The Clean shaba and the Unclean in shaniy

 Gen7:2 You shall take with you of every clean animal, seven seven, a male and his female; and of the animal that is not clean two, a male and his female;

Gen7:3 also of the birds of the heavens, seven seven, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 

Before Yahuah brought the flood upon the earth, he instructed Noah to build and ark which Kepha says Yahuah was patient with the wicked while the ark was being prepared in which 8 beings were saved through water. While the count given is of humans saved denoted by the number 8, and number 8 in Hebrew is H8083 shamanah 𐤔𐤌𐤍𐤄 which is from 'shaman' H8080, H8081 H8082 𐤔𐤌𐤍 means 'plumpness/fat/greasy/anointing oil'

1Pe 3:20  who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noaḥ, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight beings, were saved through water, 

While Kepha records the 8 human beings saved pertaining to salvation, the clean animals and the clean birds were tied to the shemitah service of mankind until the reformation. i.e. clean animals and clean birds were offered as sacrifices until the one and only perfect & ultimate sacrifice of Yahusha ha Mashiyach. Hence, these sevens are closely related to Yahusha Ha Mashiyach as they foreshadow Him in sacrifice. The unclean animals & unclean birds were also tied to the Shemitah as a testing program for mankind, though they never were offered on Yahuah's sacrificial altar but both the clean and unclean animals and birds were also part of the dietary of mankind. While the written Torah came with instructions not to eat the unclean animals and birds, the pre Torah fathers already knew and chose the path of obeying the Torah of life.

Gen 8:20  And Noaḥ built a slaughter-place to יהוה, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered ascending offerings on the slaughter-place. 
Gen 8:21  And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done, 

We see post the flood Noah offering clean animals and clean birds on the altar. It was a reflection of him and his family before Yahuah in Mashiyach as Yahuah smelled a soothing fragrance of His own sacrifice.

 The state of mind/heart of mankind would be revealed as a reflection in the path he would choose. For a matter of fact a man/woman offering clean animals/birds and only eating clean animals or birds in obedience to the written Torah could still be unclean within if his/her heart was not inclined to the Torah of life. The clean animals & birds only represented the worshiper on Yahuah's sacrificial altar as he himself was laid on it, just as Yitshaq was whom scripture says was received back as a type.

Heb 11:18  of whom it was said, “In Yitsḥaq your seed shall be called,” 
Heb 11:19  reckoning that Elohim was able to raise, even from the dead, from which he received him back, as a type. 

Heb 9:8  the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing, 
Heb 9:9  which was a figure for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience, 
Heb 9:10  only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight. 

The sacrificial fire revealed the state of the worshiper & while the altars may have changed, they still reveal the state of the heart as the coal/aud either burns on the altar of Yahuah or in His wrath. Its not the animals or birds Yahuah is concerned about when he calls shaba shaba or mentions shanayim, but its the worshiper laid on the altar, with the fire testing and bringing forth what is within is what He is concerned about in his acceptance or rejection based upon the result whether he is clean or unclean.

Gen 7:2 & 3 uses a repetitive word 'shaba shaba' translated as 'seven by seven' in English showing in the first blush meaning to mean the 'male and its female' kind. Similarly in Gen 7:3 we see the clean birds mentioned as 'shaba shaba' but the unclean kind is not mentioned, its absence doesn't mean they were not there. Remember the raven which is an unclean bird was left loose from the ark by Noach which went out and in until the waters had dried up from the earth.

Gen 8:7  and he sent out a raven, which kept going out and turning back until the waters had dried up from the earth. 

The presence of the unclean bird raven in the ark shows the unclean birds were also there two of its kind just as the unclean kind of the animals were also there in the ark.

What shouldn't be missed are 2 things:

1. Yahuah's usage of seven seven (shaba shaba) to keep offspring alive on the face of the earth (Gen 7:2 & 3)

2. Yahuah's usage of two (shaniy)  for the unclean animals with a purpose just as for the cleanl. (Gen 7:2)

Yahuah could have simply said "You shall take with you of every clean animal, seven, a male and his female just as He stated for the unclean animals "and of the animal that is not clean two, a male and his female;" But He called out 'shaba shaba' i.e. seven seven twice and for both with a purpose to keep the offspring alive on the earth.

The word used and translated as offspring is 'zera' 𐤆𐤓𐤏 H2233 

The word zera is used both 'positively & negatively. It has the root word Ra 𐤓𐤏 H7451 translated as evil. But the word has several meanings as adversity, grief, bad, sorrow etc. The 'zayin' 𐤆 is the sharp weapon which will cut the 'grief/sorrow/adversity' of the sin sickness in a sacrifice.

Gen 3:15  “And I put enmity between you (ha shatan) and the woman, and between your seed (zera 𐤆𐤓𐤏) and her Seed (zera 𐤆𐤓𐤏). He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel.”

The word 'zera' 𐤆𐤓𐤏 when used in respect to ha shatan's seed i.e. the wicked seed shows a pictograph of 'death'. This is how: the weapon/zayin 𐤆  cuts open revealing the evil/adversity/sorrow state within, while the same may apply for the righteous when in an unclean state (which we will see a bit later) but remember in the study of tree of knowledge of good and evil we saw Yahusha as the Resh will remove their distress/sorrow denoted by the evil eye by making it good.

The same word 'Ra' 𐤓𐤏 H7453 means an associate (more or less close): - brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour. Hence, the evil turns out to be good for the chosen.

Rom 8:28  And we know that all matters work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Remember, we are speaking of the clean seven seven zera, which shows Yahuah tied this foreshadowed offspring/zera to be kept alive on the face of the earth & the keeping the zera alive on the face of the earth was not limited to the clean only but to the unclean as well. which is denoted by the two/shanayam 𐤔𐤍𐤉𐤌 H8147

The word 'shanay' 𐤔𐤍𐤉 H8145 & the word 'shanah' 𐤔𐤍𐤄 H8138 means properly double, that is, second; also adverbially again: - again, either [of them], (an-) other, second (time). A repeat witness.

And what do the unclean represent here in a dual witness? They second the clean portrayed as 'clean and unclean', they second the life portrayed as 'life and death', they second mercy portrayed as 'mercy and judgment', they second the good portrayed as 'good and evil' etc. Hence the unclean, death, judgment, evil etc. are all secondary to what is of the good & first rank as clean, life, merc, good etc. And everything is tested by fire.

1Co 3:11  For no one is able to lay any other foundation except that which is laid, which is יהושע Messiah. 
1Co 3:12  And if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 
1Co 3:13  each one’s work shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work of each one, what sort it is.

A simple example would be gold, silver & precious stones are ranked number one whereas wood, hay & straw are ranked as secondary. The builder is Mashiyach as the Son over the house and those in Him are part of the first rank as they transition from the secondary to the first, while wood hay & straw used for building material to build the physical temple and those occupied with the carnal things are part of the unclean i.e. the shanayam. Though they confess the two fold witness from the Dabar i.e. 'The Torah and the Prophets' but they cling to the Torah of sin and death in continuing in the unclean things as they don't see that Yahuah has left the elementary things of the Torah to transition His seed/zera to the Ruach. The letter kills but the Ruach gives life. The Renewed Yershalayim's foundation, walls, gates etc. are all portrayed as precious stones, there is nothing in it of wood, hay & straw.

Rev 21:18  And the structure of its wall was jasper. And the city was clean gold, like clear glass. 
Rev 21:19  And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 
Rev 21:20  the fifth sardonyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 
Rev 21:21  And the twelve gates were twelve pearls – each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was clean gold, like transparent glass. 
Rev 21:22  And I saw no Dwelling Place in it, for יהוה Ěl Shaddai is its Dwelling Place, and the Lamb. 

Hence, Shaul is misunderstood when reading these passages. This is the shallow English translation from the Greek.

1Co 3:14  If anyone’s work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a reward. 
1Co 3:15  If anyone’s work is burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, but so as through fire. 

The Hebrew translation in 1Corin 3:15 uses the words 'כְּאוּד מֻצָּל מֵאֵשׁ' 'like a coal/aud of shadow/tsal of fire/ash' 𐤊𐤀𐤅𐤃 𐤌𐤑𐤋 𐤌𐤀𐤔

1 Corn 3:15 should be correctly translated as  'And he whose work shall burn, he shall lack, yet, he will be saved like a coal as in a shadow from fire'. 

Amo 4:11  “I have overthrown some of you, as Elohim overthrew Seḏom and Amorah, and you were like a charcoal/H181 𐤀𐤅𐤃 plucked from the burning. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה. 
Amo 4:12  “Therefore I am doing this to you, O Yisra’ěl. And because I do this to you, prepare to meet your Elohim, O Yisra’ěl!” 

The wicked seed which was part of the assembly was represented as a coal which was part of the sacrificial fire, but now being plucked out and cast into the fire of Yahuah's wrath. The charcoal was once part of the fire of Yahuah's pattern in the physical altar.  Hence, when understanding the usage Shaul is showing we were part of the second (wood, hay & straw) but are saved in continuity in the same sacrificial fire by belief in Mashiyach Yahusha as the coal burning in it.

With the next verse he nails it when he identifies of this burning to the temple which is US in whom the Ruach of Aluahym dwells.

1Cor3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim dwells within you? 

Hence, he is speaking of our transition from carnal Torah of sin and death to Mashiyach who is the Torah of Life. Why is a two fold witness given? The purpose is to transition to the first & Yahusha is portrayed in scripture as the 'barashayith/beginning' or the 'firstborn over all creation'. All the rest fell into the second rank with a need to be transitioned into the first i.e. IN HIM

Eph 1:10  to administer at the completion of time, to gather together in one all in Messiah, both which are in the heavens and which are on earth, in Him, 
Eph 1:11  in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being previously ordained according to the purpose of Him working all matters according to the counsel of His desire, 

Ps 62:11 Once/acath H259 תאֶחָ Elohim has spoken/dabar דָּבַר H1696; twice/shanayam שְׁנַיִם H8147 I have heard/H8085 שָׁמַע shama this: that MIGHT/ H5797 עֹז auz belongs to Elohim;

The word shanayam root word ' shanay שָׁנִי 𐤔𐤍𐤉 H8144' which means 'crimson, scarlet'. The scarlet thread/shanay of redemption runs as a shanayam/double or second witness where the Ruach is the first concealed in the second written form called the 'LETTER' which is like a voice speaking/dabar from heaven and what was spoken was written and concealed.

Job 33:14 For Ěl does speak once and/uau ba/in twofold/shanayam– though one does not
notice it –

In Exodus 26:1 we see Moshe being told what the tabernacle should contain.

Ten curtains of twined (shazar) linen (shesh) and blue (thakaleth) and purple (argaman) and double dipped (shaniy) crimson (thalath) with cherubims, the work of a skillful workman.

Both scarlet/shaniy H8144 and crimson/thalath H8438 are red in color and show us the blood
of Mashiyach concealed in Masha’s pattern.

The deliverer is twined/woven in the ten curtains of white, blue, purple and double  dipped crimson. The mystery unfolds as Yahusha the first in rank became part of the kind. I have touch based in the the note 'The Tree of knowledge of good and evil which can be read here: https://dsouzashodan72.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-tree-of-knowledge-of-good-and-evil.html

Being part of humanity in the kind of sinful flesh (yet without sin) He transitions us all into His
first born berekah. This is also seen in the other son receiving the first born berekah.

Yishmael was Abraham's first born son but Yitshaq received the first born berekah. Esau was the first born but Yaaqob received the first born berekah. Manasseh was the firstborn but Ephrayim received the first born berekah.

This can also seen from Zerah and Perets. Remember the word 'shaniy' 𐤔𐤍𐤉 H8145 & the word 'shanah' 𐤔𐤍𐤄 H8138 means properly double, that is, second; also adverbially again: - again, either [of them], (an-) other, second (time). A repeat witness.

Gen 38:27  And it came to be, at the time for giving birth, that see, twins were in her womb. 

Gen 38:28  And it came to be, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand. And the midwife took a scarlet thread/shaniy 𐤔𐤍𐤉 H8144 and bound it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.” 

Gen 38:29  And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, that see, his brother came out! And she said, “How did you break through? This breach be upon you!” So his name was called Perets. 

