Orthodox Jewish Bible

Mattityahu 13:3-10 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

3. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told them many things in meshalim (parables), saying Hinei! The Sower went out to sow [seeds].

4. And while he sowed, on the one hand, this [seed] fell along the road, and the birds having come, devoured them.

5. And others fell upon the rocky places, where there is not much soil, and immediately it sprouts on account of the lack of the soil's depth.

6. And when the shemesh (sun) arose, the zera (seed) was scorched, and because it did not have a root, it withered.

7. And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

8. But others fell on the adamah tovah (good ground), and they yielded fruit: the one, one hundred, the other, sixty, the other, thirty.

9. The one having oznayim (spiritual ears), let him hear!

10. And, approaching, the talmidim said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why in meshalim (parables) are you speaking to them?