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1 Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
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0 And after these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave smichah to shivim (seventy) others and sent them on ahead of him shnayim shnayim (two by two) into every shtetl and place where he was about to arrive.
2 And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.
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And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Indeed the Katzir is plentiful, but the poalim of the Katzir are few; therefore, ask the Adon of the Katzir that he might send out poalim into his Katzir.
3 Go on your way: see, I send you out like lambs among wolves.
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Go I send you as kevasim (sheep) into the midst of ze’evim (wolves).
4 Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
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Do not carry a bag for kesef, nor a schnorrer’s sack (beggar’s bag), nor sandals, and, along the derech, dispense with time-consuming Birkat Shalom’s.
5 And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.
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Into whatever bais you enter, first say, Shalom to this bais.
6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.
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And if there is a ben hashalom there, your shalom will rest upon him. Otherwise, on you it will return.
7 And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
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Remain in the same bais eating and drinking the things with them. For worthy is the poel (worker) of his loin (wages). Do not move from bais to bais.
8 And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:
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And into whichever shtetl you enter and they receive you, eat the okhel (food) being set before you,
9 And make well those in it who are ill and say to them, The kingdom of God is near to you.
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And give refuah (healing) to the cholim (sick people) and say to them, The Malchut Hashem has come near you.
10 But if you go into a town where they will not have you, go out into the streets of it and say,
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And into whatever shtetl you enter and they do not receive you, having gone out into the rekhovot (streets) of that shtetl,
11 Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.
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Say, Even the [Goyishe unclean] dust from your shtetl, which clings to us, we shake off from our feet as an omen of din (judgment) against you. But have daas of this, that the Malchut Hashem has come near.
12 I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.
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I [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] say to you, that for Sdom in Yom HaHu [Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment] it will be more bearable than it will be for that shtetl.
13 A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.
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Woe to you, Korazin, oy to you, Beit-Tzaidah, because if in Tzor and Tzidon had occurred the gevurot that have happened in you, long ago, they, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, would have made teshuva.
14 But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.
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But for Tzor and Tzidon it will be more bearable in the Yom HaDin than for you.
15 And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.
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And you, Kfar-Nachum, surely not up to Shomayim will you be exalted? To Gehinnom you will descend!
16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.
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The one listening to you listens to me [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach], and the one rejecting you, rejects me [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach]. But the one rejecting me [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach], rejects the One [the G-d of Yisroel] who sent me.
17 And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil spirits are under our power in your name.
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And the Shivim returned with simcha, saying, Adoneinu, even the shedim submit to us bShem of you [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, Yeshua].
18 And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.
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And he said to them, I was seeing Hasatan falling like lightning from Shomayim. [YESHAYAH 14:12]
19 See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.
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Hinei I have given to you the koach and the samchut to walk on nechashim (snakes) and akrabim (scorpions), and on all the koach of HaOyev, and nothing may by any means injure you.
20 Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.
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But in this do not have a lev sameach, on account of the ruchot submitting to you, but have lev sameach that your shemot have been inscribed in Shomayim.
21 In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
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In the same hour Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was full of simcha by the Ruach Hakodesh. And he said, Baruch Hashem, Avi, Adon HaShomayim vHaAretz, that You concealed these things from those with chochmah and seichel and You revealed them to yeladim. Ken, Avi, for thus it was well pleasing in Your sight.
22 All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
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Everything was handed over to me by Avi, and no one has daas of HaBen except HaAv. And no one has daas of HaAv except HaBen, and whomever HaBen wishes to reveal Him.
23 And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see:
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And, having turned to the talmidim in a yechidus, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Ashrey [are] the eyes seeing what you see.
24 For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.
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For I say to you that many neviim and melachim wanted to see what you see and they did not see them, and to hear what you hear and they did not hear them.
25 And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?
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And a certain Talmid Chacham, a Baal Torah, stood up, testing Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Rabbi, what mitzvah must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam?
26 And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, In the Torah what has been written? How do you read it?
27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
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And in reply the Baal Torah said, VAHAVTA ES ADONOI ELOHECHA BKHOL LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA [DEVARIM 6:4,5] and L’REACHA KAMOCHA [DEVARIM 6:5; VAYIKRA 19:18]
28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Your answer is frum. Richtik. Do this and you will live.
29 But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
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But because the Baal Torah wanted to justify himself, to be yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d, IYOV 25:4) on the basis of his own zchus (merit) he said to him, And who is my REA (neighbor)?
30 And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead.
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In reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, A certain ish was coming down from Yerushalayim to Yericho, and he encountered shodedim. They stripped him and inflicted a klap, more than one, and they went away and left him half dead.
31 And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.
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It so happened that a certain kohen was coming down by that derech, and, having seen him, he passed by on the other side. [VAYIKRA 21:1-3]
32 And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.
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And likewise also a Levi happened upon the place, but when he came and saw him, he passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him,
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But a certain Shomroni, traveling along on the derech, came upon him; and when he saw him, he was filled with rachmei shomayim.
34 And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.
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And when this Shomroni approached, he bandaged the man’s wounds, pouring shemen and yayin over them; and when he had placed him upon his own donkey, he brought the man to a malon and cared for him.
35 And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.
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And on the next day he produced two denarii and gave them to the inn keeper of the malon and said, Take care of him, and whatever you spend additionally, I will take care of, when I return.
36 Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves?
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Who of these shalosha seems to you to have become a re’a to the one having fallen among the shodedim?
37 And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.
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And the Baal Torah answered, The one having shown the man rachamim. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Go and do likewise.
38 Now, while they were on their way, he came to a certain town; and a woman named Martha took him into her house.
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And while they were on the derech, he entered into a certain shtetl. And a certain isha by name of Marta received him.
39 And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.
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And this isha had an achot named Miryam, who sat down at the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu listening to his dvar.
40 But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.
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But Marta was distracted with much badinen. And having stood by, she said, Adoneinu, is it of no concern to you that my achot has left me alone to serve? Speak, then, to her to help me.
41 But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:
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And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said to her, Marta, Marta, you are anxious and worried about many things,
42 Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
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But one is necessary. For Miryam chose HaTov which will not be taken away from her.
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