Yoked - the parable

Yoked 

March 26, 2014

Table of Contents 

FONTS ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 

Lies .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 

First ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 

Hallelujah ........................................................................................................................................ 4 

Second ................................................................................................................................................. 4 

Third .................................................................................................................................................... 5 

Concordances .................................................................................................................................. 5 

Yoke ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 

Invitation ................................................................................................................................................. 8 

History ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 

Hidden Treasure .................................................................................................................................... 13 

Unevenly yoked..................................................................................................................................... 14 

Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 15 

Appendix A ............................................................................................................................................ 16 

The word “Yoke” in the Bible ............................................................................................................ 16 

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Introduction 

How often do you hear from people, mostly Christians, about how difficult and sometimes 

(most times) how unfair life seems to be? When they or someone else are going through a 

tough time, they will very often quote the words of Yahuwsha’ from Mathew 11… 

Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you 

rest. 

Mat 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble 

in heart, and you shall find rest for your beings. 1 Footnote: 1 Jer. 6:16. 

Mat 11:30 “For My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.” 

not fully understanding what Yahuwsha’ meant. 

When you start to understand more about Yahuwah’s Word, then you will understand the 

words which Yahuwsha’ spoke. This is not meant literaly, it is another parabal and if you 

keep reading, you will soon understand it and it will make perfectly sense and the 

knowledge of the truth, will set you free. 

Lies 

Let us get rid of a couple of lies… 

First – Names, and here I am not going to spend a great lot of time – there are other 

documents that covers this in great detail. 

= YHWH / Yahuwah יהוה 

Yahuwsha’ = יהושע 

Please remember that the Son said that He comes in the Name of the Father, thus, the 

words God and Jesus has got nothing in common, but looking at the above Name’s of the 

Father and the Son, you will notice the following. Yahuwsha’’s meaning is the following – My 

Saviour is Yahuwah, this gives meaning and truth to His word, showing that He – Yahuwsha’ 

– indeed comes in the Name of the Father! 

Joh 5:36 “But I have a greater witness than that of Yohanan, for the works that the 

Father gave Me to accomplish, the works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the 

Father has sent Me. 



Joh 5:37 “And the Father who sent Me, He bore witness of Me. You have neither 

heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 1 Footnote: 1 See 1:18. 

Joh 5:38 “And you do not have His Word staying in you, because you do not believe 

Him whom He sent. 

Joh 5:39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think you possess everlasting life 

in them. And these are the ones that bear witness of Me. 

Joh 5:40 “But you do not desire to come to Me in order to possess life. 

Joh 5:41 “I do not receive esteem from men, 

Joh 5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of Elohim in you. 

Joh 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s Name and you do not receive Me, if another 

comes in his own name, him you would receive. 1 Footnote: 1 “Another,” another one, 

was indeed a prophecy by יהושע of another one, probably the same one we read 

of in 2 Thess. 2:4. See Anti-Messiah in Explanatory Notes. 

Please do not stand guilty because you refuse to acknowledge the Father and the Son’s true 

Name. 

Hallelujah 

Just think about the following word as well. It is the only word in most languages that has 

not changed in the past 4000 years, it is the word “hallelujah.” The spelling should actually 

be halleluYAH – meaning praise and glory to YAH. It does not say – hallelugod or hallelujesus 

or hallelulord, it say hellaluYAH! Yah is a shortened form of Yahuwah! 

Second – about alpha and omega… - this is a Roman way of talking and thinking. The 

Hebrew way is to say Aleph and Taw. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew aleph-beit and 

the Taw is the last letter of the Hebrew aleph-beit. 

Isa_44:6 “Thus said ‏,יהוה Sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, and his Redeemer, יהוה of hosts, ‘I 

am the First and I am the Last, besides Me there is no Elohim. 

Isa_48:12 “Listen to Me, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yisra’ĕl, My called: I am He, I am the First, I 

am also the Last. 

Rev_1:11 saying, “I am the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Taw’, the First and the Last,” and, “Write 

in a book what you see and send it to the seven assemblies of Asia – to Ephesos, and 

to Smurna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and 

to Laodikeia.” 

Rev_1:17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead, and He placed His right hand 

on me, saying, “Do not be afraid, I am the First and the Last, 



Rev_2:8 “And to the messenger of the assembly in Smurna write, ‘This says the First 

and the Last, who became dead, and came to life: 

Rev_22:13 “I am the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Taw’, the Beginning and the End, the First and 

the Last. 

Third – in our translations of the bible, not all Hebrew words where translated, thus not 

giving us the big picture, not allowing us to understand all things written, ecspecially when it 

comes to Yahuwsha’ haMassiach. 

Most people also know the words from John 1:1 

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the 

Word was Elohim. 

Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with Elohim. 

Joh 1:3 All came to be through Him, 1 and without Him not even one came to be that 

came to be. 

Joh 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 

Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 

The word “Word” is in reference to Yahuwsha’, but how does it compute if we go back to 

the beginning, to Genesis 1? Look at the translation… 

(Gen 1:1 The Scriptures 1998+) In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. 

(Gen 1:1 KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

(Gen 1:1 KJV+) In the beginning H7225 God H430 created H1254 (H853) the heaven H8064 and the 

earth. H776 

(Remember that Hebrew reads from right to left….) 

H430 

H1254 H7225 

ברא 

ואת 

אלהים 

הארץ׃ 

H776 

H853 

HOT+) Gen‏)בראשׁית 1:1 

H8064 

H853 

את 

השׁמים 

Do you see the (H853) in the KJV+ and in the HOT+? (Highlighted in yellow) 

Concordances 

This is what different concordances has to say about H853 

Brown-Driver-Briggs 

H853 

את 



'êth 

BDB Definition: 

1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally 

preceding and indicating the accusative 

Part of Speech: untranslated particle 

A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparent contracted from H226 in 

the demonstrative sense of entity 

Same Word by TWOT Number: 186 

BTSCTVM+ 

את Original: - 

- Transliteration: 'eth 

- Phonetic: ayth 

- Definition: 

1. sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally 

preceding and indicating the accusative 

- Origin: apparent contracted from H226 in the demonstrative sense of entity 

- TWOT entry: 186 

- Part(s) of speech: 

- Strong's: Apparently contracted from H226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; 

properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or 

preposition even or namely): - (As such unrepresented in English.) 

Total KJV Occurrences: 1 

• trust, 1 

2Ki_18:30 

New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance 

H853 

את 

eth (84c); a prim. particle; untranslatable mark of the accusative case. 

So, according to the KJV, the word (H853) has not been translated for 7302 times and this 

pertains just to the ;old testament.’ If we go to the Hebrew version, the truth becomes even 

more pertinent… 11057 times..! 



You might ask why the huge difference…? It is because H853, as not translated in the KJV+, 

has different ways of spelling it in Hebrew – look at the light blue highlight above in the 

HOT+, and wow, the KJV+ left it out completely…! Count for yourself the H* numbers in the 

KJV+ and then the H* in the HOT+ = 6 versus 7…. 

I know that most people do not want to believe that there is anything wrong with the 

translation, but here, the truth lies naked before you… 

Now I know that most of you do not understand Hebrew, and neither read Hebrew, but 

please continue reading. The letters of H853 that is never translated are the Hebrew Aleph 

and Taw. The Aleph is the head of an ox and the Taw is the cross (X). 

Unlike our modern alphabet, where an “a” is just that, the Hebrew aleph-beit has meanings 

associated with each letter. 

The Aleph’s ‏/א)‏ ‏(א meaning is the following: 

The Taw’s ( ‏/ת ‏(ת meaning is the following: 

First, authority, strong, ox 

truth, mark, sign, covenant, 

(If you do not see an ox head in the Aleph-line, you need to install an additional font - ) 

We also need to keep in mind that Yahuwsha’ said that He is the Aleph and the Taw, so logic 

will have us to understand, that most every time that we find the Aleph-Taw, we need to 

remember that it points to Yahuwsha’ and even to Yahuwah. Maybe now, when you read 

from John 1:1-3, and you read Genesis, you will know that the untranslated word Aleph- 

Taw, is there, showing us the truth, that Yahuwsha’ was there in the beginning….! 

HalleluYAH, thank you Abba! 

I am not here to give you a detailed brief on Hebrew and the letters (aleph-beit) there-of. 

We are here to look at the word yoke and the parable as contained / spoken in Mathew 11. 

Yoke 

Most of us know what a ‘yoke’ is. Now for clarity, let us look at it again. 

