Hebraic Roots Bible with Study notes 4th Edition (C) Copyright Word of Truth Publications, 2009,2012,2015,2021 Congregation of YHWH, Jerusalem Po Box 832 Carteret NJ 07008 Hebraic Roots Bible Old Testament Page New Testament Page • Genesis 8 • Matthew 1173 • Exodus 78 • Mark 1221 • Leviticus 139 • Luke 1249 • Numbers 184 • John 1297 • Deuteronomy 243 • Acts 1336 • Yahoshua 300 • Jacob 1384 • Judges 334 • 1 Peter 1389 • 1 Samuel 367 • 2 Peter 1395 • 2 Samuel 410 • 1 John 1399 • 1 Kings 446 • 2 John 1405 • 2 Kings 489 • 3 John 1406 • Isaiah 530 • Judah 1407 • Jeremiah 601 • Hebrews 1409 • Ezekiel 685 • Romans 1427 • Daniel 758 • 1 Corinthians 1451 • Hosea 781 • 2 Corinthians 1472 • Joel 792 • Galatians 1485 • Amos 797 • Ephesians 1493 • Obadiah 806 • Philippians 1500 • Jonah 808 • Colossians 1505 • Micah 811 • 1 Thessalonians 1510 • Nahum 818 • 2 Thessalonians 1514 • Habakkuk 821 • 1 Timothy 1517 • Zephaniah 825 • 2 Timothy 1523 • Haggai 829 • Titus 1527 • Zechariah 832 • Philemon 1529 • Malachi 846 • Revelation 1530 • Psalms 850 • Proverbs 945 • Job 978 • Song of Solomon 1013 • Ruth 1019 • Lamentations 1024 • Ecclesiastes 1031 • Esther 1042 • Ezra 1052 • Nehemiah 1066 • 1 Chronicles 1086 • 2 Chronicles 1125 Topical Concordance 1556 Maps 1563 Hebraic Roots Bible Introduction. Since I started my international humanitarian mission work over 21 years ago, it became apparent to me that many Bible translations are flawed at best, or absolutely corrupted at worst. As African Brethren would read to me the scriptures that were written in their native tongue, I found it difficult to believe Biblical scholars could be so deficient when translating the written word into the vernacular of these peoples. I will say upfront that I am neither a Hebrew or Aramaic scholar, and don’t claim to be one. I have lived in the land of Israel for at least half of the year over the last 20 years, and have been a true covenant believer in Yahshua Messiah for over 37 years and also have been a Pastor and teacher of the Word for more than 25 years. I will also publicly state that I am firmly convinced that it was the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and not the intellectual knowledge of myself that has put this Hebraic Roots Bible together. I have fervently prayed and asked our Heavenly Father for guidance throughout the five years that I have been working on this project. I can also tell you that many times while doing this work I felt the spirit of YAHWEH directing and guiding me to the finished work of this translation. This work is to the glory of YAHWEH for the end time remnant to have the closest manuscript possible to the original Scriptures that were inspired for the Congregations of YAHWEH. Eventually, I conceded that it was not in ignorance that most Bible translations have many flaws. Since the invention of the printing press and the Protestant Reformation when the Holy Scriptures were translated from the original Hebrew and Aramaic languages respectively, translators in almost every case have used an anti-Torah and anti-Hebrew premise during the production of their particular translations. I have studied and perceived that some translations are third and forth generations away from the original language. Each translation strays farther from the original text and becomes watered down and more distant from the truth. An example is you could start with the word couch and then, translate it into sofa, and from there to love-seat, then to chair, bench, plank etc. So you can see if you are not using the original language and meaning you can stray from the truth very quickly. It is very clear from the historical, archeological and Biblical evidence in the world today that the original Tanach, known to many as the Old Testament was indeed first written in the ancient Paleo Hebrew language. It is also proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the New Testament was not originally written in Greek, but was written in Aramaic (the everyday spoken language of our Savior Yahshua) and later translated into Greek. It is not the purpose of this manuscript to try to prove this fact with countless details and examples to the skeptic, but to simply put the original Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts together for the true body of Messiah. (This is another prophetic point of "all things being restored" in the last days.) The following are a few 3 Hebraic Roots Bible examples: The New Testament is filled with Aramaic words such as “Talithaqumi” in Mark 5:41, and “Corban” in Mark 7:11, or “Ephatha” in Mark 7:34 as well as many other places. What is most interesting is that in the Greek manuscripts where these Aramaic words are, it states directly after the Aramaic phrase the words "which is being translated as". What is quite striking is you never see these words in the original Peshitta Aramaic New Testament manuscripts. So which came first, the Greek or the Aramaic? The answer is self evident by the manuscript that is clearly identifying itself as the translation. Also, there are several instances in the translated Greek manuscript where the translator transliterated an Aramaic phrase into the Greek copy, with a transliterated word