1And after the uproar had ended, Rav Sha'ul summoned the Moshiachʼs talmidim and, having exhorted them, and having taken his leave, he departed to go to Macedonia.

2And having traveled through those regions and having exhorted the Moshiachʼs talmidim there with many words, Rav Sha'ul came to Greece.

3And after he had spent shloshah chodashim there, Rav Sha'ul was about to set sail for Syria when a kesher (conspiracy) was plotted against him by the ²¹⁶Yehudim, and so Rav Sha'ul decided to return through Macedonia.

4And accompanying Rav Sha'ul from Berea was Sopater the son of Pyrrhus; from Thessalonika was Aristarchus and Secundus; from Derbe, Gaius; and from Asia, Timotiyos, Tychicus and Trophimus.

5And these, having gone ahead, were waiting for us in Troas.

6And we sailed away after the Yamim HaMatzot ²¹⁷from Philippi, and within chamash yamim we came to them in Troas, where we stayed shivah yamim.

7And on Yom Rishon, when we met for tish, ²¹⁸Rav Sha'ul was saying a shiur to them, since he would have to depart early the next day and was having to extend the message until chatzot halailah.

8And there were a number of menorot in the upper story, where we had assembled.

9And a certain bocher, by the name of Eutychus, was sitting on the window sill and began to succumb to a deep sleep while Rav Sha'ul was saying a shiur that went on and on. Overcome by this sleep, Eutychus fell from the third story downwards, and was picked up dead.

10And having come down, Rav Sha'ul fell upon him, and, having embraced him, Rav Sha'ul said, Do not be troubled, for his neshamah is in him. ²¹⁹

11And having gone up and, at the Betzi'at HaLechem, having partaken of it, and having spoken until Shacharis, thus Rav Sha'ul departed.

12And they led away the bochur chai! And they were not a little comforted.

13And we went ahead to the oniyah (sailing vessel) and set sail for Assos, where we were intending to take Rav Sha'ul on board, for he had arranged it so, intending to travel himself there by land.

14When Rav Sha'ul met us in Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

15And from there, having sailed away, we arrived on the next day opposite Chios. And then the day following we crossed over to Samos, and, on the following day, we came to Miletus.

16For Rav Sha'ul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so he would not have to spend time in ²²⁰Asia, for he was hurrying in order that, if possible, he might by Shavu'os go up to Yerushalayim.

17And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, Rav Sha'ul summoned the Ziknei HaKehillah.

18And when they came to him, he said to them, You have da'as from the yom harishon in which I set foot in Asia how I was with you the entire time,

19My avodas kodesh service to Hashem with all anavah (humility) and tears and tzoros, and all that happened to me by the kesharim of the [unbelieving] Yehudim;

20How I kept back nothing profitable from you, but kept giving you messianic drashot and shiurim publicly and from bais to bais, ²²¹

21Bearing solemn edut both to Yehudim and Yevanim about teshuva toward Hashem and emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua.

22And now, hinei, having been bound by the Ruach Hakodesh, I am going to Yerushalayim, not having da'as of the things that are going to happen to me there,

23Except that the Ruach Hakodesh, in every city, testifies to me, saying that the beis hasohar and tzoros are awaiting me.

24But I gufa (myself) do not account my existence in the Olam Hazeh of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the avodas kodesh sherut which I received from the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua to bear witness to the Besuras HaGeulah of the Chen v'Chesed Hashem.

25And now, hinei, I have da'as that no longer will you see my face, all of you among whom I went about dar-shenen the Malchut Hashem.

26Therefore I bear solemn edut (testimony) to you on this very day today, that I am innocent of the blood of any of you.

27For I did not shrink back from preaching and disclosing to all of you the whole etzat Hashem(counsel, plan of G-d).

28Pay attention to yourselves and to all the Eder Hashem(flock of G-d) in which the Ruach Hakodesh has placed you as mashgichim ruchaniyim (spiritual overseers) to do the work of ro'im (shepherds) over the Kehillah of Hashem which Adoneinu purchased for the Geulah with his own dahm. ²²²

29I have da'as that after my departure savage ze'evim (wolves) will come in among you, not sparing the eder (flock). ²²³

30And from you yourselves will rise up anashim speaking perverted doctrines in order to draw away talmidim after themselves.

31Therefore, be shomer, remembering that for shloshah shanim, yomam v'lailah, I did not stop admonishing each one of you with tears.

32And now I commend you to Hashem and to the Dvar HaChen v'Chesed Hashem which is able to build you up and give you a nachalah (inheritance) among all the kedoshim.

33I coveted no oneʼs silver or gold or shtreimel. ²²⁴

34You yourselves have da'as that these hands of mine supported all my needs as well as the needs of those with me.

35In all this I was showing you a mofet (example) that thus working hard it is necessary to help the weak and to have zikaron of the devarim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, that he himself said, “Beser (better) to geben (give) than to nemen (take).”

36And having said these things, Rav Sha'ul fell down and, with them all, began davening.

37And there was much weeping among them, and, having fallen upon the neck of Rav Sha'ul, they were kissing him,

38with agmat nefesh above all at the dvar in which Rav Sha'ul had said that no longer would they see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the oniyah.