The Law

Leviticus ויקרא (u’Ye-QuRA) 23:26

And יהוה (Yahuah) spake unto Moses משה (MaShaH), saying,

26וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר׃

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh KahDaSh there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a set-apart convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto יהוה (Yahuah). 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before יהוה (Yahuah) your Alaheym. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.  31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you a ShaBaTh of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the KahDaSh at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your ShaBaTh.

27אך בעשור לחדש השביעי הזה יום הכפרים הוא מקרא קדש יהיה לכם ועניתם את נפשתיכם והקרבתם אשה ליהוה׃

28וכל מלאכה לא תעשו בעצם היום הזה כי יום כפרים הוא לכפר עליכם לפני יהוה אלהיכם׃

29כי כל הנפש אשר לא תענה בעצם היום הזה ונכרתה מעמיה׃

30וכל הנפש אשר תעשה כל מלאכה בעצם היום הזה והאבדתי את הנפש ההוא מקרב עמה׃

31כל מלאכה לא תעשו חקת עולם לדרתיכם בכל משבתיכם׃

32שבת שבתון הוא לכם ועניתם את נפשתיכם בתשעה לחדש בערב מערב עד ערב תשבתו שבתכם׃

Leviticus ויקרא (u’Ye-QuRA) 16:29

And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh KahDaSh, on the tenth day of the KahDaSh, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before יהוה (Yahuah).

31 It shall be a ShaBaTh of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

29והיתה לכם לחקת עולם בחדש השביעי בעשור לחדש תענו את נפשתיכם וכל מלאכה לא תעשו האזרח והגר הגר בתוככם׃

30כי ביום הזה יכפר עליכם לטהר אתכם מכל חטאתיכם לפני יהוה תטהרו׃

31שבת שבתון היא לכם ועניתם את נפשתיכם חקת עולם׃

 Read all of Leviticus ויקרא (u’Ye-QuRA) 16:

• It is not our fasting alone that makes an atonement for our sins, it is the priest (Leviticus ויקרא (u’Ye-QuRA) 16: verse 30). 
• We were required to fast on this day that the  house of Aaron made a yearly atonement for our sins and it was a ShaBaTh Day.

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The House of Aaharon Had Special Work

The Altar Instructions for Sacrificing an Animal

The Altar was Overlaid with Gold

Exodus שמות (ShuMuTh) 30:

1And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. 2A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. 3And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. 4And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. 5And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 6And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. 7And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before יהוה (Yahuah) throughout your generations.

RULES OF THE ALTAR

• 9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon,
• nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering;
• neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
• 10And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto יהוה (Yahuah).

Aaharan’s Job on the Day of Atonement

Leviticus ויקרא (u’Ye-QuRA) 16:

1And יהוה (Yahuah) spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before יהוה (Yahuah), and died; 2And יהוה (Yahuah) said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 4He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. 5And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 7And he shall take the two goats, and present them before יהוה (Yahuah) at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for יהוה (Yahuah), and the other lot for the scapegoat. 9And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which יהוה (Yahuah)’S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 10But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before יהוה (Yahuah), to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

The Sin Offering for the Priest

11And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: 12And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before יהוה (Yahuah), and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 13And he shall put the incense upon the fire before יהוה (Yahuah), that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 14And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

The Sin Offering for the People

15Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18And he shall go out unto the altar that is before יהוה (Yahuah), and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 19And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

The Scapegoat

20And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

23And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there: 24And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. 25And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. 26And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. 27And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. 28And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

The Day of Atonement

29And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh KahDaSh, on the tenth day of the KahDaSh, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 30For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before יהוה (Yahuah). 31It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. 32And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: 33And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. 34And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as יהוה (Yahuah) commanded Moses

Questions & Answers

What kind of Sacrifice is Lawful to Yahuah?

Abel scarified a lamb and that was acceptable, but the vegetables of Cain was a “sin”.  Its not about what you think is acceptable, its what Yahuah thinks is acceptable.

