Orthodox Jewish Bible

Markos 4:2-16 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

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.

8. And other seed fell into the adamah tovah (good ground) and it was giving pri (fruit), rising up and growing, thirty, sixty, and one hundredfold.

9. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

10. And when he was alone, the Shneym Asar were asking him for a hezber (explanation) of the meshalim (parables).

11. And he was saying to them, To you the raz (secret) of the Malchut Hashem has been given. But to the outsiders, everything remains in meshalim,

12. In order that YIRU they may see and not have daas VSHIMU they may hear and not have binah, lest they should turn and they should receive refuah and selicha. (YESHAYAH 6:9-10, TARGUM HASHIVIM)

13. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Do you not have daas of the meaning of this mashal? Then how will you have binah of all the meshalim?

14. The one sowing sows the dvar Hashem.

15. And these are the ones beside the road where the dvar Hashem is sown. And when they hear it, ofen ort Hasatan comes and takes the dvar that has been sown in them.

16. And these are the ones sown upon the rocky places: when they hear the dvar, ofen ort with simcha they receive it.