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.
7 And Hashem said unto Noach, Come thou and all thy bais into the tevah (ark); for thee have I found tzaddik before Me in dor hazeh.
2 Of every behemah hatehorah thou shalt take to thee by sevens; the male and his mate; and of behemah that are not tehorah by two, the male and his mate.
3 Of also Oph HaShomayim by sevens, the zachar and the nekevah; to keep zera alive upon the face of kol ha’aretz.
4 For shivah yamim from now, and I will cause it to rain upon ha’aretz arba’im yom and arba’im lailah; and every living creature that I have made will I wipe out from off the p’nei ha’adamah.
5 And Noach did according unto all that Hashem commanded him.
6 And Noach was shesh me’ot shanah when the mabbul waters were upon ha’aretz.
7 And Noach entered in, and his banim, and his isha, and nashim of his banim with him, into the tevah (ark), because of the waters of the mabbul.
8 Of behemah hatehorah, and of behemah that are not tehorah, and of haoph, and of every thing that creepeth upon ha’adamah,
9 There went in shnayim shnayim unto Noach into the tevah (ark), the zachar and the nekevah, as Elohim had commanded Noach.
10 And it came to pass after shivat hayamim, that the waters of the mabbul were upon ha’aretz.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noach’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of Shomayim were opened.
12 And the geshem was upon ha’aretz arba’im yom and arba’im lailah.
13 On that very yom entered Noach, and Shem, and Cham, and Yephet, the bnei Noach, and Noach’s isha, and the three nashim of his banim with them, into the tevah (ark);
14 They, and every beast after its kind, and kol habehemah after their kind, and every remes that crawls upon ha’aretz after its kind, and kol haoph after its kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noach into the tevah (ark), shnayim shnayim of kol habasar, wherein is the ruach chayyim.
16 And they that went in, went in zachar and nekevah of kol basar, as Elohim had commanded him; then Hashem shut him in.
17 And the mabbul was arba’im yom upon ha’aretz; and the waters increased, and lifted up the tevah (ark), and it rose above ha’aretz.
18 And the waters rose, and were increased greatly upon ha’aretz; and the tevah (ark) floated upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters rose exceedingly upon ha’aretz; and all the high hills, that were under kol HaShomayim, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters rise; and the harim were covered.
21 And kol basar perished that moved upon ha’aretz, both of Oph, and of Behemah, and of Beast, and of every Swarming Thing that swarms upon ha’aretz, and kol haadam;
22 All in whose nostrils was the ruach chayyim, of all that was in the dry land, perished.
23 And every living creature was wiped out which was upon the p’nei haadamah, both Adam, and Behemah, and the Remes, and the Oph HaShomayim; and they were wiped out from ha’aretz: and Noach only remained alive, and they that were with him in the tevah (ark).
24 And the waters flooded upon ha’aretz a hundred and fifty days.
13 And a gentle south wind began to blow, and they thought they could attain their matarah (objective), so they weighed anchor and they were sailing past Crete, close by the shore.
14 After not much time a violent, typhoon force wind rushed down from Crete, the so called Euraquilo, the Northeaster.
15 And the oniyah, having been caught in it, and not being able to directly face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven.
16 By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able only with difficulty to get the lifeboat secured.
17 After hoisting it up, they were using frapping cables, passing them underneath the oniyah; then, fearing lest on the shallows of Syrtis they might run aground, they lowered the sea anchor, and so they were being driven along.
18 And we were being violently tossed by the storm, so much so that the next day they were throwing the cargo overboard.
19 And on the Yom Shlishi, with their own hands, they threw out the tackle of the oniyah.
20 And neither shemesh (sun) nor kochavim appeared for many yamim and no small tempest assailed us. Lemaskana (finally) all tikvateinu for yeshu’ah was being abandoned.
21 And after having much loss of appetite, then Rav Sha’ul stood up in the midst of them, and said, "Anashim, you should have obeyed me and not put out to sea from Crete and thereby spared yourselves this hardship and this loss.
22 "And now I advise you to have ometz lev (courage), for there will be no loss of life among you, except the oniyah.
23 "For a malach Hashem stood by me during lailah hazeh, of the G-d whom I serve,
24 "Saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Sha’ul. It is necessary for you to stand before Caesar; and, hinei, Hashem has given to you all the ones sailing with you.'
25 "Therefore have lev same’ach, Anashim. For I have emunah in Hashem that it will be exactly as he has told me.
26 "But it is necessary for us to run aground on some island."
27 Now when the fourteenth night had come, while we being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, toward chatzot halailah (midnight), the sailors were suspecting that we were getting close to land.
28 And having taken soundings, they found twenty fathoms and, having sailed a little vaiter (farther), again they took soundings, and they found fifteen fathoms.
29 And fearing lest somehow against the rough places we might run aground, they threw four anchors off the stern, and they were praying for the dawn to break.
30 Now when the sailors sought to flee from the oniyah and to let down the lifeboat into the sea on the pretext of casting out anchors,
31 Rav Sha’ul said to the centurion and to the chaiyalim, "Unless these remain in the oniyah, you cannot be saved."
32 Then the chaiyalim cut away the ropes of the lifeboat, and let it fall away, setting it adrift.
33 Just before boker, Rav Sha’ul was urging everyone to take okhel (food), saying, "Today is the 14th day you have been held in suspense and are continuing without eating, having taken nothing.
34 "Therefore, I encourage you to take okhel, for it is for your deliverance, for none of you will lose a hair from your heads."
35 And having said these things, and having taken lechem, Rav Sha’ul said the HaMotzi before all, and, after the Betzi’at HaLechem, he began to eat.
36 And receiving ometz lev, they all took okhel.
37 Now there were in all two hundred and seventy-six nefashot in the oniyah.
38 And having eaten enough okhel (food), they were lightening the oniyah by throwing the wheat overboard into the sea.
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