When we read the accounts of signs given to both house of Yasharal and house of Pharaoh we see different words used for ‘serpent’. While the English text would translate both the words as ‘serpent’ the Abary shows the purpose of Yahuah in using these different words to show & reveal His purpose in warning His people and gathering them into His Malchitsedeq priesthood in the face of Yahusha.
1. The sign for Yasharal to believe:
Exo 4:1 And Mosheh answered and said, “And if they do not believe me, nor listen to my voice, and say, ‘יהוה has not appeared to you?’ ”
Exo 4:2 And יהוה said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A rod.”
Exo 4:3 And He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So, he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent/ nachash H5175. And Mosheh fled from it.
Exo 4:4 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Reach out your hand and seize it by the tail” – so he reached out his hand and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand –
Exo 4:5 so that they believe that יהוה Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, has appeared to you.”
2. The sign to Pharaoh to let Yahuah’s people go:
Exo 7:10 So Mosheh and Aharon went into Pharaoh, and they did so, as יהוה commanded. And Aharon threw his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent/tannıyn H8577.
Nachash H5175 from H5172 ‘divine enchanter, whisper a spell, to hiss, brazen serpent’
Tanniyn H8577 from H8565 ‘a sea serpent, dragon, whale, huge marine animal’
Exo 4:29 And Mosheh went with Aharon and gathered together all the elders of the children of Yisra’ěl.
Exo 4:30 And Aharon spoke all the words which יהוה had spoken to Mosheh. Then he did the signs/owuth H226 before the eyes of the people.
Exo 4:31 And the people believed. And they heard that יהוה had visited the children of Yisra’ěl and that He had looked on their affliction, and they bowed their heads and did obeisance.
Aharon spoke all the words that Yahuah spoke with Mosheh and did the signs in the sight of the people which includes the sign of the rod turning into nachash.
The usage of the word ‘nachash’ is first time used for Shatan who came to tempt Chauah/Eve whereas the word ‘tanniyn’ precedes the word ‘nachash’
Gen 1:21 And Elohim created great sea creatures/tanniyn H8577 and every living being that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
This later became a sign by which Pharoah was warned of the consequences which we will see later.
First let us see Elohim's purpose for calling ha shatan 'nachash'. Ha shatan doesn't have a name and hence, reader shouldn't understand that 'nachash' is his name
1. The sign for Yasharal to believe:
Gen 3:1 And the nachash H5175 was craftier than all the lives of the field which יהוה Elohim had made, and he said to the woman, “Is it true that Elohim has said, ‘Do not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
This later became a sign by which Yasharal who were bitten by serpents would be healed by looking at the nachash which also means ‘brazen serpent’
Num 21:4 And they departed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Eḏom. But the being of the people grew impatient because of the way.
Num 21:5 And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, “Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.”
Num 21:6 And יהוה sent fiery/saraph H8314 serpents/nachashim H5175 among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’ěl died.
Num 21:7 Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against יהוה and against you. Pray to יהוה to take away the serpents from us.” So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.
Num 21:8 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent/saraph H8314, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
Num 21:9 So Mosheh made a bronze/nachasheth H5178 serpent/nachash H5175 and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze/nachasheth H5178 serpent/nachash H5175, he lived.
Why is hashatan called nachash? Was there healing power in the nachash?
In Abary the root words in ‘nachash’ are ‘nach’ , ‘chash’ & ‘nash’:
Nach: The rest is defined as the shepherd would guide his flock to a place of water. Here is water for drinking as well as green grass for pasturing. Once the flock arrives, they are free to rest after the long journey. A guided journey to a place of rest. ‘nach’ also is a root word in ‘Noach/Noah’.
Chash: ‘chash’ means ‘bind/ to hush (like a secret)/hold still/silent or silence’
Nash: ‘nash’ means ‘debt/deception’. The pictograph is of an imposition such as a debt or deception which causes oppression.
The words put together show both positive as well as negative
Joh 3:14 “And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent/ha nachash in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 so that whoever is believing in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
Yahusha said as Moshe lifted up the nachash in the wilderness, even so He will be lifted up. He calls Himself here as ‘the Son of Adam’
Hence, positively He being the ‘nachash’ shows that He became the Son of Adam and paid ‘THE DEBT BEING OPPRESSED SILENTLY TO GIVE REST’ by enduring the stake
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, but He did not open His mouth.
Whereas ha shatan is termed as ‘nachash’ because he ‘DECEIVES TO OPPRESS BY MISLEADING AWAY THE REST’
The ‘nachash’ on the nas/pole represented Yahusha ha Mashiyach who takes away the poison of this serpent to redeem us. That’s why Yahusha says that just as Moshe lifted up the serpent on the pole, even so the Son of Adam will be lifted up and those seeing Him (believing) will possess eternal life.
