• Num 8:1-12:16
• Zech 2:14-4:7
• Rev 11:1-19

B’ha’alot’cha means “in your making go up.”

Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 8:1-12:16

Bemiḏbar (Numbers) Chapter 8

The Lampstand  (Exodus 25:31–40 ; 37:17–24)

¹ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ² “Speak to Aharon and tell him: ‘When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.’ ”

³ And Aharon did so; he set up the lamps facing toward the front of the lampstand, just as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Moshe. 

⁴ This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had shown Moshe.

Cleansing the Luiyiim

⁵ Again 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spoke to Moshe, saying, ⁶ “Take the Luiyiim from among the Yasharalites and make them ceremonially clean. ⁷ This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves. 

⁸ Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering. ⁹ Bring the Luiyiim before the Tent of Appointment and assemble the whole assembly of Yasharal. ¹⁰You are to present the Luiyiim before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and have the Yasharalites lay their hands upon them. ¹¹ Aharon is to present the Luiyiim before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 as a wave offering from the sons of Yasharal, so that they may perform the service of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. ¹² And the Luiyiim are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Luiyiim. 

¹³ You are to have the Luiyiim stand before Aharon and his sons and then present them before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 as a wave offering. ¹⁴ In this way you shall separate the Luiyiim from the rest of the Yasharalites, and the Luiyiim will belong to Me. ¹⁵ After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Appointment. 

¹⁶ For the Luiyiim have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Yasharal. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Yasharal. ¹⁷ For every firstborn male in Yasharal is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Mitsrayim. ¹⁸ But I have taken the Luiyiim in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Yasharal. ¹⁹ And I have given the Luiyiim as a gift to Aharon and his sons from among the Yasharalites, to perform the service for the Yasharalites at the Tent of Appointment and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Yasharalites when they approach the sanctuary.” 

²⁰ So Moshe, Aharon, and the whole assembly of Yasharal did with the Luiyiim everything that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Moshe they should do. ²¹The Luiyiim purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aharon presented them as a wave offering before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. Aharon also made atonement for them to cleanse them. ²² After that, the Luiyiim came to perform their service at the Tent of Appointment in the presence of Aharon and his sons. Thus they did with the Luiyiim just as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Moshe. 

Retirement for Luiyiim

²³ And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ²⁴ “This applies to the Luiyiim: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Appointment. ²⁵ But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.

²⁶ After that, they may assist their brothers in fulfilling their duties at the Tent of Appointment, but they themselves are not to do the work. This is how you are to assign responsibilities to the Luiyiim.”

Bemiḏbar (Numbers) Chapter 9

The Second Passover  (Exodus 12:1–13)

¹ In the first month of the second year after Yasharal had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spoke to Moshe in the Wilderness of Sinai: ² “The Yasharalites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. ³ You are to observe it at the appointed time, between the evenings on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.” 

⁴ So Moshe told the Yasharalites to observe the Passover, ⁵ and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, between the evenings on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Yasharalites did everything just as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded Moshe.

⁶ But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moshe and Aharon that same day ⁷ and said to Moshe, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s offering with the other Yasharalites at the appointed time?”

⁸ “Wait here until I find out what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commands concerning you,” Moshe replied.

⁹ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ¹⁰“Tell the Yasharalites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄  - YAHUAH. ¹¹ Such people are to observe it between the evenings on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; ¹² they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes. 

¹³ But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin. 

¹⁴ If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’ ”

The Cloud above the Tabernacle  (Exodus 40:34–38)

¹⁵ On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Witness, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning. ¹⁶It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day,  and at night it would appear like fire. ¹⁷ Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Yasharalites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Yasharalites would camp. ¹⁸ At 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command the Yasharalites set out, and at 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.

¹⁹ Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Yasharalites kept 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s charge and did not set out. ²⁰Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command and set out at 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command. 21 Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out. 

²² Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Yasharalites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out. ²³ They camped at 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command, and they set out at 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command; they carried out 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s charge according to His command through Moshe. 

Bemiḏbar (Numbers) Chapter 10

The Two Silver Trumpets

¹ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ² “Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the assembly and for having the camps set out. ³ When both are sounded, the whole assembly is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment. ⁴ But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Yasharal, are to gather before you. 

