Orthodox Jewish Bible

Markos 4:1-7 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

1. And again Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say shiurim (Torah talks) beside the lake. And a huge multitude gathered together to him so that he got into a sirah (boat) on the lake and sat down. The whole multitude was by the lake on the shore.

2. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was giving them torah with many meshalim (parables) and in the shiurim he said, he was saying to them:

3. Listen. Hinei! The Sower went out to sow (seeds).

4. And it came about that when he went to sow, that some [seeds] fell beside the road. And the birds came and devoured it.

5. And other [seeds] fell upon the rocky places where it did not have much soil, and ofen ort (immediately) it sprang up because it did not have depth of soil.

6. And when the shemesh rose, it was scorched and, because it did not have a shoresh (root), it withered.

7. And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them, and it did not yield pri.