Ha Shatan didn’t come in the form of a snake in the garden, he came as a representation of Yahuah or else Chauah wouldn’t converse with him
Gen 3:1 And the nacḥash was craftier/arum H6175 than all the living/chay of the field which יהוה Elohim had made, and he said to the woman, “Is it true that Elohim has said, ‘Do not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
Arum H6715 from H6191 which means sensible and careful when making judgements and decisions, cautious, avoiding unnecessary risks, prudent
Gen 3:4 And the nachash said to the woman, “ not/lo muth/die tha/ you shall mathun/ dying
Gen 3:5 “For Elohim knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”
Our bibles have the text translated as ‘’You shall certainly not die’’
Lo muth ta mathun: Literal translation “You shall not die in dying’’
If you didn’t understand what he said read again and understand that he said you shall not die in dying if you disobey but will eventually live. He added to Elohim’s word. Below are the words of Elohim to Adam.
Gen 2:17 but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it muth/die tamuth/you shall die
Muth ta muth simply means ‘in death you shall die’ which shows mankind will be plunged to ‘eternal death’
Ha Shatan preached in lo muth ta muthun which means ‘in death you shall not die but live’ giving an indication of ‘eternal life’ with eyes being opened being like Elohim
Gen 3:5 “For Elohim knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”
Remember, ‘arum’ in Gen 3:1 translated as subtil/cunning/crafty is a characteristic in ha shatan termed as ‘nachashath’, which means being careful when making judgments and decisions. Ha Shatan knew Yahuah loved man whom He created and hence, in his prudence he was actually telling Chauah/Eve that even if they disobey, they will attain the life of Elohim.
Yahusha was just in characteristic as the ‘nachashath’ in exactly fulfilling as ha shatan said lo muth ta muthun which means ‘in death you shall not die but live’ because He became the firstborn over all creation and firstborn over the dead
1Pe 3:18 For the Mashiyach also died for our sins one time for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to the Elohim, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
Col 1:15 who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim, the first-born of all creation
Col 1:18 And He is the Head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that He might become the One who is first in all.
So, you see how careful ha shatan was in the words he spoke to Chauah to deceive her, for in his careful judgment of things, he knew Yahuah would do anything to bring Adam and Chauah to being alive in Him. Yahusha, the likeness of Elohim/image of Elohim represents ‘Adam’ and his race. Elohim within Himself took counsel to make man in His image both heavenly as well as earthly denoted by understanding ‘’Let us make man in Our image..’’
Gen 1:26 And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the ground.”
Gen 1:27 And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the likeness of the earthy, we shall also bear the likeness of the heavenly.
Rev 1:15 And from His (Yahusha’s) feet were like burnished/qalal bronze/nachashath, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters.
The word burnished H7043 & H7044 are the same spelling where it means polished, despised, cursed, revile, lightly esteemed’
The word shows us that Yahusha ha Mashiyach is the refined nachashath in the fire who went through the curse/being despised. The nachashath was in all metals used in the haykal/temple
Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse/qalal of the Torah, having become a curse/qalalah for us – for it has been written, “Cursed/qalalat is everyone who hangs upon a tree.
Gal 3:14 in order that the blessing of Aḇraham might come upon the nations in Messiah יהושע, to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief.
While the brazen serpent/nechosheth nachash healed those bitten by serpents in the wilderness, the children of Yasharal retained it and worshipped it by burning incense to it which Hezekiah destroyed it in his days.
2Ki 18:4 He (Hezekiah) took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashěrah, and broke in pieces the bronze/nechosheth H5178 serpent/nachash H5175 which Mosheh had made, for until those days the children of Yisra’ěl burned incense to it and called it Neḥushtan.
How is nachashath a sign to Yasharal?
Exo 4:3 And He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So, he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent/ nachash H5175. And Mosheh fled/nus H5127 from it.
The word nus H5127 is the same root word ‘nas’ H5251 translated as ‘lift up a standard’
Nas H5251 banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard.
Nus H5127 vanish away (subside, escape; causatively chase, impel, deliver): - X abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, X hide, lift up a standard.
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of Yahuah from the west, and his esteem from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Ruach of Yahuah shall lift up a standard/nassah H5127 against him
The word also means vanish away. The nachash is the vanishing serpent. A Standard is raised against the serpent which will drive it away by the rod of Yahuah. The serpent who plunged mankind into eternal death would have a standard/nus raised against it to catch him in his own craftiness.
Job 5:13 catching the wise in their own craftiness/aram H6193, and the counsel of schemers are swept away.
Aram H6193 & H6191 is the similar word arum H6175 which means ‘prudent/subtil’
The standard raised against the serpent will cause the serpent to flee, not us fleeing it. Hence, the sign would bring belief to Yasharal that Yahuah has visited them with His Salvation.
2. The sign to Pharaoh to let Yahuah’s people go:
We saw the definition of tanniyn and that Yahuah Elohim created the tanniym on the 5th day
Tanniyn H8577 from H8565 'tan' ‘a sea serpent, dragon, whale, huge marine animal’
Gen 1:21 And Elohim created great sea creatures/tanniym H8577 and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
Gen 1:22 And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
Gen 1:23 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fifth day.
Exo 7:10 So Mosheh and Aharon went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as יהוה commanded. And Aharon threw his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent/tanniyn H8577.
Exo 7:11 But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the practisers of witchcraft. And they, the magicians of Mitsrayim, also did so with their magic.
Exo 7:12 And they, each one, threw down his rod, and they became serpents/tanniym H8577. But the rod/mattah H4294 of Aharon swallowed up their rods/mattah H4294 .
Exo 4:19 And יהוה said to Mosheh in Miḏyan, “Go, return to Mitsrayim, for all the men are dead who sought your life.”
Exo 4:20 So Mosheh took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod/mattah H4294 of Elohim in his hand.
This mattah/rod is termed as rod of Elohim, it is an extended branch where Yahudite tradition teaches that when Adam was driven out of the garden of Eden, Yahuah broke off a branch from the tree of life and gave it to him. This rod of Elohim was a sign of the Malchitsedeq priesthood and was handed over by father to son. This rod came into Yoseph's hand in Mitsrayim and Moshe fled from Mitsrayim with that rod in his hand. This then was handed to Aharon to perform the signs of Elohim in Mitsrayim, this was the rod that budded shaqad/almonds. For details you may read my study 'The Rod of Aluahym' on thi blog.
the rod/mattah H4294 is an extended branch and the word is also used for 'clan/tribe'
What is interesting to see is that the magicians of Mitsrayim also cast their mattah on the ground and they became serpents but Aharon's rod swallowed their rods. Notice it doesn't say Aharon's tanniyn/serpent swallowed the magicians tanniym/serpents but it says 'rod/s'
This shows that the 'tanniyn' was also the vanishing serpent for the rod/mattah represented the nus/pole, the standard Yahuah would raise against the enemy.
Eze 29:3 “Speak, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am against you, O Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, O great/gadul H1419 monster/tanniym H8577 who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘My River is my own, and I, I have made it for myself.’
Eze 29:4 “And I shall put hooks in your jaws, and I shall make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. And I shall bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish in your rivers cling to your scales.
Eze 32:2 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, ‘You were like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster/tanniyn H8577 in the seas, and you burst forth in your rivers, and trouble the waters with your feet, and muddy their rivers.’
Twice in the book of Ezekiel Yahuah calls Pharaoh of Mitsrayim as sea monster/tanniym for Pharoah called the river Nile as his own, the one he made for himself. Hence, he and his army drowning in the Red Sea was a sign of vengeance taken over Mitsrayim for the bitter bondage they put the children of Yasharal in
Ps 74:13 You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters/tanniym H8577 in the waters.
Ps 74:14 You crushed the heads of Liwyathan/H3882; You gave him as food for the people of the wilderness/tsiyiy H6728.
Firstly there is no instance in scripture which can be pin pointed to mean that Yahuah gave Leviathan the sea serpent to be meat to the people of the wilderness. The word tsiyiy is mistranslated in all texts in Psalms 74:14
Jewish talmud and beliefs are that Leviathan was a great sea monster and Yahuah created male and female of its kind and then later got the female killed to feed the people in the wilderness. These are beliefs outside scripture and scripture is silent on any such feeding Yasharal who inhabited the wilderness at that time. Yahuah will never feed his people with an abominable creature with several heads as Psalms 74:13-14 suggests.
tsiyiy H6728: From the same as H6723; a desert dweller, that is, nomad or wild beast: - wild beast of the desert, that dwell in (inhabiting) the wilderness.
While it can be translated as desert/wilderness, its also used for wild beasts inhabiting the desert/wilderness
Isa34:14 The desert creatures/tsiyim H6728 shall meet with the wolves, the hairy goat shall cry to his fellow; the night monster shall also settle there and shall find herself a resting place
Then how are we to understand who was fed to the desert creatures/wild beasts? First we have to solve the word 'am' which is translated as 'people'
Lets look at Ps 74:14 in Abary 14. ‘atah ritsats’at ra’shey Liw’yathan tit’nenu ma’akal la’`am la’tsiim.
The first 'la' before 'am/people' they translated it as 'for' and the second 'la' before 'tsyiym' they translated it as 'of' and that's where the confusion is.
'La' in Hebrew as a prefix is used as 'to/for' to make sense to the text. In Pslams 74:14 'him & as' are added by translators.
Translators translation: Ps 74:14 You crushed the heads of Liwyathan You gave him as food for the people of the wilderness.
The correct translation of Ps 74:14 should be 'You/atah crushed/ritsats heads of / rashay Liwyathan, You gave/titenu food/maakal of/ la people, to/la the wild beasts of the wilderness/tssim
Put together: Ps 74:14 You crushed heads of Leviathan, you gave food of people, to the wild beasts of the wilderness
Now it makes sense as the cross references used for Psalms 74:13-14 is YashaYahu 51:9-10
Isa 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahuah; Awake as in the days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You who divided the proud in pieces, who wounded the sea-monster/tanniyn H8577?
Isa51:10 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a pathway for the redeemed to cross over?
Again here in YashaYahu 51:9 the translators put the word 'rahab' referring to Rahab the harlot whereas the Rahab to saved the spies was actually an innkeeper and not a harlot. Here rahab H7293 means proud.
Understanding Psalms 74:13-14 in the light of YashaYahu 51:9-10:
The Leviathan whose heads were divided and given food of people refers to Pharaoh and his army, the food of these corpses whom the Yasharalites saw became meat to the wild beasts of the wilderness
Exo 14:30 Thus יהוה saved Yisra’ĕl that day out of the hand of the Mitsrites, and Yisra’ĕl saw the Mitsrites dead on the seashore.
Yahuchanan sees a living creature coming out of the sea whose one of his heads wounded to death and was healed. This is so much in harmony with scriptures when we compare spiritual with spiritual.
Rev 13:3 And I saw, behold, one of his heads as wounded was wounded to death, and the deadly wound, which is to him, was healed. And the whole earth marveled after the beast.
Understanding the name 'Leviathan' :
Paleo Hebrew
The word is broken down into 'luy' & 'tan'
Luy/Levi H3878 was the son of Yaaqob who was chosen for priesthood for Yasharal. All gifts and sacrifices were to be offered at his sons hands who would be the levitical priesthood
Tan H8565 is the root word in 'tanniym' which means 'sea monster/dragon/whale/sea creature'
Gen 49:5 “Shimʽon and Lĕwi are brothers, their weapons are implements of violence.
Gen 49:6 “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they slew a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure.
Gen 49:7 “Bitter be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Yaʽaqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ĕl.
In the berekah given by Yaawob to Shimon and Levi, he says they will eventually be scattered in Yasharal. Shimon and Lewi had avenged their sister Dinah who was raped and caused a difficult situation for Yaaqob to sojurn in the land of Kenaan.
Heb 7:11 Truly, then, if perfection were through the Lĕwitical priesthood – for under it the people were given the Torah – why was there still need for another priest to arise according to the order of Malkitseḏeq, and not be called according to the order of Aharon?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law
After the Levitical priesthood has ceased to exist and made way to the Malchitsedeq priesthood in ha Mashiyach, those going back to carnal Torah are actually going to the joining the tanniym/tan i.e. the sea monster/dragon
Rev13:1 And I was standing on the sand of the sea. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names
Rev 13:2 And the beast which I saw was the appearance like the appearance of a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon/ha tannin gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
Rev13:3 And I saw, behold, one of his heads as wounded was wounded to death, and the deadly wound, which is to him, was healed. And the whole earth marveled after the beast.
This living creature with the seven heads whose one of its heads was healed makes war with the set-apart ones whose dead bodies spiritually lie on the street of the great city Yerushalam which spiritually is called Mitsrayim. The tables change, the Mitsrites/Egyptians whose dead bodies became meat for the wild beasts of the wilderness now live spiritually and kill Yahuah's set-apart ones whose dead bodies lie on the streets of spiritual Mitsrayim
Rev 11:8 and their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Seḏom and Mitsrayim, where also our Master was impaled,
Levi H3878 means 'enjoin/attached' from H3867 properly to twine, that is, (by implication) to unite, to remain; also to borrow (as a form of obligation) or (causatively) to lend: - abide with, borrow (-er), cleave, join (self), lend (-er).
What are they joined to? tan/tanniym, the sea monster/dragon in carnal Torah
Isa 27:1 In that day יהוה with His severe sword, great and strong, punishes Liwiathan the fleeing serpent/nachash H5175, Liwiathan that twisted serpent/nachash H5175. And He shall slay the monster/tanniyn H8577 that is in the sea.
Speaking of the redemption of Yasharal, Yahuah uses all 3 words 'nachash, Leviathan & tanniyn' for the destruction of ha shatan and his people and preserving the remnant of Yasharal.
Hence, the sign to Pharaoh to let his people go is a picture of His people who were joined/levi to Mitsrayim the tanniym/sea creature broken away from it.
For those who are occupied in buying & selling the old wine of Levi are enjoined to the tanniym.
