Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

24 long, forever). (Mizmor of Dovid) Ha’aretz is Hashem’s, and the fullness thereof; the tevel (world), and they that dwell therein.

² For He hath founded it upon the yamim (seas), and established it upon the waters.

³ Who shall ascend the Har Hashem? Or who shall stand in His Makom Kodesh?

⁴ He that hath clean hands, and a bar levav (pure heart); who hath not lifted up his nefesh unto shahv (vanity), nor sworn l’mirmah (deceitfully).

⁵ He shall receive the brocha (blessing) from Hashem, and tzedakah from Elohei Yisho (the G-d of his Salvation).

⁶ This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek Thy face, O Ya’akov. Selah.

⁷ Lift up your heads, O ye she’arim; and be ye lifted up, ye Pitchei Olam (everlasting doorways); and Melech HaKavod shall come in.

⁸ Who is this Melech HaKavod? Hashem strong and mighty, Hashem Gibbor Milchamah.

⁹ Lift up your heads, O ye she’arim; even lift them up, ye Pitchei Olam; and Melech HaKavod shall come in.

¹⁰ Who is this Melech HaKavod? Hashem Tzva’os, He is Melech HaKavod. Selah.

¹⁰ And they shall make an Aron (Ark) of acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the width thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with zahav tahor, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a gold crown all around.

¹² And thou shalt cast four rings of zahav for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

¹³ And thou shalt make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with zahav.

¹⁴ And thou shalt put the poles into the rings by the sides of the Aron, that the Aron may be carried with them.

¹⁵ The poles shall be in the rings of the Aron; they shall not be removed from it.

¹⁶ And thou shalt put into the Aron the Edut (Testimony [of Tablets]) which I shall give thee.

¹⁷ And thou shalt make a kapporet of zahav tahor; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the width thereof.

¹⁸ And thou shalt make two keruvim of zahav, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the kapporet.

¹⁹ And make one keruv on the one end, and the other keruv on the other end, with the kapporet (atonement cover) shall ye make the keruvim on the two ends thereof.

²⁰ And the keruvim shall stretch forth their wings upward, covering the kapporet with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the kapporet shall the faces of the keruvim be.

²¹ And thou shalt place the kapporet on the Aron from above; and into the Aron thou shalt place the Edut that I shall give thee.

²² And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the kapporet, from between the two keruvim which are upon the Aron HaEdut, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the Bnei Yisroel.

2 For I want you to have da’as of how great a ma’avak (struggle) I have for you and the ones in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me panim el panim (directly, in person),

² That their levavot may be given chozek (strength), having been made an aguda of ahavah and all osher (wealth) of the full assurance of binah, resulting in the da’as of the raz of Hashem, namely Moshiach,

³ In whom is nistar (hidden) all the otzarot (treasures) of chochmah and da’as. [YESHAYAH 11:2; YIRMEYAH 23:5]

⁴ This I say so that no one may delude you with the sleight of hand of the ba’al melitzot (rhetorician).

⁵ For, though absent in basar, but present with you in the Ruach Hakodesh, with lev same’ach (glad heart) I am seeing your order and the firmness of your [Orthodox Jewish] emunah in Moshiach.