7 Tammuz, 5770 / June 19, 2010
Triennial Cycle III: Numbers 20:22-22:1
Humash Etz Hayim, page 887
Haftarah: Judges 11:1-33, page 909
- (20:22-29) The death of Aaron.
- (21:1-3) An encounter with the Canaanites.
- (21:4-10) The people complain against God and Moses. God punishes them with poisonous snakes. After Moses intercedes, God has him set up a copper statue of a snake, which will cure anyone snake-bit who gazes upon it.
- (21:11-20) Further stages of the Israelites’ journey through the Transjordan wilderness. The Song of the Well.
- (21:21-22:1) The conquest of the land of Sichon and Og and all of trans-Jordan.