Gen 38:30  And afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread /shaniy 𐤔𐤍𐤉 H8144 on his hand. So his name was called Zeraḥ.

Zerah was actually the first born as he put out his hand and he was marked unknowingly by the midwife as a second by the scarlet thread (thinking as the first) but his brother Perets came forth first and he was named because his name means 'Breach/Breaking forth 𐤐𐤓𐤑 H6556' 

The name Perets has 2 root words: Par & Rats

Par 𐤐𐤓 H6499 : Bull

Rats 𐤓𐤑 H7518 : potsherd/broken pieces of pottery/fragment. Broken fragments of a pot which were commonly used as writing surfaces for messages.

The Bull fragment was in him, remember the bull was a sacrificial clean animal and Hoshea also says to give Yahuah the bull of our lips.

Hos 14:2  Take words with you, and return to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bull/𐤐𐤓 H6499 of our lips.

The second who came attained the first born berekah (blessing). He is mentioned in the genealogy of Mashiyach.

Mat 1:3  And Yehuḏah brought forth Perets and Zeraḥ by Tamar, and Perets brought forth Ḥetsron, and Ḥetsron brought forth Ram. 

Yahusha is the second voice spoken of in Hebrews 12 and identified as the first voice which couldn't be comprehended by the listener and they told Masha that he himself go alone lest they die. Masha went and came back with the written Torah and they didn't understand the second voice as well. The Speaker is the same but with the first and second voice. That is why those who do not believe in His divinity are stuck not understanding the second voice as well and not transitioning to the first. The second voice came written in a parabolic language & is the second witness that Yahusha spoke and thus when he said "He who has ears let him hear", He was indicating that those who are able to understand/perceive will transition while the rest will remain in their unclean state guessing and misrepresenting what was spoken. To the messages to the 7 assemblies it is repeated each time " He who has ears let him hear what the Ruach says to the assemblies"

Heb 12:25  Take heed not to refuse the One speaking. For if those did not escape who refused the warning on earth, much less we who turn away from Him from heaven, 
Heb 12:26  whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying,
“Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”

The voice is singular.

The shaba shaba: 𐤔𐤁𐤏 𐤔𐤁𐤏  

The 7 pattern became evident in the Shemitah as 7 x 7 + 1 in the counting of the omer, the jubilee (7 x 7 + 1), the 7 + 7 = 14 generations each from Abraham to David, from David to exile in Babel & from exile from Babel to Mashiyach, Yaaqob after serving 7 years was cheated by Laban as he gave her Leah, hence, he served another 7 years for Rachel i.e. 7 + 7 and from her came forth Yoseph who received the birthright of Reuben etc.

Mat 1:17  So all the generations from Aḇraham to Dawiḏ were fourteen generations, and from Dawiḏ until the exile to Baḇel were fourteen generations, and from the exile to Baḇel until the Messiah were fourteen generations.

Gen 29:18  And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥěl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥěl your younger daughter.” 

Gen 29:26  And Laḇan said, “It is not done this way in our place, to give the younger before the first-born. 
Gen 29:27  "Complete the week/𐤔𐤁𐤏 shaba H7620 of this one, then we give you this one too, for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.”

Laban used the word 'SHABA' translated as week in Gen 29:27 which is actually saying, complete another shemitah to acquire Rachel. And Yahuah rewarded him by giving him Yoseph which means 'Yahuah will Add' and he was a type of Mashiyach who was to come.

1Ch 5:1  As for the sons of Re’uḇěn the first-born of Yisra’ěl – he was the first-born, but because he profaned his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosěph, son of Yisra’ěl, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright, 
1Ch 5:2  for Yehuḏah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Yosěph’s – 

The shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏 H7651 translated as 'seven' has the root words 'shab' 𐤔𐤁 which means 'turn', sha 𐤔𐤏 which means 'watch' , ba 𐤁𐤏 which means 'to swell or spring as a fountain'

The repetition of the word shows us a Shemitah cycle which will come to its rest because the one to come at the turning point in this cycle to breach it is Yahusha, He is the fountain of life who was watching throughout. The shab is in Sabbath 𐤔𐤁𐤕, the shab 𐤔𐤁 is in the turn and return (shub ashub) which Yahuah told Abraham that He would come at the 'time of life' and Sarah shall have the promised seed (Gen 18:10), the sha is in the shah/𐤔𐤏𐤄 the hour of His coming to complete the entire cycle in Himself. He is the bull of our lips.