⁵When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out. ⁶ When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out. ⁷ To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones. ⁸ The sons of Aharon, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come. 

⁹ When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym and saved from your enemies. ¹⁰ And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your Alahym. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym.”

From Sinai to Paran

¹¹On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Witness, ¹² and the Yasharalites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran. ¹³ They set out this first time according to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s command through Moshe. 

¹⁴First, the divisions of the camp of Yahuḏah set out under their standard, with Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ in command. ¹⁵ Nethan’al son of Tsu‛ar was over the division of the tribe of Yissasḵar, ¹⁶ and Eliyaḇ son of Ḥělon was over the division of the tribe of Zeḇulun. 17 Then the Dwelling Place was taken down, and the sons of Gěrshon and the sons of Merari set out, transporting it.

¹⁸ Then the divisions of the camp of Re’uḇěn set out under their standard, with Elitsur, son of Sheḏěy’ur in command. ¹⁹ Shelumi’ěl, son of Tsurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Shim‛on, 20 and Elyasaph son of De‛u’ěl was over the division of the tribe of Gaḏ. 21 Then the Qehathites set out, transporting the set apart objects; the Dwelling Place was to be set up before their arrival. 

²² Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephrayim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihuḏ in command. ²³ Gamli’ěl, son of Peḏahtsur was over the division of the tribe of Menashsheh, ²⁴ and Aḇiḏan, son of Giḏ‛oni was over the division of the tribe of Binyamin. 

²⁵Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Aḥi‛ezer, son of Ammishaddai in command. ²⁶Paḡ‛i’ěl, the son of Oḵran was over the division of the tribe of Ashěr, ²⁷ and Aḥira, the son of Ěnan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali.

²⁸ This was the order of march for the Yasharalite divisions as they set out.

²⁹ Then Moshe said to Ḥoḇaḇ, the son of Moshe’ father-in-law, Re‛u’ěl the Miḏyanite, “We are setting out for the place of which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has promised good things to Yasharal.”

³⁰ “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

³¹ “Please do not leave us,” Moshe said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes. ³² If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gives us.”

³³ So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, with the ark of the covenant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them. ³⁴ And the cloud of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was over them by day when they set out from the camp. 

³⁵ Whenever the ark set out, Moshe would say, 

“Rise up, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄! 

May Your enemies be scattered; 

may those who hate You flee before You.” 

36 And when it came to rest, he would say: 

“Return, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, 

to the countless thousands of Yasharal.” 

Bemiḏbar (Numbers) Chapter 11

The Complaints of the People

¹ Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. ² And the people cried out to Moshe, and he prayed to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and the fire died down. ³ So that place was called Taberah,  because the fire of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had burned among them.

⁴ Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Yasharalites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat? ⁵ We remember the fish we ate freely in Mitsrayim, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. ⁶ But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

⁷Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin. ⁸ The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil. ⁹ When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

The Complaint of Moshe

¹⁰ Then Moshe heard the people throughout their clans weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was kindled greatly, and Moshe was also displeased. 

¹¹ So Moshe asked 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people? ¹²Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers? 

¹³Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ 

¹⁴ I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me. ¹⁵ If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.” 

Seventy Elders Anointed

¹⁶ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Yasharal known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Appointment and have them stand there with you.

¹⁷ And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

¹⁸ And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Mitsrayim!’ Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will give you meat, and you will eat. ¹⁹ You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days, ²⁰ but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Mitsrayim?’”

²¹ But Moshe replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’ ²² If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” 

²³ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 answered Moshe, “Is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

²⁴ So Moshe went out and relayed to the people the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent. ²⁵ Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moshe and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.

²⁶ Two men, however, had remained in the camp—one named Eldaḏ and the other Měyḏaḏ—and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷ A young man ran and reported to Moshe, “Eldaḏ and Měyḏaḏ are prophesying in the camp.” 

²⁸ Yahushua son of Nun, the attendant to Moshe since youth, spoke up and said, “Moshe, my master, stop them!”

²⁹ But Moshe replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s people were prophets and that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 would place His Spirit on them!” 

³⁰ Then Moshe returned to the camp, along with the elders of Yasharal. 

