And Yaʽ
“Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
And the days of Yitsḥ
“See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.
“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.
And after these events it came to be that Yehoshua son of Nun, the servant of יהוה, died, one hundred and ten years old.
And Mosheh was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his freshness gone.
Now Mosheh was eighty years old and Aharon eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
“And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kenaʽ
And Yosĕ
Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the life,
when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –
Your laws have been my songs In the place of my sojournings.
I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me.
And after he brought forth Arpaḵ
For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming.
“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.
So all the days of Methushelaḥ
Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Master –
And Pharaoh said to Yaʽ
“Look away from me, That I might brighten up, Before I go away and am no more.”