that does not exist in the Greek language. One such example is in Mark 3:17 where Yahshua has nicknamed two of His apostles as “B’nai Ragshee”, which in English means “Sons of thunder”, but this phrase is transliterated into the Greek as “Boanerges”, which is not a word or phrase in Greek. The fact that an Aramaic phrase is transliterated into Greek with no identical translation clearly proves that the original was the Aramaic. So very distinctly, when you do a scientific primacy test, as scholars have done, in every case the Aramaic Peshitta manuscript comes out as the original over the Greek and other Aramaic manuscripts. This is not to say that the Greek Textus Receptus manuscript on which the King Good News Bible is translated is a flawed or ingenuous translation. On the contrary, I believe that the Greek Textus Receptus is generally a very good translation from the original Aramaic Peshitta, but as in any translated work, there are mistakes and things that were missed in the translation from one language to another. When putting together this Hebraic Roots Bible, I took the Peshitta text for the New Testament and its translation by several predominant scholars, such as George Lamsa, Murdock, Paul Yonan, Janet M. Magiera, and compared passages from both the Khabouris Codex, and from Gabriel Roth’s Ruach Qadim book. In checking with these various Aramaic translations of the Peshitta text, I also closely compared them to the Greek translation and prayerfully tried to give a literal translation of what the original intent was of each books writer from the original language and circumstances. I do believe that the Greek translation helped much in this regard. You will be much surprised to find that contrary to the translations of most Greek manuscripts today, the original Aramaic manuscripts do NOT have an anti-Torah (law) bias, and clearly shows that not only did our Savior Yahshua uphold the Torah perfectly, but that the Torah was also a prerequisite for His disciples that followed after Him. You will also notice something most striking in this translation that has never been done before. Close to 100 times in the Tanach (Old Testament) you find the personal name of our Savior Yahshua personified in the Holy Scriptures and yet because most translators do not recognize the true 4 Hebraic Roots Bible Hebrew name of our Savior Yahshua, they do not translate these references about our Messiah into the English language. In Hebrew every word goes back to a two or three letter root word, and originally Hebrew was actually 22 pictures or characters and not letters to which it later developed. The root letters in Hebrew of our Saviors name, Yahshua, is Yod, Shin, Ayin. In the Hebrew language according to whether a word is a verb or noun or adjective, it reflects in the grammatical structure of the root word with the proper prefix or suffix added to show what form the word is in the sentence. I find it most amazing though that whether the root word Yod, Shin, Ayin, is in the noun form or verb form, adjective form, or even at times as the personal pronoun "He", it still always means the same as our savior’s name Yahshua, which is "salvation". So I have translated the root word Yod, Shin, Ayin, as I believe it was intended, in the personal name of our Savior Yahshua. Since I know that some others may differ, I have marked each one of these references with an asterisk * so as to let the reader know each time one of these occurrences appears. The fact that these references in the Tanach are clearly inspired by the Holy Spirit and are indeed references about Yahshua Messiah can easily be seen by the following scripture comparison. Isa 49:6 And He said, It is too little that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You, my Yahshua* (salvation), to be for a light of the nations, to the end of the earth. Luk 2: 26-30 And it happened to him, having been divinely instructed by the Holy Spirit, he was not to see death before he would see the Messiah of YAHWEH. 27 And by the Spirit he came into the sanctuary. And as the parents were bringing in the child Yahshua for them to do according to the custom of the Torah concerning Him, 28 even Simeon received Him into his arms. And he blessed YAHWEH and said, 29 "Now dismiss your servant in peace, Adonai, according to your word. 30 Because my eyes saw Your Salvation (Yahshua), Luk 3:5 All the valleys will be filled and all the mountains and heights will be leveled. And the rough will become smooth, and the difficult land a plain 6 " and all flesh shall see the salvation of YAHWEH ." (Isa 40:3-5) Now can anyone deny that “the salvation” that was seen by Simeon in verse 30 of Luke the second chapter and Luke 3:5 is indeed referring directly to Yahshua? And if that is the case than I believe I can just as strongly argue that the somewhat 100 references to Yahshua in the Old Testament also do indeed most certainly personally infer to Him, even when the grammatical form may be a verb or adjective, as Yahshua is all living and created all things and is all things. Also, our Savior clearly calls Himself the Aleph and the Tav (Alpha and Omega in the Greek text) in Rev 1:8, and also Rev 22:13. The Aleph and the Tav are the first 5 Hebraic Roots Bible and last letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Interesting enough is the fact that in the Hebrew language an aleph and tav are inserted in certain places to show possession, however it is not translatable. Since some of the places could not be coincidental, as they are extremely important Messianic scriptures, such as Zechariah 12:10, I have left the pertinent aleph/tav’s in place for the reader to see, even though they don’t translate into English. I would also like to say that although I do believe the Hebrew Masoretic text of the Tanach or Old Covenant is indeed the oldest and overall most reliable source of Scripture that we have, I also want to caution that the lying pen of the scribes has not kept the Masoretic text without fault. There has been several areas where the translators of the Masoretic text purposely changed scripture to fit their own theology. So what I did was to check and reference each discrepancy with the Masoretic text with at least two other witnesses of written ancient Scriptures, which in most cases would have been the Septuagint Greek translation from the second century B.C.E., or the Brit Hadashah (New Testament writings)and also the Dead Sea Scrolls, written between the 1st and 2nd century B.C.E. I will list some of the scribal errors of the Masoretic text below. 1) The personal name of YAHWEH was changed 113 times to Adonai in the Masoretic Text from the original Hebrew manuscripts. 2) The Masoretic text takes the word for pierced in Psalm 22:16 (a clear crucifixion Psalm) kaaru and changes the last letter from a vav to a yud. The change of letter changes the meaning from pierced my hands, and feet, to lion, as in as a lion they are at my hands and feet. The Septuagint has pierced from the original Hebrew karu not kaari. According to the Dead Sea Scrolls dated about 100 B.C.E., the Hebrew Word in verse 16 is kaaru pierced and not lion. Not only that but the Aramaic Peshitta also agrees with the Septuagint. 3) In Isaiah 53 the Masoretic is missing a key word in verse 11. After the word "see", there should be another word "light" qualifying what the Suffering Servant sees. But the missing word LIGHT is found in the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. 4) In the Masoretic text Exodus 1:5 and Gen 46:27 states that 70 souls came to Egypt from Canaan. But the Septuagint and Dead Sea Scroll say 75 souls. 5) In Genesis 10:24 the Masoretic text is missing generations. The New Testament in Luke 3:36 inserts Canaan as does the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls, leaving 3 Biblical witnesses. 6) In Deuteronomy 32:8 the Masoretic text uses the term "children of Israel." The Septuagint uses the term "Cherubs Of Elohim" as do the Dead Sea Scrolls. 7) In Isaiah 61:1 the Masoretic does not contain the phrase "recovery of sight to the blind." Yet Luke 4:18 does as does the Septuagint. 6 Hebraic Roots Bible 8) In Psalm 40:6 the Masoretic text has purposely changed the phrase "a BODY you have prepared for me", as properly quoted again in Hebrews 10:5, and verified by the Septuagint and also the Dead Sea Scrolls to the phrase "you have opened up my ears." The original names of our Creator, YAHWEH, and His Son, our Savior Yahshua, are also used throughout. The name YAHWEH or jwjy is in the original Paleo Hebrew manuscripts 6,823 times. Almost every translation on earth, including the King James, takes out the Creator’s personal name and replaces it with the name “Lord”, a generic title that means 'Baal or Master'. Also, our Savior’s true given Hebrew name, Yahshua, which means "Yah is salvation" is changed to a Greek hybrid of Jesus, which is a poor transliteration from the Greek IE-Zeus. The English transliteration of Yahshua would be the equivalent to Yahoshua. There was no letter “J” in any language until the 16th century. So the Greek name "Jesus" would not be the name of our Savior. The third commandment strictly forbids taking the name (of) YAHWEH in vain. In vain literally means to 'change, falsify, or make common'. Taking the name YAHWEH or Yahshua and changing it to 'Lord or Jesus' is definitely going against the clear instruction of the third commandment. So we will use the original, true Hebrew names of the Father YAHWEH and the Son Yahshua throughout this Bible translation. We will also use the original Hebrew word, Elohim, instead of the incorrectly translated "god". God is the personal name of the Babylonian deity of fortune. Please see the note on Isa 65:11. We will keep all Hebrew titles for our Heavenly Father such as El Shaddai, Adonai, El Elyon, etc exactly as they appear in the original manuscripts. Also, the Catholic Church changed the original Hebrew book order, so we have arranged the book order back into its original place. In the 1st covenant we have the Torah, the prophets and the writings, which make up the Tanach, and in the New Testament we have the 4 Good News messages and Acts, and then, the 7 epistles by the early congregational leaders, and then, the Apostle Paul's epistles ending with John's Revelation. This was the original book order. The epistle of Jacob, which was changed to James by the King has been