Matt6:9 “Therefore, this is what you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, may Your name be sanctified.’” 

The Hebrew prayer the ADON taught us to pray has the words 'Our Father 𐤔𐤁 𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤌 return (shab) to the heavens (shamayim)  , may your name be 𐤉𐤕 𐤒𐤃𐤔 sanctified by the impaled hands' Yod/𐤉 is the hand and Tau/X is the stake.

The Hebrew word Yath 𐤉𐤕 H3487 is like the Ath 𐤀𐤕 (alaph tau), a sign pointing to an object.

Why is this significant?

Mat 24:37  “And as the days of Noaḥ, so also shall the coming of the Son of Aḏam be. 

Yahusha said as in the days of Noah, so also shall the coming of the Son of Adam be. He is the completion of the pattern and the 5 loaves and the 2 fish also show us this. The number 5 represents the Torah and the number 2 the two fold witness in the Torah as the Torah of sin and death and the Torah of life, denoted by the two fish.

When did Yahuah tell Noah of the clean and unclean? Exactly 7 days before the flood. The Ahba had returned to the heavens to open the windows of heavens and fountains of the deep to bring forth His wrath while 8 beings were saved from this wrath.

Gen 7:4  “For after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.” 

The eight souls were Noah and his wife, his three sons and their 3 wives.

Gen 7:7  And Noaḥ and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 

The covenant of the rainbow in the cloud which has 7 colors was given to the elect that just as He saved Noah from the waters, He would continually restrain Himself from bringing His wrath upon the earth.

Gen 9:11  “And I shall establish My covenant with you, and never again is all flesh cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again is there a flood to destroy the earth.” 
Gen 9:12  And Elohim said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living being that is with you, for all generations to come: 
Gen 9:13  “I shall set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 

We saw the number eight in Hebrew is H8083 shamanah 𐤔𐤌𐤍𐤄 which is from 'shaman' H8080, H8081 H8082 𐤔𐤌𐤍 means 'plumpness/fat/greasy/anointing oil'

The word is broken down as sham/𐤔𐤌name & man/𐤌𐤍 portion. The anointing oil poured on the head made the prophet, priest & king come into the office of the first rank from an ordinary/common/unclean.

The word picture is amazing. Yahuah had to spell out the single shaba/seven as shaba shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏 𐤔𐤁𐤏 twice to show the cycle of transition from the carnal pattern to the ruach pattern i.e. the clean animals & clean birds foreshadowed the perfect & ultimate one and only offering of the body of Mashiyach once and for all. Adam and his descendants were ushered into this continuous cleansing cycle dependency with a fear of the SECOND/Shaniy 𐤔𐤍𐤉 death.

Heb 2:14  Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil, 
Heb 2:15  and deliver those who throughout life were held in slavery by fear of death. 

This cycle was broken by Mashiyach as all the pattern finds its fulfillment in Him.

Rev2:11 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second/shaniy  𐤔𐤍𐤉 death/muth 𐤌𐤅𐤕 .”

This call out was a forward cycle ---------->

The unclean in the shaniy is the backward cycle <------------

Lets see this word picture below to understand this:

The unclean second in rank chosen is sanctified/qadash by the hands/yod impaled to the stake/tau to be part of the shaman (anointing oil/name portion), while the unclean not chosen remains in the unclean state always in the second rank in the Torah of sin and death, not able to attain the first rank/first born berekah in Mashiyach.

Yahuah didn't call out shaniy shaniy twice as the word itself has a double/second witness pointing to the first rank. The Ruach in the letter, the Ruach enables the elect to understand the letter and hence, testifies of the oral Torah spoken through Yahuah's mouth and recorded by the nebim/prophets as they were ministering to us (pointing forward). Today if you will hear His voice harden not your hearts scripture says as in the wilderness. Yahuah has spoken once and twice I have heard.

May Yahuah barakh us all to attain the the first in rank in Mashiyach!