Welcome to my DTube Hebrew reading & language series.

The full study is now on line covering the Alef-Beyt here in my blog. This is a beginners program to teach letters, vowels, and reading. The vowels are marked in this bible and are designed to help avoid confusion on what a word is and how it is pronounced. The confusion is obvious in the hundreds of interpretations globally. In modern Hebrew, only children need a niqqud or vowel marking for each letter. Old manuscripts also usually have vowels marked.

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We are reading Genesis 3:1-5

The serpent comes on the scene all crafty and the first thing he does is question what the Father of all creation said.

Every time I hear someone say something like, "But God doesn't really mean we cannot have statues." or "Do we really have to relax and read the bible all day on Saturday?", followed by, "that doesn't seem right..."

Questioning what God did or did not say is the first sign you are heading off the straight and narrow. It is kind of like those bumps or grooves that you hear if you swerve onto the shoulder of the highway.

The other thing is that the serpent spoke to the woman. The best she could do was give him what is called "hear say" about what God did or did not say. That loving advice was spoken by God to the man in Genesis 2:17, before she was made. This is likely why she embellished the command, adding the part about not even touching the fruit as if that would be lethal.

The first had witness of what God had commanded was standing right there, some verbs spoken by the serpent are "you plural", and the Tanakh clearly said that the man was with her when she ate.

Dealing with the Devil

Deals with this thing always contain a twisted version of what God said, then a promise that is only partially true. "You will be like God," able to create whole worlds and animals? No, this deal would add just one aspect of God that would hardly be useful, ei; the cause of all murder, strife, and discontent, "knowing good and evil."

The serpent was not a snake

If it were, the order to crawl on its belly and eat dust would be like saying, "stay the same". I assume appendages were removed and also the ability to climb trees taken. Last I checked snakes are very good at climbing and prefer anything but dust. We may be talking about an earthworm or some larger version of it.

As we read further, some of what I said will clearly be seen as a converse truth, other parts will be obvious conjecture. Much can be learned by seeing what was said, if (fill in a scripture), then therefore (fill in the blank) must not be true.

Today's reading

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Here are the links

Please click over to DTube and read the above passage with me in Hebrew.

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▶️ DTube
▶️ IPFS

Note: my pronunciation of The Name as Yehovah is explained more fully in Genesis 2, DTube Video #2 and the coinciding audio is linked here.

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If you are just starting, my lessons are all here starting at Alef, adding vowels (the dots and lines) as we go, the sofit formations and numerical values. Just go to my blog and scroll to the bottom or click here

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