• Only clean animals are accepted and for certain sins and certain feast days there are certain sacrifices.

Can the Israelites Sacrifice a Human for Sin?

No, sacrificing a human to forgive sins, is not only an unauthorized sacrifice, it is witchcraft!

2 Kings מלכים ב (MaLaK-eyM B) 17:17

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Yahuah, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings מלכים ב (MaLaK-eyM B) 14:

5And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father. 6But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein Yahuah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deuteronomy דברים (DaBaR’eyM) 24:16

“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children, and children are not to be put to death for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

Why did the Israelites Sacrifice Animals?

Leviticus ויקרא (u’Ye-QuRA) 17:10-12

10And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

What does the Writings Have to say about the Day of Atonement?

The writing are not Torah law, but they do give us some intell about the Day of Atonement & Fasting

LEARN HOW TO FAST

Psalms תהילים (ThaHeyL-eyM) 109:24

24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Psalms תהילים (ThaHeyL-eyM) 35:13-14

13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Read Isaiah to learn how Yahuah hated our feast days because our heart was not right…

Isaiah ישעה (YeShI’aH) 58:1-14

1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their Alaheym: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to Alaheym.

3Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

DO THIS BEFORE FASTING

5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to יהוה (Yahuah)?

6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of יהוה (Yahuah) shall be thy rereward.

5הכזה יהיה צום אבחרהו יום ענות אדם נפשו הלכף כאגמן ראשו ושק ואפר יציע הלזה תקרא צום ויום רצון ליהוה׃

6הלוא זה צום אבחרהו פתח חרצבות רשע התר אגדות מוטה ושלח רצוצים חפשים וכל מוטה תנתקו׃

7הלוא פרס לרעב לחמך ועניים מרודים תביא בית כי תראה ערם וכסיתו ומבשרך לא תתעלם׃

8אז יבקע כשחר אורך וארכתך מהרה תצמח והלך לפניך צדקך כבוד יהוה יאספך׃

THEN YAHUAH WILL HEAR OUR PRAYERS

9Then shalt thou call, and יהוה (Yahuah) shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

11And יהוה (Yahuah) shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of יהוה (Yahuah), honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14Then shalt thou delight thyself in יהוה (Yahuah); and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of יהוה (Yahuah) hath spoken it.

9אז תקרא ויהוה יענה תשוע ויאמר הנני אם תסיר מתוכך מוטה שלח אצבע ודבר און׃

10ותפק לרעב נפשך ונפש נענה תשביע וזרח בחשך אורך ואפלתך כצהרים׃

11ונחך יהוה תמיד והשביע בצחצחות נפשך ועצמתיך יחליץ והיית כגן רוה וכמוצא מים אשר לא יכזבו מימיו׃

12ובנו ממך חרבות עולם מוסדי דור ודור תקומם וקרא לך גדר פרץ משבב נתיבות לשבת׃

13אם תשיב משבת רגלך עשות חפציך ביום קדשי וקראת לשבת ענג לקדוש יהוה מכבד וכבדתו מעשות דרכיך ממצוא חפצך ודבר דבר׃

14אז תתענג על יהוה והרכבתיך על במותי ארץ והאכלתיך נחלת יעקב אביך כי פי יהוה דבר׃

The Prophets Spoke Concerning Fasting & Praying

and said this…

HOW TO FAST

Joel יואל (Yu’AL) 2:12-15

12Therefore also now, saith יהוה (Yahuah), turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto יהוה (Yahuah) your Alaheym: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto יהוה (Yahuah) your Alaheym?

2 Samuel שמואל ב (ShaMu’AL B) 3:35

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do Alaheym to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.- also read 2 Sam. 12:13-20 how David fasted for his son when he fell sick, but after he died, he stopped.

