Yitro

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Exodus 18:17  Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.” = לא טוב (lo tov)

Genesis 2:18  Then Adonai God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Exodus 18:21  Moreover, look among all the people for men of valor, who fear God, men of truth and hate a bribe, and place them over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

אנשי חיל (anshei chayil)

יראי אלהים אנשי אמת

י-א-א-א =

            1 + 1 + 1 + 10 = 13 = אהבה = “love”

Exodus 19:13  “… With a long blast of the ram’s horn they shall come up to the mountain.” = במשך (b’moshech) – 3x in Tanach

Joshua 6:5  “And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the shofar, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”

Amos 9:13  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Adonai, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him the one sowing the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.”

Exodus 20:2  “I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” = אנכי יהוה (anochi Adonai)

Genesis 1:1  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. = בראשית (bareishit)

REFERENCES:

Exodus 18:2  Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, [brought] Zipporah, Moses’ wife…

Exodus 18:25  Moses chose men of valor out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Proverbs 31:10  A woman of valor [אשת חיל, eishet Chayil] who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.