Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 (For the one directing. According to the gittit. Mizmor of Dovid). Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha’aretz Who hast set Thy glory above HaShomayim.

^2 (3) Out of the mouth of olelim and infants hast Thou established strength because of Thine enemies, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

^3 (4) When I consider Thy heavens, the ma’asim of Thy fingers, the yarei’ach and the kokhavim, which Thou hast ordained;

^4 (5) What is enosh (mankind), that Thou art mindful of him? And the ben adam, that Thou visitest him?

^5 (6) For Thou hast made him a little lower than elohim [or Elohim, Gn 1:27], and hast crowned him with kavod and hadar.

^6 (7) Thou madest him to have dominion over the ma’asim of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

^7 (8) All sheep and oxen, yea, and the behemot sadeh;

^8 (9) The fowl of the air, and the dag (fish) of the yam, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

^9 (10) Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha’aretz!

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moshe. But Moshe fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in Eretz Midyan; and he sat down by a well.

¹⁶ Now the kohen of Midyan had sheva banot; and they came and drew mayim, and filled the troughs to water the tzon of their av.

¹⁷ And the ro’im (shepherds) came and drove them away; but Moshe stood up and rescued them, and watered their tzon.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their av, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today?

¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the yad of the ro’im (shepherds), and also drew enough for us, and watered the tzon.

²⁰ And he said unto his banot, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the ish? Call him, that he may eat lechem.

²¹ And Moshe was content to dwell with the ish; and he gave Moshe Tzipporah his bat.

²² And she bore him a ben, and he called shmo Gershom; for he said, I have been a ger in a foreign land.

⁶ And, while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in Beit-Anyah in the bais of Shimon the leper,

⁷ An isha approached him with an alabaster flask of costly perfume, and she poured it out on Moshiach’s rosh, as he sat bimesibba (reclining at tish [table]).

⁸ And having seen this, Moshiach’s talmidim were angry, saying, For what is this waste?

⁹ For it would have been possible to sell this for a generous sum and give to the aniyim (poor ones).

¹⁰ Aware of this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Why are you bringing about difficulty for the isha for the ma’aseh tov (good deed) she does to me.

¹¹ For the aniyim you have with you always, but you do not always have me.

¹² For this isha (woman) has poured this ointment on my basar (body) in order to prepare me for kevurah (burial). [Isa 53:9 Ps 16:9-10]

¹³ Omein, I say to you, wherever this Besuras HaGeulah is preached bchol HaOlam (in all the world), in her memory it will be spoken also what was done by her.