Greetings in the name of His & Her Imperial Majesties Qedamawi Haile Sellassie I & Itege Menen Asfaw,
So, with this Hebrew Shabbot(or Sabbath day) if those who actually open up their Bibles to read in a Jewish/Hebrew cycle of readings, & thoroughly discern, nonetheless studied either the Torah portion of Mâṭṭōt-מַּטּוֹת, from the Jewish or Hebraic Calendar in the year 5774 year, this Sabbath day would probably be accounted for as the 20th-, & the 21st-, of the month of Támmuz-תמוז. (the Hebrew Calendar corresponds to a Lunar cycle of the Moon) From an Ethiopic-Christian perspective and calculation these readings from the Scriptures would align to what is known also as, Nəgədōch-ነገዶች. This would calculate as the 11th-፲፩, & the 12th-፲፪, of the month(ወርኀ) of Ḥamlé-ሐምሌ. The Ethiopic calendar, which is solar (with its correspondence to the Sun) aligns to this Sabbath (or Senbet-ሰንበት) in the Ethiopian language of Amharic which is currently one of the languages of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church(the other language being Ge’ez-ግእዝ).
Readings:
Numbers 30:2 – 32:42
Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:3
Matthew 5: 33-37
To follow up, on the last parsha/kífíl(portion) of the Scripture study, we’ve now to come to Mâṭṭōt-Nəgədōch, which both the Hebrew & Amharic words could be equivalent to “Tribes” in the English.
At this point, Moses speaks to the heads of the tribes of Israel, on what God spoke about pertaining to vows. When one of the children of Israel, were to make a vow or swear an oath to God, they were to uphold the words of that vow/oath.
If men were to make vows/oaths,(especially to God) they were to speak those words, which consisted of it and keep those words, which they had spoken.
[Numb. 30: 2-16]
If women were to make vows/oaths,(especially to God) even in the house of their fathers; if the father heard the vow & didn’t speak against it, then vow/(s) would stand & she would have to be completely responsible for every word of her vow/oath; the same applied if the woman had a husband, as well.
[Numb. 30: 3-16]
{-when the Bible speak on these vows, it shows the countenance of the Hebrew men, willing to take on the burdens of accountability & responsibility for the women of their congregation. Though women, could make oaths/vows, they were only held fully accountable; 1) if their father or husbands would allow them to take on the burdens of fulfilling a vow/oath, seeing as how Hebrew men, & men in general, would rather shoulder a burden/(s) for their households than see their women bear those strenuous experiences. But women, of course, were free to choose to bear those burdens or not. 2) including those women who were widowed, & those that happened to be divorced)
God then spoke to Moses, to prepare the children of Israel, to avenge themselves, and those they lost during the plague, for the troubles that the Midianites brought upon them at the sin of Baal-Peor. (those Midianites that sought to destroy them along with the Moabites of Balak’s reign; ref. 41st Parsha Study), Moses sent a thousand, of each tribe of Israel along with Phineas. (son of Eleazar, grandson of Aaron) So, Israel warred against Midian & overtook them.
[Numb. 31: 1-24]
The remains of Midian were shared among the children of Israel. The cattle, riches, estates, and land; divided it all among the tribes. The children of Israel even made an offering to God, for their triumph, for every one of them that took up arms had enough to spread/share among themselves.
[Numb. 31: 25-54]
Now, the children of the tribes of Reuben & Gad, came to Moses, Eleazar, and the princes of the congregation vying for land from the parts of Israel jouney to the land of Canaan. Though, the tribes of Reuben and Gad grew, and had much cattle, they sought to utilize the cattle in the part of the land that, seemingly was fit raising and maintaining the like.
[Numbers Chpt. 32]