Yoke, when you look at the thesaurus, the meaning of the word is as follows: 

• Oppression 

• Burden 

• Bondage 



• Encumbrance 

• Drag 

• Load 

• Annoyance 

• Repression 

Ok, so what was a yoke used for…? A yoke was used to harness the power of an animal (ox 

or horse or ass) to be able to control the animal and apply the power of that animal to 

plough or draw a cart or some other uses. But that was not all it was used for, a yoke was 

also used to ‘train’ an animal. A young animal will be yoked with an older animal, one that 

”knows the ropes” meaning that this older animal will know the commands of his master, 

and thus, the young one, being yoked with the older one, will also “learn the ropes.” 

In Holland, there is a horse that can move 1200kg on its own, but two of these horses, 

yoked together, can move over 10000kg’s…! it is not doubled, it is multiplied…! 

Invitation 

Now back to helping you to understand the parable in Mathew 11 where Yahuwsha’ makes 

an invite, which most people do not understand correctly. 

Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you 

rest. 

Mat 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble 

in heart, and you shall find rest for your beings. 1 Footnote: 1 Jer. 6:16. 

Mat 11:30 “For My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.” 

Most people take this literary, but one has to understand a little bit about the Hebrew way 

of thinking….! When Yahuwsha’ was saying this, we need to go back a bit further.., 

Mat 11:25 At that time יהושע responding, said, “I thank You, Father, Master of 

the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these matters from clever and 

learned ones and have revealed them to babes. 1 Footnote: 1 Lk. 10:21. 

Mat 11:26 “Yea, Father, because so it was well-pleasing in Your sight. 

Mat 11:27 “All have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the 

Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to 

whom the Son wishes to reveal Him. 



Yahuwsha’ declares that His Father is the Master. He also says in verse 27 that no one 

knows the Father, except only those that He (Yahuwsha’) wishes to reveal the Father to. 

Yahuwsha’ also says the following: 

Joh_10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the 

sheepfold, but climbs up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber. 

Joh_10:2 “But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 

יהושע Joh_10:7 therefore said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the 

door of the sheep. 

Joh_10:9 “I am the door. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall 

go in and shall go out and find pasture. 

If Yahuwsha’ is the door, then you have to go through Him to get to the Father. Also 

remember the following… 

יהושע John 14:6 said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one 

comes to the Father except through Me. 

So Yahuwsha’ is the Door, the Way, the Truth and the Life… 

History 

So in this parable, when Yahuwsha’ invite those that labour and are burdened, He is 

pointing us back to the time when the Yisra’elites where in Mitsrayim (Egypt). They where 

labouring and they carried a heavy burden and they cried to Yahuwah… 

Exo_2:23 And it came to be after these many days that the sovereign of Mitsrayim 

died. And the children of Yisra’ĕl groaned because of the slavery, and they cried out. 

And their cry came up to Elohim because of the slavery. 

and Yahuwah sent Mosheh to bring them out of Mitsrayim; 

Exo_3:10 “And now, come, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring My people, the 

children of Yisra’ĕl, out of Mitsrayim.” 

The last sign, from Yahuwah to Pharao, was the death of the first born, please read through 

the following verse as there are much revealed / hidden here… 



Exo 12:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, 

saying, 

Exo 12:2 “This month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the 

year for you. 

Exo 12:3 “Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this 

month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his 

father, a lamb for a household. 

Exo 12:4 ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour 

next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each 

man’s need you make your count for the lamb. 

Exo 12:5 ‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or 

from the goats. 

Exo 12:6 ‘And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then 

all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl shall kill it between the evenings. 

Exo 12:7 ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts 

and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 

Exo 12:8 ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with 

unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 

Exo 12:9 ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head 

with its legs and its inward parts. 

Exo 12:10 ‘And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until 

morning you are to burn with fire. 

Exo 12:11 ‘And this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, 

and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of 

‏.יהוה 

Exo 12:12 ‘And I shall pass through the land of Mitsrayim on that night, and shall 

smite all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast. And on all the 

‏.יהוה mighty ones of Mitsrayim I shall execute judgment. I am 

Exo 12:13 ‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And 

when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let the plague not come on you to 

destroy you when I smite the land of Mitsrayim. 

Exo 12:14 ‘And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you shall 

observe it as a festival to יהוה throughout your generations – observe it as a 

festival, an everlasting law. 

Exo 12:15 ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you 

cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the 

first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from Yisra’ĕl. 

Exo 12:16 ‘And on the first day is a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh day you 

have a set-apart gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that which is eaten 

by every being, that alone is prepared by you. 



Exo 12:17 ‘And you shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this same 

day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this 

day throughout your generations, an everlasting law. 

Exo 12:18 ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, 

you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the 

evening. 

Exo 12:19 ‘For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses, for if anyone eats 

what is leavened, that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, 

whether sojourner or native of the land. 

Exo 12:20 ‘Do not eat that which is leavened – in all your dwellings you are to eat 

unleavened bread.’ ” 

Exo 12:21 And Mosheh called for all the elders of Yisra’ĕl and said to them, “Go out 

and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and slaughter the Passover 

lamb. 

Exo 12:22 “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the 

basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the 

basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. 

Exo 12:23 “And יהוה shall pass on to smite the Mitsrites, and shall see the blood 

on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and יהוה shall pass over the door and not 

allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. 

Exo 12:24 “And you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons, forever. 

Exo 12:25 “And it shall be, when you come to the land which יהוה gives you, as He 

promised, that you shall guard this service. 

Exo 12:26 “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this service 

mean to you?’ 

Exo 12:27 then you shall say, ‘It is the Passover slaughtering of ‏,יהוה who passed 

over the houses of the children of Yisra’ĕl in Mitsrayim when He smote the Mitsrites 

and delivered our households.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and did 

obeisance. 

Exo 12:28 And the children of Yisra’ĕl went away and did so – as יהוה had 

commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did. 

So, the blood of the Passover lamb, the perfect lamb, protected the people inside the house 

on which the blood was smeared on the lintel and doorposts. They escaped death and 

gained life… 

If you confess that Yahuwsha’ is the Lamb killed, to give you life, then you will recognize Him 

as the Door. To go through the Door (into the house of Yahuwah), what is required…? 



Exo 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought 

out of Mitsrayim, for it was not leavened, since they were driven out of Mitsrayim, 

and had not been able to delay, nor had they prepared food for themselves. 

Exo 12:40 And the sojourn of the children of Yisra’ĕl who lived in Mitsrayim was four 

hundred and thirty years. 

Exo 12:41 And it came to be at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that 

same day it came to be that all the divisions of יהוה went out from the land of 

Mitsrayim. 

Exo 12:42 It is a night to be observed unto יהוה for bringing them out of the land of 

Mitsrayim. This night is unto ‏,יהוה to be observed by all the children of Yisra’ĕl 

throughout their generations. 

Exo 12:43 And יהוה said to Mosheh and Aharon, “This is the law of the 

Passover: No son of a stranger is to eat of it, 

Exo 12:44 but any servant a man has bought for silver, when you have circumcised 

him, then let him eat of it. 

Exo 12:45 “A sojourner and a hired servant does not eat of it. 

Exo 12:46 “It is eaten in one house, you are not to take any of the flesh outside the 

house, nor are you to break any bone of it. 

Exo 12:47 “All the congregation of Yisra’ĕl are to perform it. 

Exo 12:48 “And when a stranger sojourns with you and shall perform the Passover 

to ‏,יהוה let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and perform 

it, and he shall be as a native of the land. But let no uncircumcised eat of it. 

Exo 12:49 “There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns 

among you.” 

Exo 12:50 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl did as יהוה commanded Mosheh and 

Aharon, so they did. 

Exo 12:51 And it came to be on that same day that יהוה brought the children of 

Yisra’ĕl out of the land of Mitsrayim according to their divisions. 

You have to have the sign of the covenant (circumcision - if you are a male) to be able to 

part-take in the Passover. In other words, to go through the DOOR (Yahuwsha’) you have to 

be circumcised…. 



Hidden Treasure 

So often we miss a little piece of the puzzle, and thus the puzzle is not complete, you can 

imagine the picture, but it is not complete. Just as this picture of the yoke would not be 

complete without this “hidden treasure” that Yahuwah showed me. Please read the 

following verses..; 

Exo 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the 

Mitsrites. And there was a great cry in Mitsrayim, for there was not a house where 

there was not a dead one. 

Exo 12:31 Then he called for Mosheh and Aharon by night, and said, “Arise, go out 

from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Yisra’ĕl. And go, serve 

said. as you have יהוה 

Exo 12:32 “Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go. Then you 

shall bless me too.” 

Exo 12:33 And the Mitsrites urged the people, to hasten to send them away out of 

the land. For they said, “We are all dying!” 

Exo 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their 

kneading bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders. 

Exo 12:35 And the children of Yisra’ĕl had done according to the word of Mosheh, 

and they had asked from the Mitsrites objects of silver, and objects of gold, and 

garments. 

