Acts 8:32

Now the keta (section) of the Tanakh which he was reading was this: KASEH LATEVACH YUVAL (He + 8:32 Moshiach was led as a lamb to the slaughter) and as a Seh + 8:32 Isa 53:7 (Lamb) before the one having sheared it is silent, LO YIFTACH PIV (He does not open his mouth).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

In Context

31And he said, How then might I be able, unless someone will guide me? And he invited Philippos to come up and sit with him.

33In humiliation his justice was taken away. The descendants of him who will tell? Because he is taken away from HA'ARETZ CHAYYIM. + 8:33 Isa 53:7,8 TARGUM HASHIVIM

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Cross References

Psalms 39:2I said, I will be shomer over my ways, 1 that I sin not with my leshon; 1 I will be shomer over my mouth with a muzzle, 1 while the rashah is before me. 1

Psalms 44:11Thou makest us to turn back from before the tzar (enemy); 1 and they which hate us have taken plunder for themselves. 1

Jeremiah 11:19But I was like an innocent keves (lamb) 1 that is brought to the slaughter; 1 and I knew not that 1 they had devised machashavot (plots) against me, 1 saying: Let us destroy the etz (tree) with the fruit thereof, 1 and let us cut him off from Eretz Chayyim, 1 that shmo may be no more remembered. 1

Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs litvo'ach (to the slaughter), + 51:40 See Isa 53:7 1 like rams with male goats. 1

Luke 23:34But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Abba, grant selicha to them, for they have no daas of what they are doing. And dividing up his garments, VAPPILU GORAL (they cast lots). + 23:34 Ps 22:19

John 18:9That may be fulfilled the dvar which said, Those whom You have given me, I did not lose any one of them. + 18:9 Yn 17:12; 10:11

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:27-40

Philip and the Ethiopian. 26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join… Read the whole commentary →

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