restored to the original name. The book order of Scripture is extremely important as if you were reading a book you would not read chapter 8 before chapter 5 I pray that this work, which has been blessed by YAHWEH Almighty will be as much of a blessing to each one reading it, as it was to me putting it together. You can download this Bible for free at www.coyhwh.com. B’Shem Yahshua, Don Esposito Senior Elder, Congregation of YHWH Jerusalem 7 Book of Genesis (B'rasheet) Chapter 1 the waters, Seas. And Elohim saw that it was good. 1 In the beginning Elohim created the 11 And Elohim said, Let the earth heavens and the earth;1 sprout tender sprouts, the herb seeding 2 and the earth being without form seed, the fruit tree producing fruit and empty, and darkness on the face of according to its kind, whichever seed is the deep, and the Spirit of Elohim in it on the earth. And it was so. moving gently on the face of the waters, 12 And the earth bore tender sprouts, 3 then Elohim said, Let light be! And the herb seeding seed according to its there was light.2 kind, and the fruit tree producing fruit 4 And Elohim saw the light, that it according to its kind, whichever seed is was good, and Elohim separated in it. And Elohim saw that it was good. between the light and darkness. (Joh 13 And there was evening, and there 1:4) was morning, day three. 5 And Elohim called the light, Day. 14 And Elohim said, Let light sources And He called the darkness, Night. And be in the expanse of the heavens, to there was evening, and there was divide between the day and the night. morning, day one.3 And let them be for signs and for 6 And Elohim said, Let an expanse be seasons4, and for days and years. in the midst of the waters, and let it be 15 And let them be for light sources in dividing between the waters and the the expanse of the heavens, to give light waters. on the earth. And it was so. 7 And Elohim made the expanse, and 16 And Elohim made the two great He separated between the waters which light sources the great light to rule the were under the expanse and the waters day, and the small light and the stars to which were above the expanse. And it rule the night. was so. 17 And Elohim set them in the 8 And Elohim called the expanse, expanse of the heavens, to give light on Heavens. And there was evening, and the earth, there was morning, day two. 18 and to rule over the day and over 9 And Elohim said, Let the waters the night; and to divide between the under the heavens be collected to one light and the darkness. And Elohim saw place, and let the dry land appear. And that it was good. it was so. 19 And there was evening, and there 10 And Elohim called the dry land, was morning, day four. Earth. And He called the collection of 20 And Elohim said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a living 1 “In the beginning” The first words of soul; and let the birds fly around, over Scripture and also the Hebrew name for Genesis called “B'rasheet”. Elohim, a 4 The Hebrew word here “moed” literally generic term used for deity in Scripture means the Holy Days of YHWH. The sun roughly 2,500 times. The word in Hebrew is rules the day and the day begins at sunset, plural and shows the duality of the Yahweh and the moon rules the month and the month family at creation, Gen 1:26. begins at the conjunction of the moon. In 2 Due to YHWH's great and awesome power both cases there is nothing to watch or all He needs to do is to speak and creation visually site not to entice Israel later to occurred, Joh 1:1-3, Mar 4:39-41. worship as the pagans did, Deu 4:19. For 3 In Scripture evening precedes morning and information on the full Biblical calendar the new day begins and the old one ends at please see lesson 11 at www.coyhwh.com in sunset, Lev 23:32, Deu 21:23. the study section. 8 Genesis 1 the earth, on the face of the expanse of multiply, and fill the land, and subdue the heavens. it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and 21 And Elohim created the great over birds of the heavens, and over all crocodiles, and all that creeps, having a beasts creeping on the earth.2 living soul, which swarmed the waters, 29 And Elohim said, Behold, I have according to its kind; and every bird given you every plant seeding seed with wing according to its kind. And which is on the face of all the earth, and Elohim saw that it was good. every tree in which is the fruit of a tree 22 And Elohim blessed them, saying, seeding seed; it shall be food3 for you. Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the 30 And to every beast of the earth, waters in the seas; and let the birds and to all birds of the heavens, and to multiply in the earth. every creeper on the earth which has in 23 And there was evening, and there it a living soul, every green plant is for was morning, the fifth day. food. And it was so. 24 And Elohim said, Let the earth 31 And Elohim saw everything that bring forth the soul of life according to He had made and behold, it was very its kind cattle, and creepers, and its good. And there was evening, and there beasts of the earth, according to its was morning, the sixth day. kind. And it was so. 25 And Elohim made the beasts of the Chapter 2 earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind, and all creepers of 1 And the heavens and the earth were the ground according to its kind. And finished, and all their host. Elohim saw that it was good. 2 And on the seventh day Elohim 26 And Elohim said, let Us make completed His work which He had mankind in Our image, according to made. And He rested on the seventh Our likeness1; and let them rule over day from all His work which He had the fish of the sea, and over the birds of made.4 the heavens, and over the cattle, and 3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. (Gen 2 Yahweh promised man “rulership” not 9:6) ownership over the earth. Nowhere in 27 And Elohim created the man in Scripture is heaven ever promised as the His own image; in the image of Elohim reward of the saved, but always dominion He created him. He created them male over the earth, Psa 115:16, Isa 66:1. Also, we and female. see from the very beginning that the 28 And Elohim blessed them; and command given by Elohim was for man to Elohim said to them, Be fruitful and “be fruitful and multiply”. Adam was to teach the Torah of YHWH to others but 1 Man was made in the image of Yahweh as he failed. Yahshua who was the second Adam has 2 hands and feet and 2 eyes etc. gave the same command in the New However, to be made in His likeness, denotes Covenant, Joh 15:1-8. to have the character that He has and that 3 The Hebrew root for the word food can also does not come by instantaneous fiat but by a mean destruction and shows that if you allow life-long commitment to conquer ones fallen the physical things to control your life it human nature, to build patience and self- could destroy you. control and to 100% fully submit to the spirit 4 Clearly, the setting apart of the Sabbath day of YHWH and His Torah on how to love and as holy time goes back to creation week and worship Him and how to love our neighbor was there from the very beginning. The as ourselves. Hebrew word for “rested” is “Shabbat”. 9 Genesis 2 and sanctified it, because He rested is Gihon. It is the one surrounding all from all His work on it, which Elohim the land of Cush. had created to make. 14 And the name of the third river is 4 These are the generations of the Hiddakel; it is the one going east of heavens and of the earth when they Assyria. And the fourth river is were created in the day of the making Euphrates. of YAHWEH Elohim’s earth and 15 And YAHWEH Elohim took the heavens. man and put him into the Garden of 5 And every shrub of the field was not Eden, to work it and to keep it.3 yet on the earth, and every plant of the 16 And YAHWEH Elohim field had not yet sprung up; for commanded the man, saying, Eating YAHWEH Elohim had not sent rain on you may eat of every tree in the garden; the earth, and there was no man to till 17 but of the Tree of the Knowledge of the ground.1 Good and Evil you may not eat, for in 6 And mist went up from the earth the day that you eat of it, surely you and watered the whole face of the shall die.4 ground. 18 And YAHWEH Elohim said, It is 7 And YAHWEH Elohim formed the not good, the man being alone. I will man from the dust of the ground, and make a helper suited to him. blew into his nostrils the breath of life; 19 And YAHWEH Elohim formed and the man became a living soul.2 every animal of the field, and every bird 8 And YAHWEH Elohim planted a of the heavens out of the ground. And garden in Eden to the east; and He put He brought them to the man, to see the man whom He had formed there. what he would call it. And all which the 9 And out of the ground YAHWEH man might call it, each living soul that Elohim made to spring up every tree was its name. that is pleasant to the sight, and good 20 And the man called names to all for food. The Tree of Life was also in the cattle, and to the birds of the the middle of the garden; also the Tree heavens, and to every animal of the of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. field. But for a man, no helper suited to 10 And a river went out of Eden to him was found. water the garden, and from there it 21 And YAHWEH Elohim caused a was divided and became four heads. deep sleep to fall on the man, and he 11 The name of the first was Pishon; it slept. And He took one of his ribs, and is the one surrounding all the land of closed up the flesh underneath. Havilah where gold is; 22 And YAHWEH Elohim formed the 12 the gold of that land is good; there rib which He had taken from the man is bdellium gum resin, and the onyx into a woman, and brought her to the stone. man. 13 And the name of the second river 23 And the man said, This now at last 1 It is interesting to note that Adam was not in the garden yet. 3 “Keep it”- the Hebrew literally means to 2 Man “became” a living soul, he does not guard and protect it. “possess” a soul. A soul can die and is not 4 The tree of life signifies 100% faith and trust immortal as the soul that sins it will die, Eze in YHWH unconditionally, as where the tree 18:4, Rom 6:23. Please see lesson 17 on the of the knowledge of good and evil represents immortal soul in the Bible on line course at man's free choice to make his own decision www.coyhwh.com in the study section. apart from the word of YHWH. 10