Exo 12:36 And יהוה gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites, so that 

they gave them what they asked, and they plundered the Mitsrites. 

Read verse 35 and 36 again....! The “hidden treasure” here is that when you are obedient 

and do exactly what Yahuwah tells you to do, He will give you more favor than what you can 

think. In the example above, the Yisra’elites asked gold and silver and garments – 

“treasures” – from the Mitsrites and they gave it without arguing. 

If you are obedient – Yahuwah will give you more than you can think of or dream of. Please 

don not start thinking about “money and earthly things” now, if you go to Mathew 11, the 

treasure today is the revelation that you will receive about Yahuwah and the beauty of His 

Torah and that He is the only One that is rigtheous and the only One worth of all our praises 

and the only One trustworthy! Read it in this verse... 

Mat 11:25 At that time יהושע responding, said, “I thank You, Father, Master of 

the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these matters from clever and 

learned ones and have revealed them to babes. 1 Footnote: 1 Lk. 10:21. 

HalleluYAH, thank you Abba Yahuwah, halleluYAH! 



Unevenly yoked 

To clarify the verse written by Sha’ul. 

2Co 6:14 Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership 

have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? 

One become unevenly yoked when you learn from the wrong source. If you make people 

your source from whom you try to learn Yahuwah’s Word, you are on the WRONG path and 

then you are unevenly yoked. The parable and the inivtation from Yahuwsha’ should make 

this clear. He is the Aleph-Taw – The First, the Authority, the strong One, the Last, the Truth. 

This does not warn you to not go into business with an “unbeliever,” but rather warns you 

to not learn from them, lest you learn the wrong things and they seduce you away from 

Yahuwah and Yahuwsha’. This makes me think about the second commandment… 

Exo 20:3 “You have no other mighty ones against My face. 

Exo 20:4 “You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which 

is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters 

under the earth, 

Exo 20:5 you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, יהוה your Elohim am 

a jealous Ěl, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and 

fourth generations of those who hate Me, 

Exo 20:6 but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My 

commands. 

So decide to obey Yahuwsha’, to be yoked with Him, so He can teach you, to show you the 

way and the truth, to come to realize how “light” His burden really is. 

Please remember that Sha’ul is the only one that writes about this. Yahuwsha’ invite us to 

learn form Him, knowing fully well that it is an “uneven” yoke, but He is willing to teach 

everyone that makes the free-will decision. 

When you are yoked with Yahuwsha’, He will also show the right way of either conducting 

business or going into a partnership with an “unbeliever”, or more correctly, with a lawless 

person. You will know the Torah and you will hear the voice behind you, go left or go right… 

HalleluYAH, thank you Yahuwah! You will not have to worry about it if you obey the Torah! 



Conclusion 

Back to the parable…. 

When Yahuwsha’ gives the invitation to those that labour and are burdened, then He is 

saying that those who are tired of the worldly systems and who freely choose to obey Him 

(meaning that you love Him) should to take up His yoke. 

As He is the “older ox”. The Authority, he invites each one to come and learn from Him. 

Remember that Yahuwsha’ came to show us that He could, as a human, obey Yahuwah’s 

laws and that only through obedience, one gets LIFE (with Yahuwah) That is why He said 

that He is the way, the truth and the life…! 

So being yoked with Yahuwsha’, He will show you the WAY, He will teach you the TRUTH 

and that will gain you LIFE because you entered through the DOOR…! 

The Aleph – the FIRST, the AUTHORITY, the strong One.. So Yahuwsha’ invites you to come 

and learn from Him, to allow Him to share the burden. Remember the example of the 

horses above….? 

The Taw – the last, the truth and the sign of the covenant. 

Remember that the turth only comes at the end of a journey… that is why taw, the last 

letter of the Hebrew Aleph-beit, means truth… Look at the following verse: 

Lam_3:27 It is good for a man to bear a yoke in his youth. 

Think about this verse.., when you are young and you learn the “correct ropes” – the Torah 

of Yahuwah, you will walk on the straight and narrow road and you will not fall. 

Being yoked with Yahuwsha’ will mean that you turn your back on the world, because you 

cannot serve two masters…! Remember that Yahuwsha’ points to Yahuwah as the MASTER. 

So Yahuwsha’ shows you and teaches you how to be acceptable to Yahuwah. 

So the parable is inviting those that want to life as part of Yahuwah’s family, to come and 

learn from Yahuwsha’, to be yoked with Him so He can “show you the ropes” and teach you 

that what He (and the Father) expect from you, is not difficult and that their burden is light 

– compared to what the world is expecting from you…! 



Appendix A 

The word “Yoke” in the Bible 

Gen_27:40 And by your sword you are to live, and serve your brother. And it shall be, when 

you grow restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.” 

Lev_26:13 ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from 

being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright. 

Num_19:2 “This is a law of the Torah which יהוה has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the 

children of Yisra’ĕl, that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect one, in which there is no 

blemish and on which a yoke has never come. 

Deu_21:3 “And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a 

heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke, 

Deu_28:48 you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה sends against you, in hunger, and in 

thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until 

he has destroyed you. 

1Sa_6:7 “And now, take and make a new wagon, and two milk cows which have never been 

yoked, and hitch the cows to the wagon. And take their calves home, away from them. 

1Sa_11:7 And he took a yoke of cattle and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all 

the border of Yisra’ĕl by the hands of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not go out with 

Sha’ul and Shemu’ĕl to battle, let this be done to his cattle.” And the fear of יהוה fell on 

the people, and they came out as one man. 

2Sa_24:22 And Arawnah said to Dawiḏ, “Let my master the sovereign take and offer that 

which seems good to him. Here are cattle for burnt offering, and threshing implements and 

the yokes of the cattle for wood. 

1Ki_12:4 “Your father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your father, 

and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we serve you.” 

1Ki_12:9 And he said to them, “What advice do you give? How should we answer this 

people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?” 

1Ki_12:10 And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Say this 

to this people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you 

make it lighter on us.’ Say this to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist! 

1Ki_12:11 ‘And now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, but I add to your yoke; my father 

flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!’ ” 

1Ki_12:14 and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My 

father made your yoke heavy, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but 

I, I flog you with scourges!” 

1Ki_19:19 And he went from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was ploughing 

with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. And Ěliyahu passed by 

him and threw his robe on him. 



1Ki_19:21 And he turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them 

and cooked their flesh, using the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and 

they ate. Then he rose up and followed Ěliyahu, and became his servant. 

2Ch_10:4 “Your father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your 

father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we shall serve you.” 

2Ch_10:9 And he said to them, “What advice do you give? How should we answer this 

people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?” 

2Ch_10:10 And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Say this 

to the people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you 

make it lighter on us.’ Say this to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist! 

2Ch_10:11 ‘And now, my father put a heavy yoke on you, but I, I add to your yoke; my 

father chastised you with whips, but I with scourges!’ ” 

2Ch_10:14 and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father 

made your yoke heavy, but I, I add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I with 

scourges!” 

Job_1:3 And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and 

five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large body of 

servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East. 

Job_42:12 And יהוה blessed the latter days of Iyoḇ more than his beginning; for he had 

fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and one thousand yoke of oxen, and 

one thousand female donkeys. 

Isa_9:4 For You shall break the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of 

his oppressor, as in the day of Miḏyan. 

Isa_10:27 And in that day it shall be that his burden is removed from your shoulder, and his 

yoke from your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. 

Isa_14:25 “To break Ashshur in My land, and tread him down on My mountains. And his 

yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders. 

Isa_47:6 “I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into 

your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the 

elderly. 

Isa_58:6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to 

undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke? 

Isa_58:9 “Then, when you call, יהוה would answer; when you cry, He would say, ‘Here I 

am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and the 

speaking of unrighteousness, 

Jer_2:20 “For of old you have broken your yoke and tore of your bonds. And you said, ‘I am 

not serving You,’ when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore. 

Jer_5:5 “Let me go to the great men and speak to them, for they have known the way of 

the right-ruling of their Elohim.” But these have altogether broken the yoke and torn ‏,יהוה 

off the bonds. 



Jer_27:2 “This is what יהוה said to me, ‘Make for yourselves bands and yokes. Then you 

shall put them on your neck, 

Jer_27:8 ‘And it shall be, the nation and reign that do not serve Neḇuḵadṉetstsar the 

sovereign of Baḇel, and the one that does not put its neck under the yoke of the sovereign 

of Baḇel, that nation I shall punish,’ declares ‏,יהוה ‘with the sword, and the scarcity of 

food, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. 

