Did you know that nikud (naqud: nun quph uau dalet) which is a vowel pointing in Hebrew comes from the
word herdsmen H5348 naqad (nun quph dalet) which means to mark
spots or speckles and H5349 means One who is a spotter ...a herdsman/sheep master?
This has deep spiritual significance
because when we read Yahuah had many of his prophets like Yaaqob, Daud, Amos from
the herds, even when Mashiyach was born the messenger was sent to the herdsmen
watching the flock by night with the announcement of the birth of Mashiyach.
It’s
interesting to see the herdsman is one who marks the spots or speckles and we
look at Yaaqob the herdsman who served Laban 7 years each for his 2 daughters
tending his flocks and 6 years for his herd. When the time came for him to
leave Laban he made a plan to leave Laban with most of his flocks. When Yoseph
was born to him he said to Laban to send him on his way to go to his own land
and asks his wages from Laban, all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the
black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats.
Gen 30:25 And it
came to be, when Raḥĕl
had borne Yosĕph, that Yaʽaqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Send
me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land.
Gen 30:26 “Give
my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you
yourself know my service which I have done for you.”
Gen 30:27 And Laḇan said to him, “If
I have found favour in your eyes, please stay, for I have diligently watched
that יהוה has
blessed me for your sake.”
Gen 30:28 And he
said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”
Gen 30:29 So he said
to him, “You know how I have served you and how your
livestock has been with me.
Gen 30:30 “For
the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and יהוה has
blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house
too?”
Gen 30:31 And he
said, “What do I give you?” And Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Give
me naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks:
Gen 30:32 “Let
me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled/naqad H5348 and spotted/tala H2921 sheep, and all the
black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled/naqad
H5348 among the goats. And these shall be my wages.
Gen 30:33 “And
my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when you come concerning
my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black
among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.”
Gen 30:34 And Laḇan said, “See,
let it be according to your word!”
Gen 30:35 And on
that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all
the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white
in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of
his sons.
Gen 30:36 And he put
three days’ journey between himself and Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yaʽaqoḇ fed the rest of Laḇan’s
flocks.
Gen 30:37 And Yaʽaqoḇ took for himself
rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips
in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.
Gen 30:38 And he set
the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering
troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to
drink.
Gen 30:39 So the
flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked,
speckled, and spotted.
Gen 30:40 And Yaʽaqoḇ separated the lambs,
and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of
Laḇan, but he put his own flocks by themselves and
did not put them with Laḇan’s flock.
Gen 30:41 And it
came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived, that Yaʽaqoḇ placed the rods
before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, so they would conceive among the
rods.
Gen 30:42 But when
the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the weak ones were Laḇan’s
and the strong ones Yaʽaqoḇ’s.
Gen 30:43 Thus the
man increased very much, and had many flocks, and female and male servants, and
camels and donkeys.
Yoseph was born to Yaaqob through Rachel and now Yaaqob
wanted to be a free man. The 7 x 2 years (for Laban’s 2 daughters plus 6 years
for his cattle =20 years is a significant time for a completeness of a
captivity. Moreover, Yaaqob tells Laban that 10 times his wages were changed.
The
numbers 2 x 10 and 10 times are significant spiritually as the number 10 speaks
of Completeness
Gen 31:38 This
twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she
goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.
Gen 31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought
not unto you; I bore the loss of it; of my hand did you require it, whether
stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Gen 31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
Gen 31:41 Thus have
I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two
daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed את eth-my
wages ten times/manah H4489.
The
word ‘manah’ H4489 feminine has the root word ‘man’ which means ‘portion’ and
hence means ‘portion of time’. Ten portions of time his wages/sakar was
changed.
Twenty
years where he was to serve Yahuah in the land of promise, he was serving Laban
and that too for wages which was changed ten portions of time.
The
Torah came written with the age of 20 years and above to give a ransom for his
soul excluding the Levites as Levites were part of the sanctuary. This was the
temple tax and hence a heave offering. When Yahusha was questioned whether he
pays the temple tax he told Kepha to put in a fish hook and from its mouth
remove the one sheqel and pay his and Yahusha’s tax (which amounts to half a
sheqel for both of them). The instruction of heave offering therefore states Exo
30:15 “The rich does not give more, and the poor does not give less than
half a sheqel, when you give a heave offering to יהוה, to make atonement for your souls.
