1. Am I not an emissary? Am I not free? Have I not seen יהושע Messiah our Master? Are you not my work in the Master?
2. If to others I am not an emissary, I certainly am to you. For you are the seal of my office of the emissary in the Master.
3. My defence to those who examine me is this:
4. Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
5. Do we not have a right to take along a sister – a wife – as do also the other emissaries, and the brothers of the Master, and Kĕpha?
6. Or do only Barnaḇah and I have no right to refrain from working?
7. Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock?
8. Do I say this as a man? Or does not the Torah say the same too?