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It's very important to note at the outset, that when we speak of the Torah we are refering to the first 5 books of Moses (Moshe) and never to the Talmud, Midrash, Kaballah or other Rabbinical or esoteric writings. These books are in the Christian Bible as well as the Hebrew Bible as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

The Apostle Paul used the term 'the scriptures' in 2 Timothy 3:15 as being synonomous with the Torah of Moses and to explain to us that its the scriptures that are profitable in that they are able to make us wise as to the salvation that comes through faith in Jesus as the Messiah.

Its strange to us that many Christians are still taught that the Torah (the scriptures) are not profitable to the New Testament believer. For years we were told to focus on the New Testament exclusively , we routinely encouraged new believers to focus on the book of John and mature believers to focus on the Epistles, especially Ephesians.

Paul however, saw no conflict between that what had been revealed to him by the Spirit and which is now part of the Apostolic Scriptures and the Torah of Moses. This is why the NT writers quote from the Torah or 'Law', especially Deuteronomy, over 80 times to reinforce their theology!

In Paul's time there was no 'New Testament' - that came some 300 years later.

All Jesus and the Apostles had was the Tenak or Hebrew bible which consists of the the Torah, Writings, the Prophets. The Torah of Moses was widely held as the most important component of the scriptures because any prophet that contradicted it was to be considered a false prophet, even if his prophecy came to pass and especially if he worked signs and wonders to back up his new revelations. (Deut.13v1-11) Its the scriptures (in essence the Torah) that are inspired or God breathed and is profitable for teaching about righteousness or right living and its the scriptures that are able to equip the man of God for every good work. Jesus Himself said that the scriptures cannot be broken even before there was a New Covenent , John 10:35. Therefore we should not expect the Old and the New to contradict each other or that the one should supercede the other. There is a unity and a harmony within all of Adonai's Word that is seldom appreciated today.

Worldwide, all Jewish synagogues, Messianic congregations, study halls and prayer groups use either an annual or 3 yearly cycle of Torah readings. In this way, we all cover roughly the same material each week, along with many believers from all over the globe. There is a sense of being part of something that is bigger than the individual and there is a real sense of being united.

At Grace of Life Fellowship we advocate that followers of Yeshua read the Torah through once a each year and we also encourage believers in Jesus as the Messiah in addition to read the Apostolic Scriptures through once a year. An excellent bible reading schedule for 2011 that covers the Torah, Writings, the Prophets as well as the New Covenant Scriptures can be accessed courtesy of the Seed of Abraham site, by clicking here.

One may suppose that such an approach is far too stayed or 'static' or that it would in some way impede being Spirit Led in our individual study of scripture. Far from it! In fact we never cease to be amazed at how powerfully relevant these timeless portions are and how Lord uses it to speak freshly to our hearts through it!

On this web page you can read the weekly passages themselves, studying them alongside the excellent teaching notes from Tony Robinson of Restoration of Torah Ministries. There are, of course, many other commentaries available on the internet - please contact us if you require more information.

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B'shalach - "When He let go"

4 February 2012 (Shvat 11)

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Exodus 13:17-17:16

^13:17	It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
^13:18	but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Sea of Suf; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
^13:19	Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."
^13:20	They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
^13:21	The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
^13:22	the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
^14:1	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
^14:2	"Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
^14:3	Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
^14:4	I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD." They did so.
^14:5	It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
^14:6	He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
^14:7	and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
^14:8	The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
^14:9	The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
^14:10	When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the LORD.
^14:11	They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
^14:12	Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
^14:13	Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
^14:14	The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still."
^14:15	The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
^14:16	Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
^14:17	I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
^14:18	The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
^14:19	The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
^14:20	It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
^14:21	Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
^14:22	The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
^14:23	The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
^14:24	It happened in the morning watch, that the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
^14:25	He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians!"
^14:26	The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."
^14:27	Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. The LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
^14:28	The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
^14:29	But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
^14:30	Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
^14:31	Israel saw the great work which the LORD did to the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD, and in his servant Moses.
^15:1	Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
^15:2	The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation [yeshu`ah]. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
^15:3	The LORD is a man of war. The LORD is his name.
^15:4	He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Sea of Suf.
^15:5	The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
^15:6	Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.
^15:7	In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
^15:8	With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
^15:9	The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
^15:10	You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
^15:11	Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
^15:12	You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
^15:13	"You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
^15:14	The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
^15:15	Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
^15:16	Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone-- until your people pass over, LORD, until the people pass over who you have purchased.
^15:17	You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
^15:18	The LORD shall reign forever and ever."
^15:19	For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
^15:20	Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
^15:21	Miriam answered them, "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
^15:22	Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of Suf, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
^15:23	When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
^15:24	The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
^15:25	Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
^15:26	and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you."
^15:27	They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
^16:1	They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
^16:2	The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
^16:3	and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
^16:4	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
^16:5	It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
^16:6	Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
^16:7	and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
^16:8	Moses said, "Now the LORD shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD."
^16:9	Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
^16:10	It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
^16:11	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
^16:12	"I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'"
^16:13	It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
^16:14	When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
^16:15	When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat."
^16:16	This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
^16:17	The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
^16:18	When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
^16:19	Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."
^16:20	Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
^16:21	They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
^16:22	It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
^16:23	He said to them, "This is that which the LORD has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"
^16:24	They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
^16:25	Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.
^16:26	Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
^16:27	It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
^16:28	The LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
^16:29	Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
^16:30	So the people rested on the seventh day.
^16:31	The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
^16:32	Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"
^16:33	Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations."
^16:34	As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
^16:35	The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
^16:36	Now an omer is the tenth part of an efah.
^17:1	All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the LORD's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
^17:2	Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"
^17:3	The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
^17:4	Moses cried to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
^17:5	The LORD said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
^17:6	Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
^17:7	He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"
^17:8	Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
^17:9	Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."
^17:10	So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
^17:11	It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
^17:12	But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
^17:13	Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
^17:14	The LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
^17:15	Moses built an altar, and called its name the LORD our Banner.
^17:16	He said, "The LORD has sworn: 'The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"

Judges 4:4-5:31

^4:4	Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
^4:5	She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
^4:6	She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn't the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, 'Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
^4:7	I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.'"
^4:8	Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."
^4:9	She said, "I will surely go with you: nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
^4:10	Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
^4:11	Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
^4:12	They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
^4:13	Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
^4:14	Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn't the LORD gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
^4:15	The LORD confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
^4:16	But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
^4:17	However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
^4:18	Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
^4:19	He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
^4:20	He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there any man here?' that you shall say, 'No.'"
^4:21	Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
^4:22	Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
^4:23	So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
^4:24	The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
^5:1	Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
^5:2	"Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, the LORD!
^5:3	"Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, [even] I, will sing to the LORD. I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
^5:4	"LORD, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
^5:5	The mountains quaked at the presence of the LORD, even Sinai, at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel.
^5:6	"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
^5:7	The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
^5:8	They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
^5:9	My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD!
^5:10	"Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.
^5:11	Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.
^5:12	'Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.'
^5:13	"Then a remnant of the nobles [and] the people came down. The LORD came down for me against the mighty.
^5:14	Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun.
^5:15	The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.
^5:16	Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
^5:17	Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.
^5:18	Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the deaths; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
^5:19	"The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.
^5:20	From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
^5:21	The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
^5:22	Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.
^5:23	'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. 'Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.'
^5:24	"Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
^5:25	He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
^5:26	She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
^5:27	At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
^5:28	"Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother looked through the lattice. 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?'
^5:29	Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
^5:30	'Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?'
^5:31	"So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.