The reader shouldn’t misunderstand this to
mean that this was a bloodless atonement. For details you may read my study
here:
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Exo
30:11 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Exo
30:12 “When you take the census of
the children of Yisra’ĕl, to count them, then each one shall give an
atonement for his life to יהוה, when you count them, so that there is no plague among
them when you oversee them.
Exo
30:13 “Everyone among those that pass among them that are counted,
is to give this: half a sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place,
twenty gĕrahs being a sheqel. The half-sheqel is the heave offering to יהוה.
Exo 30:14 “Everyone passing over
to be counted from twenty years old and above, gives a heave
offering to יהוה.
Exo
30:15 “The rich does not give more, and the poor does not give less than
half a sheqel, when you give a heave offering to יהוה, to make atonement for your souls.
Exo
30:16 “And you shall take the silver/kasaph
H3701 for the atonement from the children of Yisra’ĕl, and give it for the
service of the Tent of Meeting. And it shall be to the children of Yisra’ĕl for
a remembrance before יהוה, to make atonement for your souls”
The
other word for herdsmen in Abary is ‘raah’ H7462 and means ‘shepherd’ which has
the root word ‘ra’ H7453 which means ‘friend/neighbor/husband/companion’
Gen 49:22 Yoseph is a fruitful bough, even a
fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Gen 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at
him, and hated him:
Gen 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of
his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty ELOHIYM of
Ya`aqov; (from thence is The
Shepherd/raah H7462, The Stone of Yashar’el:)
Is
it a coincidence that Yoseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver/kasaph H3701
to the Yishmaelites?
Gen
37:28 And men, Miḏyanite traders passed
by, so they pulled Yosĕph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the
Yishmaʽĕlites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Yosĕph to Mitsrayim.
From
Yoseph was to come the Shepherd …..the Mashiyach who would
pay the price in himself. The 20 pieces of kasaph holds 40 shekels i.e. half
shekel x 20 and number 40 in scripture shows affliction. Example Yisrael was 40
years in the wilderness, Yahuah caused 40 days and 40 nights bringing the
flood, Masha was 40 days and 40 nights without bread and water when he went to
take the tablets of stone, Yahusha was 40 days without food in the wilderness
among wild beasts.
As the high priest and the Temple Yahusha
bore the crookedness of the assembly upon himself as an overseer of the house
of Yasharal who are numbered in him. Hence, this contribution of 'half a sheqel of silver' into
the treasury of the Tent of the Meeting pointed to the atonement/kaphar of the
soul/nephesh through Yahusha ha Mashiyach measuring to one full sheqel in him.
Kaph is the root word in 'kaphar/atonement'. The nail print in his palm as the
shape of a coin (a full sheqel paid from the fish's mouth). The elect gathered
are likened to the fish, Yahusha told his disciples he would make them fishers
of men.
Matt 4:19 And He said to them, “Follow after Me, and I
shall make you fishers of men.”
The first fish that came up (Matt 17:27) is symbolic
of firstfruits who is Mashiyach himself who pays the price in full for both the
Temple and the people those who crossed over/abar (Exo 30:13) to be
overseen/counted in Him (the assembly). HE IS THE TEMPLE.
Exo 30:13 “Everyone among those who are registered is to give
this: half a sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, twenty
gĕrahs being a sheqel. The half-sheqel is the contribution to יהוה.
Deliverance of Yaaqob:
Yaaqob
went through Laban’s flocks and picked up the spotted/tala, speckled/naqad and
the brown/chum from the herds. He later reveals to his wives what he did was on
the instruction from the Messenger of Yahuah in a dream.
Gen 31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served את
eth-your father.
Gen 31:7 And your father has deceived me, and changed את eth-my
wages ten times; but ELOHIYM suffered him not to hurt me.
Gen 31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be your
wages; then all the cattle bore speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked
shall be your hire; then bore all the cattle ringstraked.
Gen 31:9 Thus ELOHIYM has taken away את eth-the
cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Gen 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle
conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams
which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grizzled.
Gen 31:11 And the
angel of ELOHIYM spoke unto me in a dream, saying, Ya`aqob: And I said,
Here am I.
Gen 31:12 And he said, Lift up
now your eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are
ringstraked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen את eth all that Laban does unto you.
Gen 31:13 I am the ELOHIYM of Beyt-EL, where you
anointed the pillar, and where you vowed a vow unto me: now arise, get
you out from this land, and return unto the land of your kindred.
He
sent away all the herds which were ringstraked, spotted, speckled, white and
brown along with his sons ahead of him
Gen 30:35 And he removed that day את eth-the
he goats that were ringstraked/aqad
H6124 and spotted/tala H2921, and את eth-all
the she goats that were speckled/naqad
H5348 and spotted/tala H2921, and everyone that had some white/laban H3836 in it, and all the brown/chum H2345 among the sheep, and gave them into the
hand of his sons.
Gen 30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and
Ya`aqob: and Ya`aqob fed את eth-the rest of Laban's flocks.
The Abary language is beautiful and shows us in these words these herds were strong being exposed to affliction.
The
word ‘aqad’ H6124 also means and spelled as ‘aqud’ H6124 means ‘appearing to be
whipped with a cord’ and ‘aqad’ H6123 means ‘to tie with thongs’
The
word ‘tala’ H2921 has the root word ‘tal’ H2919 which means ‘dew’. The herd was
exposed to the dew of heaven in the open
The
word ‘laban’ H3836 from ‘labanah’ also means bricks. Yisrael served Pharaoh in rigor
in making bricks for him and in further affliction because of the signs he
ceased from giving them straw for the bricks. The white spots on the flock show
the exposure to affliction.
The
word ‘chum’ H2345 translated as ‘brown’ also means ‘heat’ and is a picture of
the flocks in the heat of the sun in the open.
The
barakat/blessing is in affliction and that was Yaaqob’s portion given to him by
Yahuah as shown to him in the dream.
Based
on the dream he made Laban’s flocks expose to the white of the green poplar and
the hazel and chestnut tree when the stronger male cattle mated with the strong
female bringing forth the ringstraked/aqad, speckled/naqad and spotted/tala but
when the weaker herd mated he did not expose them to the rods and hence the
weaker herd became Laban’s and the stronger ones became his.
Gen 30:37 And Ya`aqob took him rods of green poplar, and of
the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the
white appear which was in the rods.
Gen 30:38 And he set את eth-the rods/maqal H4731 which he had pilled before the flocks in the
gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should
conceive when they came to drink.
Gen 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and
brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Gen 30:40 And Ya`aqob did separate the lambs, and set the
faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of
Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
The
rods and the white in it itself didn’t have the power to produce but the voice
of Yahuah which came to Yaaqob caused this to happen.
Maqal
is also translated as the staff, the staff by which Yaaqob crossed the Yarden
Gen 32:9 And Ya`aqob said, O ELOHAI of my father Abraham,
and ELOHAI of my father Yitschaq, YAHUAH which said unto me, Return unto your
country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you:
Gen 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies,
and of all the truth, which you have showed את
eth-unto your servant; for with my staff/maqal
H4731 I passed over את eth-this Yardan;
and now I am become two bands.
The
stronger ringstraked/ aqad speckled/naqad, spotted/tala, brown/chum and the
white/laban spotted/tala came forth from the exposure to the rod/staff (maqal)
Gen 31:54 Then Ya`aqob offered sacrifice upon the mount,
and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all
night in the mount.
Yaaqob
testified to Laban that he never ate of his rams, and that which was torn by
the beasts he bore the loss of it (Gen 31:38-39), now that all the speckled,
spotted and ringstraked fell into his lot it is obvious he offered a sacrifice
to Yahuah from among them.
Now
wait a minute, doesn’t Turah state not to offer to Yahuah a blemished
lamb/sheep/goat?
Nowhere
does Turah state that the ringstraked, spotted, one with white spot cannot be
offered. Turah states that the lamb/cattle that is offered should be without blemish/tamyam
which means should be WHOLE, it shouldn’t be crippled, sick etc.
Ex12:5
The lamb shall be an WHOLE/tamyam H8549
male/zakar son/ban a year old to
you; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Yahuah
was not angry with Yisrael for offering a speckled, ringstreaked, spotted sheep/goats
but because they offered the lame, sick and that which was torn by the beasts
to offer to him.
Mal 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The
table of YAHUAH is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his
meat, is contemptible.
Mal 1:13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it!
and ye have snuffed at it, says YAHUAH
TSEBA’OTH; and ye brought that
which was torn, and את eth-the lame, and את eth-the sick; thus ye brought את eth-an offering: should I accept this of your hand? says
YAHUAH.
Mal 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in
his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices unto ADONAI a corrupt thing: for I am
a great King, says YAHUAH TSEVA’OTH, and my name is
dreadful among the heathen.
1Pe1:19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb WHOLE/tamyam and shayan
bo/that cannot be condemned/mum, the blood of the Mashiyach.
Our English translations are poor and they
translate ‘mum’ as ‘spot’
whereas ‘mum’ means rebuke/blame/condemn
Examples:
Phil 2:15 so that you may
be blameless and innocent, the sons of Elohim without rebuke/mum, in the midst of a crooked and perverse
generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
Col 1:22 yet He has now
reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you
before Him holy without
blame/mum and unreprovable in His sight.
Tit 2:7 in all things show yourself an example of
good deeds, in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity.
Tit2:8 sound speech, that cannot be/shayan bo condemned/mum; that he that is of the contrary part may be
ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Nowhere does it
say anywhere ‘spotted/speckled’ for the lamb.
niqqud or nikkud is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Several such diacritical systems were developed in the Early Middle Ages. The most widespread system, and the only one still used to a significant degree today, was created by the Masoretes of Tiberias in the second half of the first millennium AD in the Land of Israel, the strokes, dots and serrifs on the Aramaic alaphbet would give different meanings and sounds to the words. The Paleo Hebrew was without the niqqud/naqud and was the pure lip which was sealed by Daniel in the Yahudite Babylonian captivity as told to him by Yahuah. Yahudah came out from the Babylonian captivity with the Chaldee Abary which lost the emanations and the breath of Yahuah in the letters, the Masoretes in the 9th or 10th century AD further added the vowels to those letters thus making it Modern Hebrew.
Only the herdsmen/naqad with the ruach of prophecy would be able to distinguish between the strong speckled/naqad exposed to the maqal/from the voice, from the niqud which has no voice of Yahuah in it
Joh 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice/qol; and there shall be one fold, and one
Shepherd.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice/qol, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them to me, is
greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my
Father's hand.
The cattle bowed their head whist drinking from the
trough
Gen 30:38 And he set את eth-the
rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering
troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came
to drink.
We are the other sheep not from this fold (John 10:16)
which Yahusha said he would bring and hear his voice/qol. The niqud in the
written letter cannot obscure his voice coming to us. What Yaaqob did was
prophetic and in the account is hidden our transition from the flocks of Laban
to the flock of Yaaqob. He has also given the elders of Yisrael to feed his
flock with the pure manna not for changed wages/sakar of times/manah but the
WHOLENESS OF MASHIYACH
1Pe 5:1 THE elders/zaqan
which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the
sufferings of MASHIACH, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be
revealed:
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of YAHUAH which is among you,
taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for
filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
1Pe 5:3 Neither as being lords over YAH’S
heritage, but being examples to the flock.
There are two basarah’s running in the same trough, one
will drink from the same water and bring forth the weak herd being exposed to
the staff/maqal but not able to hear the voice/qol of Yahuah in it, they will
remain in the herd of Laban in the niqud (the letter) whilst the other stronger
would drink from the trough being exposed to the voice/qol of Yahuah and able
to hear it transitioning to the camp of
Yaaqob as the naqad/herdsman taking care of the flock of Yahuah.
