³ For Herod had Yochanan arrested and bound him and threw him into the beit hasohar (prison), on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.

⁴ For Yochanan kept on saying to him, It is asur for you to have her.

⁵ And [although] Herod was desiring to kill Yochanan, he feared the crowd, because they considered Yochanan a Navi.

⁶ Now at the yom huledet celebration of Herod, it came about that the daughter of Herodias danced before them and Herod was pleased.

⁷ Herod, therefore, with a shevuah, promised to give to her whatever she might ask.

⁸ So she, prompted by her mother, said, Give to me here upon a serving tray the rosh (head) Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.

⁹ And, although grieving, the king commanded [it] to be given, on account of the shevuot (oaths) and the fellow muzmanim (guests)

¹⁰ And he sent and had Yochanan beheaded in the beit hasohar.

¹¹ And the rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva was brought upon a serving tray, and it was presented to the girl and she presented it to her mother.

¹² And Yochanan’s talmidim approached and carried away the niftar (deceased person) and buried him. Then they went and reported [it] to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.