PRAY TOWARD JERUSALEM (Yerushalom)

2 Chronicles דברי הימים ב  (DaBaRey’aHeyM-eyM B) 7:

12And יהוה (Yahuah) appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. 13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 17And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; 18Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Prayer of Jehoshaphat to Yah

2 Chronicles דברי הימים ב  (DaBaRey’aHeyM-eyM B) 20:5

n the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of יהוה (Yahuah), before the new court, 6And said, O יהוה (Yahuah) Alaheym of our fathers, art not thou Alaheym in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 7Art not thou our Alaheym, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, 9If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. 10And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

THE CUSTOM OF PROCLAIMING A FAST

Jeremiah ירמיה (YeRaMe’YaH) 36:

9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth KahDaSh, that they proclaimed a fast before יהוה (Yahuah) to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

DANIEL’S PRAYER WITH FASTING

Daniel דניאל  (DaNey’AL) 9:

1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of יהוה (Yahuah) came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3And I set my face unto יהוה (Yahuah) Alaheym, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 4And I prayed unto יהוה (Yahuah) my Alaheym, and made my confession, and said, O יהוה (Yahuah), the great and dreadful Alaheym, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 6Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7O יהוה (Yahuah), righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. 8O יהוה (Yahuah), to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. 9To יהוה (Yahuah) our Alaheym belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; 10Neither have we obeyed the voice of יהוה (Yahuah) our Alaheym, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. 11Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of Alaheym, because we have sinned against him. 12And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. 13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before יהוה (Yahuah) our Alaheym, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. 14Therefore hath יהוה (Yahuah) watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for יהוה (Yahuah) our Alaheym is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

15And now, O יהוה (Yahuah) our Alaheym, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16O יהוה (Yahuah), according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. 17Now therefore, O our Alaheym, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for יהוה (Yahuah)’s sake. 18O my Alaheym, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. 19O יהוה (Yahuah), hear; O יהוה (Yahuah), forgive; O יהוה (Yahuah), hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my Alaheym: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

EXAMPLE OF DANIEL AFFLICTING HIS SOUL FOR 3 WEEKS

Daniel דניאל  (DaNey’AL) 10:

2In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. 3I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

EXAMPLE WHAT REPENTING & FASTING CAN DO

THE NATION OF NINEVEH REPENTS & FASTS

Jonah יונה (YuNaH) 3:

1And the word of יהוה (Yahuah) came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of יהוה (Yahuah). Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Nineveh Repents

5So the people of Nineveh believed Alaheym, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto Alaheym: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who can tell if Alaheym will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10And Alaheym saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and Alaheym repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

NEHEMIAH FASTED & PRAYED

Nehemiah נחמיה  (NaKahMe’YaH) 1:

1The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the KahDaSh Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the Alaheym of heaven, 5And said, I beseech thee, O יהוה (Yahuah) Alaheym of heaven, the great and terrible Alaheym, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned. 7We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. 8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: 9But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. 10Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. 11O יהוה (Yahuah), I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

Ezra עזרא  (IZaRA) 8:21-25

21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our Alaheym, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our Alaheym is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23So we fasted and besought our Alaheym for this: and he was intreated of us.

Ezra עזרא  (IZaRA) 10:

6Then Ezra rose up from before the house of Alaheym, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

Joel יואל (Yu’AL) 11:14

14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of יהוה (Yahuah) your Alaheym, and cry unto יהוה (Yahuah),

Zechariah זכריה (ZaKaRe’Yah) 7:

4Then came the word of יהוה (Yahuah) of hosts unto me, saying, 5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh KahDaSh, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? 6And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7Should ye not hear the words which יהוה (Yahuah) hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

8And the word of יהוה (Yahuah) came unto Zechariah, saying, 9Thus speaketh יהוה (Yahuah) of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. 11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which יהוה (Yahuah) of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from יהוה (Yahuah) of hosts. 13Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith יהוה (Yahuah) of hosts: 14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.