Micahchapter 6
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Gustave Doré, 1866Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Original Language
Micah 6— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Micah 6. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Read here as the Haftarah
- Micah 5:6 to 6:8, with the portion Balak (Numbers 22:2 to 25:9).
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
1 row sits beside its verse in the text, on 1 verse of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Plead before the mountains: what have I done to you?1
Micah 6:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
What the LORD requires: do justly, love mercy, walk humbly6
Micah 6:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Wicked balances and the statutes of Omri9
Micah 6:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 6:13
I will smite you with sore wounds —I have made your wounds sore - strong and ill and incurable.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 6:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 6:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible