Orthodox Jewish Bible

Gevurot 2:1-9 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

1. And when the day of Shavuos is fulfilled, they were all together in one place. [Lv 23:15,16]

2. And there was mitamuhl (suddenly) from Shomayim a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and it filled the whole bais where they were sitting.

3. And leshonot appeared to them, being divided as eish resting on each one of them,

4. And all were filled with the Ruach Hakodesh, and they began to speak in leshonot acherot as the Ruach Hakodesh was giving the utterance to them.

5. Now there were in Yerushalayim frum, charedi (orthodox) Yehudim from all the nations under Shomayim.

6. And at this sound, the multitude assembled and was bewildered, because they were hearing, each one in his own native language, the Achim b'Moshiach speaking.

7. And they were mishpoyel (standing in awe) and marveled, saying, "Hinei, are not all of these Galileans speaking?

8. "And how are we hearing, each in our own language in which we were born?

9. "We Parthians and Medes and Elamites; the ones living in Mesopotamia, Yehudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,