeming/padah Abraham Yahuah says the house of Yaaqob will not be ashamed for he sees his children the work of my hands in his midst, they shall set apart my name and set apart the set apart one of Yaaqob and fear Alahym of Yasharal.
Isa 29:22 Therefore thus said יהוה, who ransomed/padah Aḇraham, concerning the house of Yaʽaqoḇ, “Yaʽaqoḇ is no longer put to shame, no longer does his face grow pale.
Isa 29:23 “For when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall set apart My Name, and set apart the Set-apart One of Yaʽaqoḇ, and fear the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
Isa 35:10 And the ransomed/padah of יהוה shall return and enter Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
So we see the unique usage of the words 'gaal' and 'padah' which point out to the redemption we receive through the love of Mashiyach displayed through the commandment where his elect encounter the commandment and see the ruach in the letter and acknowledge ''Yahuah Gaal'' (Yahuah my kinsman redeemer) and ''Yahuah yapad'' (Yahuah's hand redeemed).
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