The Quail and the Plague

³¹ Now a wind sent by 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground,  for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp. ³² All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers,  and they spread them out all around the camp. 

³³ But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 burned against the people, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 struck them with a severe plague. ³⁴ So they called that place Qiḇroth Hatta’awah,  because there they buried the people who had craved other food. 

³⁵ From Qiḇroth Hatta’awah the people moved on to  Ḥatsěroth, where they remained for some time.

Bemiḏbar (Numbers) Chapter 12

The Complaint of Maryam and Aharon

¹ Then Maryam and Aharon criticized Moshe because of the Kushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Kushite wife. ² “Does 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 speak only through Moshe?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 heard this.

³ Now Moshe was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.

⁴ And suddenly 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, Aharon, and Maryam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Appointment.” So the three went out, ⁵ and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aharon and Maryam. When both of them had stepped forward, ⁶ He said, “Hear now My words:

If there is a prophet among you,

I, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, will reveal Myself to him in a vision;

I will speak to him in a dream.

⁷ But this is not so with My servant Moshe;

he is faithful in all My house.

⁸ I speak with him face to face,

clearly and not in riddles;

he sees the form of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moshe?” ⁹ So the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 burned against them, and He departed.

¹⁰As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Maryam became leprous, white as snow. Aharon turned toward her, saw that she was leprous, ¹¹ and said to Moshe, “My master, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed. ¹² Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

¹³ So Moshe cried out to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “O Alahym, please heal her!”

¹⁴ But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 answered Moshe, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

¹⁵ So Maryam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again. ¹⁶ After that, the people set out from Ḥatsěroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah)  2:10-4:7

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah)  Chapter 2

¹⁰“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Tsiyon, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 – YAHUAH. ¹¹ “On that day many nations will join themselves to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts has sent Me to you. 12 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will take possession of Yahudah as His portion in the Set Apart Land, and He will once again choose Yarushalayim. ¹³ Be silent before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, all people, for He has roused Himself from His Set Apart Dwelling.”

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah)  Chapter 3

The Vision of Yahushua the High Priest

¹ Then the malak showed me Yahushua the high priest standing before the malak of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

² And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Satan: “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who has chosen Yarushalayim, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”

³ Now Yahushua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the malak. ⁴ So the malak said to those standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes!”

Then he said to Yahushua, “See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.”

⁵ Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him, as the malak of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 stood by.

⁶ Then the malak of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave this charge to Yahushua: ⁷ “This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.

⁸ Hear now, O high priest Yahushua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch. ⁹ See the stone I have set before Yahushua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. ¹⁰ On that day, declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’ ”

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah)  Chapter 4

The Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees

¹ Then the malak who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.

² “What do you see?” he asked.

“I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps. ³ There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”

⁴ “What are these, my master?” I asked the malak who was speaking with me.

5 “Do you not know what they are?” replied the malak.

“No, my master,” I answered.

⁶ So he said to me, “This is the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts. ⁷ What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Favor, favor to it!’ ”

 

Ḥazon (Revelation) 11:1-19

Ḥazon (Revelation)  Chapter 11

The Two Witnesses

¹ Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of Alahym and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. ² But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the set apart city for 42 months. ³ And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴ These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Master of the earth.  ⁵If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed. ⁶ These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

The Witnesses Killed and Raised

⁷ When they had finished their witness, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them. ⁸Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Seḏom and Mitsrayim—where their Master was also impaled. ⁹ For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb. ¹⁰ And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

¹¹ But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from Alahym entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them. ¹² And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.

¹³ And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave esteem to the Alahym of heaven.

¹⁴ The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵ Then the seventh malak sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: 

“The kingdom of the world

has become the kingdom of our Master

and of His Messiah,

and He will reign forever and ever.”

¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before Alahym fell on their faces and worshiped Alahym, ¹⁷saying:

“We give thanks to You, O Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Al Shaddai,

the One who is and who was,

because You have taken Your great power

and have begun to reign.

¹⁸ The nations were enraged,

and Your wrath has come.

   The time has come to judge the dead

and to reward Your servants the prophets,

   as well as the set apart one and those who fear Your Name,

both small and great—

and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

¹⁹ Then the temple of Alahym in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His Dwelling Place. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.