Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

29 (Mizmor of Dovid) Ascribe unto Hashem, O ye bnei elim (sons of the mighty), ascribe unto Hashem kavod and oz (strength).

² Ascribe unto Hashem the Kavod Shmo; worship Hashem in the Hadrat Kodesh (beauty of holiness).

³ The voice of Hashem is upon the waters; El HaKavod thundereth; Hashem is over the mayim rabbim.

⁴ The voice of Hashem is in Ko’ach; the voice of Hashem is in hadar (majesty).

⁵ The voice of Hashem breaketh the cedars; Hashem breaketh the cedars of the Levanon.

⁶ He maketh them also to skip like an egel (calf); Levanon and Siryon, like a young reimim (wild ox).

⁷ The voice of Hashem hews out with flashes of eish.

⁸ The voice of Hashem shaketh the midbar; Hashem shaketh the Midbar Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of Hashem causes the deer to calve, and strips bare the ye’arot (forests); and in His Heikhal doth everyone say, Kavod!

¹⁰ Hashem sitteth upon the mabbul (flood); yea, Hashem sitteth enthroned as Melech l’olam.

¹¹ Hashem will give oz (strength) unto His people; Hashem will bless His people with shalom.

¹⁶ Thus did Moshe; according to all that Hashem commanded him, so did he.

¹⁷ And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the Mishkan was erected.

¹⁸ And Moshe erected the Mishkan, and fastened its sockets, and set up the kerashim thereof, and put in the crossbars thereof, and set up its ammudim.

¹⁹ And he spread the Ohel over the Mishkan, and put the Mikhseh of the Ohel on it from above; as Hashem commanded Moshe.

²⁰ And he took and placed HaEdut (The Testimony, i.e., the Stone Tablets of the Ten Commandments) into HaAron, and set the carrying poles on the Aron, and put the Kapporet upon the Aron from above;

²¹ And he brought the Aron into the Mishkan, and set up the Parochet HaMasach, and shielded with a covering over the Aron HaEdut; as Hashem commanded Moshe.

²² And he put the Shulchan in the Ohel Mo’ed, upon the north side of the Mishkan, outside the Parochet.

²³ And he set the Lechem in order upon it before Hashem; as Hashem had commanded Moshe.

²⁴ And he put the Menorah in the Ohel Mo’ed, opposite the Shulchan, on the south side of the Mishkan.

²⁵ And he set up the nerot (lamps) before Hashem; as Hashem commanded Moshe.

²⁶ And he put the Mizbe’ach Hazahav in the Ohel Mo’ed before the Parochet;

²⁷ And he burned ketoret spices thereon; as Hashem commanded Moshe.

²⁸ And he set up the Masach HaPetach LaMishkan (Curtain of the Entrance of the Tabernacle).

²⁹ And he put the Mizbe’ach HaOlah at the Petach Mishkan Ohel Mo’ed, and offered upon it the olah (burnt offering) and the minchah; as Hashem commanded Moshe.

³⁰ And he set the Kiyor between the Ohel Mo’ed and the Mizbe’ach, and put mayim there, to wash withal.

³¹ And Moshe and Aharon and his banim washed their hands and their feet thereat;

³² When they went into the Ohel Mo’ed, and when they came near unto the Mizbe’ach, they washed; as Hashem commanded Moshe.

³³ And he erected the khatzer (courtyard) all around the Mishkan and the Mizbe’ach, and set up the Masach Sha’ar HaKhatzer. So Moshe finished the work.

³⁴ Then the Anan covered the Ohel Mo’ed, and the Kavod Hashem filled the Mishkan.

³⁵ And Moshe was not able to enter into the Ohel Mo’ed, because the [Shekinah] cloud abode thereon, and the Kavod Hashem filled the Mishkan.

³⁶ And when the Anan was taken up from over the Mishkan, the Bnei Yisroel went onward in all their journeys;

³⁷ But if the Anan were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

³⁸ For the Anan Hashem was upon the Mishkan by day, and Eish was on it by night, in the sight of all the Bais Yisroel, throughout all their journeys. T.N. The Theme of gracious, unmerited Deliverance and Salvation for an Am Kesheh Oref (Obstinate Stiffnecked People) has been presented in the Second Book of Moses.

³⁵ And in the boker, the magistrates sent the soterim (policemen), saying, "Release those men."

³⁶ And the soher reported these words to Rav Sha’ul, saying, "The magistrates sent word that you may be released; now, therefore, go and depart in shalom." [SHOFETIM 18:6]

³⁷ But Rav Sha’ul said to them, "After giving us a public flogging, though we are uncondemned Roman citizens, they threw us into the beis hasohar; and now are they secretly sending us out? No, indeed! Let them come themselves and lead us out in public."

³⁸ And the soterim reported these words to the magistrates, and the magistrates were afraid, hearing that Rav Sha’ul and Sila were both Roman citizens.

³⁹ So the magistrates came, and entreated Rav Sha’ul and Sila, and brought them out, asking them to depart from the city.

⁴⁰ And having come out from the beis hasohar, they came to Lydia, and having seen and encouraged the Achim b’Moshiach of the Kehillah that met in Lydia’s bais, Rav Sha’ul and Sila departed.