Revelation 2 — TOJB
2Verse 1To the malach (angel) of the Kehillah (Congregation) in Ephesus, write: These things says the One holding shivat hakokhavim (seven stars) in the yamin (right hand) of him, the One walking in the midst of the sheva menorot hazahav (seven golden menorahs):Verse 2I have da'as of your ma'asim (deeds) and your amal (toil) and the savlanut (patient endurance) of you [plural] and that you cannot bear anshei resha (evil men), and have tested the ones making the claim that they are “Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiachʼs shlichim” and are not, and found them kozvim (liars).Verse 3And you have savlanut (patient endurance), and you have persevered because of ha-Shem of me and have not become weary.Verse 4But I have this against you, that you abandoned your Ahavah HaRishonah.+Verse 5Therefore, let there be zikaron (remembrance) of from where you have fallen and make teshuva (repentance, turning from sin to G-d) and do the Ma'asim HaRishonim; but, if not, I am coming to you [plural] and I will remove your menorah from its place, unless you make teshuva.Verse 6But this you have, that you loathe the ma'asim ra'im (evil deeds) of the Nicolaitans, which also I loathe.+Verse 7The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot; To the one who wins the nitzachon (victory) I will give to him to eat of the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life), which is in the Gan-Eden of Hashem.+Verse 8And to the malach (angel) of the Kehillah in Smyrna, write: These things says HaRishon and HaAcharon, who became niftar (deceased) and had his histalkus (passing), and came back to Chayyim (Life):+Verse 9I have da'as of your tzarah [Mt 24:15f] and oni (poverty) — but you are oisher (rich) — and the loshon hora of the ones making the claim and declaring themselves to be Bnei Brit, and are not,+but are a Shul+of the Adversary.Verse 10Have no pachad (terror) at all of the things you are about to suffer. Hinei, HaSatan is about to cast some of you into beit hasohar that you may be tested and you will have tzarah aseret yamim (ten days). Be ne'eman ad haMavet (faithful unto death), and I will give you the ateret HaChayyim (the diadem of Life).+Verse 11The one having [spiritual] ears, let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. The one who wins the nitzachon (victory) never will be hurt by the Mavet HaSheyni (the Second Death).Verse 12And to the malach (angel) of the Kehillah at Pergamum, write: These things says the one having the sharp two-edged cherev:+Verse 13I have da'as of where you make your ma'on (residence), where the kes (throne) of HaSatan is, and you hold fast to ha-Shem of me and did not make hakhchashah (denial) of my+emunah (faith), even in the days of Antipas my ed hane'eman (my faithful witness) who died al-kiddush ha-Shem, killed among you as a martyr where HaSatan makes his ma'on (residence).Verse 14But I have a few things against you, because you have there ones holding to “the torah of Bil'am,” who was teaching Balak to put a michshol (stumbling block) before Bnei Yisroel.+Verse 15So also you have ones eating okhel (food) sacrificed to elilim (idols) and who commit zenut (fornication). You also have ones holding the “torah of the Nicolaitans.”Verse 16Likewise, therefore, make teshuva (repentance, turning from sin to G-d)! But if not, I am coming to you quickly and will war against them by the cherev of my mouth.+Verse 17The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. To the one who wins the nitzachon (victory), I will give him some of the Manna having been nistar (hidden), and I will give him an even levanah (a white stone) and upon it a Shem Chadash (New Name), of which no one has da'as, except the one receiving it.+Verse 18And to the malach of the Kehillah in Thyatira, write: These things says the Zun fun der Oybershter, the One having his eynayim (eyes) like a flame of eish (fire),+and the feet of him like burnished bronze:+Verse 19I have da'as of your ma'asim (deeds) and the ahavah and the emunah and the tzedek+and the savlanut (patient endurance) of you, and that your ma'asim ha'acharonim are more than harishonim of you.Verse 20But I have this against you, that you are being permissive toward that isha Izevel (Jezebel), the one calling herself a nevi'ah (prophetess) who teaches and deceives my avadim to commit zenut and to eat okhel (food) sacrificed to elilim (idols).+Verse 21And I gave her time that she might make teshuva and she does not wish to make teshuva of her zenut.+Verse 22Hinei, I am throwing her into a bed of suffering, and the ones committing ni'uf (adultery) with her into Tzarah Gedolah+(Great Tribulation), unless they make teshuva of her ma'asim (deeds).Verse 23And her yeladim (children),+I will kill with Mavet, and all the kehillot will have da'as that I am the One searching their musar klayot valev (pangs of conscience and heart), and I will give to you, each one, according to what you have done.+Verse 24But I say to you, the rest, to the ones in Thyatira, as many as have not this “torah” (teaching), who did not have da'as of, as they say, “the tiefe (deep, profound) things of HaSatan,” I am putting on you no other burden.Verse 25Al kol panim (nevertheless), what you have, hold fast until I come.Verse 26And the one who wins the nitzachon and the one until HaKets keeping shomer over ma'asei mitzvot of Me, him will I give samchut (authority) over the Goyim,Verse 27To rule them with a SHEVET BARZEL (scepter of iron)+KIKH'LI YOTZER TENAPTZEM (as the vessel of pottery are broken),+Verse 28Even as I also have received from HaAv of me and I will give him the Kokhav+(Star) haNogah (of Brightness, Venus, the Morning Star).Verse 29The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot.