Tongues and Ephraim

Tongues and Ephraim
By
James Scott Trimm

There is a special connection in the Scriptures between Ephraim and the gift of tongues.

In his First letter to the Corinthians Paul writes:

21 In the Torah it is written: With a strange speech and with another tongue I will
speak with this people; even so, they will not hear Me, says YHWH. (Is. 28:11)
22 Therefore, tongues are placed for a sign: not to believers, but to those who do not
believe. And prophecies are not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.
(1Cor. 14:21-22 HRV)

Here Paul is quoting Isaiah:

11 For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue, shall it be spoken to this people
(Is. 28:11 HRV)

Who is “this people”? The answer is in Is. 28:1a “Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Efrayim…”

Now in context the prophecy in question speaks of Ephraim in exile being exposed to languages that they do not understand. Why does Paul apply this to the practice of Tzaruf (Permutations)? A clue appears in Obadiah:

20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Yisra’el, that are among the
Kena’anites, even unto Tzarfat, and the captivity of Yerushalayim, that is in Sepharad,
shall possess the cities of the South.
(Obadiah 1:20 HRV)

From this passage we learn that remnants of the House of Judah would find themselves in exile in “Sepharad” (Spain) but remnants of the House of Israel would find themselves in exile in “Tzarfat” (France).

In Ancient times France came to be inhabited by the Gauls who had migrated from an area just north of the Assyrian Empire across Europe to the area we know today as France. The HRV appendix map 1 shows the Ancient World as known to the Hebrews. You will see the land we know today as France was Gaul. These Gauls were also known as Celts... they migrated across the English channel into the Brittish isles... thus the Celts spoke "Gealic". According to Obadiah 1:20 the House of Israel would migrate to a place called Tzarfat... this is the Hebrew word for "France" in fact Rashi's commentary on Obadiah 1:20 says that this refers to France. These "Gauls" were GAL-aeens who had been exiled by the Assyrians to the land north of Assyria, As they passed through the area known now as Turkey they created a colony there called GAL-atia. If one compares the openning of James and 1Kefa there is an obvious parallel. One will notice that "the twelve tribes scattered among the nations" in James is said in 1Kefa to include "Galatia".

So the “stammering lips and with a strange tongue” (Is. 28:11) that Ephraim would hear in the captivity is “Tzarfati” (French). Paul makes a wordplay by citing this verse to show that it would be a great sign when Ephraim would be spoken to with TZARUF (or TZARFAT).

Ephraim’s connection with Tongues is further evident by the fact that the patriarch Joseph was given the gift of tongues allowing him to speak and understand the seventy languages of the Gentiles, just as Ephraim was to be in exile among the seventy nations.

The Talmud relates:

Rabbi Hiyya ben Abba said in the name of Rabbi Johanan: "At the moment when Pharaoh said to Joseph, And without thee shall no man lift up his hand, Pharaoh's astrologers exclaimed: 'Wilt thou set in power over us a slave whom his master bought for twenty pieces of silver!' He replied to them, 'discern in him royal characteristics.' They said to him, 'in that case he must be acquainted with the seventy languages.' Angel Gabriel came and taught [Joseph] the seventy languages, but he could not learn them. Thereupon [Gabriel] added to his name a letter from the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He, and he knew [the languages]..."
(b.Sotah 36b)

The same story appears in the Book of Jasher:

And the angel roused him from his sleep, and Joseph rose up and stood upon his legs, and behold the angel of the Lord was standing opposite to him; and the angel of the Lord spoke with Joseph, and he taught him all the languages of man in that night, and he called his name Jehoseph.
(Jasher 49:14)

The name Yosef is sometines spelled in the Tanak Yahusef. According to the Talmud the extra letter “H” (hey) from the name of YHWH was added to his name thus giving him the knowledge of the seventy languages which he had been unable to learn. It is significant that in Jewish tradition the first HEY in the name of YHWH represents the Ruach HaKodesh. Thus Yosef received the Ruach HaKodesh and the gift of tongues.

This is what Paul alludes to when he writes:

21 In the Torah it is written: With a strange speech and with another tongue I will
speak with this people; even so, they will not hear Me, says YHWH. (Is. 28:11)
22 Therefore, tongues are placed for a sign: not to believers, but to those who do not
believe. And prophecies are not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.
(1Cor. 14:21-22 HRV)

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