Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ Barchu Eloheinu, Amim, and make the kol (sound) of His tehillah (praise) to be heard.

⁹ He is the One who set nafsheinu in chayyim and does not permit ragleinu (our foot) to slip.

¹⁰ For Thou, Elohim, hath tested us and hast proved us; Thou hast put us in the crucible’s refining and refined us as kesef.

¹¹ Thou broughtest us into the metzudah (prison); Thou laidst a mu’akah (burden) upon our loins.

¹² Thou hast caused enosh (mankind) to ride over rosheinu (our head); we went through eish and through mayim; but Thou broughtest us out into plenty.

¹³ I will come into Thy Beis [HaMikdash] with olot; I will fulfill for Thee my nedarim,

¹⁴ Which my sfatayim have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in tzoros.

¹⁵ I will offer unto Thee olot mekhim (burnt offerings of fat animals), with the ketoret (incense, offering) of rams; I will offer bakar with goats. Selah.

¹⁶ Come and hear, Kol Yirei Elohim, and I will declare what He hath done for my nefesh.

¹⁷ I cried unto Him with my mouth, and He was extolled with my leshon.

¹⁸ If I regard avon (iniquity, sin) in my lev, Adonoi will not hear me;

¹⁹ But surely Elohim hath heard me; He hath attended to the kol tefillati (voice of my prayer).

²⁰ Baruch Elohim, Who hath not turned away my tefillah, nor His chesed from me.

⁵ And Hashem saw that the wickedness of HaAdam was great in ha’aretz and that every yetzer (inclination) of the machshevot (thoughts) of his lev was only rah (evil) continually.

⁶ And Hashem relented that He had made HaAdam on ha’aretz, and He was hurt in His lev.

⁷ And Hashem said, I will wipe out HaAdam whom I have created from the face of ha’adamah; both Adam, and Behemah, and the Remes and the Oph HaShomayim; for I relent that I have made them.

⁸ But Noach found chen (grace, unmerited favor) in the eyes of Hashem.

[NOACH]

⁹ These are the toldot of Noach; Noach was an ish tzaddik and tamim among those of his time, and Noach’s halachah was with HaElohim.

¹⁰ And Noach fathered three banim: Shem, Cham, and Yephet.

¹¹ Ha’aretz also was corrupt before HaElohim, and ha’aretz was filled with chamas.

¹² And Elohim looked upon ha’aretz, and, hinei, it was corrupt; for kol basar had corrupted his derech upon ha’aretz.

¹³ And Elohim said unto Noach, The ketz (end) of kol basar is come before Me; for ha’aretz is filled with chamas because of them; and, hineni, I will destroy them with ha’aretz.

¹⁴ Make thee a tevah (ark) of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the tevah (ark), and shalt coat it within and without with tar.

¹⁵ And this is how thou shalt build it: the length of the tevah (ark) shall be three hundred cubits, the width of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁶ A roof shalt thou make to the tevah (ark), and thou shalt finish it to a cubit from the top; and the door of the tevah (ark) shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third decks shalt thou make it.

¹⁷ And, hineni, I, even I, do bring a mabbul of waters upon ha’aretz, to destroy kol basar, wherein is the ruach chayyim, from under Shomayim; and everything that is in ha’aretz shall perish.

¹⁸ But with thee will I establish My brit (covenant); and thou shalt come into the tevah (ark), thou, and thy banim, and thy isha, and the nashim of thy banim with thee.

¹⁹ And of every living thing of kol basar, two of every kind shalt thou bring into the tevah (ark), to keep them alive with thee; they shall be zachar and nekevah.

²⁰ Of birds after their kind, and of behemah after their kind, of every remes of ha’adamah after its kind, two of every kind shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

²¹ And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for ochel for thee, and for them.

²² Thus did Noach; according to all that Elohim commanded him, so did he.

27 And when it was decided that we set sail to Italy, they were handing over both Rav Sha’ul and some other prisoners to a centurion, Julius by name, of the Imperial Cohort.

² And having embarked in an oniyah of Adramyttium about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us.

³ The next day, we put in at a harbor in Tzidon; and Julius treated Rav Sha’ul with kindness, permitting him to be cared for by his chaverim.

⁴ And from there, having put out to sea, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

⁵ Then having sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra of Lycia.

⁶ And there the centurion found an Alexandrian oniyah sailing to Italy and put us on board.

⁷ But for many yamim we sailed slowly and with difficulty along the coast of Cnidus, and as the wind was not permitting us to go vaiter (farther), we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.

⁸ And with difficulty sailing past it, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

⁹ And since considerable time had been lost and it was already unsafe for a voyage, because Yom Kippur had already come and gone; therefore, Rav Sha’ul gave them this eitza (suggestion),

¹⁰ Saying to them, "Anashim, I see that the voyage will be hardship and much peril, not only of the cargo and the oniyah, but also of our lives."

¹¹ But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the owner rather than by the dvarim of Rav Sha’ul.

¹² But the port being unfavorably situated for spending the winter, the majority decided to set sail from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to spend the winter. It was a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest.