Genesis
Forsake other gods and follow the call of the true G-d.
Joshua 24:2; Genesis 12:1
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.
Genesis 12:1 · KJV
Artists for Israel International · An Exhibit
Sixty-six turns on the road home, one in every book of the Bible, from the call of Avraham out of Ur to the gates of the Holy City.
Each turn is anchored in one verse from its own book, read with one or two companion verses that give it context. The road runs in canonical order, Bereshis to Hisgalus. Excerpts beneath each turn quote the anchor verse in the King James Version.
The Five Books of Moshe
Forsake other gods and follow the call of the true G-d.
Joshua 24:2; Genesis 12:1
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.
Genesis 12:1 · KJV
Look for the Lamb of G-d who will die so that you can live.
Exodus 12:3; Isaiah 53:7
They shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.
Exodus 12:3 · KJV
Draw near only by the dam of kapporah, the blood that makes atonement for your nefesh.
Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22
For the life of the flesh is in the blood … it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17:11 · KJV
Look up at the One lifted on the pole, and live.
Numbers 21:8–9; John 3:14–15
Every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers 21:8 · KJV
Hear, O Israel: love Hashem your G-d with all your lev, all your nefesh, and all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:4–5; Mark 12:29–30
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.
Deuteronomy 6:4 · KJV
Yehoshua through Ester
Choose this day whom you will serve.
Joshua 24:15; Deuteronomy 30:19
Choose you this day whom ye will serve.
Joshua 24:15 · KJV
Stop doing what is right in your own eyes. That road only seems right.
Judges 21:25; Proverbs 14:12
Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges 21:25 · KJV
Take refuge under the wings of your Go’el, the Kinsman-Redeemer.
Ruth 2:12; 3:9; Psalm 91:4
The LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Ruth 2:12 · KJV
Let Hashem look upon your heart, and ask Him to create a clean one.
1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 51:10
Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7 · KJV
Trust the promise of the everlasting throne of Ben Dovid.
2 Samuel 7:12–13; Luke 1:32–33
I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
2 Samuel 7:13 · KJV
Stop limping between two opinions. If Hashem is G-d, follow Him.
1 Kings 18:21; Matthew 6:24
How long halt ye between two opinions?
1 Kings 18:21 · KJV
Go down into the water as Hashem commands, and come up clean.
2 Kings 5:10, 14; Acts 22:16
His flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2 Kings 5:14 · KJV
Seek His Face continually.
1 Chronicles 16:10–11; Psalm 27:8
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
1 Chronicles 16:11 · KJV
Humble yourself, pray, seek His Face, and turn from your wicked ways.
2 Chronicles 7:14; James 4:10
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways …
2 Chronicles 7:14 · KJV
Set your heart to seek the Torah of Hashem, to do it, and to teach it.
Ezra 7:10; Psalm 1:2
Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra 7:10 · KJV
Hear the Word read and explained, and let the joy of Hashem be your strength.
Nehemiah 8:8, 10; Psalm 16:11
The joy of the LORD is your strength.
Nehemiah 8:10 · KJV
Do not keep silent. You were brought to this place for such a time as this.
Esther 4:14; Romans 8:28
Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther 4:14 · KJV
Iyov through Shir HaShirim
Know that your Go’el lives, and will stand upon the earth at the last.
Job 19:25–27; John 11:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
Job 19:25 · KJV
Kiss the Son, and take refuge in Him.
Psalm 2:12; Acts 13:33
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry … Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalm 2:12 · KJV
Ask the Name of the Holy One, and the Name of His Son.
Proverbs 30:4; Isaiah 9:6
What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
Proverbs 30:4 · KJV
Remember your Creator now, while the road is still open.
Ecclesiastes 12:1, 13; 2 Corinthians 6:2
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 · KJV
Open when the Beloved knocks.
Song of Songs 5:2; Revelation 3:20
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love.
Song of Songs 5:2 · KJV
Yeshayah through Daniel
Let the Suffering Servant carry your iniquity. By His stripes you are healed.
Isaiah 53:5–6; 1 Peter 2:24
He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities … and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 · KJV
Enter the Brit Chadasha, with the Torah written on your heart.
Jeremiah 31:31–33; Hebrews 8:8–10
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 31:31 · KJV
Among the ruins, hope in His rachamim. They are new every morning.
Lamentations 3:21–23; Psalm 30:5
His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22–23 · KJV
Receive a new heart and a new ruach.
Ezekiel 36:26–27; John 3:5
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.
Ezekiel 36:26 · KJV
Bow before the Bar Enosh, the Son of Man, whose kingdom shall not pass away.
Daniel 7:13–14; Matthew 26:64
One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven.
Daniel 7:13 · KJV
The Twelve Prophets
Return to Hashem, and seek Dovid your King in the latter days.
Hosea 3:5; Jeremiah 30:9
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king.
Hosea 3:5 · KJV
Call upon the Name of Adoneinu Moshiach Yehoshua\Yeshua\יֵשׁוּעַ and be delivered.
Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13
Whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered.
Joel 2:32 · KJV
Prepare to meet your G-d.
Amos 4:12; Hebrews 9:27
Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos 4:12 · KJV
Come down from the heights of pride. Deliverance is on Mount Tziyon.
Obadiah 3–4, 17; James 4:6
But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness.
Obadiah 17 · KJV
And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights). On the third day the Lord will raise us up.
Jonah 1:17; Hosea 6:2
Salvation is of the LORD.
Jonah 2:9 · KJV
Look to Beit Lechem for the Ruler whose goings forth are from everlasting.
Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5–6
Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:2 · KJV
Run into the stronghold in the day of trouble.
Nahum 1:7; Proverbs 18:10
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:7 · KJV
Live by emunah.
Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17
The just shall live by his faith.
Habakkuk 2:4 · KJV
Seek Hashem in meekness, and He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 2:3; 3:17; Luke 15:7
He will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 · KJV
Consider your ways, and build the House of Hashem first.
Haggai 1:5, 8; Matthew 6:33
Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:5 · KJV
Look upon Him whom they pierced, and mourn as for an only son.
Zechariah 12:10; John 19:37
They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.
Zechariah 12:10 · KJV
Let your heart be turned before the great and dreadful Day.
Malachi 4:5–6; Luke 1:17
He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.
Malachi 4:6 · KJV
The four Gospels
Go, therefore, make talmidim for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of all the nations, giving them a tevilah in a mikveh mayim in Hashem, in the Name of האב, הבן, ורוח הקודש HaAv, and HaBen, and HaRuach Hakodesh.
Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Kings 5:10
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28-30 · KJV
Make teshuvah and believe the Besuras HaGeulah.
Mark 1:15; Isaiah 52:7
Repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Mark 1:15 · KJV
Come home. The Father runs to meet you.
Luke 15:20; Luke 19:10
When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luke 15:20 · KJV
Be born from above.
John 3:3, 16; 1 Peter 1:23
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:3 · KJV
Ma’asei HaShlichim
Receive Yeshua. There is no other prophecied Name of the Savior in the Bible.
Acts 4:12; Zechariah 6:11-12
There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Acts 4:12 · KJV
HaRomim through Filimon
Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart.
Romans 10:9–10; Deuteronomy 30:14
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth … and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:9 · KJV
Hold fast to the Besurah: Moshiach died, was buried, and rose on the third day.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4; Hosea 6:2
Moshiach died for our sins according to the scriptures; and … he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4 · KJV
Be reconciled to G-d.
2 Corinthians 5:20; Isaiah 1:18
We pray you in Moshiach’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20 · KJV
Stop trusting your own works. Be justified through the emunah of Moshiach.
Galatians 2:16; Genesis 15:6
A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Yeshua HaMoshiach.
Galatians 2:16 · KJV
Receive yeshuah (salvation) as a gift of chesed (grace) through emunah (faith), not of yourselves.
Ephesians 2:8–9; Titus 3:5
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:8 · KJV
Forget what lies behind and press on toward the prize of the upward call.
Philippians 3:13–14; Hebrews 12:1–2
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Moshiach Yeshua.
Philippians 3:14 · KJV
Set your mind on things above, where Moshiach is seated.
Colossians 3:1–2; Matthew 6:20
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:2 · KJV
Turn from idols to serve the living G-d, and wait for His Son from heaven.
1 Thessalonians 1:9–10; Acts 1:11
Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven.
1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 · KJV
Stand firm, and hold fast to what you were taught.
2 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 16:13
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 · KJV
Come to G-d through the one Mediator הַמְתַוֵּךְ, the man Moshiach Yeshua.
1 Timothy 2:5; Job 9:33
There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Moshiach Yeshua.
1 Timothy 2:5 · KJV
Endure hardship as a chaiyal tov, a good soldier of Moshiach Yeshua.
2 Timothy 2:3; 4:7–8
Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Yeshua HaMoshiach.
2 Timothy 2:3 · KJV
Say no to ungodliness, and look for the blessed hope.
Titus 2:11–13; 1 John 3:2–3
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and מוֹשִיעֵנו our Goel Yeshua HaMoshiach.
Titus 2:13 · KJV
Let Moshiach say of your debt, “Put that on my account.”
Philemon 17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:21
If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account.
Philemon 18 · KJV
HaIvrim through Yehuda
Enter the Kodesh HaKodashim boldly by דֶּרֶךְ חָדָשׁ וָחָי the new and living way.
Hebrews 10:19–20; Matthew 27:51
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
Hebrews 10:20 · KJV
Draw near to G-d, and He will draw near to you.
James 4:8; Zechariah 1:3
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
James 4:8 · KJV
Come to the Living Stone, the chosen Cornerstone laid in Tziyon.
1 Peter 2:4–6; Isaiah 28:16
Behold, I lay in צִיּוֹן a chief corner stone, elect, precious.
1 Peter 2:6 · KJV
Make your calling and election sure, and an entrance will be richly provided.
2 Peter 1:10–11; Matthew 7:13–14
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom.
2 Peter 1:11 · KJV
Know that you have chayyei olam. Whoever has the Son has life.
1 John 5:11–13; John 20:31
He that hath the Son hath life.
1 John 5:12 · KJV
Abide in the teaching of Moshiach. He is the Way.
2 John 9; John 14:6
He that abideth in the doctrine of Moshiach, he hath גַּם־הָאָב גַּם־הַבֵּן both the Father and the Son.
2 John 9 · KJV
Walk in the truth.
3 John 4; Psalm 86:11
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
3 John 4 · KJV
Keep yourself in the ahavah of G-d. He is able to keep you from stumbling.
Jude 21, 24; Psalm 121:3
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy …
Jude 24 · KJV
Hisgalus
Wash your robe in the dam of the Seh, and enter the City by the gates to the Etz HaChayim.
Revelation 22:14; 7:14; Genesis 3:22–24
They … have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:14 · KJV
Destination
The road that began when Avraham left his father’s house ends at the gates of pearl, where the Etz HaChayim stands again and the Seh is its light.
Hebrews 11:10 · Revelation 21:21–23 · Revelation 22:1–2