Jer_27:11 ‘But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the sovereign of Baḇel 

and serve him, I shall leave in their own land,’ declares ‏,יהוה ‘and they shall till it and dwell 

in it.’ ” 

Jer_27:12 And I spoke to Tsiḏqiyah the sovereign of Yehuḏah according to all these words, 

saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the sovereign of Baḇel, and serve him and his 

people, and live! 

Jer_28:2 “Thus spoke יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘I have broken the yoke 

of the sovereign of Baḇel. 

Jer_28:4 ‘And I am going to bring back to this place Yeḵonyah son of Yehoyaqim, sovereign 

of Yehuḏah, with all the exiles of Yehuḏah who went to Baḇel,’ declares ‏,יהוה ‘for I am 

going to break the yoke of the sovereign of Baḇel.’ ” 

Jer_28:10 And Hạnanyah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Yirmeyah’s neck and 

broke it. 

‏,יהוה Jer_28:11 And Hạnanyah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus said 

‘So I shall break the yoke of Neḇuḵadṉetstsar sovereign of Baḇel from the neck of all nations 

within two years.’ ” And the prophet Yirmeyah went his way. 

Jer_28:12 And the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyah, after Hạnanyah the prophet had 

broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Yirmeyah, saying, 

Jer_28:13 “Go and speak to Hạnanyah, saying, ‘Thus said ‏,יהוה “You have broken the 

yokes of wood, but you shall make yokes of iron instead.” 

Jer_28:14 ‘For thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “I have put a yoke of iron on 

the neck of all these nations, to serve Neḇuḵadṉetstsar sovereign of Baḇel. And they shall 

serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field.” ’ ” 

Jer_30:8 ‘And it shall be in that day,’ declares יהוה of hosts, ‘that I break his yoke from 

your neck, and tear off your bonds, and foreigners no more enslave them. 

Jer_51:23 “And with you I shall break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with you I 

shall break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen. And with you I shall break in pieces 

governors and rulers. 



Lam_1:14 “The yoke of my transgressions Has been bound by His hand, Woven together 

and thrust upon my neck. He has made my strength stumble, יהוה has given me into hands 

Which I am unable to withstand. 

Lam_3:27 It is good for a man to bear a yoke in his youth. 

Eze_30:18 “And in Tehạphnehẹs the day shall be darkened, when I shatter the yokes of 

Mitsrayim there. And the pride of her strength shall cease in her, a cloud shall cover her. 

And her daughters shall go into captivity. 

Eze_34:27 “And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth yield her increase, 

and they shall be safe in their land. And they shall know that I am ‏,יהוה when I have broken 

the bars of their yoke. And I shall deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them, 

Hos_10:11 “And Ephrayim is a trained heifer, loving to thresh grain. But I Myself shall pass 

over her comely neck – I put Ephrayim to the yoke, Yehuḏah ploughs, Yaʽaqoḇ harrows for 

him.” 

Hos_11:4 “I drew them with ropes of man, with cords of love, and I was to them as those 

who take the yoke from their neck. And I bent down, fed them. 

Nah_1:13 “So now I break his yoke from you, and tear off your shackles.” 

Mat_11:29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble in 

heart, and you shall find rest for your beings. 1 Footnote: 1 Jer. 6:16. 

Mat_11:30 “For My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.” 

Luk_14:19 “And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them 

out. I ask you to have me excused.’ 

Act_15:10 “Now then, why do you try Elohim by putting a yoke on the neck of the taught 

ones which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 

2Co_6:14 Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have 

righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? 

Gal_5:1 In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not 

again be held with a yoke of slavery. 

1Ti_6:1 Let those who are servants under a yoke regard their own masters worthy of all 

respect, lest the Name of Elohim and His teaching be blasphemed. 

57 verses found, 65 matches 

Genesis 1 verse found 1 match 

Leviticus 1 verse found 1 match 

Numbers 1 verse found 1 match 

Deuteronomy 2 verses found 2 matches 

1 Samuel 2 verses found 2 matches 

2 Samuel 1 verse found 1 match 

1 Kings 7 verses found 10 matches 

2 Chronicles 5 verses found 7 matches 

Job 2 verses found 2 matches 



Isaiah 6 verses found 8 matches 

Jeremiah 15 verses found 16 matches 

Lamentations 2 verses found 2 matches 

Ezekiel 2 verses found 2 matches 

Hosea 2 verses found 2 matches 

Nahum 1 verse found 1 match 

Matthew 2 verses found 2 matches 

Luke 1 verse found 1 match 

Acts 1 verse found 1 match 

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